Shaun Purcell

166.0k citations

136 papers · 39.1k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 53

Impact in

Genetics top 0.01%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Biological Psychiatry top 0.5%

Papers in

Genetics 75
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 48
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 23
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 22
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 21
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 20
- Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting 10
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 24
- Sleep and related disorders 19

Co-authors: Pak C. Sham Mark J. Daly Manuel A. R. Ferreira Benjamin M. Neale Julian Maller Pamela Sklar Paul I. W. de Bakker Katherine EO Todd-Brown
Journals: SLEEP (15 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (11 papers)American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics (11 papers)Molecular Psychiatry (9 papers)Biological Psychiatry (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Sweden

In The Last Decade

Shaun Purcell

128 papers receiving 38.7k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

The hypoxic burden of sleep apnoea predicts cardiovascular disease-related mortality: the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study and the Sleep Heart Health Study 2018 · 461 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.

2018 European Heart Journal
2015 GigaScience
2014 Nature Reviews Genetics
2011 PLoS Genetics
2010 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2008 Nature Genetics
2007 The American Journal of Human Genetics

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	F95. GENETIC CORRELATES OF SLEEP SPINDLE ABNORMALITIES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA European Neuropsychopharmacology ·Jun Wang, Nataliia Kozhemiako, A. Zucchetta, Zhenglin Guo, Sinéad B. Chapman, Shen Li, Lu Shen, Shengying Qin, Michael Murphy, Dara S. Manoach, Zhenhe Zhou, Mei‐Hua Hall, Jen Q. Pan, Hailiang Huang, Shaun Purcell	2023	1
2	0034 Genetic Variants for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Identified after Modeling Interactions with Daytime Sleepiness SLEEP ·Sabina Eftimova, Han Chen, P. ROCCO, Nuzulul Kurniansyah, Shaun Purcell, Richa Saxena, Xiaofeng Zhu, Brian E. Cade, Tamar Sofer, Susan Redline, Heming Wang, (unknown)	2023	0
3	Causal Association Between Subtypes of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases Journal of the American Heart Association ·Matthew Goodman, Hassan S. Dashti, Jacqueline M. Lane, Daniel P. Windred, Angus C. Burns, Samuel E. Jones, Tamar Sofer, Shaun Purcell, Xiaofeng Zhu, Hanna M. Ollila, Simon D. Kyle, Kai Spiegelhalder, Yüksel Peker, Tianyi Huang, Sean W. Cain, Andrew J. K. Phillips, Richa Saxena, Martin K. Rutter, Susan Redline, Heming Wang	2023	7
4	Multivariate prediction of cognitive performance from the sleep electroencephalogram NeuroImage ·Péter P. Ujma, Róbert Bódizs, Martin Dresler, Péter Simor, Shaun Purcell, Katie L. Stone, Kristine Yaffe, Susan Redline	2023	5
5	Impact of chronic sleep restriction on sleep continuity, sleep structure, and neurobehavioral performance SLEEP ·Sergei N. Potapychev, Robin K. Yuan, Kirsi‐Marja Zitting, Wei Wang, Shaun Purcell, Nina Vujović, Joseph M. Ronda, Stuart F. Quan, Jonathan S. Williams, Orfeu M. Buxton, Jeanne F. Duffy, Charles A. Czeisler	2022	8
6	Transient oscillation dynamics during sleep provide a robust basis for electroencephalographic phenotyping and biomarker identification SLEEP ·Patrick A. Stokes, Р.А. Гуленок, Humbo, Dwy Kartini Endah Sundawa, Shaun Purcell, Dara S. Manoach, Robert Stickgold, Michael J. Prerau	2022	15
7	Polygenic overlap between schizophrenia risk and antipsychotic response: a genomic medicine approach The Lancet Psychiatry ·Douglas M. Ruderfer, Alexander W. Charney, Ben Readhead, Brian Kidd, Anna K. Kähler, Paul J. Kenny, Michael J. Keiser, Jennifer L. Moran, Christina M. Hultman, Stuart A. Scott, Patrick F. Sullivan, Shaun Purcell, Joel T. Dudley, Pamela Sklar	2016	90
8	Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits Nature Genetics ·Jacqueline M. Lane, Jingjing Liang, Irma Vlasac, Simon Anderson, David A. Bechtold, Jack Bowden, Richard Emsley, Shubhroz Gill, Max A. Little, Annemarie I. Luik, Andrew Loudon, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Shaun Purcell, Simon D. Kyle, Debbie A. Lawlor, Xiaofeng Zhu, Susan Redline, David Ray, Martin K. Rutter, Richa Saxena	2016	226
9	Increased burden of ultra-rare protein-altering variants among 4,877 individuals with schizophrenia Nature Neuroscience ·Giulio Genovese, Menachem Fromer, Eli A. Stahl, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Kimberly Chambert, Mikael Landén, Jennifer L. Moran, Shaun Purcell, Pamela Sklar, Patrick F. Sullivan, Christina M. Hultman, Steven A. McCarroll	2016	276
10	Genetic modifiers and subtypes in schizophrenia: Investigations of age at onset, severity, sex and family history Schizophrenia Research ·Sarah E. Bergen, Colm O’Dushlaine, Phil H. Lee, Ayman H. Fanous, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Stephan Ripke, Patrick F. Sullivan, Jordan W. Smoller, Shaun Purcell, Aiden Corvin	2014	49
11	Detecting large copy number variants using exome genotyping arrays in a large Swedish schizophrenia sample Molecular Psychiatry ·Jin Szatkiewicz, Benjamin M. Neale, Justin James, Menachem Fromer, Jacqueline I. Goldstein, Jennifer L. Moran, Kimberly Chambert, D. E. Heron, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, J Rougon-Skriabine, Pamela Sklar, Shaun Purcell, Steven A. McCarroll, Patrick F. Sullivan	2013	21
12	Evaluation of Common Variants in the Six Known Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) Genes for Association With Type 2 Diabetes Diabetes ·Wendy Winckler, Michael N. Weedon, Robert Graham, Steven A. McCarroll, Shaun Purcell, Peter Almgren, (unknown), Daniel Gaudet, Kristina Bengtsson Boström, Mark Walker, G. A. Hitman, Andrew T. Hattersley, Mark I. McCarthy, Kristin Ardlie, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Mark J. Daly, Timothy M. Frayling, Leif Groop, David Altshuler	2007	130
13	Clinical and Genetic Dissection of Anger Expression and CREB1 Polymorphisms in Major Depressive Disorder Biological Psychiatry ·Roy H. Perlis, Shaun Purcell, Jesen Fagerness, Cristina Cusin, 송설연, Maurizio Fava, Jordan W. Smoller	2007	36
14	Identification of EFHC2 as a quantitative trait locus for fear recognition in Turner syndrome Human Molecular Genetics ·Lauren A. Weiss, Shaun Purcell, Phuong-Anh Nguyen, Kate Lawrence, M.H. Leyenaar, Mark J. Daly, Pamela Sklar, David Skuse	2006	25
15	Two Quantitative Trait Loci for Prepulse Inhibition of Startle Identified on Mouse Chromosome 16 Using Chromosome Substitution Strains Genetics ·Tracey L. Petryshen, Andrew Kirby, Ronald P. Hammer, Shaun Purcell, Sinéad B. O'Leary, Jonathan B. Singer, Annie E. Hill, Joseph H. Nadeau, Mark J. Daly, Pamela Sklar	2005	30
16	Variance Components Models for Gene–Environment Interaction in Twin Analysis Twin Research ·Shaun Purcell	2002	71
17	Variance Components Models for Gene–Environment Interaction in Quantitative Trait Locus Linkage Analysis Twin Research ·Shaun Purcell, Pak C. Sham	2002	33
18	Variance Components Models for Gene–Environment Interaction in Quantitative Trait Locus Linkage Analysis Twin Research ·Shaun Purcell, Pak C. Sham	2002	10
19	An overview of regression methods of linkage analysis in selected samples. Behavior Genetics ·Ising Hj, Stacey S. Cherny, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Pak C. Sham, Shaun Purcell	2001	0
20	Power of OTL linkage and association analysis. Behavior Genetics ·Pak C. Sham, Stacey S. Cherny, Shaun Purcell, John K. Hewitt	1999	1

About Shaun Purcell

Shaun Purcell is a scholar working on Genetics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Biological Psychiatry, having authored 136 papers that have together received 39.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (48 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (23 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (22 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (21 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (21 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (20 papers), Sleep and related disorders (19 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (22.3k citations), Biological Psychiatry (481 citations), Cancer Research (2.7k citations), Molecular Biology (11.7k citations) and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (950 citations). Shaun Purcell has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Pak C. Sham, Mark J. Daly, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, Benjamin M. Neale, Julian Maller, Pamela Sklar, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, D.B. Bender and Christopher Chang. Their work appears in journals such as SLEEP, The American Journal of Human Genetics, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Molecular Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry.

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