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Robert K. Moyzis 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 Robert K. Moyzis sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 152 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert K. Moyzis 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 Robert K. Moyzis sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% 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 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert K. Moyzis is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. The primary subfields of their work focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Genetics, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's recent publications address genetic and neurodevelopmental aspects of neurological disorders. Notable papers include:

  • "Common and rare variant analyses implicate late-infancy cerebellar development and immune genes in ADHD," published in 2025 in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • "Common and rare variant analyses implicate late-infancy cerebellar development and immune genes in ADHD," published in 2023 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The main topics encompassed by their research include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Yuanxin Zhong
  • Larry Baum
  • Justin D. Tubbs
  • Rui Ye
  • Lu Hua Chen

Their papers have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), reflecting a focus on neurodevelopmental and psychiatric genetics research.

Robert K. Moyzis was recognized in 2015 as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • A highly conserved repetitive DNA sequence, (TTAGGG)n, present at the telomeres of human chromosomes.

    R. K. Moyzis;J. M. Buckingham;L. S. Cram;M. Dani

  • Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever

    I. Aksentijevich;M. Centola;Z. M. Deng;R. Sood

  • Conservation of the human telomere sequence (TTAGGG)n among vertebrates.

    Julianne Meyne;Robert L. Ratliff;Robert K. Moyzis

  • Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever. The International FMF Consortium.

    N Zaks;JE Balow;E Mansfield;M. E. Mangelsdorf

  • Evidence of positive selection acting at the human dopamine receptor D4 gene locus

    Yuan-Chun Ding;Han-Chang Chi;Deborah L. Grady;Atsuyuki Morishima

  • Distribution of non-telomeric sites of the (TTAGGG)n telomeric sequence in vertebrate chromosomes.

    Julianne Meyne;Robert J. Baker;Holly H. Hobart;T. C. Hsu

  • Crystal structure of four-stranded Oxytricha telomeric DNA

    ChulHee Kang;Xiaohua Zhang;Robert Ratliff;Robert Moyzis

  • Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution

    John Hawks;Eric T. Wang;Gregory M. Cochran;Henry C. Harpending

  • Dopamine genes and ADHD.

    J. M. Swanson;J. M. Swanson;Pamela Flodman;James Kennedy;M. Anne Spence

  • Evolution and distribution of (GT)n repetitive sequences in mammalian genomes

    R.L. Stallings;A.F. Ford;D. Nelson;D.C. Torney

  • The Genetic Architecture of Selection at the Human Dopamine Receptor D4 (DRD4) Gene Locus

    E. Wang;Y.-C. Ding;P. Flodman;J.R. Kidd

  • Global landscape of recent inferred Darwinian selection for Homo sapiens

    Eric T. Wang;Greg Kodama;Pierre Baldi;Robert K. Moyzis

  • Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder children with a 7-repeat allele of the dopamine receptor D4 gene have extreme behavior but normal performance on critical neuropsychological tests of attention.

    James Swanson;James Swanson;Jaap Oosterlaan;Michael Andrew Murias;Sabrina Schuck

  • Isolation and molecular characterization of a highly polymorphic centromeric tandem repeat in the family Falconidae.

    Jonathan L. Longmire;Annette K. Lewis;Nancy C. Brown;Judith M. Buckingham

  • Human chromosome-specific repetitive DNA sequences: novel markers for genetic analysis

    R K Moyzis;K L Albright;M F Bartholdi;L S Cram

  • Hairpins are formed by the single DNA strands of the fragile X triplet repeats: structure and biological implications

    Xian Chen;S. V. Santhana Mariappan;P. Catasti;R. Ratliff

  • UBL1, a human ubiquitin-like protein associating with human RAD51/RAD52 proteins.

    Zhiyuan Shen;Paige E. Pardington-Purtymun;Jarmon C. Comeaux;Robert K. Moyzis

  • High-speed DNA sequencing: an approach based upon fluorescence detection of single molecules.

    J H Jett;R A Keller;J C Martin;B L Marrone

  • Positional cloning of the Fanconi anaemia group A gene

    Sinoula Apostolou;Scott A. Whitmore;Joanna Crawford;Gregory Lennon

  • Highly conserved repetitive DNA sequences are present at human centromeres.

    Deborah L. Grady;Robert L. Ratliff;Donna L. Robinson;Erin C. Mccanlies

Frequent Co-Authors

Chuansheng Chen
Chuansheng Chen University of California, Irvine
Qi Dong
Qi Dong Beijing Normal University
Gui Xue
Gui Xue Beijing Normal University
Qinghua He
Qinghua He Southwest University
James M. Swanson
James M. Swanson University of California, Irvine
Norman A. Doggett
Norman A. Doggett Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jun Li
Jun Li Applied Biological Materials (Canada)
Xian Chen
Xian Chen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David F. Callen
David F. Callen University of Adelaide
E. Morton Bradbury
E. Morton Bradbury University of California, Davis

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