Richard Border

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 658 citations indexed

About

Richard Border is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Border has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 658 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Border's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (6 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (5 papers). Richard Border is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (6 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (5 papers). Richard Border collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. Richard Border's co-authors include Matthew C. Keller, Emma C. Johnson, Andrew Smolen, Luke M. Evans, Patrick F. Sullivan, Marissa A. Ehringer, Christiaan de Leeuw, Thomas Werge, Kenneth S. Kendler and Andrew J. Schork and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Richard Border

14 papers receiving 643 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.

No Support for Historical Candidate Gene or Candidate Gene-by-Interaction Hypotheses for Major Depression Across Multiple Large Samples

2019 356 citations Richard Border, Emma C. Johnson et al. American Journal of Psychiatry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Border United States	9	255	162	130	106	77	20	658
Shareefa Dalvie South Africa	15	168 0.7×	211 1.3×	66 0.5×	131 1.2×	93 1.2×	42	660
Bart M. L. Baselmans Netherlands	16	223 0.9×	241 1.5×	188 1.4×	132 1.2×	102 1.3×	28	942
Philip Adams United States	8	135 0.5×	154 1.0×	80 0.6×	59 0.6×	71 0.9×	8	430
Hill F. Ip Netherlands	8	390 1.5×	133 0.8×	138 1.1×	136 1.3×	56 0.7×	9	676
Leo A. Sirota United States	6	128 0.5×	181 1.1×	117 0.9×	253 2.4×	75 1.0×	7	727
Erin B. Miller United States	11	172 0.7×	181 1.1×	73 0.6×	60 0.6×	178 2.3×	11	589
Jaqueline Bohrer Schuch Brazil	16	101 0.4×	139 0.9×	46 0.4×	140 1.3×	104 1.4×	68	755
Travis T. Mallard United States	14	393 1.5×	232 1.4×	196 1.5×	164 1.5×	85 1.1×	47	982
Emma C. Johnson United States	17	346 1.4×	271 1.7×	162 1.2×	307 2.9×	137 1.8×	67	1.5k
Laura M. Huckins United States	13	169 0.7×	126 0.8×	35 0.3×	107 1.0×	61 0.8×	41	511

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Mefford, Joel, F. Zhang, Richard Border, et al.. (2025). Beyond predictive R: Quantile regression and non-equivalence tests reveal complex relationships of traits and polygenic scores. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(6). 1363–1375.

Wainschtein, Pierrick, Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Irfahan Kassam, et al.. (2025). Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes. Nature. 649(8099). 1219–1227.

Fan, Chun Chieh, Richard Border, Robert Loughnan, et al.. (2025). Spousal correlations for nine psychiatric disorders are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(12). 2539–2547.

Border, Richard, Sinéad Cullina, Nadav Brandes, et al.. (2025). Investigating the sources of variable impact of pathogenic variants in monogenic metabolic conditions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5223–5223. 1 indexed citations

Appadurai, Vivek, Richard Border, Noah Zaitlen, et al.. (2025). The relationship between genotype- and phenotype-based estimates of genetic liability to psychiatric disorders, in practice and in theory. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 113(1). 184–201.

Ma, Shiyang, Fan Wang, Richard Border, et al.. (2024). Local genetic correlation via knockoffs reduces confounding due to cross-trait assortative mating. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(12). 2839–2848.

Thompson, Michael, Joel Mefford, Tanushree Haldar, et al.. (2024). Characterizing the genetic architecture of drug response using gene-context interaction methods. Cell Genomics. 4(12). 100722–100722. 4 indexed citations

Dahl, Andrew, Michael Thompson, Morten Dybdahl Krebs, et al.. (2023). Phenotype integration improves power and preserves specificity in biobank-based genetic studies of major depressive disorder. Nature Genetics. 55(12). 2082–2093. 23 indexed citations

Border, Richard, et al.. (2023). rBahadur: efficient simulation of structured high-dimensional genotype data with applications to assortative mating. BMC Bioinformatics. 24(1). 314–314.

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Border, Richard, Georgios Athanasiadis, Alfonso Buil, et al.. (2022). Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates. Science. 378(6621). 754–761. 71 indexed citations

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Border, Richard, Sean O’Rourke, Michael E. Goddard, et al.. (2022). Assortative mating biases marker-based heritability estimators. Nature Communications. 13(1). 660–660. 39 indexed citations

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Border, Richard, et al.. (2020). Little Evidence of Modified Genetic Effect of rs16969968 on Heavy Smoking Based on Age of Onset of Smoking. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 23(6). 1055–1063. 2 indexed citations

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Border, Richard, Andrew Smolen, Robin P. Corley, et al.. (2019). Imputation of behavioral candidate gene repeat variants in 486,551 publicly-available UK Biobank individuals. European Journal of Human Genetics. 27(6). 963–969. 11 indexed citations

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Border, Richard, Emma C. Johnson, Luke M. Evans, et al.. (2019). No Support for Historical Candidate Gene or Candidate Gene-by-Interaction Hypotheses for Major Depression Across Multiple Large Samples. American Journal of Psychiatry. 176(5). 376–387. 356 indexed citations breakdown →

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Border, Richard & Stephen Becker. (2019). Stochastic Lanczos estimation of genomic variance components for linear mixed-effects models. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 411–411. 4 indexed citations

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Border, Richard, Robin P. Corley, Sandra A. Brown, et al.. (2018). Predictors of adult outcomes in clinically- and legally-ascertained youth with externalizing problems. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206442–e0206442. 10 indexed citations

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Border, Richard, Robin P. Corley, Sandra A. Brown, et al.. (2018). Independent predictors of mortality in adolescents ascertained for conduct disorder and substance use problems, their siblings and community controls. Addiction. 113(11). 2107–2115. 18 indexed citations

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Border, Richard. (2018). Stochastic Lanczos Likelihood Estimation of Genomic Variance Components. CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder). 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Emma C., et al.. (2017). No Evidence That Schizophrenia Candidate Genes Are More Associated With Schizophrenia Than Noncandidate Genes. Biological Psychiatry. 82(10). 702–708. 93 indexed citations

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Hostetler, Karl Y., Ganesh D. Kini, James R. Beadle, et al.. (1996). Lipid prodrugs of phosphonoacids: greatly enhanced antiviral activity of 1-O-octadecyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphonoformate in HIV-1, HSV-1 and HCMV-infected cells, in vitro. Antiviral Research. 31(1-2). 59–67. 25 indexed citations

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