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766
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Leonid Kruglyak 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 Leonid Kruglyak sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 207 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Leonid Kruglyak 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 Leonid Kruglyak sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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

  • 2015 - Curt Stern Award, American Society of Human Genetics
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Leonid Kruglyak is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 68 publications in this field.

Their work spans several subfields of study, notably Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Aging. Key topics that feature prominently in their research include Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Fungal and Yeast Genetics Research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Leonid Kruglyak has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several venues. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Nature
  • PubMed
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Notable recent papers are:

  • Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA via next-generation sequencing of pooled and barcoded nasal and saliva samples, 2021, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Swab-Seq: A high-throughput platform for massively scaled up SARS-CoV-2 testing, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Towards synthetic PETtrophy: Engineering Pseudomonas putida for concurrent polyethylene terephthalate (PET) monomer metabolism and PET hydrolase expression, 2022, Microbial Cell Factories
  • Whole-organism eQTL mapping at cellular resolution with single-cell sequencing, 2021, eLife
  • Toxin-Antidote Elements Across the Tree of Life, 2020, Annual Review of Genetics

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Joshua S. Bloom
  • Longhua Guo
  • James Boocock
  • Chetan Munugala
  • Omai B. Garner

Leonid Kruglyak has received recognition including the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 2015 and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

    Teri A. Manolio;Francis S. Collins;Nancy J. Cox;David B. Goldstein

  • Genetic dissection of complex traits: guidelines for interpreting and reporting linkage results

    Eric Lander;Leonid Kruglyak

  • The International HapMap Project

    John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

  • Parametric and nonparametric linkage analysis: a unified multipoint approach.

    L. Kruglyak;M. J. Daly;M. P. Reeve-Daly;E. S. Lander

  • Large-Scale Identification, Mapping, and Genotyping of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Human Genome

    David G. Wang;Jian-Bing Fan;Jian-Bing Fan;Chia-Jen Siao;Chia-Jen Siao;Anthony Berno;Anthony Berno

  • Selecting a Maximally Informative Set of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms for Association Analyses Using Linkage Disequilibrium

    Christopher S. Carlson;Michael A. Eberle;Mark J. Rieder;Qian Yi

  • Prospects for whole-genome linkage disequilibrium mapping of common disease genes.

    Leonid Kruglyak

  • Genetic dissection of transcriptional regulation in budding yeast.

    Rachel B. Brem;Gaël Yvert;Rebecca Clinton;Leonid Kruglyak

  • Linkage of a neurophysiological deficit in schizophrenia to a chromosome 15 locus

    Robert Freedman;Hilary Coon;Marina Myles-Worsley;Avi Orr-Urtreger

  • Patterns of linkage disequilibrium in the human genome

    Kristin G. Ardlie;Leonid Kruglyak;Mark Seielstad

  • Variation is the spice of life.

    Leonid Kruglyak;Deborah A. Nickerson

  • Complete multipoint sib-pair analysis of qualitative and quantitative traits

    L Kruglyak;E S Lander

  • Guilt by association

    David Altshuler;David Altshuler;Mark Daly;Leonid Kruglyak

  • A comprehensive genetic map of the mouse genome

    William F. Dietrich;Joyce Miller;Robert Steen;Mark A. Merchant

  • The role of regulatory variation in complex traits and disease

    Frank W. Albert;Leonid Kruglyak

  • An STS-Based Map of the Human Genome

    Thomas J. Hudson;Lincoln D. Stein;Sebastian S. Gerety;Junli Ma

  • Genetic Structure of the Purebred Domestic Dog

    Heidi G. Parker;Lisa V. Kim;Lisa V. Kim;Nathan B. Sutter;Scott Carlson

  • Mapping complex disease loci in whole-genome association studies

    Christopher S. Carlson;Michael A. Eberle;Leonid Kruglyak;Deborah A. Nickerson

  • Genetics of global gene expression.

    Matthew V. Rockman;Leonid Kruglyak

  • Trans -acting regulatory variation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the role of transcription factors

    Gaël Yvert;Rachel B Brem;Jacqueline Whittle;Joshua M Akey

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Douglas M. Ruderfer
Douglas M. Ruderfer Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Elaine A. Ostrander
Elaine A. Ostrander National Institutes of Health
David Botstein
David Botstein Princeton University
Deborah A. Nickerson
Deborah A. Nickerson University of Washington
Erin N. Smith
Erin N. Smith University of California, San Diego
Joshua M. Akey
Joshua M. Akey Princeton University
Mark J. Rieder
Mark J. Rieder University of Washington

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