Priit Palta

18.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 951 citations indexed

About

Priit Palta is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Priit Palta has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 951 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Priit Palta's work include Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (10 papers), Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (8 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (7 papers). Priit Palta is often cited by papers focused on Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (10 papers), Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (8 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (7 papers). Priit Palta collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Finland and United States. Priit Palta's co-authors include Aarno Palotie, Samuli Ripatti, Veikko Salomaa, Mark J. Daly, Pietari Ripatti, Aki S. Havulinna, Nina Mars, Tuomo Kiiskinen, Andres Metspalu and Tōnu Esko and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Priit Palta

37 papers receiving 939 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Polygenic and clinical risk scores and their impact on age at onset and prediction of cardiometabolic diseases and common cancers

2020 245 citations Nina Mars, Pietari Ripatti et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Priit Palta Estonia	16	438	381	98	97	94	43	951
Weihua Zhang China	17	262 0.6×	677 1.8×	109 1.1×	76 0.8×	63 0.7×	55	1.1k
Longda Jiang Australia	9	467 1.1×	286 0.8×	82 0.8×	52 0.5×	27 0.3×	15	883
Peter VandeHaar United States	8	526 1.2×	328 0.9×	76 0.8×	78 0.8×	23 0.2×	9	937
P. Saccucci Italy	14	231 0.5×	271 0.7×	45 0.5×	169 1.7×	54 0.6×	65	670
Nigel W. Rayner United Kingdom	15	594 1.4×	419 1.1×	96 1.0×	59 0.6×	38 0.4×	25	1.0k
Maruša Debeljak Slovenia	15	173 0.4×	396 1.0×	58 0.6×	128 1.3×	155 1.6×	84	870
Sandra Imholz Netherlands	18	162 0.4×	230 0.6×	60 0.6×	53 0.5×	78 0.8×	35	683
Vasiliki Lagou United Kingdom	13	245 0.6×	239 0.6×	59 0.6×	180 1.9×	34 0.4×	25	728
Hoi Kin Wong Hong Kong	15	146 0.3×	433 1.1×	230 2.3×	63 0.6×	120 1.3×	19	847
Jonathon LeFaive United States	8	462 1.1×	283 0.7×	54 0.6×	75 0.8×	22 0.2×	10	793

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Priit Palta

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Salminen, Aino, Kati Hyvärinen, Jarmo Ritari, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide association study of pulpal and apical diseases. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6774–6774. 2 indexed citations

Jatsenko, Tatjana, et al.. (2025). BinDel: Detecting Clinically Relevant Fetal Genomic Microdeletions Using Low‐Coverage Whole‐Genome Sequencing‐Based NIPT. Prenatal Diagnosis. 45(3). 352–361.

Vaht, Mariliis, Anu Realo, Jüri Allïk, et al.. (2025). Cohort Profiles: Personality Measurements at the Estonian Biobank of the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 6.

Lessard, Samuel, Michael J. Chao, Kadri Reis, et al.. (2024). Leveraging large-scale multi-omics evidences to identify therapeutic targets from genome-wide association studies. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 1111–1111. 4 indexed citations

Saare, Merli, Riikka K. Arffman, Terhi Piltonen, et al.. (2023). Targeted gene expression profiling for accurate endometrial receptivity testing. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 13959–13959. 17 indexed citations

Koel, Mariann, Urmo Võsa, Kristi Läll, et al.. (2023). GWAS meta-analyses clarify the genetics of cervical phenotypes and inform risk stratification for cervical cancer. Human Molecular Genetics. 32(12). 2103–2116. 10 indexed citations

Kaivola, Karri, Anna Raunio, Mia Kero, et al.. (2021). Primary age‐related tauopathy in a Finnish population‐based study of the oldest old (Vantaa 85+). Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 48(3). e12788–e12788. 15 indexed citations

Ardeshirdavani, Amin, et al.. (2021). Systematic evaluation of NIPT aneuploidy detection software tools with clinically validated NIPT samples. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(12). e1009684–e1009684. 5 indexed citations

Ripatti, Pietari, Joel Rämö, Nina Mars, et al.. (2020). Polygenic Hyperlipidemias and Coronary Artery Disease Risk. UTUPub (University of Turku). 55 indexed citations

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Hassan, Shabbeer, Ida Surakka, Marja‐Riitta Taskinen, et al.. (2020). High-resolution population-specific recombination rates and their effect on phasing and genotype imputation. European Journal of Human Genetics. 29(4). 615–624. 15 indexed citations

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Rekker, Kadri, et al.. (2019). Computational framework for targeted high-coverage sequencing based NIPT. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0209139–e0209139. 10 indexed citations

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Koel, Mariann, Tatjana Jatsenko, Kadri Rekker, et al.. (2018). TAC-seq: targeted DNA and RNA sequencing for precise biomarker molecule counting. npj Genomic Medicine. 3(1). 34–34. 26 indexed citations

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Žilina, Olga, Ants Kurg, Maire Peters, et al.. (2018). NIPTmer: rapid k-mer-based software package for detection of fetal aneuploidies. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5616–5616. 12 indexed citations

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Mitt, Mario, Mart Kals, Kalle Pärn, et al.. (2017). Improved imputation accuracy of rare and low-frequency variants using population-specific high-coverage WGS-based imputation reference panel. Nature. 20 indexed citations

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Winsvold, Bendik S., Priit Palta, Else Eising, et al.. (2017). Epigenetic DNA methylation changes associated with headache chronification: A retrospective case-control study. Cephalalgia. 38(2). 312–322. 34 indexed citations

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Palta, Priit, Lauris Kaplinski, Liina Nagirnaja, et al.. (2015). Haplotype Phasing and Inheritance of Copy Number Variants in Nuclear Families. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0122713–e0122713. 7 indexed citations

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Kokocinski, Felix, Carol Scott, Priit Palta, et al.. (2011). The GENCODE exome: sequencing the complete human exome. European Journal of Human Genetics. 19(7). 827–831. 43 indexed citations

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Kaplinski, Lauris, Ott Scheler, Sven Parkel, et al.. (2010). Detection of tmRNA molecules on microarrays at low temperatures using helper oligonucleotides. BMC Biotechnology. 10(1). 34–34. 9 indexed citations

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Männik, Katrin, Sven Parkel, Priit Palta, et al.. (2010). A parallel SNP array study of genomic aberrations associated with mental retardation in patients and general population in Estonia. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 54(2). 136–143. 6 indexed citations

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Parkel, Sven, Olga Žilina, Priit Palta, et al.. (2007). Screening of 20 patients with X-linked mental retardation using chromosome X-specific array-MAPH. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 50(6). 399–410. 5 indexed citations

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