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Andrés Ruiz-Linares

Andrés Ruiz-Linares

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Genetics

D-Index
64
Citations
54650
World Ranking
2727
National Ranking
73

Overview

Andrés Ruiz-Linares is affiliated with Fudan University in China and specializes in fields related to Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine. Their research portfolio includes 54 publications in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology and 35 in Medicine.

Their work spans several subfields, notably Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Surgery, and Dermatology. The main topics focus on melanin and skin pigmentation, cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic associations and epidemiology, T-cell and B-cell immunology, skin protection and aging, and forensic and genetic research.

Frequent publication venues for Ruiz-Linares consist of Scientific Reports, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, PLoS ONE, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Human Immunology.

They have coauthored extensively with several researchers including Carla Gallo, Francisco Rothhammer, María Cátira Bortolini, Rolando González-José, and Kaustubh Adhikari.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Gallstones, Body Mass Index, C-Reactive Protein, and Gallbladder Cancer: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Chilean and European Genotype Data, 2020, Hepatology
  • A GWAS in Latin Americans identifies novel face shape loci, implicating VPS13B and a Denisovan introgressed region in facial variation, 2021, Science Advances
  • NNT mediates redox-dependent pigmentation via a UVB- and MITF-independent mechanism, 2021, Cell
  • The immunogenetic diversity of the HLA system in Mexico correlates with underlying population genetic structure, 2020, Human Immunology
  • Genetic variants underlying differences in facial morphology in East Asian and European populations, 2022, Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

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

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

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • High resolution of human evolutionary trees with polymorphic microsatellites

    A. M. Bowcock;A. Ruiz-Linares;J. Tomfohrde;E. Minch

  • Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

    Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Alissa Mittnik;Gabriel Renaud

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

  • Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Emil Reich;David Emil Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon;Arti Tandon

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

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

  • Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans

    Sijia Wang;Cecil M. Lewis;Mattias Jakobsson;Sohini Ramachandran

  • Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos

    Sijia Wang;Nicolas Ray;Winston Rojas;María V. Parra

  • The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits

    Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Christopher R. Gignoux;Juan Carlos Fernández-López;Fouad Zakharia

  • Admixture in Latin America: Geographic Structure, Phenotypic Diversity and Self-Perception of Ancestry Based on 7,342 Individuals

    Andrés Ruiz-Linares;Kaustubh Adhikari;Victor Acuña-Alonzo;Mirsha Quinto-Sanchez

  • A Gain-of-Function Mutation in TRPA1 Causes Familial Episodic Pain Syndrome

    Barbara Kremeyer;Francisco Lopera;James J. Cox;James J. Cox;Aliakmal Momin

  • Clinical Features of Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease in a Large Kindred With an E280A Presenilin-1 Mutation

    Francisco Lopera;Alfredo Ardilla;Alonso Martínez;Lucia Madrigal

  • Strong Amerind/white sex bias and a possible Sephardic contribution among the founders of a population in northwest Colombia.

    Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona;Iván D. Soto;Nicolás Pineda;Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos

  • Discerning the ancestry of European Americans in genetic association studies

    Alkes L Price;Johannah Butler;Johannah Butler;Nick Patterson;Cristian Capelli

  • Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

    Peter H. Sudmant;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Bradley J. Nelson;Fereydoun Hormozdiari

  • A Genomewide Admixture Map for Latino Populations

    Alkes L. Price;Nick Patterson;Fuli Yu;Fuli Yu;David R. Cox

  • Corrigendum: Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon

  • Partitioning the heritability of tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

    Lea K. Davis;Dongmei Yu;Clare L. Keenan;Eric R. Gamazon

  • Admixture dynamics in Hispanics: A shift in the nuclear genetic ancestry of a South American population isolate

    Gabriel Bedoya;Patricia Montoya;Jenny García;Ivan Soto

Frequent Co-Authors

Nelson B. Freimer
Nelson B. Freimer University of California, Los Angeles
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Francisco M. Salzano
Francisco M. Salzano Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Victor I. Reus
Victor I. Reus University of California, San Francisco
David J. Balding
David J. Balding University of Melbourne
William Klitz
William Klitz University of California, Berkeley
Shuhua Xu
Shuhua Xu Fudan University
Damian Labuda
Damian Labuda University of Montreal
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Laurent Excoffier
Laurent Excoffier University of Bern

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