William B. Dobyns

54.3k citations

346 papers · 27.8k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 89

Impact in

Developmental Neuroscience top 0.1%
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health top 0.02%
- Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Papers in

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 141
- Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders 126
- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics 30
Genetics 169
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 62
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 61
- Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases 28
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 23

Co-authors: Renzo Guerrini A. James Barkovich David H. Ledbetter Graeme D. Jackson Ruben Kuzniecky Christopher A. Walsh Richard J. Leventer Kathleen J. Millen
Journals: Neurology (31 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (16 papers)Neuropediatrics (11 papers)Annals of Neurology (11 papers)Brain (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States Italy United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

William B. Dobyns

340 papers receiving 27.1k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Characterizing the Pattern of Anomalies in Congenital Zika Syndrome for Pediatric Clinicians 2016 · 613 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.

2016 JAMA Pediatrics
2016 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2014 American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
2012 Brain
2002 The American Journal of Human Genetics
1998 Cell
1998 Neuron
1997 Nature Genetics
1993 Nature

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1	Beyond hearing loss: exploring neurological and neurodevelopmental sequelae in asymptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection Pediatric Research ·Meghan R. Swanson, Lauren D Haisley, William B. Dobyns, Mark R. Schleiss	2025	1
2	Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Boys With Adrenoleukodystrophy Neurology ·Elizabeth I. Pierpont, René Labounek, Ashish O. Gupta, Troy C. Lund, Paul J. Orchard, William B. Dobyns, Monica T. Bondy, Amy Paulson, Andrew J. Metz, Ryan Shanley, Jeffrey R. Wozniak, Bryon A. Mueller, Daniel J. Loes, David Nascene, Igor Nestrašil	2024	1
3	Undifferentiated psychosis or schizophrenia associated with vermis‐predominant cerebellar hypoplasia American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ·Alison Leslie, Mitchell P. Ward, William B. Dobyns	2023	0
4	Refining the Neuroimaging Definition of the Dandy-Walker Phenotype American Journal of Neuroradiology ·Matthew T. Whitehead, Matthew J. Barkovich, Jai Sidpra, Cesar Alves, David M. Mirsky, Özgür Öztekin, Debarata Bhattacharya, Leandro Tavares Lucato, Sniya Sudhakar, Ajay Taranath, Savvas Andronikou, Sanjay P. Prabhu, Kimberly A. Aldinger, Parthiv Haldipur, Kathleen J. Millen, A. James Barkovich, Eugen Boltshauser, William B. Dobyns, Kshitij Mankad	2022	16
5	Proximal variants in CCND2 associated with microcephaly, short stature, and developmental delay: A case series and review of inverse brain growth phenotypes American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ·Filomena Pirozzi, Benson Lee, Nicole Horsley, Deepika Burkardt, William B. Dobyns, John M. Graham, Maria Lisa Dentici, Claudia Cesario, Jens Schallner, Joseph Porrmann, Nataliya Di Donato, Pedro A. Sanchez‐Lara, Ghayda Mirzaa	2021	16
6	Costello syndrome: Clinical phenotype, genotype, and management guidelines American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ·Karen W. Gripp, Lindsey A. Morse, Marni E. Axelrad, Kathryn C. Chatfield, Aaron Chidekel, William B. Dobyns, Daniel Doyle, Bronwyn Kerr, Angela E. Lin, David D. Schwartz, Barbara Sibbles, Dawn H. Siegel, Suma P. Shankar, David A. Stevenson, Mihir M. Thacker, K. Nicole Weaver, Sue M. White, Katherine A. Rauen	2019	72
7	Subcortical heterotopic gray matter brain malformations Neurology ·Renske Oegema, A. James Barkovich, Grazia M.S. Mancini, Renzo Guerrini, William B. Dobyns	2019	22
8	De novo and inherited private variants in MAP1B in periventricular nodular heterotopia PLoS Genetics ·Erin L. Heinzen, Adam C. O’Neill, Xiaolin Zhu, Andrew S. Allen, Melanie Bahlo, Jamel Chelly, Ming Hui Chen, William B. Dobyns, Saskia Freytag, Renzo Guerrini, Richard J. Leventer, Annapurna Poduri, Stephen P. Robertson, Christopher A. Walsh, Mengqi Zhang, (unknown)	2018	45
9	Rhombencephalosynapsis: Fused cerebellum, confused geneticists American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics ·Kimberly A. Aldinger, Jennifer C. Dempsey, Hannah M. Tully, Megan E. Grout, Michele G. Mehaffey, William B. Dobyns, Dan Doherty	2018	20
10	Structural malformations of the brain, eye, and pituitary gland in PHACE syndrome American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ·Jack E. Steiner, Garrett N. McCoy, Christopher P. Hess, William B. Dobyns, Denise W. Metry, Beth A. Drolet, Mohit Maheshwari, Dawn H. Siegel	2017	15
11	Phenotypic outcomes in Mouse and Human Foxc1 dependent Dandy-Walker cerebellar malformation suggest shared mechanisms eLife ·Parthiv Haldipur, Derek Dang, Kimberly A. Aldinger, Olivia K Janson, Fabien Guimiot, Homa Adle-Biasette, William B. Dobyns, Joseph R. Siebert, Rosa Russo, Kathleen J. Millen	2017	24
12	Expansion of the TARP syndrome phenotype associated with de novo mutations and mosaicism American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A ·Jennifer J. Johnston, Julie C. Sapp, Cynthia J. Curry, Margaret A. Horton, Eyby Leon, Kristina Cusmano‐Ozog, William B. Dobyns, Louanne Hudgins, Elaine H. Zackai, Leslie G. Biesecker	2013	30
13	A de novo 1p34.2 microdeletion identifies the synaptic vesicle gene RIMS3 as a novel candidate for autism Journal of Medical Genetics ·Revati Kumar, Jyotsna Sudi, TD Babatz, Camille W. Brune, Donald P. Oswald, Michael T. Yen, Norma J. Nowak, Edwin H. Cook, Susan L. Christian, William B. Dobyns	2009	39
14	A developmental and genetic classification for midbrain-hindbrain malformations Brain ·A. James Barkovich, Kathleen J. Millen, William B. Dobyns	2009	160
15	Recurrent 16p11.2 microdeletions in autism Human Molecular Genetics ·Revati Kumar, Samer Karamohamed, Jyotsna Sudi, Donald F. Conrad, Camille W. Brune, Judith A. Badner, T. Conrad Gilliam, Norma J. Nowak, Edwin H. Cook, William B. Dobyns, Susan L. Christian	2007	487
16	Periventricular nodular heterotopia with overlying polymicrogyria Brain ·Gretchen Wieck, Richard J. Leventer, Waney M. Squier, Anna Jansen, Eva Andermann, François Dubeau, Anna Ramazzotti, Renzo Guerrini, William B. Dobyns	2005	50
17	G Protein-Coupled Receptor-Dependent Development of Human Frontal Cortex Science ·Xianhua Piao, R. Sean Hill, Adria Bodell, Bernard S. Chang, Lina Basel‐Vanagaite, Rachel Straussberg, William B. Dobyns, Bassam Qasrawi, Robin M. Winter, A. Micheil Innes, Thomas Voit, M. Elizabeth Ross, Jacques L. Michaud, Jean-Claude Déscarie, A. James Barkovich, Christopher A. Walsh	2004	405
18	Subcortical Band Heterotopia in Rare Affected Males Can be Caused by Missense Mutations in DCX (XLIS) or LIS1 Human Molecular Genetics ·Daniela T. Pilz, J. Kuć, Naomichi Matsumoto, Joann Bodurtha, B. Bernadi, C. A. Tassinari, William B. Dobyns, David H. Ledbetter	1999	107
19	Congenital malformations of the brain: Pathological, embryological, clinical, radiological, and genetic aspects The American Journal of Human Genetics ·William B. Dobyns	1997	1
20	Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome) after immunization with Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine The Journal of Pediatrics ·O’Neill F. D’Cruz, Eugene D. Shapiro, Kenneth N. Spiegelman, Carol R. Leicher, Galen N. Breningstall, Bhupendra Khatri, William B. Dobyns	1989	15

About William B. Dobyns

William B. Dobyns is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, having authored 346 papers that have together received 27.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders (126 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (62 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (61 papers), Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (30 papers), Congenital heart defects research (29 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (29 papers), Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (28 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental Neuroscience (2.1k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (7.7k citations), Genetics (9.9k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.9k citations) and Cell Biology (3.4k citations). William B. Dobyns has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Renzo Guerrini, A. James Barkovich, David H. Ledbetter, Graeme D. Jackson, Ruben Kuzniecky, Christopher A. Walsh, Richard J. Leventer, Kathleen J. Millen, Ghayda Mirzaa and Susan L. Christian. Their work appears in journals such as Neurology, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Neuropediatrics, Annals of Neurology and Brain.

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