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Christopher A. Walsh 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 Christopher A. Walsh sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 447 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher A. Walsh 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 Christopher A. Walsh sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 143 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christopher A. Walsh is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Neurology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of main topics including:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Congenital heart defects research

Christopher A. Walsh has published extensively, with numerous papers appearing in leading journals. Recent papers include:

  • "Innovations present in the primate interneuron repertoire," 2020, Nature
  • "The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission," 2022, Epilepsia
  • "Somatic genomic changes in single Alzheimer's disease neurons," 2022, Nature
  • "Rewiring of human neurodevelopmental gene regulatory programs by human accelerated regions," 2021, Neuron
  • "Comparative transcriptomics reveals human-specific cortical features," 2023, Science

The most frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Science

Christopher A. Walsh often collaborates with several coauthors, notably:

  • August Yue Huang
  • Peter J. Park
  • Zinan Zhou
  • Eunjung Alice Lee
  • Yanmei Dou

Recognition for Christopher A. Walsh's contributions includes several awards:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009

Best Publications

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

    Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

  • Association between Microdeletion and Microduplication at 16p11.2 and Autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Yiping Shen;Joshua M. Korn;Joshua M. Korn;Dan E. Arking

  • Regulation of Cerebral Cortical Size by Control of Cell Cycle Exit in Neural Precursors

    Anjen Chenn;Anjen Chenn;Christopher A. Walsh

  • Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder Genomic Architecture and Biology from 71 Risk Loci.

    Stephan J. Sanders;Xin He;A. Jeremy Willsey;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek

  • Doublecortin is a microtubule-associated protein and is expressed widely by migrating neurons.

    Joseph G Gleeson;Joseph G Gleeson;Peter T Lin;Lisa A Flanagan;Christopher A Walsh

  • Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

  • Directed migration of neural stem cells to sites of CNS injury by the stromal cell-derived factor 1α/CXC chemokine receptor 4 pathway

    Jaime Imitola;Khadir Raddassi;Kook In Park;Franz Josef Mueller;Franz Josef Mueller

  • doublecortin, a Brain-Specific Gene Mutated in Human X-Linked Lissencephaly and Double Cortex Syndrome, Encodes a Putative Signaling Protein

    Joseph G Gleeson;Joseph G Gleeson;Kristina M Allen;Jeremy W Fox;Edward D Lamperti

  • Multipotent neural cell lines can engraft and participate in development of mouse cerebellum.

    Evan Y. Snyder;David L. Deitcher;Christopher Walsh;Susan Arnold-Aldea

  • Autosomal recessive lissencephaly with cerebellar hypoplasia is associated with human RELN mutations

    Susan E. Hong;Yin Yao Shugart;David T. Huang;Saad Al Shahwan

  • Association between microdeletion and microduplication at 16p11.2 and autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Yiping Shen;Joshua M. Korn;Dan E. Arking

  • Mutations in filamin 1 Prevent Migration of Cerebral Cortical Neurons in Human Periventricular Heterotopia

    Jeremy W Fox;Jeremy W Fox;Edward D Lamperti;Yaman Z Ekşioğlu;Susan E Hong

  • Identifying Autism Loci and Genes by Tracing Recent Shared Ancestry

    Eric M. Morrow;Seung Yun Yoo;Steven W. Flavell;Tae Kyung Kim

  • Mutations in the O-Mannosyltransferase Gene POMT1 Give Rise to the Severe Neuronal Migration Disorder Walker-Warburg Syndrome

    Daniel Beltrán Valero De Bernabé;Sophie Currier;Alice Steinbrecher;Jacopo Celli

  • A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • ASPM is a major determinant of cerebral cortical size.

    Jacquelyn Bond;Emma Roberts;Ganesh H. Mochida;Ganesh H. Mochida;Daniel J. Hampshire

  • Reelin Binds α3β1 Integrin and Inhibits Neuronal Migration

    Lori Dulabon;Eric C Olson;Mary G Taglienti;Scott Eisenhuth

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy W. Yu
Timothy W. Yu Boston Children's Hospital
Peter J. Park
Peter J. Park Harvard University
William B. Dobyns
William B. Dobyns University of Minnesota
Joseph G. Gleeson
Joseph G. Gleeson University of California, San Diego
A. James Barkovich
A. James Barkovich University of California, San Francisco
Eric M. Morrow
Eric M. Morrow Brown University
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Alan H. Beggs
Alan H. Beggs Harvard Medical School
Jill A. Rosenfeld
Jill A. Rosenfeld Baylor College of Medicine
Ingrid A. Holm
Ingrid A. Holm Boston Children's Hospital

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