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Christopher R. Gignoux

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
52679
World Ranking
8910
National Ranking
3957

Christopher R. Gignoux publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 202 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Christopher R. Gignoux D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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This scientist: 65 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christopher R. Gignoux is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Medicine. Their work involves detailed investigation into Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cancer Research, and Epidemiology as key subfields.

The scientist's research topics cover an array of areas including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and BRCA Gene Mutations in Cancer.

Christopher R. Gignoux has contributed to multiple research papers published in notable venues. Recent papers include:

  • Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease (2022), published in Cell Genomics
  • Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement (2020), published in Nature
  • Toward a fine-scale population health monitoring system (2021), published in Cell
  • Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks (2021), published in Nature
  • Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries (2023), published in Nature

Their frequent co-authors include Genevieve L. Wojcik, Eimear E. Kenny, Nicholas Rafaels, Jonathan Shortt, and Kristy Crooks. These collaborations have contributed to advancing research in their areas of interest.

Publications by Christopher R. Gignoux often appear in specific venues, highlighting their research dissemination preferences. These venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The American Journal of Human Genetics, UNC Libraries, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Cell Genomics.

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

  • Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations

    Alicia R. Martin;Christopher R. Gignoux;Raymond K. Walters;Genevieve L. Wojcik

  • Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits

    Genevieve L. Wojcik;Mariaelisa Graff;Katherine K. Nishimura;Ran Tao

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

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

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

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

  • Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans

    Brenna M. Henn;Christopher R. Gignoux;Matthew Jobin;Julie M. Granka

  • Reconstructing the population genetic history of the Caribbean.

    Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Simon Gravel;Simon Gravel;Fouad Zakharia;Jacob L. McCauley

  • History of Click-Speaking Populations of Africa Inferred from mtDNA and Y Chromosome Genetic Variation

    Sarah A. Tishkoff;Mary Katherine Gonder;Brenna M. Henn;Holly Mortensen

  • Rapid, global demographic expansions after the origins of agriculture

    Christopher R. Gignoux;Brenna M. Henn;Joanna L. Mountain

  • Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America

    Julian R. Homburger;Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Christopher R. Gignoux;Dominic Nelson

  • Higher levels of neanderthal ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans.

    Jeffrey D. Wall;Melinda A. Yang;Flora Jay;Sung K. Kim

  • Genetic ancestry in lung-function predictions.

    Rajesh Kumar;Max A. Seibold;Melinda C. Aldrich;L. Keoki Williams

  • Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas

    Joshua Mark Galanter;Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez;Christopher R. Gignoux;Jill Barnholtz-Sloan

  • Dissecting childhood asthma with nasal transcriptomics distinguishes subphenotypes of disease

    Alex Poole;Cydney Urbanek;Celeste Eng;Jeoffrey Schageman

  • Fast and accurate inference of local ancestry in Latino populations

    Yael Baran;Bogdan Pasaniuc;Bogdan Pasaniuc;Sriram Sankararaman;Sriram Sankararaman;Dara G. Torgerson

  • Reconstructing native american migrations from whole-genome and whole-exome data

    Simon Gravel;Fouad Zakharia;Andres Moreno-Estrada;Jake K. Byrnes

  • Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale

    Xihao Li;Zilin Li;Hufeng Zhou;Sheila M Gaynor

  • Reconstructing the Population Genetic History of the Caribbean - eScholarship

    Esteban Burchard;A Moreno-Estrada;S Gravel;F Zakharia

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Celeste Eng
Celeste Eng University of California, San Francisco
Eimear E. Kenny
Eimear E. Kenny Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pedro C. Avila
Pedro C. Avila Northwestern University
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Rajesh Kumar
Rajesh Kumar Lurie Children's Hospital
Alicia R. Martin
Alicia R. Martin Harvard University
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University
Ryan D. Hernandez
Ryan D. Hernandez McGill University

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