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Joan E. Bailey-Wilson publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan E. Bailey-Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 332 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Joan E. Bailey-Wilson D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan E. Bailey-Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joan E. Bailey-Wilson is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including genetics, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, ophthalmology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics including:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
  • Corneal surgery and disorders
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Joan E. Bailey-Wilson has published frequently in several venues such as:

  • Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

They have collaborated regularly with certain co-authors, notably:

  • Diptasri Mandal (15 joint publications)
  • Anthony M. Musolf (14 joint publications)
  • Susan M. Pinney (9 joint publications)
  • Colette Gaba (9 joint publications)
  • Claire L. Simpson (9 joint publications)

Among the recent publications by Joan E. Bailey-Wilson are:

  • "Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer," 2022, Nature Genetics
  • "What makes a good prediction? Feature importance and beginning to open the black box of machine learning in genetics," 2021, Human Genetics
  • "IMI 2021 Yearly Digest," 2021, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • "Evaluation of Shared Genetic Susceptibility to High and Low Myopia and Hyperopia," 2021, JAMA Ophthalmology
  • "Two-stage Study of Familial Prostate Cancer by Whole-exome Sequencing and Custom Capture Identifies 10 Novel Genes Associated with the Risk of Prostate Cancer," 2020, European Urology

Best Publications

  • REVEL: An Ensemble Method for Predicting the Pathogenicity of Rare Missense Variants

    Nilah M M. Ioannidis;Joseph H H. Rothstein;Joseph H H. Rothstein;Vikas Pejaver;Sumit Middha

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Major Susceptibility Locus for Prostate Cancer on Chromosome 1 Suggested by a Genome-Wide Search

    Jeffrey R. Smith;Diha Freije;John D. Carpten;Henrik Grönberg;Henrik Grönberg

  • HRPT2, encoding parafibromin, is mutated in hyperparathyroidism–jaw tumor syndrome

    J.D. Carpten;C.M. Robbins;A. Villablanca;L. Forsberg

  • Clustering of non-major histocompatibility complex susceptibility candidate loci in human autoimmune diseases

    Kevin G. Becker;Richard M. Simon;Joan E. Bailey-Wilson;Boris Freidlin

  • Germline mutations in the ribonuclease L gene in families showing linkage with HPC1.

    J. Carpten;N. Nupponen;S. Isaacs;R. Sood

  • Evidence for a prostate cancer susceptibility locus on the X chromosome.

    Jianfeng Xu;Deborah Meyers;Diha Freije;Sarah Isaacs

  • Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (lynch syndromes I and II). I. Clinical description of resource

    Henry T. Lynch;William Kimberling;William A. Albano;Jane F. Lynch

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia

    Virginie J M Verhoeven;Pirro G Hysi;Robert Wojciechowski;Robert Wojciechowski;Qiao Fan

  • Germline mutations and sequence variants of the macrophage scavenger receptor 1 gene are associated with prostate cancer risk

    Jianfeng Xu;S. Lilly Zheng;Akira Komiya;Josyf C. Mychaleckyj

  • A Major Lung Cancer Susceptibility Locus Maps to Chromosome 6q23–25

    J. E. Bailey-Wilson;C. I. Amos;S. M. Pinney;G. M. Petersen

  • Functional annotation of a novel NFKB1 promoter polymorphism that increases risk for ulcerative colitis

    Amir S. Karban;Toshihiko Okazaki;Carolien I.M. Panhuysen;Thomas Gallegos

  • Genes, environment and the value of prospective cohort studies

    Teri A. Manolio;Joan E. Bailey-Wilson;Francis S. Collins

  • Increased Familial Risk for Lung Cancer

    Wee L. Ooi;Robert C. Elston;Vivien W. Chen;Joan E. Bailey-Wilson

  • A common variant of the latrophilin 3 gene, LPHN3, confers susceptibility to ADHD and predicts effectiveness of stimulant medication

    Arcos-Burgos M;Jain M;Acosta Mt;Shively S

  • Evidence for mendelian inheritance in the pathogenesis of lung cancer.

    Thomas A. Sellers;Joan E. Bailey-Wilson;Robert C. Elston;Alexander F. Wilson

  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in a Population Isolate: Linkage to Loci at 4q13.2, 5q33.3, 11q22, and 17p11

    Mauricio Arcos-Burgos;F. Xavier Castellanos;F. Xavier Castellanos;David Pineda;Francisco Lopera

  • Meta-analysis of 13 genome scans reveals multiple cleft lip/palate genes with novel loci on 9q21 and 2q32-35

    Mary L. Marazita;Jeffrey C. Murray;Andrew C. Lidral;Mauricio Arcos-Burgos

  • Establishing an adjusted p-value threshold to control the family-wide type 1 error in genome wide association studies

    Priya Duggal;Elizabeth M Gillanders;Taura N Holmes;Joan E Bailey-Wilson

  • Germline alterations of the RNASEL gene, a candidate HPC1 gene at 1q25, in patients and families with prostate cancer.

    Annika Rökman;Tarja Ikonen;Eija H. Seppälä;Nina Nupponen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dwight Stambolian
Dwight Stambolian University of Pennsylvania
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
John D. Carpten
John D. Carpten University of Southern California
Johanna Schleutker
Johanna Schleutker Turku University Hospital
Ming You
Ming You Medical College of Wisconsin
Jeffrey M. Trent
Jeffrey M. Trent Translational Genomics Research Institute
Ann G. Schwartz
Ann G. Schwartz Wayne State University
William B. Isaacs
William B. Isaacs Johns Hopkins University
Teuvo L.J. Tammela
Teuvo L.J. Tammela Tampere University

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