Timothy D. O’Connor

10.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Timothy D. O’Connor is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy D. O’Connor has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Timothy D. O’Connor's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers). Timothy D. O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (9 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers). Timothy D. O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Africa. Timothy D. O’Connor's co-authors include Joshua M. Akey, Michael J. Bamshad, Wenqing Fu, Mark J. Rieder, Deborah A. Nickerson, Suzanne M. Leal, Ergün Önal, Melvin Lopata, Stacey Gabriel and Gonçalo R. Abecasis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Timothy D. O’Connor

53 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Analysis of 6,515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants

2012 620 citations Wenqing Fu, Timothy D. O’Connor et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy D. O’Connor United States	19	668	593	149	136	110	59	1.6k
Ron P. Dirks Netherlands	27	386 0.6×	954 1.6×	117 0.8×	96 0.7×	175 1.6×	87	2.2k
David Witonsky United States	22	1.6k 2.4×	627 1.1×	225 1.5×	147 1.1×	104 0.9×	37	2.5k
Robert H. Podolsky United States	33	636 1.0×	1.1k 1.9×	168 1.1×	253 1.9×	148 1.3×	108	3.0k
Fernando Racimo United States	25	1.6k 2.4×	658 1.1×	151 1.0×	84 0.6×	85 0.8×	41	2.7k
Chandrasekhar Natarajan United States	22	903 1.4×	503 0.8×	175 1.2×	72 0.5×	90 0.8×	50	1.6k
Yan He China	29	568 0.9×	791 1.3×	124 0.8×	233 1.7×	49 0.4×	144	2.5k
Geeta N. Eick United States	28	423 0.6×	681 1.1×	176 1.2×	51 0.4×	58 0.5×	66	2.5k
Jeanette C. Papp United States	17	598 0.9×	923 1.6×	204 1.4×	118 0.9×	43 0.4×	54	1.8k
Ida Moltke Denmark	22	1.2k 1.8×	658 1.1×	170 1.1×	108 0.8×	53 0.5×	48	2.2k
Hans Geir Eiken Norway	29	572 0.9×	1.0k 1.7×	220 1.5×	91 0.7×	57 0.5×	99	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timothy D. O’Connor

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Akintola, Titilola, et al.. (2025). The effects of socioeconomic position on endogenous pain modulation: A quasi-experimental approach. Journal of Pain. 37. 104778–104778.

Gouveia, Mateus H., Karlijn Meeks, Víctor Borda, et al.. (2025). Subcontinental genetic variation in the All of Us Research Program: Implications for biomedical research. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(6). 1286–1301. 1 indexed citations

Soremekun, Opeyemi, Abram Bunya Kamiza, Palwendé Romuald Boua, et al.. (2025). Development and Validation of Polygenic Risk Scores for Blood Pressure Traits in Continental African Populations. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 18(3). e005048–e005048.

Guo, Bing, Shannon Takala‐Harrison, & Timothy D. O’Connor. (2025). Benchmarking and optimization of methods for the detection of identity-by-descent in high-recombining Plasmodium falciparum genomes. eLife. 14. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Bing, et al.. (2025). Potential and pitfalls of using identity-by-descent for malaria genomic surveillance. Trends in Parasitology. 41(5). 387–400. 1 indexed citations

Mata, Ignácio F., Douglas P. Loesch, Tanuja Bordia, et al.. (2025). Novel Intermediate ATXN10 Alleles in the Healthy Peruvian Population: A Matter of Indigenous American Ethnic Origin. The Cerebellum. 24(2). 44–44. 1 indexed citations

Aquino, Marla Mendes de, Víctor Borda, César Sánchez, et al.. (2024). The need to diversify genomic studies: Insights from Andean highlanders and Amazonians. Cell. 187(18). 4819–4823. 3 indexed citations

Guo, Bing, Víctor Borda, Michele Spring, et al.. (2024). Strong positive selection biases identity-by-descent-based inferences of recent demography and population structure in Plasmodium falciparum. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2499–2499. 13 indexed citations

Chilton, Floyd H., Ani Manichaikul, Chaojie Yang, et al.. (2022). Interpreting Clinical Trials With Omega-3 Supplements in the Context of Ancestry and FADS Genetic Variation. Frontiers in Nutrition. 8. 808054–808054. 19 indexed citations

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Zhou, Albert E, Zalak Shah, Katie R. Bradwell, et al.. (2022). STRIDE: a command-line HMM-based identifier and sub-classifier of Plasmodium falciparum RIFIN and STEVOR variant surface antigen families. BMC Bioinformatics. 23(1). 15–15. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yao, Amol C. Shetty, Chanthap Lon, et al.. (2020). Detecting geospatial patterns of Plasmodium falciparum parasite migration in Cambodia using optimized estimated effective migration surfaces. International Journal of Health Geographics. 19(1). 13–13. 3 indexed citations

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Harris, Daniel, Michael D. Kessler, Amol C. Shetty, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary history of modern Samoans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(17). 9458–9465. 14 indexed citations

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Harris, Daniel, Ingo Ruczinski, Lisa R. Yanek, et al.. (2019). Evolution of Hominin Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Metabolism: From Africa to the New World. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(5). 1417–1430. 30 indexed citations

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Harris, Daniel, Wei Song, Amol C. Shetty, et al.. (2018). Evolutionary genomic dynamics of Peruvians before, during, and after the Inca Empire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(28). E6526–E6535. 85 indexed citations

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Kessler, Michael D., Nisha R. Pawar, Stuart S. Martin, Toni Antalis, & Timothy D. O’Connor. (2018). Improving Cancer Detection and Treatment with Liquid Biopsies and ptDNA. Trends in cancer. 4(9). 643–654. 5 indexed citations

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Bradley, Brenda J., et al.. (2016). Non‐human primates avoid the detrimental effects of prenatal androgen exposure in mixed‐sex litters: combined demographic, behavioral, and genetic analyses. American Journal of Primatology. 78(12). 1304–1315. 8 indexed citations

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Chibucos, Marcus C., Sameh S. M. Soliman, Teclegiorgis Gebremariam, et al.. (2016). An integrated genomic and transcriptomic survey of mucormycosis-causing fungi. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12218–12218. 92 indexed citations

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Fu, Wenqing, Timothy D. O’Connor, & Joshua M. Akey. (2013). Genetic architecture of quantitative traits and complex diseases. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 23(6). 678–683. 21 indexed citations

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Tennessen, Jacob A., Timothy D. O’Connor, Michael J. Bamshad, & Joshua M. Akey. (2011). The promise and limitations of population exomics for human evolution studies. Genome Biology. 12(9). 127–127. 15 indexed citations

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Ebbert, Mark, et al.. (2007). Pharmacogenomics: analysing SNPs in the CYP2D6 gene using amino acid properties. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. 3(4). 471–471. 2 indexed citations

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