World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
104
Citations
73056
World Ranking
1225
National Ranking
725

Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
73364
World Ranking
6883
National Ranking
3629

Overview

Esteban G. Burchard is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily centered in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine, with 136 publications, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 107 publications. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on several subfields such as Physiology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The research topics most frequently addressed by Burchard cover a range of areas related to respiratory diseases and genetic epidemiology. These include Asthma and respiratory diseases, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Celeste Eng, Scott Huntsman, Angel C. Y. Mak, José Rodríguez-Santana, and Maria Pino-Yanes, with collaboration counts ranging from 34 to 70 co-authored works.

Burchard's recent papers capture significant contributions to genetic and genomic research, particularly in population-scale sequencing and disease genetics. Notable papers include:

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program, 2021, Nature
  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes, 2020, Nature
  • Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement, 2020, Nature

The primary publication venues for Burchard's research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Nature. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work bridging genetic research and clinical implications.

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

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice.

    Esteban González Burchard;Elad Ziv;Natasha Coyle;Scarlett Lin Gomez

  • Effect of genetic variation in the organic cation transporter 1 (OCT1) on metformin action.

    Yan Shu;Steven A. Sheardown;Chaline Brown;Ryan P. Owen

  • Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease

    Neil Risch;Neil Risch;Esteban Burchard;Elad Ziv;Hua Tang

  • 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

  • DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

  • Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes.

    Alexander G Bick;Joshua S Weinstock;Satish K Nandakumar;Satish K Nandakumar;Charles P Fulco;Charles P Fulco

  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

    Lavinia Paternoster;Marie Standl;Johannes Waage;Hansjoerg Baurecht

  • Genomics for the world

    Carlos D. Bustamante;Francisco M. De La Vega;Esteban G. Burchard

  • Diversity in Clinical and Biomedical Research: A Promise Yet to Be Fulfilled

    Sam S. Oh;Joshua Galanter;Neeta Thakur;Maria Pino-Yanes;Maria Pino-Yanes

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • Effect of genetic variation in the organic cation transporter 1, OCT1, on metformin pharmacokinetics.

    Y Shu;Y Shu;C Brown;RA Castro;RJ Shi

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

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

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism.

    Luisa N. Borrell;Jennifer R. Elhawary;Elena Fuentes-Afflick;Jonathan Witonsky

  • Latino populations: a unique opportunity for the study of race, genetics, and social environment in epidemiological research.

    Esteban González Burchard;Luisa N. Borrell;Shweta Choudhry;Mariam Naqvi

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O. C. Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

Celeste Eng
Celeste Eng University of California, San Francisco
Rajesh Kumar
Rajesh Kumar Lurie Children's Hospital
Pedro C. Avila
Pedro C. Avila Northwestern University
Christopher R. Gignoux
Christopher R. Gignoux University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University
Elad Ziv
Elad Ziv University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University
Ryan D. Hernandez
Ryan D. Hernandez McGill University
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Esteban G. Burchard

Trending Scientists