Wendy K. Chung

72.4k total citations · 11 hit papers
567 papers, 22.7k citations indexed

About

Wendy K. Chung is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Wendy K. Chung has authored 567 papers receiving a total of 22.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 283 papers in Genetics, 207 papers in Molecular Biology and 66 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Wendy K. Chung's work include Genomics and Rare Diseases (132 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (79 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (79 papers). Wendy K. Chung is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Rare Diseases (132 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (79 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (79 papers). Wendy K. Chung collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Wendy K. Chung's co-authors include Rudolph L. Leibel, Streamson C. Chua, Charles A. LeDuc, Louis A. Tartaglia, Shun-Mei Liu, X. Sharon Wu-Peng, Paul S. Appelbaum, Robert Klitzman, Julia Wynn and Lijiang Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Wendy K. Chung

544 papers receiving 22.3k citations

Hit Papers

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated from Pati... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2008 2016 1996 2018 2019 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated from Patients with ALS Can Be Differentiated into Motor Neurons
    2008 1.4k citations John T. Dimos, Kit T. Rodolfa et al. Science profile →
  2. Recommendations for reporting of secondary findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing, 2016 update (ACMG SF v2.0): a policy statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics
    2016 1.0k citations Wendy K. Chung et al. profile →
  3. Phenotypes of Mouse diabetes and Rat fatty Due to Mutations in the OB (Leptin) Receptor
    1996 893 citations Wendy K. Chung, Rudolph L. Leibel et al. Science profile →
  4. Genetic Basis for Congenital Heart Disease: Revisited: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
    2018 370 citations Martina Brueckner, Wendy K. Chung et al. Circulation profile →
  5. Meta-analysis and multidisciplinary consensus statement: exome sequencing is a first-tier clinical diagnostic test for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders
    2019 367 citations Wendy K. Chung et al. profile →
  6. Genetics and Genomics of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
    2013 359 citations Wendy K. Chung, James E. Loyd et al. profile →
  7. MC4R-dependent suppression of appetite by bone-derived lipocalin 2
    2017 325 citations Rudolph L. Leibel, Wendy K. Chung et al. profile →
  8. ACMG SF v3.0 list for reporting of secondary findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing: a policy statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)
    2021 302 citations Wendy K. Chung et al. profile →
  9. Precision Medicine in Diabetes: A Consensus Report From the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
    2020 224 citations Wendy K. Chung et al. profile →
  10. ACMG SF v3.2 list for reporting of secondary findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing: A policy statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)
    2023 157 citations Wendy K. Chung et al. profile →
  11. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
    2022 100 citations Wendy K. Chung et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wendy K. Chung United States 72 8.6k 7.3k 3.0k 3.0k 2.7k 567 22.7k
Heidi L. Rehm United States 53 13.8k 1.6× 14.5k 2.0× 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 186 31.4k
Juha Kere Finland 78 10.3k 1.2× 5.5k 0.8× 1.9k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 2.1k 0.8× 512 22.1k
Wayne W. Grody United States 45 11.9k 1.4× 12.1k 1.7× 2.1k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 2.8k 1.0× 168 28.7k
Richard P. Lifton United States 92 20.6k 2.4× 5.6k 0.8× 4.2k 1.4× 1.8k 0.6× 5.0k 1.8× 276 35.1k
Aravinda Chakravarti United States 68 9.4k 1.1× 8.5k 1.2× 3.7k 1.2× 1.3k 0.4× 2.8k 1.0× 297 22.1k
Steven W. J. Lamberts Netherlands 89 4.2k 0.5× 2.8k 0.4× 4.5k 1.5× 2.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 491 28.7k
Andrew R. Hoffman United States 76 7.5k 0.9× 3.1k 0.4× 2.0k 0.7× 3.8k 1.3× 913 0.3× 343 18.3k
Thomas Quertermous United States 71 6.9k 0.8× 2.2k 0.3× 3.3k 1.1× 2.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 303 17.2k
Aarno Palotie Finland 63 5.7k 0.7× 4.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.3× 1.2k 0.4× 2.6k 0.9× 334 14.9k
P. Eline Slagboom Netherlands 76 8.8k 1.0× 4.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.5× 4.9k 1.7× 582 0.2× 465 23.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wendy K. Chung

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lynch, Lauren, Patrick R. Shea, Natalie Vena, et al.. (2025). Genetic contributors to osteoporosis in pregnancy and lactation associated osteoporosis (PLO). Bone. 204. 117744–117744.
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Wei, Shan, Ronald J. Wapner, C. Landau, et al.. (2025). Development of a Clinically Applicable High-Resolution Assay for Sperm Mosaicism. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 27(6). 525–537.
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Chung, Wendy K., et al.. (2024). Rare disease diagnosis using knowledge guided retrieval augmentation for ChatGPT. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 157. 104702–104702. 11 indexed citations
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Ahimaz, Priyanka, Nga Nguyen, Rachel Lewis, et al.. (2024). Phenotype driven molecular genetic test recommendation for diagnosing pediatric rare disorders. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 333–333. 2 indexed citations
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Montes, Jacqueline, et al.. (2024). Clinical phenotypic spectrum of CTNNB1 neurodevelopmental disorder. Clinical Genetics. 105(5). 523–532. 11 indexed citations
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Pini, Nicolò, Wenxing Li, Jennifer Bain, et al.. (2024). Clinical characteristics, longitudinal adaptive functioning, and association with electroencephalogram activity in PPP2R5D ‐related neurodevelopmental disorder. Clinical Genetics. 107(1). 34–43. 3 indexed citations
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Choi, Hyunmi, Karolynn Siegel, Wendy K. Chung, et al.. (2023). Knowledge and beliefs about epilepsy genetics among Hispanic and non‐Hispanic patients. Epilepsia. 64(9). 2443–2453. 3 indexed citations
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Fan, Xiao, et al.. (2022). Clinical and genetic characterization of CACNA1A ‐related disease. Clinical Genetics. 102(4). 288–295. 21 indexed citations
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Fan, Xiao, et al.. (2022). SHINE: protein language model-based pathogenicity prediction for short inframe insertion and deletion variants. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 24(1). 6 indexed citations
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Salazar, Rachel, et al.. (2021). Cross-sectional, quantitative analysis of motor function in females with HNRNPH2-related disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 119. 104110–104110. 4 indexed citations
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Ma, Shiyang, Justin Lee, Chen Wang, et al.. (2021). Powerful gene-based testing by integrating long-range chromatin interactions and knockoff genotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(47). 9 indexed citations
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Robson, Andrew, Svetlana Makova, Samir Zaidi, et al.. (2019). Histone H2B monoubiquitination regulates heart development via epigenetic control of cilia motility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(28). 14049–14054. 29 indexed citations
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Niarchou, Maria, Samuel J. R. A. Chawner, Joanne Doherty, et al.. (2019). Psychiatric disorders in children with 16p11.2 deletion and duplication. Translational Psychiatry. 9(1). 8–8. 93 indexed citations
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Mocci, Evelina, Roger L. Milne, John L. Hopper, et al.. (2013). Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in Breast Cancer Families from the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 22(5). 803–811. 61 indexed citations
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Austin, Eric D., Lijiang Ma, Charles A. LeDuc, et al.. (2012). Whole Exome Sequencing to Identify a Novel Gene (Caveolin-1) Associated With Human Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation Cardiovascular Genetics. 5(3). 336–343. 267 indexed citations
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Hsu, Daphne T., Victor Zak, Lynn Mahony, et al.. (2010). Enalapril in Infants With Single Ventricle. Circulation. 122(4). 333–340. 189 indexed citations
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Dimos, John T., Kit T. Rodolfa, Kathy K. Niakan, et al.. (2008). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated from Patients with ALS Can Be Differentiated into Motor Neurons. Science. 321(5893). 1218–1221. 1433 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chung, Wendy K., Thomas C. Jaramillo, Rudolph L. Leibel, et al.. (2008). Absence epilepsy in apathetic, a spontaneous mutant mouse lacking the h channel subunit, HCN2. Neurobiology of Disease. 33(3). 499–508. 61 indexed citations
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Allantaz, Florence, Damien Chaussabel, Dorothee Stichweh, et al.. (2007). Blood leukocyte microarrays to diagnose systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis and follow the response to IL-1 blockade. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 204(9). 2131–2144. 158 indexed citations
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Chung, Wendy K.. (2007). Implementation of Genetics to Personalize Medicine. Gender Medicine. 4(3). 248–265. 17 indexed citations

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