2026 Montgomery Slatkin: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	106	588	560	294	279	236	87278

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1999 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Montgomery Slatkin is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology. The main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Immunology and Microbiology

Their subfields of study further highlight specialization in:

Genetics
Immunology
Paleontology
Anthropology

Montgomery Slatkin's research topics are diverse and cover:

Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Forensic and Genetic Research
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Their recent publications include the following papers:

"Estimation of coalescence probabilities and population divergence times from SNP data" (2021), published in Heredity
"Joint estimation of selection intensity and mutation rate under balancing selection with applications to HLA" (2021), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Joint estimation of selection intensity and mutation rate under balancing selection with applications to HLA" (2022), published in Genetics

Montgomery Slatkin has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Kristy S. Mualim and Christoph Theunert.

Throughout their career, Montgomery Slatkin has published in venues including:

Heredity
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Genetics

Recognition for their work includes several awards:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1999)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)

Best Publications

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

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

9537
Citations
Gene flow and the geographic structure of natural populations

Montgomery Slatkin

5972
Citations
A measure of population subdivision based on microsatellite allele frequencies.

M Slatkin

5529
Citations
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause;Adrian W. Briggs;Tomislav Maricic

4869
Citations
Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences in stable and exponentially growing populations.

M Slatkin;R R Hudson

3515
Citations
Gene Flow in Natural Populations

Montgomery Slatkin

3119
Citations
Maximum-likelihood estimation of molecular haplotype frequencies in a diploid population.

L Excoffier;M Slatkin

2433
Citations
The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

Kay Prüfer;Fernando Racimo;Nick Patterson;Flora Jay

2399
Citations
Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

David Reich;Richard E. Green;Martin Kircher;Johannes Krause

2284
Citations
A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual

Matthias Meyer;Martin Kircher;Marie Theres Gansauge;Heng Li

2176
Citations
Estimation of levels of gene flow from DNA sequence data.

R R Hudson;M Slatkin;W P Maddison

2123
Citations
RARE ALLELES AS INDICATORS OF GENE FLOW

Montgomery Slatkin

2016
Citations
A COMPARISON OF THREE INDIRECT METHODS FOR ESTIMATING AVERAGE LEVELS OF GENE FLOW.

Montgomery Slatkin;Nicholas H. Barton

2012
Citations
Mutational processes of simple-sequence repeat loci in human populations.

A Di Rienzo;A C Peterson;J C Garza;A M Valdes

1981
Citations
Linkage disequilibrium -understanding the evolutionary past and mapping the medical future

Montgomery Slatkin

1755
Citations
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Alissa Mittnik;Gabriel Renaud

1526
Citations
Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

Qiaomei Fu;Heng Li;Priya Moorjani;Flora Jay

1328
Citations
Testing for ancient admixture between closely related populations

Eric Y. Durand;Nick Patterson;David Reich;David Reich;Montgomery Slatkin

1276
Citations
Gene flow and selection in a cline.

Montgomery Slatkin

1043
Citations
A cladistic measure of gene flow inferred from the phylogenies of alleles.

Montgomery Slatkin;Wayne P. Maddison

894
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Reich Harvard Medical School

Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society

Janet Kelso Max Planck Society

Nick Patterson Harvard University

Heng Li Harvard University

Johannes Krause Max Planck Society

Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School

Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley

Evan E. Eichler University of Washington

External Links

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