2026 Nazneen Rahman: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	108	559	532	86	82	263	64498
Medicine	108	5884	5527	579	551	275	64524

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Genetics in India Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Medicine in India Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in India Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in India Leader Award

Overview

Nazneen Rahman is affiliated with Kuvempu University in India and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work focuses extensively on Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional interests in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Oncology.

Their main research topics include:

BRCA gene mutations in cancer
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
PARP inhibition in cancer therapy
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
RNA Research and Splicing

Important publication venues for their work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries
SSRN Electronic Journal
Genetics in Medicine
Scientific Reports

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Rahman are:

One in seven pathogenic variants can be challenging to detect by NGS: an analysis of 450,000 patients with implications for clinical sensitivity and genetic test implementation, 2021, Genetics in Medicine
Oncologist-led BRCA 'mainstreaming' in the ovarian cancer clinic: A study of 255 patients and its impact on their management, 2020, Scientific Reports
Chromosomal instability by mutations in the novel minor spliceosome component CENATAC, 2021, The EMBO Journal
One in seven pathogenic variants can be challenging to detect by NGS: An analysis of 450,000 patients with implications for clinical sensitivity and genetic test implementation, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
MCF classifier: Estimating, standardizing, and stratifying medicine carbon footprints, at scale, 2024, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Rahman include:

Shazia Mahamdallie (four publications)
Sheila Seal (three publications)
H. A. Taylor (three publications)
Pratistha Panday (three publications)
James Nicholson (three publications)

Best Publications

Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

9206
Citations
A census of human cancer genes

P. Andrew Futreal;Lachlan Coin;Mhairi Marshall;Thomas Down

3822
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

2804
Citations
Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

1506
Citations
Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

1431
Citations
Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

1400
Citations
Low-penetrance susceptibility to breast cancer due to CHEK2(*)1100delC in noncarriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

Hanne Meijers-Heijboer;Ans van den Ouweland;Jan Klijn;Marijke Wasielewski

1385
Citations
Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

1271
Citations
PALB2, which encodes a BRCA2-interacting protein, is a breast cancer susceptibility gene

Nazneen Rahman;Sheila Seal;Deborah Thompson;Patrick Kelly

1159
Citations
A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics

Ryan L Collins;Ryan L Collins;Harrison Brand;Harrison Brand;Konrad J Karczewski;Konrad J Karczewski;Xuefang Zhao;Xuefang Zhao

1135
Citations
Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Mutations in Patients With Early-Onset Breast Cancer

Julian Peto;Nadine Collins;Rita Barfoot;Sheila Seal

1082
Citations
Breast-Cancer Risk in Families with Mutations in PALB2

A. C. Antoniou;S. Casadei;T. Heikkinen;D. Barrowdale

1023
Citations
Gene-Panel Sequencing and the Prediction of Breast-Cancer Risk

Douglas Frederick Easton;Paul David Pharoah;Antonis C. Antoniou;Marc Derek Tischkowitz

979
Citations
Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

918
Citations
ATM mutations that cause ataxia-telangiectasia are breast cancer susceptibility alleles

Anthony Renwick;Deborah Thompson;Sheila Seal;Patrick Kelly

868
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies five new breast cancer susceptibility loci

Clare Turnbull;Shahana Ahmed;Jonathan Morrison;David Pernet

843
Citations
Truncating mutations in the Fanconi anemia J gene BRIP1 are low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility alleles

Sheila Seal;Deborah Thompson;Anthony Renwick;Anna Elliott

835
Citations
Carboplatin in BRCA1/2-mutated and triple-negative breast cancer BRCAness subgroups: The TNT Trial

Andrew Tutt;Andrew Tutt;Holly Tovey;Maggie Chon U Cheang;Sarah Kernaghan

789
Citations
Biallelic mutations in PALB2 cause Fanconi anemia subtype FA-N and predispose to childhood cancer

Sarah Reid;Detlev Schindler;Helmut Hanenberg;Helmut Hanenberg;Karen Barker

742
Citations
Realizing the promise of cancer predisposition genes.

Nazneen Rahman

719
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sheila Seal Institute of Cancer Research

Michael R. Stratton Wellcome Sanger Institute

Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge

Clare Turnbull Institute of Cancer Research

Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne

Melissa C. Southey Monash University

John L. Hopper University of Melbourne

Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center

Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center

Diana Eccles University of Southampton

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