Paul L. Auer

24.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Paul L. Auer is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul L. Auer has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Genetics, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Paul L. Auer's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (5 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (5 papers). Paul L. Auer is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (5 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (5 papers). Paul L. Auer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Paul L. Auer's co-authors include R. W. Doerge, Guillaume Lettre, Alex P. Reiner, Anne C. Roulin, Marc Libault, Jessica A. Schlueter, Andrew Farmer, Scott A. Jackson, Greg May and Gary Stacey and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Paul L. Auer

41 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

2023 103 citations Linda Kachuri, Nilanjan Chatterjee et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul L. Auer United States	17	716	466	288	184	76	42	1.4k
Weihua Chang China	14	680 0.9×	698 1.5×	237 0.8×	223 1.2×	61 0.8×	26	1.4k
Hanxin Lin Canada	19	558 0.8×	300 0.6×	145 0.5×	192 1.0×	63 0.8×	39	1.3k
Marcia M. Nizzari United States	4	676 0.9×	804 1.7×	112 0.4×	160 0.9×	103 1.4×	4	1.5k
Lucía Conde United States	20	1.2k 1.7×	390 0.8×	199 0.7×	226 1.2×	85 1.1×	48	2.0k
Aaron Isaacs Netherlands	13	505 0.7×	936 2.0×	188 0.7×	181 1.0×	102 1.3×	16	1.8k
Shilin Zhao United States	20	788 1.1×	265 0.6×	119 0.4×	387 2.1×	101 1.3×	36	1.4k
J. Saadi Imam United States	12	1.4k 1.9×	204 0.4×	133 0.5×	332 1.8×	70 0.9×	15	1.9k
Geoffrey B. Nilsen United States	5	694 1.0×	982 2.1×	137 0.5×	142 0.8×	54 0.7×	5	1.5k
Jun Zhu China	21	783 1.1×	460 1.0×	274 1.0×	340 1.8×	76 1.0×	183	1.9k
Paolo Enrico Maltese Italy	18	679 0.9×	238 0.5×	114 0.4×	151 0.8×	50 0.7×	92	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul L. Auer

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Gadalla, Shahinaz M., Hormuzd A. Katki, Tsung-Po Lai, et al.. (2025). Donor telomeres and their magnitude of shortening post-allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplant impact survival for patients with early-stage leukaemia or myelodysplastic syndrome. EBioMedicine. 114. 105641–105641.

Sun, Quan, Jiawen Chen, Anna V. Mikhaylova, et al.. (2024). Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral-differential effects via GAUDI. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1016–1016. 17 indexed citations

Sun, Quan, Tyne W. Miller‐Fleming, Nancy J. Cox, et al.. (2023). Genetic examination of hematological parameters in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19. Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases. 103. 102782–102782. 1 indexed citations

Kachuri, Linda, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Jibril Hirbo, et al.. (2023). Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations. Nature Reviews Genetics. 25(1). 8–25. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

Auer, Paul L., Gao Wang, Guangyou Li, Andrew T. DeWan, & Suzanne M. Leal. (2023). Comparison of multiple imputation and other methods for the analysis of imputed genotypes. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 303–303. 2 indexed citations

Auer, Paul L., et al.. (2023). On asymptotic distributions of several test statistics for familial relatedness in linear mixed models. Statistics in Medicine. 42(17). 2962–2981. 1 indexed citations

Woo, Jennifer M. P., Christine G. Parks, Paul L. Auer, et al.. (2022). Early life trauma and adult leucocyte telomere length. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 144. 105876–105876. 6 indexed citations

Eastwood, Daniel C., et al.. (2022). Contemporary evaluation of estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor expression in breast cancer-associated stroma. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 196(3). 453–461. 1 indexed citations

Stanislawski, Maggie A., Leslie A. Lange, Laura M. Raffield, et al.. (2021). Soluble CD14 Levels in the Jackson Heart Study: Associations With Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Genetic Variants. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 41(6). e369–e378. 7 indexed citations

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Olson, Nels C., Laura M. Raffield, Tyne W. Miller‐Fleming, et al.. (2021). Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor: Genetic Variation and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Black Adults. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 14(6). e003421–e003421. 9 indexed citations

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Raffield, Laura M., Ake T. Lu, Mindy D Szeto, et al.. (2020). Coagulation factor VIII: Relationship to cardiovascular disease risk and whole genome sequence and epigenome‐wide analysis in African Americans. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 18(6). 1335–1347. 14 indexed citations

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Zakai, Neil A., Paul L. Auer, Mary Cushman, et al.. (2020). Interferon gamma-induced protein 10 (IP-10) and cardiovascular disease in African Americans. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231013–e0231013. 16 indexed citations

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Rau, Andréa, Michael J. Flister, Hallgeir Rui, & Paul L. Auer. (2018). Exploring drivers of gene expression in the Cancer Genome Atlas. Bioinformatics. 35(1). 62–68. 22 indexed citations

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Mousas, Abdou, Georgios Ntritsos, Ming‐Huei Chen, et al.. (2017). Rare coding variants pinpoint genes that control human hematological traits. PLoS Genetics. 13(8). e1006925–e1006925. 25 indexed citations

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Laestadius, Linnea, et al.. (2016). All your data (effectively) belong to us: data practices among direct-to-consumer genetic testing firms. Genetics in Medicine. 19(5). 513–520. 53 indexed citations

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Auer, Paul L. & Guillaume Lettre. (2015). Rare variant association studies: considerations, challenges and opportunities. Genome Medicine. 7(1). 145 indexed citations

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Johnsen, Jill M., Paul L. Auer, Alanna C. Morrison, et al.. (2013). Common and rare von Willebrand factor (VWF) coding variants, VWF levels, and factor VIII levels in African Americans: the NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project. Blood. 122(4). 590–597. 50 indexed citations

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Reiner, Alex P., Sandra Beleza, Nora Franceschini, et al.. (2012). Genome-wide Association and Population Genetic Analysis of C-Reactive Protein in African American and Hispanic American Women. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 91(3). 502–512. 82 indexed citations

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Auer, Paul L. & R. W. Doerge. (2011). A Two-Stage Poisson Model for Testing RNA-Seq Data. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 10(1). 92 indexed citations

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Auer, Paul L. & R. W. Doerge. (2010). Statistical Design and Analysis of RNA Sequencing Data. Genetics. 185(2). 405–416. 281 indexed citations

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