2026 Jason Flannick: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	54	3601	3396	1559	1461	131	31804

Overview

Jason Flannick is affiliated with the Broad Institute in the United States. Their research is situated primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. The main subfields of study include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Biochemistry.

The researcher's work covers several specific topics, including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Pancreatic function and diabetes, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Diabetes and associated disorders, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Dongkeun Jang, José C. Florez, Maria C. Costanzo, Noël P. Burtt, and Patrick Smadbeck.

Their research has been published in multiple venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Diabetes, Nature Genetics, UNC Libraries, and Journal of the Endocrine Society.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jason Flannick include:

Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal: An open access genetic resource dedicated to type 2 diabetes and related traits, 2023, Cell Metabolism
Evaluating human genetic support for hypothesized metabolic disease genes, 2022, Cell Metabolism
The Lipid Droplet Knowledge Portal: A resource for systematic analyses of lipid droplet biology, 2022, Developmental Cell
The First Genome-Wide Association Study for Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: The Progress in Diabetes Genetics in Youth (ProDiGY) Consortium, 2021, Diabetes

Best Publications

Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

10685
Citations
Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated with Adverse Outcomes

Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pierre Fontanillas;Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Alisa Manning

4411
Citations
Patterns and rates of exonic de novo mutations in autism spectrum disorders

Benjamin M. Neale;Yan Kou;Li Liu;Avi Ma'Ayan

2065
Citations
Sequential PAttern mining using a bitmap representation

Jay Ayres;Jason Flannick;Johannes Gehrke;Tomi Yiu

1640
Citations
The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

1239
Citations
Loss-of-function mutations in SLC30A8 protect against type 2 diabetes

Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Nicola L. Beer;Nicola L. Beer;Suzanne B R Jacobs

514
Citations
Sequence variants in SLC16A11 are a common risk factor for type 2 diabetes in Mexico

A. L. Williams Amy;A. L. Williams Amy;S. B R Jacobs Suzanne;Hortensia Moreno-Macías;Alicia Huerta-Chagoya

508
Citations
Integrated allelic, transcriptional, and phenomic dissection of the cardiac effects of titin truncations in health and disease

Angharad M. Roberts;Angharad M. Roberts;James S. Ware;Daniel S. Herman;Daniel S. Herman;Daniel S. Herman;Sebastian Schafer

472
Citations
Distribution and Medical Impact of Loss-of-Function Variants in the Finnish Founder Population

Elaine T. Lim;Peter Würtz;Peter Würtz;Peter Würtz;Aki S. Havulinna;Priit Palta;Priit Palta

455
Citations
Type 2 diabetes genetic loci informed by multi-trait associations point to disease mechanisms and subtypes: A soft clustering analysis.

Miriam S Udler;Jaegil Kim;Marcin von Grotthuss;Sílvia Bonàs-Guarch

453
Citations
Genetic fine mapping and genomic annotation defines causal mechanisms at type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci

Kyle J Gaulton;Kyle J Gaulton;Teresa Ferreira;Yeji Lee;Anne Raimondo

429
Citations
Graemlin: general and robust alignment of multiple large interaction networks.

Jason Flannick;Antal Novak;Balaji S. Srinivasan;Harley H. McAdams

426
Citations
Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

Anubha Mahajan;Jennifer Wessel;Sara M. Willems;Wei Zhao

409
Citations
MAFIA: a maximal frequent itemset algorithm

D. Burdick;M. Calimlim;J. Flannick;J. Gehrke

362
Citations
Rare Complete Knockouts in Humans: Population Distribution and Significant Role in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Elaine T. Lim;Elaine T. Lim;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Stephan J. Sanders;Christine Stevens

302
Citations
Association of a low-frequency variant in HNF1A with type 2 diabetes in a Latino population.

Karol Estrada;Karol Estrada;Ingvild Aukrust;Ingvild Aukrust;Lise Bjørkhaug;Noël P. Burtt

270
Citations
Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Rare and Low-Frequency Coding Variants Associated with LDL Cholesterol

Leslie A Lange;Youna Hu;He Zhang;Chenyi Xue

238
Citations
The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

0
Citations
Loss-of-function mutations in SLC30A8 protect against type 2 diabetes

Jason Flannick;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Nicola L. Beer;Suzanne B. R. Jacobs

0
Citations
Distribution and Medical Impact of Loss-of-Function Variants in the Finnish Founder Population

Elaine T. Lim;Peter Wuertz;Aki S. Havulinna;Priit Palta

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Altshuler Harvard University

Jose C. Florez Harvard University

Leif Groop Lund University

Mark I. McCarthy Genentech

Michael Boehnke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool

Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford

Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen

Torben Jørgensen University of Copenhagen

Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki

External Links

Personal website of Jason Flannick

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