American Journal of Human Genetics

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Human Genetics is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fast two-stage phasing of large-scale sequence data334
30 years of repeat expansion disorders: What have we learned and what are the remaining challenges?228
Calibration of computational tools for missense variant pathogenicity classification and ClinGen recommendations for PP3/BP4 criteria194
Portability of 245 polygenic scores when derived from the UK Biobank and applied to 9 ancestry groups from the same cohort184
Combining evidence from Mendelian randomization and colocalization: Review and comparison of approaches181
Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects173
Project Baby Bear: Rapid precision care incorporating rWGS in 5 California children’s hospitals demonstrates improved clinical outcomes and reduced costs of care155
15 years of GWAS discovery: Realizing the promise150
Optical genome mapping enables constitutional chromosomal aberration detection138
Mosaic human preimplantation embryos and their developmental potential in a prospective, non-selection clinical trial137
Topologically associating domain boundaries that are stable across diverse cell types are evolutionarily constrained and enriched for heritability133
Targeted long-read sequencing identifies missing disease-causing variation123
An RCT of Rapid Genomic Sequencing among Seriously Ill Infants Results in High Clinical Utility, Changes in Management, and Low Perceived Harm119
Next-generation cytogenetics: Comprehensive assessment of 52 hematological malignancy genomes by optical genome mapping106
Deleterious variants in X-linked CFAP47 induce asthenoteratozoospermia and primary male infertility90
A unified framework for cross-population trait prediction by leveraging the genetic correlation of polygenic traits89
Structural Variants Create New Topological-Associated Domains and Ectopic Retinal Enhancer-Gene Contact in Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa86
Expectations and blind spots for structural variation detection from long-read assemblies and short-read genome sequencing technologies82
Estimation of non-additive genetic variance in human complex traits from a large sample of unrelated individuals79
Massively parallel functional testing of MSH2 missense variants conferring Lynch syndrome risk78
A dyadic approach to the delineation of diagnostic entities in clinical genomics77
Monoallelic IFT140 pathogenic variants are an important cause of the autosomal dominant polycystic kidney-spectrum phenotype76
Probabilistic colocalization of genetic variants from complex and molecular traits: promise and limitations76
An intronic GAA repeat expansion in FGF14 causes the autosomal-dominant adult-onset ataxia SCA27B/ATX-FGF1476
A genome sequencing system for universal newborn screening, diagnosis, and precision medicine for severe genetic diseases75
Improved pathogenicity prediction for rare human missense variants75
The omnigenic model and polygenic prediction of complex traits74
Using the ACMG/AMP framework to capture evidence related to predicted and observed impact on splicing: Recommendations from the ClinGen SVI Splicing Subgroup73
Pan-ancestry exome-wide association analyses of COVID-19 outcomes in 586,157 individuals73
Human ancient DNA analyses reveal the high burden of tuberculosis in Europeans over the last 2,000 years71
Cancer PRSweb: An Online Repository with Polygenic Risk Scores for Major Cancer Traits and Their Evaluation in Two Independent Biobanks70
Bi-allelic mutations of DNAH10 cause primary male infertility with asthenoteratozoospermia in humans and mice69
De novo structural mutation rates and gamete-of-origin biases revealed through genome sequencing of 2,396 families65
A Prospective Study of Parental Perceptions of Rapid Whole-Genome and -Exome Sequencing among Seriously Ill Infants65
Using genetic association data to guide drug discovery and development: Review of methods and applications65
Systematic comparison of family history and polygenic risk across 24 common diseases65
Massively parallel characterization of CYP2C9 variant enzyme activity and abundance64
Genetic control of the human brain proteome64
Whole-exome sequencing improves the diagnosis and care of men with non-obstructive azoospermia64
Somatic MAP3K3 mutation defines a subclass of cerebral cavernous malformation61
Closing the gap: Systematic integration of multiplexed functional data resolves variants of uncertain significance in BRCA1, TP53, and PTEN59
Homozygous pathogenic variants in ACTL9 cause fertilization failure and male infertility in humans and mice58
Low-coverage sequencing cost-effectively detects known and novel variation in underrepresented populations58
A Genome-wide Association Study Discovers 46 Loci of the Human Metabolome in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos57
Homozygous mutations in C14orf39/SIX6OS1 cause non-obstructive azoospermia and premature ovarian insufficiency in humans56
Variant Classification Concordance using the ACMG-AMP Variant Interpretation Guidelines across Nine Genomic Implementation Research Studies55
SPEN haploinsufficiency causes a neurodevelopmental disorder overlapping proximal 1p36 deletion syndrome with an episignature of X chromosomes in females54
Opportunities and challenges for the computational interpretation of rare variation in clinically important genes51
Leveraging phenotypic variability to identify genetic interactions in human phenotypes51
High prevalence of multilocus pathogenic variation in neurodevelopmental disorders in the Turkish population49
Disentangling selection on genetically correlated polygenic traits via whole-genome genealogies49
Perturbations of genes essential for Müllerian duct and Wölffian duct development in Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome48
Spectrum of splicing variants in disease genes and the ability of RNA analysis to reduce uncertainty in clinical interpretation48
Clinical impact of additional findings detected by genome-wide non-invasive prenatal testing: Follow-up results of the TRIDENT-2 study48
Automated AI labeling of optic nerve head enables insights into cross-ancestry glaucoma risk and genetic discovery in >280,000 images from UKB and CLSA47
De Novo VPS4A Mutations Cause Multisystem Disease with Abnormal Neurodevelopment47
Robust genetic nurture effects on education: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on 38,654 families across 8 cohorts46
Progressive myoclonus epilepsies—Residual unsolved cases have marked genetic heterogeneity including dolichol-dependent protein glycosylation pathway genes46
Scaling national and international improvement in virtual gene panel curation via a collaborative approach to discordance resolution46
SCUBE3 loss-of-function causes a recognizable recessive developmental disorder due to defective bone morphogenetic protein signaling45
Familial long-read sequencing increases yield of de novo mutations45
The CGG repeat expansion in RILPL1 is associated with oculopharyngodistal myopathy type 445
Exome variant discrepancies due to reference-genome differences44
The landscape of autosomal-recessive pathogenic variants in European populations reveals phenotype-specific effects43
Plasma DNA Profile Associated with DNASE1L3 Gene Mutations: Clinical Observations, Relationships to Nuclease Substrate Preference, and In Vivo Correction43
Non-coding region variants upstream of MEF2C cause severe developmental disorder through three distinct loss-of-function mechanisms43
Large-scale machine-learning-based phenotyping significantly improves genomic discovery for optic nerve head morphology43
The individual and global impact of copy-number variants on complex human traits42
Multiplexed Functional Assessment of Genetic Variants in CARD1142
Brain-trait-associated variants impact cell-type-specific gene regulation during neurogenesis41
Returning actionable genomic results in a research biobank: Analytic validity, clinical implementation, and resource utilization41
Comparative single-cell analysis of biopsies clarifies pathogenic mechanisms in Klinefelter syndrome41
Genetic modifiers of Huntington disease differentially influence motor and cognitive domains41
Reduced penetrance of MODY-associated HNF1A/HNF4A variants but not GCK variants in clinically unselected cohorts41
Analysis of missense variants in the human genome reveals widespread gene-specific clustering and improves prediction of pathogenicity41
Interaction between KDELR2 and HSP47 as a Key Determinant in Osteogenesis Imperfecta Caused by Bi-allelic Variants in KDELR241
Rare genetic variants in genes and loci linked to dominant monogenic developmental disorders cause milder related phenotypes in the general population41
Truncating SRCAP variants outside the Floating-Harbor syndrome locus cause a distinct neurodevelopmental disorder with a specific DNA methylation signature41
Sub-genic intolerance, ClinVar, and the epilepsies: A whole-exome sequencing study of 29,165 individuals40
Common haplotypes at the CFH locus and low-frequency variants in CFHR2 and CFHR5 associate with systemic FHR concentrations and age-related macular degeneration40
Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score and Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk40
Redefining tissue specificity of genetic regulation of gene expression in the presence of allelic heterogeneity39
Anatomy of DNA methylation signatures: Emerging insights and applications39
BICRA, a SWI/SNF Complex Member, Is Associated with BAF-Disorder Related Phenotypes in Humans and Model Organisms39
Genetic determinants of blood-cell traits influence susceptibility to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia39
Strong functional data for pathogenicity or neutrality classify BRCA2 DNA-binding-domain variants of uncertain significance38
Negative selection on complex traits limits phenotype prediction accuracy between populations38
Genetic interactions drive heterogeneity in causal variant effect sizes for gene expression and complex traits38
Addressing underrepresentation in genomics research through community engagement38
Identification of susceptibility loci for Takayasu arteritis through a large multi-ancestral genome-wide association study37
Multi-trait transcriptome-wide association studies with probabilistic Mendelian randomization36
Germline and Mosaic Variants in PRKACA and PRKACB Cause a Multiple Congenital Malformation Syndrome36
H3K27ac HiChIP in prostate cell lines identifies risk genes for prostate cancer susceptibility36
TOP-LD: A tool to explore linkage disequilibrium with TOPMed whole-genome sequence data36
Shifting landscapes of human MTHFR missense-variant effects36
Mutation-specific pathophysiological mechanisms define different neurodevelopmental disorders associated with SATB1 dysfunction36
Interpretable prioritization of splice variants in diagnostic next-generation sequencing35
SPRED2 loss-of-function causes a recessive Noonan syndrome-like phenotype35
Establishing risk of vision loss in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy35
Loss of α-actinin-3 during human evolution provides superior cold resilience and muscle heat generation35
Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 48 risk variants and highlights the role of the stria vascularis in hearing loss33
Portability of 245 polygenic scores when derived from the UK Biobank and applied to 9 ancestry groups from the same cohort33
A catalog of GWAS fine-mapping efforts in autoimmune disease33
Allele-specific editing ameliorates dominant retinitis pigmentosa in a transgenic mouse model33
Evolving use of ancestry, ethnicity, and race in genetics research—A survey spanning seven decades33
Midbrain organoids mimic early embryonic neurodevelopment and recapitulate LRRK2-p.Gly2019Ser-associated gene expression33
Bi-allelic variants in the mitochondrial RNase P subunit PRORP cause mitochondrial tRNA processing defects and pleiotropic multisystem presentations33
Genetic effects on liver chromatin accessibility identify disease regulatory variants32
Pervasive cis effects of variation in copy number of large tandem repeats on local DNA methylation and gene expression32
Personalized genetic counseling for Stargardt disease: Offspring risk estimates based on variant severity32
Progressive liver, kidney, and heart degeneration in children and adults affected by TULP3 mutations31
PLEIO: a method to map and interpret pleiotropic loci with GWAS summary statistics31
Germline MBD4 deficiency causes a multi-tumor predisposition syndrome31
Beyond factor H: The impact of genetic-risk variants for age-related macular degeneration on circulating factor-H-like 1 and factor-H-related protein concentrations31
StrVCTVRE: A supervised learning method to predict the pathogenicity of human genome structural variants31
Monoallelic pathogenic ALG5 variants cause atypical polycystic kidney disease and interstitial fibrosis31
On the reproductive capabilities of aneuploid human preimplantation embryos31
The construction of cross-population polygenic risk scores using transfer learning30
An intronic GAA repeat expansion in FGF14 causes the autosomal-dominant adult-onset ataxia SCA27B/ATX-FGF1430
Missense variants in DPYSL5 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with corpus callosum agenesis and cerebellar abnormalities30
Regulatory variants in TCF7L2 are associated with thoracic aortic aneurysm29
Efficient mixed model approach for large-scale genome-wide association studies of ordinal categorical phenotypes29
A Recurrent Gain-of-Function Mutation in CLCN6, Encoding the ClC-6 Cl−/H+-Exchanger, Causes Early-Onset Neurodegeneration29
Analysis of Trans-Ancestral SLE Risk Loci Identifies Unique Biologic Networks and Drug Targets in African and European Ancestries29
Whole-genome sequencing of African Americans implicates differential genetic architecture in inflammatory bowel disease29
High-throughput splicing assays identify missense and silent splice-disruptive POU1F1 variants underlying pituitary hormone deficiency29
Loss-of-function variants in TIAM1 are associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, and seizures28
Unique variants in CLCN3, encoding an endosomal anion/proton exchanger, underlie a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders28
A Multi-omic Integrative Scheme Characterizes Tissues of Action at Loci Associated with Type 2 Diabetes28
Identifying digenic disease genes via machine learning in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network28
Identification of discriminative gene-level and protein-level features associated with pathogenic gain-of-function and loss-of-function variants28
Pathogenic Variants in the Myosin Chaperone UNC-45B Cause Progressive Myopathy with Eccentric Cores28
Failure to recombine is a common feature of human oogenesis28
Missense variants in the N-terminal domain of the A isoform of FHF2/FGF13 cause an X-linked developmental and epileptic encephalopathy27
Genetic overlap and causality between blood metabolites and migraine27
A spectrum of recessiveness among Mendelian disease variants in UK Biobank27
The genetic architecture of pediatric cardiomyopathy27
Multi-ancestry fine-mapping improves precision to identify causal genes in transcriptome-wide association studies27
Whole-genome sequencing association analysis of quantitative red blood cell phenotypes: The NHLBI TOPMed program27
TNPO2 variants associate with human developmental delays, neurologic deficits, and dysmorphic features and alter TNPO2 activity in Drosophila27
Quantifying the contribution of dominance deviation effects to complex trait variation in biobank-scale data27
eXclusionarY: 10 years later, where are the sex chromosomes in GWASs?26
Germline predisposition to pediatric Ewing sarcoma is characterized by inherited pathogenic variants in DNA damage repair genes26
Genotype first: Clinical genomics research through a reverse phenotyping approach26
Association of structural variation with cardiometabolic traits in Finns26
The genomics workforce must become more diverse: a strategic imperative26
THUMPD1 bi-allelic variants cause loss of tRNA acetylation and a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder26
Longer CAG repeat length is associated with shorter survival after disease onset in Huntington disease25
Bi-allelic variants in DNHD1 cause flagellar axoneme defects and asthenoteratozoospermia in humans and mice25
Rare and de novo variants in 827 congenital diaphragmatic hernia probands implicate LONP1 as candidate risk gene25
Leveraging both individual-level genetic data and GWAS summary statistics increases polygenic prediction25
Whole-exome sequencing identifies rare genetic variants associated with human plasma metabolites24
Rare coding variants in 35 genes associate with circulating lipid levels—A multi-ancestry analysis of 170,000 exomes24
Probabilistic Estimation of Identity by Descent Segment Endpoints and Detection of Recent Selection24
A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids24
Variants in the degron of AFF3 are associated with intellectual disability, mesomelic dysplasia, horseshoe kidney, and epileptic encephalopathy23
Beyond the exome: What’s next in diagnostic testing for Mendelian conditions23
VPS4A Mutations in Humans Cause Syndromic Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia due to Cytokinesis and Trafficking Defects23
NCKAP1 Disruptive Variants Lead to a Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Core Features of Autism23
Integrative analysis of liver-specific non-coding regulatory SNPs associated with the risk of coronary artery disease23
A transchromosomic rat model with human chromosome 21 shows robust Down syndrome features23
Machine learning-based reclassification of germline variants of unknown significance: The RENOVO algorithm23
Heterozygous ANKRD17 loss-of-function variants cause a syndrome with intellectual disability, speech delay, and dysmorphism22
Identification and functional evaluation of GRIA1 missense and truncation variants in individuals with ID: An emerging neurodevelopmental syndrome22
Exonic trinucleotide repeat expansions in ZFHX3 cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 4: A poly-glycine disease22
Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry22
De novo and bi-allelic variants in AP1G1 cause neurodevelopmental disorder with developmental delay, intellectual disability, and epilepsy22
Bi-allelic premature truncating variants in LTBP1 cause cutis laxa syndrome22
Meta-imputation: An efficient method to combine genotype data after imputation with multiple reference panels21
Recessive, Deleterious Variants in SMG8 Expand the Role of Nonsense-Mediated Decay in Developmental Disorders in Humans21
De novo variants in POLR3B cause ataxia, spasticity, and demyelinating neuropathy21
Host genetic effects in pneumonia21
DAAM2 Variants Cause Nephrotic Syndrome via Actin Dysregulation21
The genomic signatures of natural selection in admixed human populations21
Mutations in TP73 cause impaired mucociliary clearance and lissencephaly21
GWAS of longitudinal trajectories at biobank scale21
Analyzing and reconciling colocalization and transcriptome-wide association studies from the perspective of inferential reproducibility21
A 584 bp deletion in CTRB2 inhibits chymotrypsin B2 activity and secretion and confers risk of pancreatic cancer21
Comprehensive SMN1 and SMN2 profiling for spinal muscular atrophy analysis using long-read PacBio HiFi sequencing21
Integrating transcriptomics, metabolomics, and GWAS helps reveal molecular mechanisms for metabolite levels and disease risk21
A multi-dimensional integrative scoring framework for predicting functional variants in the human genome21
Duplications disrupt chromatin architecture and rewire GPR101-enhancer communication in X-linked acrogigantism21
Clustered mutations in the GRIK2 kainate receptor subunit gene underlie diverse neurodevelopmental disorders21
Robust multivariable Mendelian randomization based on constrained maximum likelihood21
Germline variants in tumor suppressor FBXW7 lead to impaired ubiquitination and a neurodevelopmental syndrome21
Epigenetic inactivation of ERF reactivates γ-globin expression in β-thalassemia20
Care4Rare Canada: Outcomes from a decade of network science for rare disease gene discovery20
Haploinsufficiency of the Sin3/HDAC corepressor complex member SIN3B causes a syndromic intellectual disability/autism spectrum disorder20
Significance tests for R2 of out-of-sample prediction using polygenic scores20
ADGRL1 haploinsufficiency causes a variable spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders in humans and alters synaptic activity and behavior in a mouse model20
Is there a way to reduce the inequity in variant interpretation on the basis of ancestry?20
Web-accessible application for identifying pathogenic transcripts with RNA-seq: Increased sensitivity in diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders20
De novo variants in FRMD5 are associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, ataxia, and abnormalities of eye movement20
COPB2 loss of function causes a coatopathy with osteoporosis and developmental delay20
Nonsense-mediated decay is highly stable across individuals and tissues19
Inferring population structure in biobank-scale genomic data19
Accounting for age of onset and family history improves power in genome-wide association studies19
A calibrated functional patch-clamp assay to enhance clinical variant interpretation in KCNH2-related long QT syndrome19
Genome-wide association study reveals an association between the HLA-DPB1∗02:01:02 allele and wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis19
An epigenome-wide view of osteoarthritis in primary tissues19
Australian Genomics: Outcomes of a 5-year national program to accelerate the integration of genomics in healthcare19
Classification of 101 BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants of uncertain significance by cosegregation study: A powerful approach19
Digital health-enabled genomics: Opportunities and challenges18
Recurrent de novo missense variants across multiple histone H4 genes underlie a neurodevelopmental syndrome18
A recurrent de novo splice site variant involving DNM1 exon 10a causes developmental and epileptic encephalopathy through a dominant-negative mechanism18
Fast estimation of genetic correlation for biobank-scale data18
Whole-genome sequencing in diverse subjects identifies genetic correlates of leukocyte traits: The NHLBI TOPMed program18
Tissue- and cell-type-specific molecular and functional signatures of 16p11.2 reciprocal genomic disorder across mouse brain and human neuronal models18
UBR7 functions with UBR5 in the Notch signaling pathway and is involved in a neurodevelopmental syndrome with epilepsy, ptosis, and hypothyroidism17
HiC-ACT: improved detection of chromatin interactions from Hi-C data via aggregated Cauchy test17
Fast, accurate local ancestry inference with FLARE17
Bi-allelic variants in IPO8 cause a connective tissue disorder associated with cardiovascular defects, skeletal abnormalities, and immune dysregulation17
Polygenic risk for prostate cancer: Decreasing relative risk with age but little impact on absolute risk17
A form of muscular dystrophy associated with pathogenic variants in JAG217
Harnessing tissue-specific genetic variation to dissect putative causal pathways between body mass index and cardiometabolic phenotypes17
A massively parallel assay accurately discriminates between functionally normal and abnormal variants in a hotspot domain of KCNH217
A genealogical estimate of genetic relationships17
Loci for insulin processing and secretion provide insight into type 2 diabetes risk17
Accurate long-read sequencing allows assembly of the duplicated RHD and RHCE genes harboring variants relevant to blood transfusion17
Bi-allelic variants in DOHH, catalyzing the last step of hypusine biosynthesis, are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder17
METRO: Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association studies for powerful gene-trait association detection16
Large-scale analyses of the X chromosome in 2,354 infertile men discover recurrently affected genes associated with spermatogenic failure16
Dystonia-specific mutations in THAP1 alter transcription of genes associated with neurodevelopment and myelin16
Multi-omics approach dissects cis-regulatory mechanisms underlying North Carolina macular dystrophy, a retinal enhanceropathy16
Bi-allelic variants in INTS11 are associated with a complex neurological disorder16
Genome- and transcriptome-wide association studies of 386,000 Asian and European-ancestry women provide new insights into breast cancer genetics16
A phenome-wide association study identifies effects of copy-number variation of VNTRs and multicopy genes on multiple human traits16
An HNRNPK-specific DNA methylation signature makes sense of missense variants and expands the phenotypic spectrum of Au-Kline syndrome16
Phenome risk classification enables phenotypic imputation and gene discovery in developmental stuttering16
Detecting cryptic clinically relevant structural variation in exome-sequencing data increases diagnostic yield for developmental disorders16
Improved pathogenicity prediction for rare human missense variants16
Consequences of chromosome gain: A new view on trisomy syndromes16
Rare and de novo coding variants in chromodomain genes in Chiari I malformation16
Apigenin as a Candidate Prenatal Treatment for Trisomy 21: Effects in Human Amniocytes and the Ts1Cje Mouse Model16
Monoallelic and bi-allelic variants in NCDN cause neurodevelopmental delay, intellectual disability, and epilepsy16
Subcutaneous adipose tissue splice quantitative trait loci reveal differences in isoform usage associated with cardiometabolic traits16
Distinguishing pedigree relationships via multi-way identity by descent sharing and sex-specific genetic maps16
De novo TRIM8 variants impair its protein localization to nuclear bodies and cause developmental delay, epilepsy, and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis15
Identifying parental and cell-division origins of aneuploidy in the human blastocyst15
Leveraging LD eigenvalue regression to improve the estimation of SNP heritability and confounding inflation15
Polygenic transcriptome risk scores for COPD and lung function improve cross-ethnic portability of prediction in the NHLBI TOPMed program15
Addressing the challenges of polygenic scores in human genetic research15
A scoping review of guidelines for the use of race, ethnicity, and ancestry reveals widespread consensus but also points of ongoing disagreement15
Genome-wide analysis of common and rare variants via multiple knockoffs at biobank scale, with an application to Alzheimer disease genetics15
Segregation analysis of 17,425 population-based breast cancer families: Evidence for genetic susceptibility and risk prediction15
Patterns of genetic connectedness between modern and medieval Estonian genomes reveal the origins of a major ancestry component of the Finnish population15
Statistical phasing of 150,119 sequenced genomes in the UK Biobank15
Transcriptional and functional consequences of alterations to MEF2C and its topological organization in neuronal models15
Extent to which array genotyping and imputation with large reference panels approximate deep whole-genome sequencing15
Genetic underpinning of the comorbidity between type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis15
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