OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Genetic Epidemiology is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Revealing genomic heterogeneity and commonality: A penalized integrative analysis approach accounting for the adjacency structure of measurements	67
Bayesian Effect Size Ranking to Prioritise Genetic Risk Variants in Common Diseases for Follow‐Up Studies	39
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Gene‐Environment Interaction Research	27
Powerful Rare‐Variant Association Analysis of Secondary Phenotypes	26
PSAP‐Genomic‐Regions: A Method Leveraging Population Data to Prioritize Coding and Non‐Coding Variants in Whole Genome Sequencing for Rare Disease Diagnosis	20
A Brief History behind the journal Genetic Epidemiology and the International Genetic Epidemiology Society	19
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Identifying somatic fingerprints of cancers defined by germline and environmental risk factors	17
Evaluation of saliva as a source of accurate whole‐genome and microbiome sequencing data	17
Disentangling the effects of traits with shared clustered genetic predictors using multivariable Mendelian randomization	16
Adaptive Bayesian variable clustering via structural learning of breast cancer data	15
Are trait‐associated genes clustered together in a gene network?	15
The influence of unmeasured confounding on the MR Steiger approach	14
Gene‐level association analysis of ordinal traits with functional ordinal logistic regressions	12
Comparison of genetic risk prediction models to improve prediction of coronary heart disease in two large cohorts of the MONICA/KORA study	12
A novel Mendelian randomization method with binary risk factor and outcome	10
Ravages: An R package for the simulation and analysis of rare variants in multicategory phenotypes	10
Statistics to prioritize rare variants in family‐based sequencing studies with disease subtypes	9
A Bayesian hierarchically structured prior for gene‐based association testing with multiple traits in genome‐wide association studies	9
Using parent‐offspring pairs and trios to estimate indirect genetic effects in education	9
Deconvolution analysis of cell‐type expression from bulk tissues by integrating with single‐cell expression reference	9
Inverse probability weighting is an effective method to address selection bias during the analysis of high dimensional data	8
A gene‐based association test of interactions for maternal–fetal genotypes identifies genes associated with nonsyndromic congenital heart defects	8
Genome‐wide association analysis of serum alanine and aspartate aminotransferase, and the modifying effects of BMI in 388k European individuals	8

Sparse group variable selection for gene–environment interactions in the longitudinal study	8
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The Translational Machine: A novel machine‐learning approach to illuminate complex genetic architectures	7
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Meta‐analysis of breast cancer risk for individuals with PALB2 pathogenic variants	7
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New proposal to address mediation analysis interrogations by using genetic variants as instrumental variables	6
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A Novel One‐Sample Mendelian Randomization Approach for Count‐Type Outcomes That Is Robust to Correlated and Uncorrelated Pleiotropic Effects	4
Comparing Ancestry Standardization Approaches for a Transancestry Colorectal Cancer Polygenic Risk Score	4
Fine‐Mapping the Results From Genome‐Wide Association Studies of Primary Biliary Cholangitis Using SuSiE and h2‐D2	4
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Polygenic hazard score models for the prediction of Alzheimer's free survival using the lasso for Cox's proportional hazards model	4
Phenotypic variance partitioning by transcriptomic gene expression levels and environmental variables for anthropometric traits using GTEx data	4
Refinement of a Published Gene‐Physical Activity Interaction Impacting HDL‐Cholesterol: Role of Sex and Lipoprotein Subfractions	4
Integrative Multi‐Omics Approach for Improving Causal Gene Identification	4
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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	3
The eigen higher criticism and eigen Berk–Jones tests for multiple trait association studies based on GWAS summary statistics	3
A two‐sample robust Bayesian Mendelian Randomization method accounting for linkage disequilibrium and idiosyncratic pleiotropy with applications to the COVID‐19 outcomes	3
MR‐BOIL: Causal inference in one‐sample Mendelian randomization for binary outcome with integrated likelihood method	3
DYNATE: Localizing rare‐variant association regions via multiple testing embedded in an aggregation tree	3
Inference of causal metabolite networks in the presence of invalid instrumental variables with GWAS summary data	3
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Assisted differential network analysis for gene expression data	3
Bias and mean squared error in Mendelian randomization with invalid instrumental variables	3
Fast and accurate recurrent event analysis for genome‐wide association studies	3
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Benchmarking statistical methods for analyzing parent–child dyads in genetic association studies	3
Testing and estimation of X‐chromosome SNP effects: Impact of model assumptions	3