Robert M. Plenge

23.6k citations

36 papers · 9.7k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 24

Impact in

Genetics top 0.1%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Genetic diversity and population structure
Rheumatology top 1%

Papers in

Health Information Management 4
Genetics 19
- Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities 8
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 5
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease 4

Co-authors: Nancy A. Shadick Michael E. Weinblatt David Reich Alkes L. Price David Altshuler Edward M. Scolnick Huntington F. Willard Charles E. Schwartz
Journals: PLoS Genetics (4 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (4 papers)PLoS ONE (3 papers)Nature Genetics (3 papers)Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan Canada

In The Last Decade

Robert M. Plenge

36 papers receiving 9.5k citations

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Validating therapeutic targets through human genetics 2013 · 410 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
2006 Nature Genetics

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1	Sequential immunotherapy: towards cures for autoimmunity Nature Reviews Drug Discovery ·Francisco Ramírez‐Valle, Joseph Maranville, Sophie Roy, Robert M. Plenge	2024	24
2	The Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Variant CCR6DNP Regulates CCR6 via PARP-1 PLoS Genetics ·Gang Li, Pierre Cunin, Di Wu, Dorothée Diogo, Yang Yu, Yukinori Okada, Robert M. Plenge, Peter A. Nigrović	2016	26
3	(Epi)Genetic Analyses of Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Case-Control and Discordant Twin Studies Human Heredity ·John N. Hutchinson, Jes Fagerness, Andrew Kirby, Robyn Reynolds, Chen Rui-ti, Alexander A. Gimelbrant, Robert M. Plenge, Mark J. Daly, Andrew Chess, Johanna M. Seddon	2014	11
4	Allele-Specific Methylation Occurs at Genetic Variants Associated with Complex Disease PLoS ONE ·John N. Hutchinson, Towfique Raj, Jes Fagerness, Eli A. Stahl, M. Momchilova, Alexander A. Gimelbrant, Johanna M. Seddon, Mark J. Daly, Andrew Chess, Robert M. Plenge	2014	27
5	Psychiatric co-morbidity is associated with increased risk of surgery in Crohn's disease DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, Vivian S. Gainer, Raul Guzman Perez, Tianxi Cai, Panagiotis Kousis, Guergana Savova, 佳妮岳, Peter Szolovits, Zongqi Xia, Philip L. De Jager, Stanley Y. Shaw, Susanne Churchill, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Isaac S. Kohane, Roy H. Perlis, Robert M. Plenge, Shawn N. Murphy, Katherine P. Liao	2013	1
6	Improving Case Definition of Crohnʼs Disease and Ulcerative Colitis in Electronic Medical Records Using Natural Language Processing DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, Tianxi Cai, Guergana Savova, Su–Chun Cheng, Pei Chen, Raul Guzman Perez, Vivian S. Gainer, Shawn N. Murphy, Peter Szolovits, Zongqi Xia, Stanley Y. Shaw, Susanne Churchill, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Isaac S. Kohane, Robert M. Plenge, Katherine P. Liao	2013	2
7	Improving Case Definition of Crohnʼs Disease and Ulcerative Colitis in Electronic Medical Records Using Natural Language Processing Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ·Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, Tianxi Cai, Guergana Savova, Amanda Cameron, Pei‐Jer Chen, Raul Guzman Perez, Vivian S. Gainer, Shawn N. Murphy, Peter Szolovits, Zongqi Xia, Stanley Y. Shaw, Susanne Churchill, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Isaac S. Kohane, Robert M. Plenge, Katherine P. Liao	2013	131
8	Validating therapeutic targets through human genetics Nature Reviews Drug Discovery ·Robert M. Plenge, Edward M. Scolnick, David Altshuler Hit paper breakdown →	2013	410
9	Automatic Prediction of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity from the Electronic Medical Records PLoS ONE ·Chen Lin, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Helena Canhão, Timothy A. Miller, Dmitriy Dligach, Gustavo de Souza Vieira, Mendes Teresa M. F. F., Stefanie Binzer, Michael E. Weinblatt, Nancy A. Shadick, Robert M. Plenge, Guergana Savova	2013	71
10	Portability of an algorithm to identify rheumatoid arthritis in electronic health records Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ·Robert J. Carroll, Carla Rivera Rebella, Anne E. Eyler, Arthur M. Mandelin, Tianxi Cai, A. Minemoto, Jennifer A. Pacheco, Chad S. Boomershine, Thomas A. Lasko, Hua Xu, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Raul Guzman Perez, Vivian S. Gainer, Shawn N. Murphy, Eric Ruderman, Richard M. Pope, Robert M. Plenge, Abel Kho, Katherine P. Liao, Joshua C. Denny	2012	172
11	Integrating Autoimmune Risk Loci with Gene-Expression Data Identifies Specific Pathogenic Immune Cell Subsets The American Journal of Human Genetics ·R. De Villamil, Hyun Kim, Eli A. Stahl, Robert M. Plenge, Mark J. Daly, Soumya Raychaudhuri	2011	9
12	Electronic medical records for discovery research in rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Care & Research ·Katherine P. Liao, Tianxi Cai, Vivian S. Gainer, Sergey Goryachev, Qing Zeng‐Treitler, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Peter Szolovits, Susanne Churchill, Shawn N. Murphy, Isaac S. Kohane, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Robert M. Plenge	2010	242
13	GWASs and the age of human as the model organism for autoimmune genetic research Genome Biology ·Robert M. Plenge	2010	8
14	Genetic Analysis of Human Traits In Vitro: Drug Response and Gene Expression in Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines PLoS Genetics ·Edwin Choy, Roman Yelensky, Adrien Lampilas, Robert M. Plenge, Richa Saxena, Philip L. De Jager, Stanley Y. Shaw, 内村章子, Jacqueline M. Slavik, Chris Cotsapas, Manuel A. Rivas, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Ellen Cahir-McFarland, Elliott Kieff, David A. Hafler, Mark J. Daly, David Altshuler	2008	164
15	Defining the Role of the MHC in Autoimmunity: A Review and Pooled Analysis PLoS Genetics ·Michelle M. A. Fernando, Christine Stevens, Emily C. Walsh, Philip L. De Jager, Philippe Goyette, Robert M. Plenge, Timothy J. Vyse, John D. Rioux	2008	423
16	Evaluating potential for whole-genome studies in Kosrae, an isolated population in Micronesia Nature Genetics ·Penelope E. Bonnen, Itsik Pe’er, Robert M. Plenge, Muharrem BULUT, Jennifer K. Lowe, Michael H. Shapero, Richard P. Lifton, Jan L. Breslow, Mark J. Daly, David Reich, Keith Jones, Markus Stoffel, David Altshuler, Jeffrey M. Friedman	2006	52
17	Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies Nature Genetics ·Alkes L. Price, د. دلال كاظم عبيد, Robert M. Plenge, Michael E. Weinblatt, Nancy A. Shadick, David Reich Hit paper breakdown →	2006	6425
18	X Chromosome–Inactivation Patterns of 1,005 Phenotypically Unaffected Females The American Journal of Human Genetics ·James Amos‐Landgraf, Jingzhi Feng, Robert M. Plenge, H Mohammadi Mazraeh, Charles E. Schwartz, John Longshore, Huntington F. Willard	2006	229
19	Autosomal Dominant Mutations Affecting X Inactivation Choice in the Mouse Science ·Ivona Percec, Robert M. Plenge, Joseph H. Nadeau, Marisa S. Bartolomei, Huntington F. Willard	2002	52
20	Skewed X-Chromosome Inactivation Is a Common Feature of X-Linked Mental Retardation Disorders The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Robert M. Plenge, M. K. Andrews, Herbert A. Lubs, Charles E. Schwartz, Huntington F. Willard	2002	177

About Robert M. Plenge

Robert M. Plenge is a scholar working on Health Information Management, Genetics, Immunology, Rheumatology and Genetics, having authored 36 papers that have together received 9.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (8 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (5 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (4 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (4 papers) and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (5.5k citations), Rheumatology (737 citations), Molecular Biology (3.1k citations), Immunology (858 citations) and Cancer Research (475 citations). Robert M. Plenge has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Nancy A. Shadick, Michael E. Weinblatt, David Reich, Alkes L. Price, David Altshuler, Edward M. Scolnick, Huntington F. Willard, Charles E. Schwartz, Philip L. De Jager and John D. Rioux. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS Genetics, The American Journal of Human Genetics, PLoS ONE, Nature Genetics and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

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