Shamil Sunyaev

73.0k citations

128 papers · 15.1k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Genetics top 0.05%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Papers in

Genetics 78
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 36
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 35
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics 26
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 13
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 13
Molecular Biology 90
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 30
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 26

Co-authors: Ivan Adzhubei Daniel M. Jordan Gregory V. Kryukov Peer Bork Eric S. Lander Or Zuk Eliana Hechter J Stamatoyannopoulos
Journals: Nature Genetics (14 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (11 papers)Nature (9 papers)PLoS Genetics (8 papers)Nature Communications (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Russia

In The Last Decade

Shamil Sunyaev

126 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies 2019 · 228 citations

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

it has ≥500 total citations;
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.

2019 eLife
2013 Current Protocols in Human Genetics
2012 Nature
2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2010 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2001 Analytical Chemistry
2001 Human Molecular Genetics

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Inherent instability of simple DNA repeats shapes an evolutionarily stable distribution of repeat lengths Nature Communications ·Ryan J. McGinty, Daniel J. Balick, Sergei M. Mirkin, Shamil Sunyaev	2025	1
2	Missing Regulation Between Genetic Association and Transcriptional Abundance for Hypercholesterolemia Genes Genes ·Aaron Hakim, Noah J Connally, Gavin R. Schnitzler, Michael Cho, Z. Gordon Jiang, Shamil Sunyaev, Rajat Gupta	2025	0
3	Quantifying constraint in the human mitochondrial genome Nature ·Nicole J. Lake, Kaiyue Ma, Wei Liu, Stephanie L. Battle, Kristen M. Laricchia, Grace Tiao, Daniela Puiu, Kenneth K.H. Ng, Justin D. Cohen, Alison G. Compton, Shannon Cowie, John Christodoulou, David R. Thorburn, Hongyu Zhao, Dan E. Arking, Shamil Sunyaev, Monkol Lek	2024	18
4	Leveraging pleiotropy to discover and interpret GWAS results for sleep-associated traits PLoS Genetics ·Sung Chun, Sebastian Akle, Athanasios Teodosiadis, Brian E. Cade, Heming Wang, Tamar Sofer, Daniel S. Evans, Katie L. Stone, Sina A. Gharib, Sutapa Mukherjee, Lyle J. Palmer, David R. Hillman, Jerome I. Rotter, Craig L. Hanis, J Stamatoyannopoulos, Susan Redline, Chris Cotsapas, Shamil Sunyaev	2022	8
5	Maintenance of Adaptive Dynamics and No Detectable Load in a Range-Edge Outcrossing Plant Population Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Margarita Takou, Tuomas Hämälä, Evan Koch, Kim A. Steige, Hannes Dittberner, Levi Yant, Mathieu Genête, Shamil Sunyaev, Vincent Castric, Xavier Vekemans, Outi Savolainen, Juliette de Meaux	2021	22
6	Polygenic adaptation of rosette growth in Arabidopsis thaliana PLoS Genetics ·Benedict Wieters, Kim A. Steige, Fei He, Evan Koch, Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins, Hongya Gu, Ya‐Long Guo, Shamil Sunyaev, Juliette de Meaux	2021	17
7	Population-specific causal disease effect sizes in functionally important regions impacted by selection Nature Communications ·Huwenbo Shi, Steven Gazal, Masahiro Kanai, Evan Koch, Armin Schoech, Katherine M. Siewert, Samuel S. Kim, Yang Luo, Tiffany Amariuta, Hailiang Huang, Yukinori Okada, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Shamil Sunyaev, Alkes L. Price	2021	57
8	Replicate sequencing libraries are important for quantification of allelic imbalance Nature Communications ·Asia Mendelevich, S.V. Vinogradova, Saumya Gupta, Andrey A. Mironov, Shamil Sunyaev, Alexander A. Gimelbrant	2021	13
9	Evidence for secondary-variant genetic burden and non-random distribution across biological modules in a recessive ciliopathy Nature Genetics ·Maria Kousi, Onuralp Söylemez, Ayşegül Ozantürk, Niki Mourtzi, Sebastian Akle, Irwin Jungreis, Jean Muller, Christopher A. Cassa, Harrison Brand, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Maxim Y. Wolf, Azita Sadeghpour, Kelsey McFadden, Richard A. Lewis, Michael E. Talkowski, Hélène Dollfus, Manolis Kellis, Erica E. Davis, Shamil Sunyaev, Nicholas Katsanis	2020	21
10	Applicability of the Mutation–Selection Balance Model to Population Genetics of Heterozygous Protein-Truncating Variants in Humans Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Donate Weghorn, Daniel J. Balick, Christopher A. Cassa, Jack A. Kosmicki, Mark J. Daly, David R. Beier, Shamil Sunyaev	2019	15
11	Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies eLife ·Mashaal Sohail, Robert Maier, Andrea Ganna, Alex Bloemendal, Alicia R. Martin, Michael C. Turchin, Charleston W. K. Chiang, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Mark J. Daly, (unknown), Benjamin M. Neale, Iain Mathieson, David Reich, Shamil Sunyaev Hit paper breakdown →	2019	228
12	Genome-wide patterns and properties of de novo mutations in humans Nature Genetics ·Laurent C. Francioli, Paz Polak, Amnon Koren, Androniki Menelaou, Sung Chun, Ivo Renkens, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Morris A. Swertz, Cisca Wijmenga, Gert‐Jan B. van Ommen, P. Eline Slagboom, Dorret I. Boomsma, Kai Ye, Victor Guryev, Peter F. Arndt, Wigard P. Kloosterman, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Shamil Sunyaev	2015	238
13	APOBEC-Induced Cancer Mutations Are Uniquely Enriched in Early-Replicating, Gene-Dense, and Active Chromatin Regions Cell Reports ·Marat D. Kazanov, Steven A. Roberts, Paz Polak, J Stamatoyannopoulos, Leszek J. Klimczak, Dmitry A. Gordenin, Shamil Sunyaev	2015	68
14	The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Or Zuk, Eliana Hechter, Shamil Sunyaev, Eric S. Lander Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1007
15	Pooled Association Tests for Rare Variants in Exon-Resequencing Studies The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Alkes L. Price, Gregory V. Kryukov, Paul I.W. de Bakker, Shaun Purcell, Jeff Staples, Lee‐Jen Wei, Shamil Sunyaev Hit paper breakdown →	2010	552
16	Human mutation rate associated with DNA replication timing Nature Genetics ·J Stamatoyannopoulos, Ivan Adzhubei, Robert E. Thurman, Gregory V. Kryukov, Sergei M. Mirkin, Shamil Sunyaev	2009	296
17	Evolutionary constraints in conserved nongenic sequences of mammals Genome Research ·Peter D. Keightley, Gregory V. Kryukov, Shamil Sunyaev, Daniel L. Halligan, Daniel J. Gaffney	2005	47
18	Homology‐based functional proteomics by mass spectrometry: Application to the *Xenopus* microtubule‐associated proteome PROTEOMICS ·Adam Liska, А. В. Попов, Shamil Sunyaev, Peg Coughlin, Bianca Habermann, Anna Shevchenko, Peer Bork, Eric Karsenti, (unknown), (unknown)	2004	55
19	Impact of selection, mutation rate and genetic drift on human genetic variation Human Molecular Genetics ·Shamil Sunyaev	2003	23
20	Metabolites: a helping hand for pathway evolution? Trends in Biochemical Sciences ·Steffen Schmidt, Shamil Sunyaev, Peer Bork, Thomas Dandekar	2003	105

About Shamil Sunyaev

Shamil Sunyaev is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Spectroscopy and Aging, having authored 128 papers that have together received 15.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (36 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (35 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (16 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (13 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (7.3k citations), Molecular Biology (8.8k citations), Cancer Research (1.6k citations), Aging (74 citations) and Spectroscopy (608 citations). Shamil Sunyaev has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Ivan Adzhubei, Daniel M. Jordan, Gregory V. Kryukov, Peer Bork, Eric S. Lander, Or Zuk, Eliana Hechter, J Stamatoyannopoulos, Andrej Shevchenko and Steffen Schmidt. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Genetics, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Nature, PLoS Genetics and Nature Communications.

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