Molly Przeworski

19.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
89 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Molly Przeworski is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Molly Przeworski has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Genetics, 37 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Molly Przeworski's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (44 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (22 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (14 papers). Molly Przeworski is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (44 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (22 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (14 papers). Molly Przeworski collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Molly Przeworski's co-authors include Graham Coop, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Jeffrey D. Wall, Peter Andolfatto, Svante Pääbo, Guy Sella, Carole Ober, Laure Ségurel, Victor Wiebe and Céline Becquet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Molly Przeworski

87 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language

2002 901 citations Molly Przeworski, Svante Pääbo et al. profile →
Linkage Disequilibrium in Humans: Models and Data

2001 885 citations Jonathan K. Pritchard, Molly Przeworski profile →
PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice

2009 726 citations Frédéric Baudat, Jérôme Buard et al. Science profile →
Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes

2018 256 citations Molly Schumer, Chenling Xu et al. Science profile →
Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group

2020 225 citations Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Arbel Harpak et al. eLife profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Molly Przeworski United States	54	7.3k	4.8k	1.9k	861	673	89	11.4k
Melissa J. Hubisz United States	33	6.7k 0.9×	4.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	1.4k 2.0×	37	10.9k
Nick Patterson United States	33	6.1k 0.8×	3.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	384 0.4×	507 0.8×	46	10.1k
Nelson B. Freimer United States	45	4.4k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	488 0.6×	680 1.0×	136	10.2k
Gregory A. Wray United States	51	3.7k 0.5×	5.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	1.3k 1.9×	167	11.3k
Greg Gibson United States	51	6.1k 0.8×	5.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	632 0.9×	216	12.5k
Graham Coop United States	46	7.3k 1.0×	3.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1000 1.2×	870 1.3×	84	10.1k
John Novembre United States	41	8.3k 1.1×	2.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	830 1.0×	1.6k 2.4×	85	11.9k
Michael W. Nachman United States	63	6.7k 0.9×	3.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	2.3k 2.7×	1.8k 2.7×	137	10.7k
Wesley C. Warren United States	41	3.0k 0.4×	2.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	600 0.7×	761 1.1×	155	6.5k
Joshua M. Akey United States	49	7.0k 1.0×	4.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	281 0.3×	390 0.6×	111	11.4k

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Manuel, Marc de, Mohamed Mahgoub, Zachary L. Fuller, et al.. (2024). Patterns of recombination in snakes reveal a tug-of-war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features. Science. 383(6685). eadj7026–eadj7026. 17 indexed citations

Manuel, Marc de, et al.. (2024). The clock-like accumulation of germline and somatic mutations can arise from the interplay of DNA damage and repair. PLoS Biology. 22(6). e3002678–e3002678. 12 indexed citations

Przeworski, Molly, et al.. (2023). Down the Penrose stairs, or how selection for fewer recombination hotspots maintains their existence. eLife. 12. 10 indexed citations

Manuel, Marc de, Felix L. Wu, & Molly Przeworski. (2022). A paternal bias in germline mutation is widespread in amniotes and can arise independently of cell division numbers. eLife. 11. 32 indexed citations

Mostafavi, Hakhamanesh, Arbel Harpak, Ipsita Agarwal, et al.. (2020). Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group. eLife. 9. 225 indexed citations breakdown →

Agarwal, Ipsita & Molly Przeworski. (2019). Signatures of replication timing, recombination, and sex in the spectrum of rare variants on the human X chromosome and autosomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(36). 17916–17924. 26 indexed citations

Gao, Ziyue, Priya Moorjani, Thomas A. Sasani, et al.. (2019). Overlooked roles of DNA damage and maternal age in generating human germline mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(19). 9491–9500. 122 indexed citations

Sasani, Thomas A., Brent S. Pedersen, Ziyue Gao, et al.. (2019). Large, three-generation human families reveal post-zygotic mosaicism and variability in germline mutation accumulation. eLife. 8. 107 indexed citations

Young, Alexander I., Stefania Benónísdóttir, Molly Przeworski, & Augustine Kong. (2019). Deconstructing the sources of genotype-phenotype associations in humans. Science. 365(6460). 1396–1400. 150 indexed citations

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Schumer, Molly, Chenling Xu, Daniel L. Powell, et al.. (2018). Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes. Science. 360(6389). 656–660. 256 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Chen, Hongjian Qi, Yufeng Shen, Joseph K. Pickrell, & Molly Przeworski. (2017). Contrasting Determinants of Mutation Rates in Germline and Soma. Genetics. 207(1). 255–267. 20 indexed citations

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Amorim, Carlos Eduardo G., Ziyue Gao, Yuval B. Simons, et al.. (2017). The population genetics of human disease: The case of recessive, lethal mutations. PLoS Genetics. 13(9). e1006915–e1006915. 31 indexed citations

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Moorjani, Priya, Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim, Peter F. Arndt, & Molly Przeworski. (2016). Variation in the molecular clock of primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(38). 10607–10612. 139 indexed citations

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Moorjani, Priya, Sriram Sankararaman, Qiaomei Fu, et al.. (2016). A genetic method for dating ancient genomes provides a direct estimate of human generation interval in the last 45,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(20). 5652–5657. 81 indexed citations

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Singhal, Sonal, Ellen M. Leffler, Isaac Turner, et al.. (2015). Stable recombination hotspots in birds. Science. 350(6263). 928–932. 226 indexed citations

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Williams, Amy L., Giulio Genovese, Thomas D. Dyer, et al.. (2015). Non-crossover gene conversions show strong GC bias and unexpected clustering in humans. eLife. 4. 69 indexed citations

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Gao, Ziyue, Molly Przeworski, & Guy Sella. (2014). Footprints of ancient‐balanced polymorphisms in genetic variation data from closely related species. Evolution. 69(2). 431–446. 53 indexed citations

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Baudat, Frédéric, Jérôme Buard, Corinne Grey, et al.. (2009). PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice. Science. 327(5967). 836–840. 726 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ptak, Susan E., Amy D. Roeder, Matthew Stephens, et al.. (2004). Absence of the TAP2 Human Recombination Hotspot in Chimpanzees. PLoS Biology. 2(6). e155–e155. 105 indexed citations

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Przeworski, Molly & Jeffrey D. Wall. (1998). An evaluation of a hierarchical branching process as a model for species diversification. Paleobiology. 24(4). 498–511. 11 indexed citations

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