OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of PLoS Genetics is 49. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Contribution of the eye and of opn4xa function to circadian photoentrainment in the diurnal zebrafish	808596525
Eliciting priors and relaxing the single causal variant assumption in colocalisation analyses	170
RNA-directed DNA Methylation	161
Phylogenetic background and habitat drive the genetic diversification of Escherichia coli	127
MicroRNAs are minor constituents of extracellular vesicles that are rarely delivered to target cells	123
A more accurate method for colocalisation analysis allowing for multiple causal variants	122
Beyond SNP heritability: Polygenicity and discoverability of phenotypes estimated with a univariate Gaussian mixture model	116
Osteocalcin is necessary for the alignment of apatite crystallites, but not glucose metabolism, testosterone synthesis, or muscle mass	114
Evaluation of polygenic prediction methodology within a reference-standardized framework	92
Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits	88
What is ancestry?	87
Horizontal transmission and recombination maintain forever young bacterial symbiont genomes	85
A missense variant in Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 1 gene and protection against liver disease	84
Stability of SARS-CoV-2 phylogenies	83
Fine-mapping from summary data with the “Sum of Single Effects” model	82
Genotype imputation using the Positional Burrows Wheeler Transform	80
An osteocalcin-deficient mouse strain without endocrine abnormalities	80
Double-edged sword: The evolutionary consequences of the epigenetic silencing of transposable elements	78
Deleterious mutation accumulation and the long-term fate of chromosomal inversions	71
A fast and scalable framework for large-scale and ultrahigh-dimensional sparse regression with application to the UK Biobank	71
Mapping gene flow between ancient hominins through demography-aware inference of the ancestral recombination graph	70
Regulating the expression of gene drives is key to increasing their invasive potential and the mitigation of resistance	69
Combining the strengths of inverse-variance weighting and Egger regression in Mendelian randomization using a mixture of regressions model	69
Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish	69
A new domestic cat genome assembly based on long sequence reads empowers feline genomic medicine and identifies a novel gene for dwarfism	69

Tracking human population structure through time from whole genome sequences	67
OsMADS23 phosphorylated by SAPK9 confers drought and salt tolerance by regulating ABA biosynthesis in rice	65
Runx2 is essential for the transdifferentiation of chondrocytes into osteoblasts	63
Population genetic models of GERP scores suggest pervasive turnover of constrained sites across mammalian evolution	63
Copy number signature analysis tool and its application in prostate cancer reveals distinct mutational processes and clinical outcomes	61
Nationwide germline whole genome sequencing of 198 consecutive pediatric cancer patients reveals a high incidence of cancer prone syndromes	61
Introns mediate post-transcriptional enhancement of nuclear gene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	60
Osteocalcin promotes bone mineralization but is not a hormone	60
Creating artificial human genomes using generative neural networks	57
VolcanoFinder: Genomic scans for adaptive introgression	57
Non-lethal exposure to H2O2 boosts bacterial survival and evolvability against oxidative stress	57
Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods	55
Histone modification dynamics at H3K27 are associated with altered transcription of in planta induced genes in Magnaporthe oryzae	55
Major role of iron uptake systems in the intrinsic extra-intestinal virulence of the genus Escherichia revealed by a genome-wide association study	54
Is adaptation limited by mutation? A timescale-dependent effect of genetic diversity on the adaptive substitution rate in animals	53
Ancient and recent introgression shape the evolutionary history of pollinator adaptation and speciation in a model monkeyflower radiation (Mimulus section Erythranthe)	53
Selection of GmSWEET39 for oil and protein improvement in soybean	53
The impact of age on genetic risk for common diseases	53
The genomic ecosystem of transposable elements in maize	52
Runx1 is a central regulator of osteogenesis for bone homeostasis by orchestrating BMP and WNT signaling pathways	52
Estimating FST and kinship for arbitrary population structures	51
Elevated exopolysaccharide levels in Pseudomonas aeruginosa flagellar mutants have implications for biofilm growth and chronic infections	50
The alarmones (p)ppGpp are part of the heat shock response of Bacillus subtilis	50
Recombination events are concentrated in the spike protein region of Betacoronaviruses	50
TDP-43 mutations link Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with R-loop homeostasis and R loop-mediated DNA damage	49
WAPO-A1 is the causal gene of the 7AL QTL for spikelet number per spike in wheat	49
A cross-disorder PRS-pheWAS of 5 major psychiatric disorders in UK Biobank	49
Changes in both trans- and cis-regulatory elements mediate insecticide resistance in a lepidopteron pest, Spodoptera exigua	49
Defects in the cytoplasmic assembly of axonemal dynein arms cause morphological abnormalities and dysmotility in sperm cells leading to male infertility	49