2026 Alexey S. Kondrashov: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	61	3014	2855	1313	1233	169	31741

Overview

Alexey S. Kondrashov is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans various fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with a particular focus on genetics, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, pathology and forensic medicine, and cancer research.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Genetic diversity and population structure
Plant and animal studies
Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
DNA Repair Mechanisms
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Kondrashov has published in multiple scientific venues, notably including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, European Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and eLife. The breakdown of publications by venue highlights a diversity of outlets for their work.

Their recent papers include:

Genomic signatures of recombination in a natural population of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga, 2020, Nature Communications
Rapid Accumulation of Mutations in Growing Mycelia of a Hypervariable Fungus Schizophyllum commune, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
Complex fitness landscape shapes variation in a hyperpolymorphic species, 2022, eLife
Discovery of recessive effect of human polymerase δ proofreading deficiency through mutational analysis of POLD1-mutated normal and cancer cells, 2024, European Journal of Human Genetics
Extended family with an inherited pathogenic variant in polymerase delta provides strong evidence for recessive effect of proofreading deficiency in human cells, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Kondrashov collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Georgii A. Bazykin, Tatiana V. Neretina, Elena Zvyagina, Anna Fedotova, and Sergey Naumenko. These partnerships have resulted in multiple joint publications across their fields of study.

Best Publications

A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations.

Ivan A Adzhubei;Steffen Schmidt;Leonid Peshkin;Vasily E Ramensky

14004
Citations
Deleterious mutations and the evolution of sexual reproduction

Alexey S. Kondrashov

1575
Citations
Prediction of deleterious human alleles

Shamil Sunyaev;Vasily Ramensky;Ina Koch;Warren Lathe

1291
Citations
Classification of Hypotheses on the Advantage of Amphimixis

A. S. Kondrashov

813
Citations
Interactions among quantitative traits in the course of sympatric speciation

Alexey S. Kondrashov;Fyodor A. Kondrashov

777
Citations
Local fitness landscape of the green fluorescent protein.

Karen S. Sarkisyan;Dmitry A. Bolotin;Margarita V. Meer;Dinara R. Usmanova;Dinara R. Usmanova

579
Citations
Direct estimates of human per nucleotide mutation rates at 20 loci causing mendelian diseases

Alexey S. Kondrashov

481
Citations
Selection against harmful mutations in large sexual and asexual populations.

Alexey S. Kondrashov

450
Citations
Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

Jean François Flot;Boris Hespeels;Xiang Li;Benjamin Noel

443
Citations
Genome Alignment, Evolution of Prokaryotic Genome Organization, and Prediction of Gene Function Using Genomic Context

Yuri I. Wolf;Igor B. Rogozin;Alexey S. Kondrashov;Eugene V. Koonin

426
Citations
Dobzhansky–Muller incompatibilities in protein evolution

Alexey S. Kondrashov;Shamil Sunyaev;Fyodor A. Kondrashov

405
Citations
The Impact of Comparative Genomics on Our Understanding of Evolution

Eugene V Koonin;L Aravind;Alexey S Kondrashov

388
Citations
Contamination of the genome by very slightly deleterious mutations: why have we not died 100 times over?

Alexey S. Kondrashov

329
Citations
A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution

I. King Jordan;Fyodor A. Kondrashov;Ivan A. Adzhubei;Yuri I. Wolf

326
Citations
Coevolution of costly mate choice and condition-dependent display of good genes

David Houle;Alexey S. Kondrashov

288
Citations
Role of selection in fixation of gene duplications.

Fyodor A. Kondrashov;Alexey S. Kondrashov

268
Citations
Rapid decline of fitness in panmictic populations of Drosophila melanogaster maintained under relaxed natural selection

Svetlana A. Shabalina;Lev Yu. Yampolsky;Alexey S. Kondrashov

263
Citations
Haploidy or diploidy: which is better?

Alexey S. Kondrashov;James F. Crow

259
Citations
Sympatric speciation: when is it possible?

Alexey S. Kondrashov;Mikhail V. Mina

244
Citations
On the origin of species by means of assortative mating

Alexey S. Kondrashov;Max Shpak

241
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fyodor A. Kondrashov Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Svetlana A. Shabalina National Center for Biotechnology Information

Shamil R. Sunyaev Harvard University

Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health

Yuri I. Wolf National Institutes of Health

Inna Dubchak Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

David Houle Florida State University

Eric Wajnberg INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Etienne G. J. Danchin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health

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