American Journal of Human Genetics

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Human Genetics is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
This month in The Journal556
2022 Curt Stern Award introduction: Heidi Rehm541
Potential corporate uses of polygenic indexes: Starting a conversation about the associated ethics and policy issues326
“Choice of law” in precision medicine research161
Alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait methylation mapping in human cancers provides clues into the molecular mechanisms of APA159
Genome-wide aggregated trans-effects on risk of type 1 diabetes: A test of the “omnigenic” sparse effector hypothesis of complex trait genetics159
Fast and accurate Bayesian polygenic risk modeling with variational inference155
Measuring disease likelihood in genomic ascertainment121
Genetic determinants of IgG antibody response to COVID-19 vaccination117
AXIN1 bi-allelic variants disrupting the C-terminal DIX domain cause craniometadiaphyseal osteosclerosis with hip dysplasia113
Mendelian randomization linking metabolites with enzymes reveals pathway regulation and therapeutic avenues104
Plasma DNA Profile Associated with DNASE1L3 Gene Mutations: Clinical Observations, Relationships to Nuclease Substrate Preference, and In Vivo Correction100
Genomes and epigenomes of matched normal and tumor breast tissue reveal diverse evolutionary trajectories and tumor-host interactions98
Exome copy number variant detection, analysis, and classification in a large cohort of families with undiagnosed rare genetic disease90
Bi-allelic variants in the non-protein-coding minor spliceosome components RNU6ATAC and RNU4ATAC cause syndromic monogenic autoimmune diabetes88
mBAT-combo: A more powerful test to detect gene-trait associations from GWAS data86
The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics study: Design and analytic framework for assessing the impact of genome-informed risk assessments79
Bi-allelic variants in the non-protein-coding minor spliceosome components RNU6ATAC and RNU4ATAC cause syndromic monogenic autoimmune diabetes76
This month in The Journal72
Best practices for improving alignment and variant calling on human sex chromosomes71
Genetic control of non-coding RNAs in the human brain and their implications for complex traits69
Evaluating large language models on medical, lay-language, and self-reported descriptions of genetic conditions68
Haploinsufficiency of ZFHX3, encoding a key player in neuronal development, causes syndromic intellectual disability67
Variants in ZFX are associated with an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder with recurrent facial gestalt65
This Month in The Journal61
The impact of inversions across 33,924 families with rare disease from a national genome sequencing project60
Common variants increase risk for congenital diaphragmatic hernia within the context of de novo variants59
Sequence variants in HECTD1 result in a variable neurodevelopmental disorder59
shaPRS: Leveraging shared genetic effects across traits or ancestries improves accuracy of polygenic scores57
2022 ASHG presidential address—One human race: Billions of genomes55
Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples54
Hypometric genetics: Improved power in genetic discovery by incorporating quality control flags54
Human leukocyte antigen variation is associated with cytomegalovirus serostatus in healthy individuals53
Improved detection of aberrant splicing with FRASER 2.0 and the intron Jaccard index53
This month in The Journal53
Genetic variants in DDX53 contribute to autism spectrum disorder associated with the Xp22.11 locus51
Actionable genetic variants in 4,198 Scottish participants from the Orkney and Shetland founder populations and implementation of return of results48
Improving polygenic risk prediction performance by integrating electronic health records through phenotype embedding48
Neurodevelopmental copy-number variants: A roadmap to improving outcomes by uniting patient advocates, researchers, and clinicians for collective impact47
2022 Curt Stern Award: Advancing genomic medicine through collaboration and data sharing46
This month in The Journal45
2024 ASHG Scientific Achievement Award45
Benchmarking Mendelian randomization methods for causal inference using genome-wide association study summary statistics43
Bi-allelic variants in CDK20 cause a severe ciliopathy with midline brain and facial anomalies43
Unraveling the impact of VHL exon 2 mutations in erythrocytosis or von Hippel-Lindau disease identified RNA-binding proteins involved in VHL splicing42
Response to anti-IL17 therapy in inflammatory disease is not strongly impacted by genetic background42
SMN1 variants identified by false-positive SMA newborn screening tests: Therapeutic hurdles and functional and epidemiological solutions42
The ancestry and geographical origins of St Helena’s liberated Africans42
Transcriptome-wide association study of the plasma proteome reveals cis and trans regulatory mechanisms underlying complex traits42
Literature-based predictions of Mendelian disease therapies42
Epigenetic regulation of plastin 3 expression by the macrosatellite DXZ4 and the transcriptional regulator CHD441
Bi-allelic PRMT9 loss-of-function variants cause a syndromic form of intellectual disability41
A new annual feature of AJHG: All of Us Research Program year in review41
SpliceVarDB: A comprehensive database of experimentally validated human splicing variants40
Using the ancestral recombination graph to study the history of rare variants in founder populations40
Bi-allelic variants in neuronal adhesion molecule astrotactin 1 gene ASTN1 cause diverse neurodevelopmental disorders40
Individuals who deviate from polygenic expectation are enriched for damaging variants in genes linked to rare disease40
Genetics of cell-type-specific post-transcriptional gene regulation during human neurogenesis39
A syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder caused by rare variants in PPFIA339
Reduced penetrance of MODY-associated HNF1A/HNF4A variants but not GCK variants in clinically unselected cohorts39
Addressing underrepresentation in genomics research through community engagement39
Structural biology in variant interpretation: Perspectives and practices from two studies38
This month in The Journal37
The association of cigarette smoking with DNA methylation and gene expression in human tissue samples37
2023 ASHG presidential address—Reflecting on our 75 years: Acknowledging our past, embracing our present, and dreaming about our future37
To boldly go: Unpacking the NHGRI’s bold predictions for human genomics by 203037
This month in The Journal36
A regulatory variant impacting TBX1 expression contributes to basicranial morphology in Homo sapiens36
Etiological involvement of KCND1 variants in an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder with variable expressivity36
Molecular genotype-phenotype correlation in ACTB- and ACTG1-related non-muscle actinopathies36
Tissue- and cell-type-specific molecular and functional signatures of 16p11.2 reciprocal genomic disorder across mouse brain and human neuronal models36
Genome-wide association study of esophageal squamous cell cancer identifies shared and distinct risk variants in African and Chinese populations35
Whole-exome sequencing uncovers the genetic complexity of bicuspid aortic valve in families with early-onset complications35
Newborn screening for type 1 diabetes using genome-based risk scores in the Early Check program34
Extremely early genomic events and temporal order of esophageal squamous cell carcinogenesis: Longitudinal self-comparison of progressors and non-progressors34
Complete chromosome 21 centromere sequencing of families with Down syndrome34
Skeletal muscle eQTL meta-analysis implicates genes in the genetic architecture of muscular and cardiometabolic traits34
Bi-allelic missense variants in human GPN2 result in Perrault syndrome34
Rare variants in PRKCI cause Van der Woude syndrome and other features of peridermopathy34
Incorporating polygenic risk scores and social determinants of health across populations: Considerations and best practices in research33
Evaluating multi-ancestry genome-wide association methods: Statistical power, population structure, and practical implications33
Exploring the omnigenic architecture of selected complex traits33
Large-scale integration of omics and electronic health records to identify potential risk protein biomarkers and therapeutic drugs for cancer prevention33
A powerful approach to identify replicable variants in genome-wide association studies32
BRCA1-, BRCA2-, and PALB2-related Fanconi anemia: Scope to expand disease phenotypic features and predict breast cancer risk in heterozygotes32
Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population32
This Month in The Journal32
A next-generation episignature for Kabuki syndrome enables fine mapping of the impact of KMT2D variants to inform precision medicine32
Bi-allelic variants in COQ8B, a gene involved in the biosynthesis of coenzyme Q10, lead to non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa32
2022 William Allan Award introduction: Peter Donnelly31
LiMA: Robust inference of molecular mediation from summary statistics31
Validation and context-dependent effects of a prostate cancer polygenic risk score in the All of Us Research Program31
Functional classification of platelet gene variants using CRISPR HDR in CD34+ cell-derived megakaryocytes31
Assortative mating and parental genetic relatedness contribute to the pathogenicity of variably expressive variants31
2025 ASHG awards and addresses31
Identification and single-base gene-editing functional validation of a cis-EPO variant as a genetic predictor for EPO-increasing therapies31
Liver single-nucleus multiome profiling reveals cell-type mechanisms for cardiometabolic traits31
The association of GNB5 with Alzheimer disease revealed by genomic analysis restricted to variants impacting gene function30
Bi-allelic UGGT1 variants cause a congenital disorder of glycosylation30
COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction30
The impact of sex on the immune system explored at the single-cell level29
Significance tests for R2 of out-of-sample prediction using polygenic scores29
The ancestry and geographical origins of St Helena’s liberated Africans29
Palindrome-mediated 16p13.3 triplications cause a recognizable neurodegenerative disorder with ataxia29
Enhanced muscle uptake of chemically optimized miR-23b antisense oligonucleotides as lead compounds for myotonic dystrophy type 129
Pathogen exposure misclassification can bias association signals in GWAS of infectious diseases when using population-based common control subjects29
Bi-allelic variants in FSD1L cause retinitis pigmentosa with or without neurological involvement28
PLS3 missense variants affecting the actin-binding domains cause X-linked congenital diaphragmatic hernia and body-wall defects28
RAB1A haploinsufficiency phenocopies the 2p14–p15 microdeletion and is associated with impaired neuronal differentiation28
This month in The Journal28
Dissecting the high-resolution genetic architecture of complex phenotypes by accurately estimating gene-based conditional heritability28
A cardiovascular, craniofacial, and neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss-of-function variants in the eIF3 complex component genes EIF3A and EIF3B28
GLA-modified RNA treatment lowers GB3 levels in iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes from Fabry-affected individuals28
The utility of ultra-deep RNA sequencing in Mendelian disorder diagnostics28
Trio RNA sequencing in a cohort of medically complex children27
Biobank-scale inference of multi-individual identity by descent and gene conversion27
Investigating the potential of single-cell DNA methylation data to detect allele-specific methylation and imprinting27
Implementing a training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench27
Prequalification of genome-based newborn screening for severe childhood genetic diseases through federated training based on purifying hyperselection27
Epilepsies of presumed genetic etiology show enrichment of rare variants that occur in the general population26
De novo missense variants in phosphatidylinositol kinase PIP5KIγ underlie a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with altered phosphoinositide signaling26
Comparison of methods for assessing effects of risk factors on disease progression in Mendelian randomization under index event bias26
Discovery of a DNA methylation profile in individuals with Sifrim-Hitz-Weiss syndrome26
Aspiring toward equitable benefits from genomic advances to individuals of ancestrally diverse backgrounds26
This month in The Journal26
Web-accessible application for identifying pathogenic transcripts with RNA-seq: Increased sensitivity in diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders26
Haplotype analysis reveals pleiotropic disease associations in the HLA region26
Landscapes of missense variant impact for human superoxide dismutase 126
De novo variants in CDKL1 and CDKL2 are associated with neurodevelopmental symptoms25
Genome sequencing and comprehensive rare-variant analysis of 465 families with neurodevelopmental disorders25
A deep dive into statistical modeling of RNA splicing QTLs reveals variants that explain neurodegenerative disease25
75 years of The American Journal of Human Genetics25
Response to Li and Hopper25
A form of inherited hyperferritinemia associated with bi-allelic pathogenic variants of STAB125
eXclusionarY: 10 years later, where are the sex chromosomes in GWASs?25
MetaGLIMPSE: Meta-imputation of low-coverage sequencing data for modern and ancient genomes25
Misattributed paternity discovery: A critique of medical organizations’ recommendations25
Bi-allelic variants in POPDC2 cause an autosomal recessive syndrome presenting with cardiac conduction defects and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy24
Population structure and migration in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a region impacted by the kuru epidemic24
AncientProxy: A catalog of ancient proxies for modern genetic variants24
Genetics-informed precision treatment formulation in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder24
Consequences of chromosome gain: A new view on trisomy syndromes24
A scalable framework for identifying allelic series from summary statistics24
Identification of genes associated with testicular germ cell tumor susceptibility through a transcriptome-wide association study24
Sensitivity of HiFi long-read genome sequencing for difficult-to-detect pathogenic variants when applied to real-world clinical laboratory samples23
CAG repeat mosaicism is gene specific in spinocerebellar ataxias23
Frequencies of pharmacogenomic alleles across biogeographic groups in a large-scale biobank23
Integrating transcriptomics, metabolomics, and GWAS helps reveal molecular mechanisms for metabolite levels and disease risk23
Bi-allelic MED16 variants cause a MEDopathy with intellectual disability, motor delay, and craniofacial, cardiac, and limb malformations23
Understanding changes in genetic literacy over time and in genetic research participants23
Genotype error due to low-coverage sequencing induces uncertainty in polygenic scoring23
Associations of genetic variants with gene expression factors reveal biological pathways underlying complex traits23
High-throughput characterization of functional variants highlights heterogeneity and polygenicity underlying lung cancer susceptibility22
Mind the gap: Characterizing bias due to population mismatch in two-sample Mendelian randomization22
An allelic-series rare-variant association test for candidate-gene discovery22
This month in The Journal22
The dawn of interventional genetics21
The piRNA-pathway factor FKBP6 is essential for spermatogenesis but dispensable for control of meiotic LINE-1 expression in humans21
An RNA-informed dosage sensitivity map reflects the intrinsic functional nature of genes21
The 2023 Distinguished Speakers Symposium: The future of human genetics and genomics21
2022 Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award21
High-throughput functional dissection of noncoding SNPs with biased allelic enhancer activity for insulin resistance-relevant phenotypes21
ACMG/AMP interpretation of BRCA1 missense variants: Structure-informed scores add evidence strength granularity to the PP3/BP4 computational evidence21
Implications of family history and polygenic risk scores for causation21
Opportunities and challenges of local ancestry in genetic association analyses21
Leveraging drug perturbation to reveal genetic regulators of hepatic gene expression in African Americans21
A multi-tissue, splicing-based joint transcriptome-wide association study identifies susceptibility genes for breast cancer21
Local genetic correlation via knockoffs reduces confounding due to cross-trait assortative mating21
Prospective, multi-site study of healthcare utilization after actionable monogenic findings from clinical sequencing21
This month in The Journal21
CIROZ is dispensable in ancestral vertebrates but essential for left-right patterning in humans20
Monoallelic PSMB8 variants cause PRAAS with immunodeficiency through impaired immunoproteasome assembly20
This month in The Journal20
An intronic GAA repeat expansion in FGF14 causes the autosomal-dominant adult-onset ataxia SCA27B/ATX-FGF1420
MARK2 variants cause autism spectrum disorder via the downregulation of WNT/β-catenin signaling pathway20
This month in The Journal20
MSL2 variants lead to a neurodevelopmental syndrome with lack of coordination, epilepsy, specific dysmorphisms, and a distinct episignature20
Navigating data sharing in research20
Response to Bassett et al.20
Bi-allelic variants in NDUFA5 cause a mitochondriopathy with complex I deficiency20
Will variants of uncertain significance still exist in 2030?20
Toward clinical exomes in diagnostics and management of male infertility20
Mapping chromatin interactions at melanoma susceptibility loci uncovers distant cis-regulatory gene targets20
Ultra-rare functional variants reveal early-onset breast cancer risk genes and pathways in the UK Biobank and All of Us Research Program19
Estimating gene conversion rates from population data using multi-individual identity by descent19
Envisioning a new era: Complete genetic information from routine, telomere-to-telomere genomes19
STIGMA: Single-cell tissue-specific gene prioritization using machine learning19
Evaluating multi-ancestry genome-wide association methods: Statistical power, population structure, and practical implications19
A novel CCDC91 isoform associated with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine works as a non-coding RNA to regulate osteogenic genes19
GABBR1 monoallelic de novo variants linked to neurodevelopmental delay and epilepsy19
Bi-allelic genetic variants in the translational GTPases GTPBP1 and GTPBP2 cause a distinct identical neurodevelopmental syndrome19
Knockoff procedure improves susceptibility gene identifications in conditional transcriptome-wide association studies19
Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank19
Fast, accurate local ancestry inference with FLARE18
An HNRNPK-specific DNA methylation signature makes sense of missense variants and expands the phenotypic spectrum of Au-Kline syndrome18
Data sharing in the PRIMED Consortium: Design, implementation, and recommendations for future policymaking18
Declining autozygosity over time: An exploration in over 1 million individuals from three diverse cohorts18
Variants in ATRIP are associated with breast cancer susceptibility in the Polish population and UK Biobank18
Pathogenic variants in KMT2C result in a neurodevelopmental disorder distinct from Kleefstra and Kabuki syndromes18
Evidence of epistasis in regions of long-range linkage disequilibrium across five complex diseases in the UK Biobank and eMERGE datasets18
Rare variants in long non-coding RNAs are associated with blood lipid levels in the TOPMed whole-genome sequencing study18
International policies guiding the selection, analysis, and clinical management of secondary findings from genomic sequencing: A systematic review18
When two plus four does not equal six: Combining computational and functional evidence to classify BRCA1 key domain missense substitutions18
Deciphering the digenic architecture of congenital heart disease using trio exome sequencing data18
KnockoffTrio: A knockoff framework for the identification of putative causal variants in genome-wide association studies with trio design18
Maternal age and genome-wide failure of meiotic recombination are associated with triploid conceptions in humans18
Homozygous variants in WDR83OS lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder with hypercholanemia18
Bi-allelic pathogenic variants in TRMT1 disrupt tRNA modification and induce a neurodevelopmental disorder18
Role of X chromosome and dosage-compensation mechanisms in complex trait genetics18
Monoallelic variation in DHX9, the gene encoding the DExH-box helicase DHX9, underlies neurodevelopment disorders and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease17
Bi-allelic variants in HMGCR cause an autosomal-recessive progressive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy17
First steps toward building natural history of diseases computationally: Lessons learned from the Noonan syndrome use case17
Addressing the challenges of polygenic scores in human genetic research17
Using implementation science to evaluate a population-wide genomic screening program: Findings from the first 20,000 In Our DNA SC participants17
Comprehensive SMN1 and SMN2 profiling for spinal muscular atrophy analysis using long-read PacBio HiFi sequencing17
Impact of genome build on RNA-seq interpretation and diagnostics17
Integrative analysis of gastric tissue transcriptomes and gastric cancer GWAS implicates candidate susceptibility genes17
Combined CRISPRi and proteomics screening reveal a cohesin-CTCF-bound allele contributing to increased expression of RUVBL1 and prostate cancer progression17
FBXO22 deficiency defines a pleiotropic syndrome of growth restriction and multi-system anomalies associated with a unique epigenetic signature17
Leveraging local ancestry and cross-ancestry genetic architecture to improve genetic prediction of complex traits in admixed populations17
Exploring the noncoding genome with chromosomal structural rearrangements16
Monoallelic pathogenic ALG5 variants cause atypical polycystic kidney disease and interstitial fibrosis16
Variants in EP400, encoding a chromatin remodeler, cause epilepsy with neurodevelopmental disorders16
CHARR efficiently estimates contamination from DNA sequencing data16
Effects of protein-coding variants on blood metabolite measurements and clinical biomarkers in the UK Biobank16
Mutations in SAMD7 cause autosomal-recessive macular dystrophy with or without cone dysfunction16
Using the ACMG/AMP framework to capture evidence related to predicted and observed impact on splicing: Recommendations from the ClinGen SVI Splicing Subgroup16
High-throughput identification of regulatory elements and functional assays to uncover susceptibility genes for nasopharyngeal carcinoma16
Public preferences for the value and implementation of genomic newborn screening: Insights from two discrete choice experiments in Australia16
Transcriptome-wide outlier approach identifies individuals with minor spliceopathies16
Variants in BSN, encoding the presynaptic protein Bassoon, result in a distinct neurodevelopmental disorder with a broad phenotypic range16
Racial and socioeconomic disparities in genetic evaluation and testing in the adult patient population16
CADET: Enhanced transcriptome-wide association analyses in admixed samples using eQTL summary data16
Meta-analysis across six global biobanks identifies recessive coding associations with complex traits and diseases16
De novo variants in FRMD5 are associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, ataxia, and abnormalities of eye movement16
The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium’s consensus-based framework for assigning allele function16
Identification of de novo variants from parent-proband duos via long-read sequencing16
Loss of function of the zinc finger homeobox 4 gene, ZFHX4, underlies a neurodevelopmental disorder16
Bi-allelic variants in TM2D3 cause a severe syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder associated with endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial abnormalities16
MagicalRsq: Machine-learning-based genotype imputation quality calibration15
Functional analysis and clinical classification of 462 germline BRCA2 missense variants affecting the DNA binding domain15
A genome sequencing system for universal newborn screening, diagnosis, and precision medicine for severe genetic diseases15
Recognizing trainees: The AJHG Award for Outstanding Trainee Publication15
Natural Selection Shapes Codon Usage in the Human Genome15
Many roads to a gene-environment interaction15
Response to Eura et al.15
BLOC1S1 variants cause lysosomal and autophagic defects resulting in a hypomyelinating leukodystrophy with epileptic encephalopathy15
This month in The Journal15
A recurrent de novo splice site variant involving DNM1 exon 10a causes developmental and epileptic encephalopathy through a dominant-negative mechanism15
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