Shaun Purcell

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Shaun Purcell is a scholar working on Genetics, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaun Purcell has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Clinical Psychology and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Shaun Purcell's work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (6 papers). Shaun Purcell is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (6 papers). Shaun Purcell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Shaun Purcell's co-authors include Pak C. Sham, Stacey S. Cherny, Karestan C. Koenen, Terrie E. Moffitt, Alan Taylor, Avshalom Caspi, Robert Plomin, Thalia C. Eley, Thomas S. Price and Philip S. Dale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Bioinformatics and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Shaun Purcell

20 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Genetic Power Calculator: design of linkage andassociation genetic mapping studies of complex traits

2002 1.6k citations Shaun Purcell, Stacey S. Cherny et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Variance Components Models for Gene–Environment Interaction in Twin Analysis

2002 701 citations Shaun Purcell Twin Research profile →

Peers

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Gu Zhu Australia

Oliver S. P. Davis United Kingdom

Maciej Trzaskowski United Kingdom

Michel G. Nivard Netherlands

Laramie E. Duncan United States

Michelle Luciano United Kingdom

G. Caroline M. van Baal Netherlands

Leopold Curfs Netherlands

Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Netherlands

Kevin Taylor United Kingdom

Gu Zhu Australia

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762 ×0.9

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260 ×0.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Shaun Purcell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shaun Purcell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shaun Purcell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shaun Purcell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shaun Purcell based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shaun Purcell. Shaun Purcell is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Dick, Danielle M., Jason L. Pagan, Richard J. Viken, et al.. (2007). Changing Environmental Influences on Substance Use Across Development. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 10(2). 315–326. 119 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun & Karestan C. Koenen. (2005). Environmental Mediation and The Twin Design. Behavior Genetics. 35(4). 491–498. 45 indexed citations

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Sugden, Karen, Patricia Huezo-Diaz, R Williamson, et al.. (2005). Association analysis of monoamine genes with measures of depression and anxiety in a selected community sample of siblings. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 135B(1). 33–37. 20 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun, Pak C. Sham, & Mark J. Daly. (2005). Parental Phenotypes in Family-Based Association Analysis. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 76(2). 249–259. 53 indexed citations

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Button, Tanya M. M., Jane Scourfield, Neilson Martin, Shaun Purcell, & Peter McGuffin. (2005). Family Dysfunction Interacts with Genes in the Causation of Antisocial Symptoms. Behavior Genetics. 35(2). 115–120. 72 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun & Pak C. Sham. (2004). Properties of Structured Association Approaches to Detecting Population Stratification. Human Heredity. 58(2). 93–107. 35 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun & Pak C. Sham. (2004). Epistasis in Quantitative Trait Locus Linkage Analysis: Interaction or Main Effect?. Behavior Genetics. 34(2). 143–152. 28 indexed citations

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Eley, Thalia C., Holan Liang, Robert Plomin, et al.. (2004). Parental Familial Vulnerability, Family Environment, and Their Interactions as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 43(3). 298–306. 70 indexed citations

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Koenen, Karestan C., Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Alan Taylor, & Shaun Purcell. (2003). Domestic violence is associated with environmental suppression of IQ in young children. Development and Psychopathology. 15(2). 297–311. 236 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun, et al.. (2003). A Model-Fitting Implementation of the DeFries-Fulker Model for Selected Twin Data. Behavior Genetics. 33(3). 271–278. 39 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun. (2002). Variance Components Models for Gene–Environment Interaction in Twin Analysis. Twin Research. 5(6). 554–571. 701 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bader, Joel S., et al.. (2002). Optimal selection strategies for QTL mapping using pooled DNA samples. European Journal of Human Genetics. 10(2). 125–132. 35 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun, Stacey S. Cherny, & Pak C. Sham. (2002). Genetic Power Calculator: design of linkage andassociation genetic mapping studies of complex traits. Bioinformatics. 19(1). 149–150. 1624 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rijsdijk, Frühling, Pak C. Sham, Abram Sterne, et al.. (2001). Life events and depression in a community sample of siblings. Psychological Medicine. 31(3). 401–410. 53 indexed citations

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Purcell, Shaun, Thalia C. Eley, Philip S. Dale, et al.. (2001). Comorbidity between verbal and non‐verbal cognitive delays in 2‐year‐olds: a bivariate twin analysis. Developmental Science. 4(2). 195–208. 25 indexed citations

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Sterne, Abram, Shaun Purcell, Stacey S. Cherny, et al.. (2000). GENESiS: creating a composite index of the vulnerability to anxiety and depression in a community-based sample of siblings. Twin Research. 3(4). 316–322. 18 indexed citations

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Sterne, Abram, Shaun Purcell, Stacey S. Cherny, et al.. (2000). GENESiS: creating a composite index of the vulnerability to anxiety and depression in a community–based sample of siblings. Twin Research. 3(4). 316–322. 73 indexed citations

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Eley, Thalia C., Dorothy Bishop, Philip S. Dale, et al.. (1999). Genetic and environmental origins of verbal and performance components of cognitive delay in 2-year-olds.. Developmental Psychology. 35(4). 1122–1131. 12 indexed citations

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Eley, Thalia C., Dorothy Bishop, Philip S. Dale, et al.. (1999). Genetic and environmental origins of verbal and performance components of cognitive delay in 2-year-olds.. Developmental Psychology. 35(4). 1122–1131. 16 indexed citations

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Dale, Philip S., Emily Simonoff, Dorothy Bishop, et al.. (1998). Genetic influence on language delay in two-year-old children. Nature Neuroscience. 1(4). 324–328. 182 indexed citations

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