2026 Jonathan K. Pritchard: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	119	383	369	195	187	218	150981

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jonathan K. Pritchard is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields including molecular biology, genetics, immunology, paleontology, and cancer research.

The main topics covered in their work include genetic associations and epidemiology, bioinformatics and genomic networks, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, T-cell and B-cell immunology, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and genomics and chromatin dynamics.

Jonathan K. Pritchard has published numerous scholarly articles, with recent significant papers including:

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression, 2021, Nature Genetics
Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank, 2021, Nature Genetics
Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group, 2020, eLife
Systematic differences in discovery of genetic effects on gene expression and complex traits, 2023, Nature Genetics
Chromatin accessibility dynamics in a model of human forebrain development, 2020, Science

Frequent co-authors in their work include Jeffrey P. Spence, Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Sahin Naqvi, and Alexander Marson.

The scientist regularly publishes in several prominent venues, most notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
Nature Genetics
Nature
Cell Genomics

Jonathan K. Pritchard's contributions to science have been recognized by awards such as the fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and fellowship of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data

Jonathan K. Pritchard;Matthew Stephens;Peter Donnelly

38389
Citations
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

9356
Citations
Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data: Linked Loci and Correlated Allele Frequencies

Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

9251
Citations
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

Kristin G. Ardlie;David S. Deluca;Ayellet V. Segrè

5739
Citations
Inferring weak population structure with the assistance of sample group information.

Melissa J. Hubisz;Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

3803
Citations
Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data: dominant markers and null alleles

Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

3676
Citations
Genetic Structure of Human Populations

Noah A. Rosenberg;Jonathan K. Pritchard;James L. Weber;Howard M. Cann

3515
Citations
A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome

Benjamin F Voight;Sridhar Kudaravalli;Xiaoquan Wen;Jonathan K Pritchard

3263
Citations
Inference of Population Splits and Mixtures from Genome-Wide Allele Frequency Data

Joseph K. Pickrell;Jonathan K. Pritchard;Jonathan K. Pritchard

3187
Citations
An Expanded View of Complex Traits: From Polygenic to Omnigenic

Evan A. Boyle;Yang I. Li;Jonathan K. Pritchard;Jonathan K. Pritchard

2771
Citations
Association Mapping in Structured Populations

Jonathan K. Pritchard;Matthew Stephens;Noah A. Rosenberg;Peter Donnelly

2403
Citations
Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

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

2129
Citations
Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe

Sarah A Tishkoff;Floyd A Reed;Alessia Ranciaro;Alessia Ranciaro;Benjamin F Voight

1821
Citations
Are Rare Variants Responsible for Susceptibility to Complex Diseases

Jonathan K. Pritchard

1724
Citations
fastSTRUCTURE: Variational Inference of Population Structure in Large SNP Data Sets

Anil Raj;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard;Jonathan K. Pritchard

1607
Citations
Linkage Disequilibrium in Humans: Models and Data

Jonathan K. Pritchard;Molly Przeworski

1601
Citations
Understanding mechanisms underlying human gene expression variation with RNA sequencing

Joseph K. Pickrell;John C. Marioni;Athma A. Pai;Jacob F. Degner

1533
Citations
A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes

Daniel G. MacArthur;Daniel G. MacArthur;Suganthi Balasubramanian;Adam Frankish;Ni Huang

1455
Citations
Use of unlinked genetic markers to detect population stratification in association studies.

Jonathan K. Pritchard;Jonathan K. Pritchard;Noah A. Rosenberg

1454
Citations
Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data: linked loci and correlated allele frequencies.

Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard;sebnem ozemri sag

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoav Gilad University of Chicago

Matthew Stephens University of Chicago

Graham Coop University of California, Davis

Joseph K. Pickrell Gencove

Daniel J. Gaffney Wellcome Sanger Institute

Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University

Noah A. Rosenberg Stanford University

Xiaoquan Wen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis University of Geneva

Anna Di Rienzo University of Chicago

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