Steven Gazal

13.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Steven Gazal is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Gazal has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Genetics, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Steven Gazal's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (25 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (9 papers). Steven Gazal is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (25 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (9 papers). Steven Gazal collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Steven Gazal's co-authors include Alkes L. Price, Armin Schoech, Po‐Ru Loh, Luke J. O’Connor, Hilary K. Finucane, Gaurav Bhatia, Bogdan Paşaniuc, Farhad Hormozdiari, Gleb Kichaev and Kathryn S. Burch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Steven Gazal

43 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power

2018 485 citations Gleb Kichaev, Gaurav Bhatia et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →

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Futao Zhang China

Andrew Bakshi Australia

Slavé Petrovski Australia

Christian Fuchsberger Italy

Samuel S. Chong Singapore

Margrit Urbanek United States

Daniel M. Jordan United States

John Dean United Kingdom

Andrew D. Skol United States

Sonia Abdelhak Tunisia

Futao Zhang China

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Gazal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Gazal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Gazal 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 Steven Gazal. Steven Gazal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Huang, George, Vitor R. C. Aguiar, Christina Kendziorski, et al.. (2024). Rhinovirus infection of airway epithelial cells uncovers the non-ciliated subset as a likely driver of genetic risk to childhood-onset asthma. Cell Genomics. 4(9). 100636–100636. 4 indexed citations

Stricker, M., Weijiao Zhang, Wei‐Yi Cheng, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide classification of epigenetic activity reveals regions of enriched heritability in immune-related traits. Cell Genomics. 4(1). 100469–100469.

Gazal, Steven, Omer Weissbrod, Farhad Hormozdiari, et al.. (2022). Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity. Nature Genetics. 54(6). 827–836. 73 indexed citations

Dey, Kushal K., Steven Gazal, Bryce van de Geijn, et al.. (2022). SNP-to-gene linking strategies reveal contributions of enhancer-related and candidate master-regulator genes to autoimmune disease. Cell Genomics. 2(7). 100145–100145. 14 indexed citations

Shi, Huwenbo, Steven Gazal, Masahiro Kanai, et al.. (2021). Population-specific causal disease effect sizes in functionally important regions impacted by selection. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1098–1098. 57 indexed citations

Kim, Samuel S., Kushal K. Dey, Omer Weissbrod, et al.. (2020). Improving the informativeness of Mendelian disease-derived pathogenicity scores for common disease. Nature Communications. 11(1). 9 indexed citations

Geijn, Bryce van de, Hilary K. Finucane, Steven Gazal, et al.. (2019). Annotations capturing cell type-specific TF binding explain a large fraction of disease heritability. Human Molecular Genetics. 29(7). 1057–1067. 9 indexed citations

Amariuta, Tiffany, Yang Luo, Steven Gazal, et al.. (2019). IMPACT: Genomic Annotation of Cell-State-Specific Regulatory Elements Inferred from the Epigenome of Bound Transcription Factors. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(5). 879–895. 30 indexed citations

Hormozdiari, Farhad, Steven Gazal, Bryce van de Geijn, et al.. (2018). Leveraging molecular quantitative trait loci to understand the genetic architecture of diseases and complex traits. Nature Genetics. 50(7). 1041–1047. 93 indexed citations

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Kichaev, Gleb, Gaurav Bhatia, Po‐Ru Loh, et al.. (2018). Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(1). 65–75. 485 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gazal, Steven, Po‐Ru Loh, Hilary K. Finucane, et al.. (2018). Functional architecture of low-frequency variants highlights strength of negative selection across coding and non-coding annotations. Nature Genetics. 50(11). 1600–1607. 78 indexed citations

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Gazal, Steven, Hilary K. Finucane, Nicholas A. Furlotte, et al.. (2017). Linkage disequilibrium–dependent architecture of human complex traits shows action of negative selection. Nature Genetics. 49(10). 1421–1427. 242 indexed citations

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Gazal, Steven, Emmanuelle Génin, & Anne‐Louise Leutenegger. (2015). Relationship inference from the genetic data on parents or offspring: A comparative study. Theoretical Population Biology. 107. 31–38. 1 indexed citations

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Gazal, Steven, Mourad Sahbatou, Marie‐Claude Babron, Emmanuelle Génin, & Anne‐Louise Leutenegger. (2015). High level of inbreeding in final phase of 1000 Genomes Project. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17453–17453. 47 indexed citations

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Verdura, Edgard, Dominique Hervé, Eva Scharrer, et al.. (2015). HeterozygousHTRA1mutations are associated with autosomal dominant cerebral small vessel disease. Brain. 138(8). 2347–2358. 123 indexed citations

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Gazal, Steven, Edgard Verdura, Françoise Bergametti, et al.. (2015). Can whole-exome sequencing data be used for linkage analysis?. European Journal of Human Genetics. 24(4). 581–586. 8 indexed citations

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Juge, Pierre‐Antoine, H.W. van Steenbergen, Arnaud Constantin, et al.. (2014). SPP1 rs9138 variant contributes to the severity of radiological damage in anti-citrullinated protein autoantibody-negative rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 73(10). 1840–1843. 10 indexed citations

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Borie, Raphaël, Bruno Crestani, Philippe Dieudé, et al.. (2013). The MUC5B Variant Is Associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis but Not with Systemic Sclerosis Interstitial Lung Disease in the European Caucasian Population. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e70621–e70621. 121 indexed citations

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Génin, Emmanuelle, Mourad Sahbatou, Steven Gazal, et al.. (2012). Could Inbred Cases Identified in GWAS Data Succeed in Detecting Rare Recessive Variants Where Affected Sib-Pairs Have Failed?. Human Heredity. 74(3-4). 142–152. 5 indexed citations

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Leutenegger, Anne‐Louise, Mourad Sahbatou, Steven Gazal, Howard M. Cann, & Emmanuelle Génin. (2011). Consanguinity around the world: what do the genomic data of the HGDP-CEPH diversity panel tell us?. European Journal of Human Genetics. 19(5). 583–587. 45 indexed citations

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