2026 Devin Absher: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	89	1088	1029	33	31	213	72549

Overview

Devin Absher is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Medicine. Within these fields, their contributions largely concentrate on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Cancer Research, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their scientific output includes work on key topics like:

Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Immune Cell Function and Interaction
BRCA gene mutations in cancer
RNA modifications and cancer
Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
Genetic diversity and population structure

Devin Absher's recent publications illustrate a focus on genomic and epigenetic contributions to disease and evolution. Significant papers include:

"Predicting future from past: The genomic basis of recurrent and rapid stickleback evolution" (2021) published in Science Advances
"Returning integrated genomic risk and clinical recommendations: The eMERGE study" (2023) published in Genetics in Medicine
"Carbohydrate and fat intake associated with risk of metabolic diseases through epigenetics of CPT1A" (2020) published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
"Blood DNA methylation sites predict death risk in a longitudinal study of 12,300 individuals" (2020) published in Aging
"A multi-ethnic epigenome-wide association study of leukocyte DNA methylation and blood lipids" (2021) published in Nature Communications

The venues where Absher frequently publishes include:

UNC Libraries
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Genetics in Medicine
Nature Communications
The Journal of Immunology

Absher collaborates with several recurring co-authors, including:

Donna K. Arnett
Marguerite R. Irvin
Daniel Levy
Annette Peters
Eric Boerwinkle

Best Publications

Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

Roger McLendon;Allan Friedman;Darrell Bigner;Erwin G. Van Meir

7310
Citations
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

3540
Citations
Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

3259
Citations
An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

2824
Citations
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

2429
Citations
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

2358
Citations
Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

2210
Citations
Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

2167
Citations
Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

Joseph K. Pickrell;Graham Coop;John Novembre;Sridhar Kudaravalli

2129
Citations
Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

1713
Citations
A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

1560
Citations
Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4

Pamela Sklar;Pamela Sklar;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Laura J. Scott;Ole A. Andreassen

1524
Citations
Adaptive Evolution of Pelvic Reduction in Sticklebacks by Recurrent Deletion of a Pitx1 Enhancer

Yingguang Frank Chan;Melissa E. Marks;Felicity C. Jones;Guadalupe Villarreal

1164
Citations
DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

Brian H. Chen;Riccardo E. Marioni;Riccardo E. Marioni;Elena Colicino;Marjolein J. Peters

1146
Citations
Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

1119
Citations
Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

1080
Citations
Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

1080
Citations
Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

Roby Joehanes;Allan C. Just;Riccardo E. Marioni;Luke C. Pilling

976
Citations
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

777
Citations
Dynamic DNA methylation across diverse human cell lines and tissues

Katherine E. Varley;Jason Gertz;Kevin M. Bowling;Stephanie L. Parker

766
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Themistocles L. Assimes Stanford University

Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London

Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester

Thomas Quertermous Stanford University

Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital

Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Inês Barroso University of Exeter

External Links

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