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Genetics

D-Index
92
Citations
92235
World Ranking
980
National Ranking
482

Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
94809
World Ranking
9049
National Ranking
4665

Charles N. Rotimi publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Charles N. Rotimi sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 281 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Charles N. Rotimi D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Charles N. Rotimi sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Charles N. Rotimi is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Medicine. Their work spans various subfields, including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

The scientist's research interests cover multiple topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Birth, Development, and Health, and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Charles N. Rotimi has published extensively, contributing to a range of reputable journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genome Medicine, PLoS ONE, and Nature.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • A brief history of human disease genetics, 2020, Nature
  • High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health, 2020, Nature
  • Evaluating the promise of inclusion of African ancestry populations in genomics, 2020, npj Genomic Medicine
  • Gut Microbiome Profiles Are Associated With Type 2 Diabetes in Urban Africans, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Ancient familial Mediterranean fever mutations in human pyrin and resistance to Yersinia pestis, 2020, Nature Immunology

Collaborations and frequent coauthors include Adebowale Adeyemo, Amy R. Bentley, Ayo P. Doumatey, Daniel Shriner, and Guanjie Chen, highlighting a network of researchers with shared interests and joint publications.

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

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

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

    Teri A. Manolio;Francis S. Collins;Nancy J. Cox;David B. Goldstein

  • The Structure of Haplotype Blocks in the Human Genome

    Stacey B. Gabriel;Stephen F. Schaffner;Huy Nguyen;Jamie M. Moore

  • The International HapMap Project

    John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

  • A haplotype map of the human genome

    John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

  • A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

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

  • Integrating common and rare genetic variation in diverse human populations

    D M Altshuler;R A Gibbs;L Peltonen

  • 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

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

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

  • A variant in CDKAL1 influences insulin response and risk of type 2 diabetes.

    Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Inga Reynisdottir;Rafn Benediktsson

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

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

  • The prevalence of hypertension in seven populations of west African origin.

    R Cooper;C Rotimi;S Ataman;D McGee

  • Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk, and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes

    Julius Gudmundsson;Patrick Sulem;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Jon T. Bergthorsson

  • The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

    Deepti Gurdasani;Tommy Carstensen;Tommy Carstensen;Fasil Tekola-Ayele;Luca Pagani

  • Refining the impact of TCF7L2 gene variants on type 2 diabetes and adaptive evolution

    Agnar Helgason;Snæbjörn Pálsson;Snæbjörn Pálsson;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Struan F A Grant;Struan F A Grant

  • A brief history of human disease genetics.

    Melina Claussnitzer;Melina Claussnitzer;Melina Claussnitzer;Judy H Cho;Rory Collins;Nancy J Cox

  • A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

    Richard M. Durbin;David L. Altshuler;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David R. Bentley

Frequent Co-Authors

Adebowale Adeyemo
Adebowale Adeyemo National Institutes of Health
Daniel Shriner
Daniel Shriner National Institutes of Health
Richard S. Cooper
Richard S. Cooper Loyola University Chicago
Clement Adebamowo
Clement Adebamowo University of Maryland, Baltimore
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Sharon L.R. Kardia
Sharon L.R. Kardia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Xiuqing Guo
Xiuqing Guo Lundquist Institute

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