2026 M. Ilyas Kamboh: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	79	17356	16308	8695	8032	296	38713

Overview

M. Ilyas Kamboh is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has a primary research focus in medicine, particularly in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including genetics, physiology, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their research addresses a range of topics, with significant attention on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments. Other main topics of their work include dementia and cognitive impairment research, genetic associations and epidemiology, research on Down syndrome and intellectual disability, bioinformatics and genomic networks, functional brain connectivity studies, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Frequent publication venues for Kamboh include:

Alzheimer s & Dementia
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
Molecular Psychiatry
Disease Markers

Regular collaborators in their research include Ann D. Cohen, Oscar L. López, Beth E. Snitz, Eleanor Feingold, and Victor L. Villemagne.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by M. Ilyas Kamboh are:

"Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer's dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study," 2020, Nature Communications
"Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel," 2020, JAMA Neurology
"Genomics and Functional Genomics of Alzheimer's Disease," 2021, Neurotherapeutics
"Genome-wide association identifies the first risk loci for psychosis in Alzheimer disease," 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
"Comparison of amyloid burden in individuals with Down syndrome versus autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study," 2022, The Lancet Neurology

Best Publications

Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

4855
Citations
Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Adam C. Naj;Gyungah Jun;Gary W. Beecham;Li-San Wang

2280
Citations
Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

1978
Citations
Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

1401
Citations
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player.

Bennet I. Omalu;Steven T. DeKosky;Ryan L. Minster;M Ilyas Kamboh

1300
Citations
Association of systemic lupus erythematosus with C8orf13-BLK and ITGAM-ITGAX.

Geoffrey Hom;Robert R. Graham;Barmak Modrek;Kimberly E. Taylor

1112
Citations
Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

1090
Citations
APOE and Alzheimer disease: a major gene with semi-dominant inheritance

E Genin;D Hannequin;D Wallon;K Sleegers

819
Citations
Rare coding variants in the phospholipase D3 gene confer risk for Alzheimer’s disease

C Cruchaga;CM Karch;SC Jin;BA Benitez

530
Citations
Variants in the ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter (ABCA7), Apolipoprotein E ε4, and the Risk of Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease in African Americans

Christiane Reitz;Gyungah Jun;Adam Naj;Ruchita Rajbhandary

505
Citations
Multiple polymorphisms in the TNFAIP3 region are independently associated with systemic lupus erythematosus

Stacy L. Musone;Kimberly E. Taylor;Timothy T. Lu;Joanne Nititham

493
Citations
Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer’s dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study

Eric M Reiman;Joseph F Arboleda-Velasquez;Yakeel T Quiroz;Matthew J Huentelman

461
Citations
Emerging histomorphologic phenotypes of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in American athletes.

Bennet Omalu;Bennet Omalu;Julian Bailes;Ronald L Hamilton;Ronald L Hamilton;M Ilyas Kamboh;M Ilyas Kamboh

442
Citations
Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and Alzheimer disease: The Indo-US Cross-National Dementia Study.

Mary Ganguli;Vijay Chandra;M. Ilyas Kamboh;Janet M. Johnston

426
Citations
Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis

David C. Whitcomb;Jessica LaRusch;Alyssa M. Krasinskas;Lambertus Klei

405
Citations
DNA polymorphisms in two paraoxonase genes (PON1 and PON2) are associated with the risk of coronary heart disease

Dharambir K. Sanghera;Christopher E. Aston;Nilmani Saha;M. Ilyas Kamboh

401
Citations
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of neuropathologic features of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Gary W. Beecham;Kara Hamilton;Adam C. Naj;Eden R. Martin

352
Citations
A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

G. Jun;C. A. Ibrahim-Verbaas;M. Vronskaya;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert

322
Citations
Genetic Polymorphism of Paraoxonase and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

Dharambir K. Sanghera;Nilmani Saha;Christopher E. Aston;M. Ilyas Kamboh

321
Citations
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in an Iraqi war veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder who committed suicide

Bennet Omalu;Bennet Omalu;Jennifer Lynn Hammers;Julian Bailes;Ronald L. Hamilton

292
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven T. DeKosky University of Florida

Oscar L. Lopez University of Pittsburgh

Margaret A. Pericak-Vance University of Miami

Philip L. De Jager Columbia University

Richard Mayeux Columbia University

David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center

Tatiana Foroud Indiana University

Lindsay A. Farrer Boston University

Beth E. Snitz University of Pittsburgh

M. Michael Barmada University of Pittsburgh

External Links

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