2026 David E. Comings: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	80	1585	1505	734	690	237	22755

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Overview

David E. Comings is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States. Their research affiliation places them within a significant medical research institution.

Although there is no detailed information available on specific research papers, co-authors, or publication venues, David E. Comings has a scholarly presence connected with the City Of Hope National Medical Center, which is known for extensive work in medical and clinical research.

There are no records of book publications, awards, or detailed fields and subfields of study provided. Similarly, specific main topics of work have not been listed in the available data.

The profile suggests an active research career given the association with a national medical center, but further details on research focus, collaborative work, and contributions to particular scientific domains are not available from the current data.

Best Publications

A functional variant of lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase is associated with type I diabetes

Nunzio Bottini;Lucia Musumeci;Andres Alonso;Souad Rahmouni

1767
Citations
Reward deficiency syndrome: a biogenetic model for the diagnosis and treatment of impulsive, addictive, and compulsive behaviors.

Kenneth Blum;Eric R. Braverman;Jay M. Holder;Joel F. Lubar

1377
Citations
Reward deficiency syndrome: genetic aspects of behavioral disorders.

David E. Comings;Kenneth Blum

877
Citations
REWARD DEFICIENCY SYNDROME

Kenneth G. Blum;John R. Cull;Eric E. Braverman;David Comings

629
Citations
A General Theory of Carcinogenesis

David E. Comings

603
Citations
Metabolic basis of inherited disease

David E. Comings

552
Citations
A study of the dopamine D2 receptor gene in pathological gambling

David E. Comings;Richard J. Rosenthal;Henry R. Lesieur;Loreen J. Rugle

544
Citations
Molecular Heterosis: A Review

David E. Comings;James P. MacMurray

462
Citations
Studies of the 48 bp repeat polymorphism of the DRD4 gene in impulsive, compulsive, addictive behaviors: Tourette syndrome, ADHD, pathological gambling, and substance abuse.

David E. Comings;Nancy Gonzalez;Shijuan Wu;Radhika Gade

400
Citations
Dopamine D2 receptor gene variants: association and linkage studies in impulsive-addictive-compulsive behaviour

Kenneth Blum;Peter J. Sheridan;Robert C. Wood;Eric R. Braverman

399
Citations
Arrangement of chromatin in the nucleus

Comings De

397
Citations
Polygenic inheritance of Tourette syndrome, stuttering, attention deficit hyperactivity, conduct, and oppositional defiant disorder: The additive and subtractive effect of the three dopaminergic genes—DRD2, DβH, and DAT1

David E. Comings;S. Wu;Connie Chiu;Robert H. Ring

396
Citations
The mechanism of C- and G-banding of chromosomes

D.E. Comings;Evangelita Avelino;T.A. Okada;H.E. Wyandt

395
Citations
The structure and function of chromatin.

David E. Comings

374
Citations
The dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene : a genetic risk factor in smoking

David E. Comings;Linda Ferry;Susan Bradshaw-Robinson;R Burchette

364
Citations
A controlled study of Tourette syndrome. I. Attention-deficit disorder, learning disorders, and school problems.

D E Comings;B G Comings

321
Citations
Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder and Reward Deficiency Syndrome

Kenneth Blum;Amanda Lih Chuan Chen;Eric R. Braverman;David E. Comings

311
Citations
Nuclear proteins. III. The fibrillar nature of the nuclear matrix.

D.E. Comings;T.A. Okada

247
Citations
Tourette's Syndrome and Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyper activity: Are They Genetically Related?

David E. Comings;Brenda G. Comings

247
Citations
Initiation of deoxyribonucleic acid replication at the nuclear membrane in human cells.

David E. Comings;Tsuyoshi Kakefuda

243
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Blum University of Florida

Gerard Saucier University of Oregon

Chul Ahn The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Richard S. Legro Pennsylvania State University

Susan R. George University of Toronto

Nunzio Bottini University of California, San Diego

Brian F. O'Dowd Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Marlene Oscar-Berman Boston University

Henry R. Lesieur St. John's University

Joel F. Lubar University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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