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Nancy L. Saccone 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 Nancy L. Saccone sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 154 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nancy L. Saccone 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 Nancy L. Saccone sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nancy L. Saccone is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these fields, their work spans subfields such as surgery, molecular biology, physiology, genetics, and pharmacology.

Their scholarly output includes contributions to the understanding of smoking behavior and cessation, genetic associations and epidemiology, shoulder injury and treatment, epigenetics and DNA methylation, shoulder and clavicle injuries, cardiovascular syncope and autonomic disorders, and chromosomal and genetic variations.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • The Bone & Joint Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Pharmacopsychiatry

Among recent published papers involving related topics or collaborations are:

  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Review and Consensus on Pharmacogenomic Testing in Psychiatry, 2020, Pharmacopsychiatry
  • Leveraging genome-wide data to investigate differences between opioid use vs. opioid dependence in 41,176 individuals from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Expanding the genetic architecture of nicotine dependence and its shared genetics with multiple traits, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Current Smoking Raises Risk of Incident Hypertension: Hispanic Community Health Study-Study of Latinos, 2020, American Journal of Hypertension

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers, including Laura J. Bierut, Elizabeth L. Yanik, Dana B. Hancock, Eric O. Johnson, and Sarah M. Hartz. These patterns reflect active cooperation in investigating genetics and epidemiology related to substance use and related health outcomes.

Best Publications

  • The International HapMap Project

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

  • Cholinergic nicotinic receptor genes implicated in a nicotine dependence association study targeting 348 candidate genes with 3713 SNPs

    Scott F. Saccone;Anthony L. Hinrichs;Nancy L. Saccone;Gary A. Chase

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Identifies New Disease Loci

    Ying Liu;Cynthia Helms;Wilson Liao;Lisa C. Zaba

  • Variants in nicotinic receptors and risk for nicotine dependence

    Laura Jean Bierut;Jerry A. Stitzel;Jen C. Wang;Anthony L. Hinrichs

  • Novel genes identified in a high-density genome wide association study for nicotine dependence

    Laura Jean Bierut;Pamela A F Madden;Naomi Breslau;Eric O. Johnson

  • Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

    Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters;Renato Polimanti;Emma C. Johnson;Jeanette N. McClintick

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • A genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence

    Laura J. Bierut;Arpana Agrawal;Kathleen K. Bucholz;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • Largest GWAS of PTSD (N=20 070) yields genetic overlap with schizophrenia and sex differences in heritability

    L. E. Duncan;A. Ratanatharathorn;A. E. Aiello;L. M. Almli

  • Multiple Independent Loci at Chromosome 15q25.1 Affect Smoking Quantity: a Meta-Analysis and Comparison with Lung Cancer and COPD

    Nancy L. Saccone;Nancy L. Saccone;Robert C Culverhouse;Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An;Dale S. Cannon

  • Juxtaposed regions of extensive and minimal linkage disequilibrium in human Xq25 and Xq28.

    Patricia Taillon-Miller;Irma Bauer-Sardiña;Nancy L. Saccone;Jenna Putzel

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    R. C. Culverhouse;N. L. Saccone;A. C. Horton;Y. Ma

  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder

    Emma C Johnson;Ditte Demontis;Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Raymond K Walters

  • The CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 Nicotinic Receptor Subunit Gene Cluster Affects Risk for Nicotine Dependence in African-Americans and in European-Americans

    Nancy L. Saccone;Jen C. Wang;Naomi Breslau;Eric O. Johnson

  • A genome screen of maximum number of drinks as an alcoholism phenotype.

    Nancy L. Saccone;Jennifer M. Kwon;Jonathan Corbett;Alison Goate

  • Multiple Distinct Risk Loci for Nicotine Dependence Identified by Dense Coverage of the Complete Family of Nicotinic Receptor Subunit (CHRN) Genes

    Nancy L. Saccone;Scott F. Saccone;Anthony L. Hinrichs;Jerry A. Stitzel

  • Genetic variation in the CHRNA5 gene affects mRNA levels and is associated with risk for alcohol dependence

    JC Wang;R Grucza;C Cruchaga;AL Hinrichs

  • ADH1B is associated with alcohol dependence and alcohol consumption in populations of European and African ancestry

    Laura Jean Bierut;Alison M Goate;Naomi Breslau;Eric O Johnson

  • Risk for nicotine dependence and lung cancer is conferred by mRNA expression levels and amino acid change in CHRNA5

    Jen C. Wang;Carlos Cruchaga;Nancy L. Saccone;Sarah Bertelsen

  • A Risk Allele for Nicotine Dependence in CHRNA5 Is a Protective Allele for Cocaine Dependence

    Richard A. Grucza;Jen C. Wang;Jerry A. Stitzel;Anthony L. Hinrichs

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura J. Bierut
Laura J. Bierut Washington University in St. Louis
John P. Rice
John P. Rice Washington University in St. Louis
Alison Goate
Alison Goate Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Howard J. Edenberg
Howard J. Edenberg Indiana University
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Naomi Breslau
Naomi Breslau Michigan State University
Dorothy K. Hatsukami
Dorothy K. Hatsukami University of Minnesota
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Lindsay A. Farrer
Lindsay A. Farrer Boston University

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