OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Genetic Epidemiology is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
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Revealing genomic heterogeneity and commonality: A penalized integrative analysis approach accounting for the adjacency structure of measurements	54
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Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Gene‐Environment Interaction Research	18
PSAP‐Genomic‐Regions: A Method Leveraging Population Data to Prioritize Coding and Non‐Coding Variants in Whole Genome Sequencing for Rare Disease Diagnosis	17
Powerful Rare‐Variant Association Analysis of Secondary Phenotypes	16
Bayesian Effect Size Ranking to Prioritise Genetic Risk Variants in Common Diseases for Follow‐Up Studies	16
Adaptive Bayesian variable clustering via structural learning of breast cancer data	15
Comparison of genetic risk prediction models to improve prediction of coronary heart disease in two large cohorts of the MONICA/KORA study	15
A gene‐based association test of interactions for maternal–fetal genotypes identifies genes associated with nonsyndromic congenital heart defects	14
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A Brief History behind the journal Genetic Epidemiology and the International Genetic Epidemiology Society	14
Are trait‐associated genes clustered together in a gene network?	12
Statistics to prioritize rare variants in family‐based sequencing studies with disease subtypes	12
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A novel Mendelian randomization method with binary risk factor and outcome	9
Ravages: An R package for the simulation and analysis of rare variants in multicategory phenotypes	9
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The Translational Machine: A novel machine‐learning approach to illuminate complex genetic architectures	8
Evaluation of saliva as a source of accurate whole‐genome and microbiome sequencing data	8
The influence of unmeasured confounding on the MR Steiger approach	8
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Using parent‐offspring pairs and trios to estimate indirect genetic effects in education	7
Inverse probability weighting is an effective method to address selection bias during the analysis of high dimensional data	7

Gene‐level association analysis of ordinal traits with functional ordinal logistic regressions	7
Deconvolution analysis of cell‐type expression from bulk tissues by integrating with single‐cell expression reference	6
A Bayesian hierarchically structured prior for gene‐based association testing with multiple traits in genome‐wide association studies	6
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Mendelian randomisation with coarsened exposures	6
Disentangling the effects of traits with shared clustered genetic predictors using multivariable Mendelian randomization	5
New proposal to address mediation analysis interrogations by using genetic variants as instrumental variables	5
Sparse group variable selection for gene–environment interactions in the longitudinal study	5
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Identifying somatic fingerprints of cancers defined by germline and environmental risk factors	4
MR‐BOIL: Causal inference in one‐sample Mendelian randomization for binary outcome with integrated likelihood method	4
Haplotype reconstruction for genetically complex regions with ambiguous genotype calls: Illustration by the KIR gene region	4
Meta‐analysis of breast cancer risk for individuals with PALB2 pathogenic variants	4
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DYNATE: Localizing rare‐variant association regions via multiple testing embedded in an aggregation tree	4
Genome‐wide association analysis of serum alanine and aspartate aminotransferase, and the modifying effects of BMI in 388k European individuals	4
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Including diverse and admixed populations in genetic epidemiology research	3
Bias and mean squared error in Mendelian randomization with invalid instrumental variables	3
The sequence kernel association test for multicategorical outcomes	3
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Inference of causal metabolite networks in the presence of invalid instrumental variables with GWAS summary data	3
The eigen higher criticism and eigen Berk–Jones tests for multiple trait association studies based on GWAS summary statistics	3
Assisted differential network analysis for gene expression data	3
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Mitigating type 1 error inflation and power loss in GxE PRS: Genotype–environment interaction in polygenic risk score models	3
Phenotypic variance partitioning by transcriptomic gene expression levels and environmental variables for anthropometric traits using GTEx data	3
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Exploring polygenic‐environment and residual‐environment interactions for depressive symptoms within the UK Biobank	2
A two‐sample robust Bayesian Mendelian Randomization method accounting for linkage disequilibrium and idiosyncratic pleiotropy with applications to the COVID‐19 outcomes	2
Genome‐wide association analysis of COVID‐19 mortality risk in SARS‐CoV‐2 genomes identifies mutation in the SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein that colocalizes with P.1 of the Brazilian strain	2
Interpreting disease genome‐wide association studies and polygenetic risk scores given eligibility and study design considerations	2
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Fast and accurate recurrent event analysis for genome‐wide association studies	2
FAT4 identified as a potential modifier of orofacial cleft laterality	2
Adjusting for collider bias in genetic association studies using instrumental variable methods	2
Identifying genes associated with disease outcomes using joint sparse canonical correlation analysis—An application in renal clear cell carcinoma	2
Benchmarking statistical methods for analyzing parent–child dyads in genetic association studies	2
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Shared genetic risk between major orofacial cleft phenotypes in an African population	2
Statistical power of transcriptome‐wide association studies	2
Testing and estimation of X‐chromosome SNP effects: Impact of model assumptions	2