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D-Index
78
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24763
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1692
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778

Scott M. Williams 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 Scott M. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 335 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott M. Williams 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 Scott M. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Scott M. Williams is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans numerous subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Williams has published research on a range of topics that include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • "Genetic effects on the timing of parturition and links to fetal birth weight," 2023, Nature Genetics
  • "Dissecting maternal and fetal genetic effects underlying the associations between maternal phenotypes, birth outcomes, and adult phenotypes: A mendelian-randomization and haplotype-based genetic score analysis in 10,734 mother-infant pairs," 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • "Interaction between host genes and Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage can affect tuberculosis severity: Evidence for coevolution?," 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • "Helicobacter pylori infection causes both protective and deleterious effects in human health and disease," 2021, Genes and Immunity
  • "A multi-cohort genome-wide association study in African ancestry individuals reveals risk loci for primary open-angle glaucoma," 2024, Cell

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Williams include:

  • Giorgio Sirugo
  • Jacquelaine Bartlett
  • Catherine M. Stein
  • Harriet Mayanja-Kizza
  • Michael L. McHenry

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Best Publications

  • The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans

    Sarah A. Tishkoff;Floyd A. Reed;Françoise R. Friedlaender;Christopher Ehret

  • The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22

    I. Dunham;N. Shimizu;B. A. Roe;S. Chissoe

  • The Missing Diversity in Human Genetic Studies.

    Giorgio Sirugo;Scott M. Williams;Sarah A. Tishkoff

  • Haplotype Diversity and Linkage Disequilibrium at Human G6PD: Recent Origin of Alleles That Confer Malarial Resistance

    Sarah A. Tishkoff;Robert Varkonyi;Nelie Cahinhinan;Salem Abbes

  • Bioinformatics challenges for genome-wide association studies

    Jason H. Moore;Folkert W. Asselbergs;Scott M. Williams

  • Chloroplast DNA polymorphisms in lodgepole and jack pines and their hybrids.

    D B Wagner;G R Furnier;M A Saghai-Maroof;S M Williams

  • Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans

    Katarzyna Bryc;Adam Auton;Matthew R. Nelson;Jorge R. Oksenberg

  • A High-Density Admixture Map for Disease Gene Discovery in African Americans

    Michael W. Smith;Michael W. Smith;Nick Patterson;James A. Lautenberger;Ann L. Truelove;Ann L. Truelove

  • Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease

    Sarah A. Tishkoff;Scott M. Williams

  • New strategies for identifying gene-gene interactions in hypertension

    Jason H Moore;Scott M Williams

  • Epistasis and Its Implications for Personal Genetics

    Jason H. Moore;Scott M. Williams

  • Traversing the conceptual divide between biological and statistical epistasis: systems biology and a more modern synthesis.

    Jason H. Moore;Scott M. Williams

  • Cardiovascular and metabolic effects of metformin in patients with type 1 diabetes (REMOVAL): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

    John R Petrie;Nishi Chaturvedi;Ian Ford;Martijn C G J Brouwers

  • G protein-coupled receptor kinase 4 gene variants in human essential hypertension

    Robin A. Felder;Hironobu Sanada;Jing Xu;Pei Ying Yu

  • A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.

    Keri L. Monda;Keri L. Monda;Gary K. Chen;Kira C. Taylor;Kira C. Taylor;Cameron Palmer;Cameron Palmer

  • Cooperative Phosphorylation of the Tumor Suppressor Phosphatase and Tensin Homologue (PTEN) by Casein Kinases and Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3β

    Anna Maria Al-Khouri;Yuliang Ma;Summanuna H. Togo;Scott Williams

  • Failure to Replicate a Genetic Association May Provide Important Clues About Genetic Architecture

    Casey S. Greene;Nadia M. Penrod;Scott M. Williams;Jason H. Moore

  • Human and Helicobacter pylori coevolution shapes the risk of gastric disease.

    Nuri Kodaman;Alvaro Pazos;Barbara G. Schneider;M. Blanca Piazuelo

  • 5′ Flanking Variants of Resistin Are Associated With Obesity

    James C. Engert;Marie-Claude Vohl;Scott M. Williams;Pierre Lepage

  • DC-SIGN (CD209), pentraxin 3 and vitamin D receptor gene variants associate with pulmonary tuberculosis risk in West Africans.

    R Olesen;C Wejse;C Wejse;D R Velez;C Bisseye

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason H. Moore
Jason H. Moore University of Pennsylvania
Ramkumar Menon
Ramkumar Menon The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Giorgio Sirugo
Giorgio Sirugo University of Pennsylvania
Sarah A. Tishkoff
Sarah A. Tishkoff University of Pennsylvania
Louis J. Muglia
Louis J. Muglia Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Pedro A. Jose
Pedro A. Jose George Washington University
Robin A. Felder
Robin A. Felder University of Virginia
Todd L. Edwards
Todd L. Edwards Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Keith T. Wilson
Keith T. Wilson Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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