2026 Adam Auton: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	78	1656	1574	760	716	150	117696

Overview

Adam Auton is affiliated with 23andMe in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant number of publications also related to medicine.

The main subfields of study where Adam Auton has contributed include:

Genetics
Molecular Biology
Neurology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Infectious Diseases

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, reflecting a broad scope in genetic research and epidemiology. Key topics of their research include:

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Reading and Literacy Development
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Adam Auton has appeared frequently in certain publication venues, indicating consistent contributions to those specialized areas. These venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Genetics
Nature Communications
Translational Psychiatry
Communications Biology

Several of their recent papers showcase research on genetics in various contexts:

"A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease" (2021), published in Nature Genetics
"Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals" (2022), published in Nature Genetics
"Genetic determinants of daytime napping and effects on cardiometabolic health" (2021), published in Nature Communications
"Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses" (2020), published in Nature Communications
"Trans-ancestry analysis reveals genetic and nongenetic associations with COVID-19 susceptibility and severity" (2021), published in Nature Genetics

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Adam Auton's scientific work. Frequent coauthors include:

Suyash Shringarpure
Pierre Fontanillas
David A. Hinds
Janie F. Shelton
Matthew H. McIntyre

Best Publications

A global reference for human genetic variation.

Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

18403
Citations
The variant call format and VCFtools

Petr Danecek;Adam Auton;Goncalo Abecasis;Cornelis A. Albers

13787
Citations
An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

13558
Citations
Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

10086
Citations
A Map of Human Genome Variation From Population-Scale Sequencing

Gonçalo R Abecasis;David Altshuler;David Altshuler;Adam Auton

7233
Citations
A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

5383
Citations
Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

2823
Citations
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

2437
Citations
Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

2363
Citations
Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

2354
Citations
An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes

Peter H. Sudmant;Tobias Rausch;Eugene J. Gardner;Robert E. Handsaker;Robert E. Handsaker

2353
Citations
Genes mirror geography within Europe.

John Novembre;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Katarzyna Bryc;Zoltán Kutalik

1802
Citations
Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19.

E. Pairo-Castineira;E. Pairo-Castineira;S. Clohisey;L. Klaric;A. D. Bretherick

1445
Citations
Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

1331
Citations
Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG.

Patrick Turley;Patrick Turley;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters;Omeed Maghzian;Aysu Okbay

1178
Citations
A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease.

Douglas P Wightman;Iris E Jansen;Jeanne E Savage;Alexey A Shadrin

1034
Citations
Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication

Bridgett M. Vonholdt;John P. Pollinger;Kirk E. Lohmueller;Eunjung Han

968
Citations
A global reference for human genetic variation

Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

963
Citations
Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

918
Citations
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

808
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Bustamante Stanford University

Michel G. Nivard University of Bristol

Abdel Abdellaoui University of Amsterdam

Peter Donnelly University of Oxford

Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles

Matthias Sutter Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Pierre Fontanillas 23andMe (United States)

David A. Hinds 23andMe (United States)

Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh

External Links

Personal website of Adam Auton

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