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Jonathan K. Pritchard

Jonathan K. Pritchard

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
119
Citations
150981
World Ranking
383
National Ranking
195

Jonathan K. Pritchard 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 Jonathan K. Pritchard sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 218 publications — 57th percentile

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

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

Jonathan K. Pritchard 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 Jonathan K. Pritchard sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 119 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

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

    Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

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

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

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

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

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

    Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

  • Genetic Structure of Human Populations

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

  • A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome

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

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

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

  • An Expanded View of Complex Traits: From Polygenic to Omnigenic

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

  • Association Mapping in Structured Populations

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

  • Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

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

  • Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe

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

  • Are Rare Variants Responsible for Susceptibility to Complex Diseases

    Jonathan K. Pritchard

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

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

  • Linkage Disequilibrium in Humans: Models and Data

    Jonathan K. Pritchard;Molly Przeworski

  • Understanding mechanisms underlying human gene expression variation with RNA sequencing

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoav Gilad
Yoav Gilad University of Chicago
Matthew Stephens
Matthew Stephens University of Chicago
Graham Coop
Graham Coop University of California, Davis
Daniel J. Gaffney
Daniel J. Gaffney Wellcome Sanger Institute
Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University
Noah A. Rosenberg
Noah A. Rosenberg Stanford University
Xiaoquan Wen
Xiaoquan Wen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis University of Geneva
Anna Di Rienzo
Anna Di Rienzo University of Chicago

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