2026 Chris Cotsapas: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	42	4301	4052	1855	1736	83	18850

Overview

Chris Cotsapas is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, notably genetics, molecular biology, immunology, psychiatry and mental health, and infectious diseases.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

Genomics and Rare Diseases
Epilepsy research and treatment
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Cotsapas has published papers in several research journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Cotsapas are:

Locus for severity implicates CNS resilience in progression of multiple sclerosis, 2023, Nature
The missing link between genetic association and regulatory function, 2022, eLife
Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
Genetics of multiple sclerosis: lessons from polygenicity, 2022, The Lancet Neurology
Epilepsy subtype-specific copy number burden observed in a genome-wide study of 17,458 subjects, 2020, Brain

Throughout their career, Cotsapas has collaborated closely with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications together. Frequent co-authors include:

Sung Chun
Ingo Helbig
Sarah Weckhuysen
Chantal Depondt
Patrick May

Best Publications

Systematic localization of common disease-associated variation in regulatory DNA.

Matthew T. Maurano;Richard Humbert;Eric Rynes;Robert E. Thurman

4334
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
Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

1978
Citations
Analysis of immune-related loci identifies 48 new susceptibility variants for multiple sclerosis

Ashley H. Beecham;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Dionysia K. Xifara;Mary F. Davis

1397
Citations
Pleiotropy in complex traits: challenges and strategies

Nadia Solovieff;Chris Cotsapas;Chris Cotsapas;Phil H. Lee;Phil H. Lee;Shaun M. Purcell

1118
Citations
Two independent alleles at 6q23 associated with risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Robert M Plenge;Robert M Plenge;Robert M Plenge;Chris Cotsapas;Chris Cotsapas;Leela Davies;Alkes L Price;Alkes L Price

683
Citations
Genetic variants near TNFAIP3 on 6q23 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Robert R Graham;Chris Cotsapas;Chris Cotsapas;Leela Davies;Rachel Hackett

663
Citations
Pervasive sharing of genetic effects in autoimmune disease.

Chris Cotsapas;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Elizabeth Rossin;Kasper Lage;Kasper Lage;Kasper Lage

628
Citations
Proteins encoded in genomic regions associated with immune-mediated disease physically interact and suggest underlying biology

Elizabeth J. Rossin;Kasper Lage;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Ramnik J. Xavier;Ramnik J. Xavier

526
Citations
Class II HLA interactions modulate genetic risk for multiple sclerosis

L Moutsianas;L Jostins;A H Beecham;A T Dilthey

421
Citations
Limited statistical evidence for shared genetic effects of eQTLs and autoimmune-disease-associated loci in three major immune-cell types

Sung Chun;Sung Chun;Sung Chun;Alexandra Casparino;Nikolaos A Patsopoulos;Nikolaos A Patsopoulos;Damien C Croteau-Chonka;Damien C Croteau-Chonka

300
Citations
Genetic analysis of human traits in vitro: drug response and gene expression in lymphoblastoid cell lines.

Edwin Choy;Roman Yelensky;Sasha Bonakdar;Robert M. Plenge

266
Citations
Unraveling multiple MHC gene associations with systemic lupus erythematosus: model choice indicates a role for HLA alleles and non-HLA genes in Europeans.

David L. Morris;Kimberly E. Taylor;Michelle M.A. Fernando;Joanne Nititham

173
Citations
Network-based multiple sclerosis pathway analysis with GWAS data from 15,000 cases and 30,000 controls

Sergio E. Baranzini;Pouya Khankhanian;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Michael Li

165
Citations
Survey of variation in human transcription factors reveals prevalent DNA binding changes

Luis A. Barrera;Anastasia Vedenko;Jesse V. Kurland;Julia M. Rogers;Julia M. Rogers

156
Citations
Low-Frequency and Rare-Coding Variation Contributes to Multiple Sclerosis Risk

Mitja Mitrovič;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Ashley H. Beecham;Theresa Dankowski

147
Citations
Common body mass index-associated variants confer risk of extreme obesity

Chris Cotsapas;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ida J. Hatoum;Ida J. Hatoum;Danielle M. Greenawalt

146
Citations
Fine Mapping in 94 Inbred Mouse Strains Using a High-density Haplotype Resource

Andrew Kirby;Hyun Min Kang;Claire M. Wade;Claire M. Wade;Chris J. Cotsapas;Chris J. Cotsapas

130
Citations
Immune-mediated disease genetics: the shared basis of pathogenesis.

Chris Cotsapas;David A. Hafler

129
Citations
Pervasive Sharing of Genetic Effects in Autoimmune Disease

Chris Cotsapas;Benjamin F. Voight;Elizabeth Rossin;Kasper Lage

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

David A. Hafler Yale University

Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki

Philip L. De Jager Columbia University

Stephen L. Hauser University of California, San Francisco

Roland Martin University of Zurich

Benjamin F. Voight University of Pennsylvania

Lisa F. Barcellos University of California, Berkeley

Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

External Links

Personal website of Chris Cotsapas

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