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R. Weiss — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 40
Works: 109
Citations: 15K

Most-cited papers

Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.
R. Waterston, K. Lindblad-Toh, E. Birney, J. Rogers +219 more
20024,304 citations Open access
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Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution
R. Gibbs, G. Weinstock, M. Metzker, D. Muzny +224 more
2004Nature2,146 citations Open access
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The neurofibromatosis type 1 gene encodes a protein related to GAP.
Gang-Feng Xu, P. O'Connell, D. Viskochil, R. Cawthon +7 more
1990Cell1,096 citations
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Multiple Independent Loci at Chromosome 15q25.1 Affect Smoking Quantity: a Meta-Analysis and Comparison with Lung Cancer and COPD
N. Saccone, R. Culverhouse, Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An, D. Cannon +59 more
2010PLoS Genetics413 citations Open access
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Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins.
K. Kohl, R. Weiss, James E. Cox, C. Dale +1 more
2014Ecology Letters326 citations
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A Candidate Gene Approach Identifies the CHRNA5-A3-B4 Region as a Risk Factor for Age-Dependent Nicotine Addiction
R. Weiss, T. Baker, D. Cannon, A. V. von Niederhausern +15 more
2008PLoS Genetics285 citations Open access
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Genome Degeneration and Adaptation in a Nascent Stage of Symbiosis
K. Oakeson, R. Gil, Adam L. Clayton, D. Dunn +13 more
2014Genome Biology and Evolution202 citations Open access
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A strong signature of balancing selection in the 5′ cis-regulatory region of CCR5
M. Bamshad, Srinivas Mummidi, Enrique Gonzalez, S. Ahuja +7 more
2002Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America198 citations Open access
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Rapid direct sequence analysis of the dystrophin gene.
K. Flanigan, A. V. von Niederhausern, D. Dunn, J. Alder +2 more
2003American Journal of Human Genetics193 citations Open access
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Pattern of sequence variation across 213 environmental response genes.
Robert J. Livingston, A. V. von Niederhausern, A. Jegga, D. Crawford +6 more
2004Genome Research188 citations Open access
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Clinical and Genetic Characterization of Manifesting Carriers of DMD Mutations
P. Soltanzadeh, M. Friez, D. Dunn, A. V. von Niederhausern +21 more
2010Neuromuscular Disorders170 citations Open access
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Interplay of Genetic Risk Factors (CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4) and Cessation Treatments in Smoking Cessation Success
Li-Shiun Chen, T. Baker, Megan E. Piper, N. Breslau +9 more
2012American Journal of Psychiatry155 citations Open access
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Analysis of dystrophin deletion mutations predicts age of cardiomyopathy onset in Becker Muscular Dystrophy
R. Kaspar, H. Allen, Will C. Ray, C. E. Alvarez +6 more
2009Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics154 citations Open access
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A Novel Human-Infection-Derived Bacterium Provides Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Mutualistic Insect–Bacterial Symbioses
Adam L. Clayton, K. Oakeson, M. Gutin, A. Pontes +5 more
2012PLoS Genetics153 citations Open access
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Cross-Disorder Genome-Wide Analyses Suggest a Complex Genetic Relationship Between Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Dong-Mei Yu, C. Mathews, J. Scharf, B. Neale +151 more
2014American Journal of Psychiatry136 citations Open access
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Human neuronal acetylcholine receptor A5-A3-B4 haplotypes are associated with multiple nicotine dependence phenotypes.
T. Baker, R. Weiss, Daniel M. Bolt, A. V. von Niederhausern +13 more
2009Nicotine & Tobacco Research136 citations Open access
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EGO, a novel, noncoding RNA gene, regulates eosinophil granule protein transcript expression.
Lori A. Wagner, Clarissa J. Christensen, D. Dunn, G. Spangrude +5 more
2007Blood136 citations Open access
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Population-Based Prevalence of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Using Genetic Analysis of Statewide Blood Screening Program
N. Johnson, R. Butterfield, K. Mayne, T. Newcomb +5 more
2021Neurology132 citations Open access
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Genome-wide association study of Tourette Syndrome
J. Scharf, Dong-Mei Yu, C. Mathews, B. Neale +94 more
2012Molecular Psychiatry124 citations Open access
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Evidence of recent lateral gene transfer among hyperthermophilic Archaea
J. DiRuggiero, D. Dunn, D. Maeder, R. Holley-Shanks +5 more
2000Molecular Microbiology119 citations Open access
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Association of the OPRM1 variant rs1799971 (A118G) with non-specific liability to substance dependence in a collaborative de novo meta-analysis of European-ancestry cohorts
Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An, Juan Zhang, Li-Shiun Chen, Sarah M. Hartz +106 more
2015Behavior Genetics111 citations Open access
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A novel DMD IRES results in a functional N-truncated dystrophin, providing a potential route to therapy for patients with 5’ mutations
N. Wein, Adeline Vulin, M. Falzarano, C. Szigyarto +21 more
2014Nature Medicine109 citations Open access
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Possible association between autism and variants in the brain‐expressed tryptophan hydroxylase gene (TPH2)
H. Coon, D. Dunn, J. Lainhart, Judith S. Miller +6 more
2005American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics93 citations
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Common variant of human NEDD4L activates a cryptic splice site to form a frameshifted transcript
D. Dunn, T. Ishigami, J. Pankow, A. V. von Niederhausern +5 more
2002Journal of Human Genetics87 citations
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Mouse strain‐specific nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression by inhibitory interneurons and astrocytes in the dorsal hippocampus
L. Gahring, Karina Persiyanov, D. Dunn, R. Weiss +2 more
2004The Journal of comparative neurology84 citations Open access
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Increased Genetic Vulnerability to Smoking at CHRNA5 in Early-Onset Smokers
Sarah M. Hartz, S. Short, N. Saccone, R. Culverhouse +150 more
2012Archives of General Psychiatry80 citations Open access
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Self-tensioning aquatic caddisfly silk: Ca2+-dependent structure, strength, and load cycle hysteresis.
Nicholas N. Ashton, D. Roe, R. Weiss, T. Cheatham +1 more
2013Biomacromolecules72 citations
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Association Study of Exon Variants in the NF-κB and TGFβ Pathways Identifies CD40 as a Modifier of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
L. Bello, K. Flanigan, R. Weiss, P. Spitali +17 more
2016American Journal of Human Genetics69 citations Open access
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Accelerated Evolution of Mitochondrial but Not Nuclear Genomes of Hymenoptera: New Evidence from Crabronid Wasps
Martin Kaltenpoth, Patrice Showers Corneli, D. Dunn, R. Weiss +2 more
2012PLoS ONE64 citations Open access
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A genome-wide association study for mastitis resistance in phenotypically well-characterized Holstein dairy cattle using a selective genotyping approach
Jacqueline P. Kurz, Zhou Yang, R. Weiss, D. Wilson +3 more
2018Immunogenetics55 citations
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Peroxinectin catalyzed dityrosine crosslinking in the adhesive underwater silk of a casemaker caddisfly larvae, Hysperophylax occidentalis.
Ching-Shuen Wang, Nicholas N. Ashton, R. Weiss, R. Stewart
2014Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology53 citations
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Long-range genomic regulators of THBS1 and LTBP4 modify disease severity in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
R. Weiss, V. Vieland, D. Dunn, Y. Kaminoh +1 more
2018Annals of Neurology49 citations Open access
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DMD Trp3X nonsense mutation associated with a founder effect in North American families with mild Becker Muscular Dystrophy
K. Flanigan, D. Dunn, A. V. von Niederhausern, Michael T. Howard +12 more
2009Neuromuscular Disorders48 citations Open access
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Down-regulation of hepcidin in porphyria cutanea tarda.
R. Ajioka, J. Phillips, R. Weiss, D. Dunn +4 more
2008Blood45 citations Open access
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Sequencing the Oxytricha trifallax macronuclear genome: a pilot project.
T. Doak, Andre R. O. Cavalcanti, N. Stover, D. Dunn +3 more
2003Trends in Genetics42 citations Open access
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Sequence alterations in the YBX2 gene are associated with male factor infertility.
S. Hammoud, B. Emery, D. Dunn, R. Weiss +1 more
2009Fertility and Sterility40 citations Open access
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Further evidence of a quantitative trait locus on chromosome 18 influencing postural change in systolic blood pressure: the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network (HyperGEN) Study.
J. Pankow, D. Dunn, S. Hunt, M. Leppert +6 more
2005American Journal of Hypertension39 citations
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Nicotinic alpha 7 receptor expression and modulation of the lung epithelial response to lipopolysaccharide
L. Gahring, Elizabeth J. Myers, D. Dunn, R. Weiss +1 more
2017PLoS ONE36 citations Open access
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Intron Mutations and Early Transcription Termination in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy
M. Waldrop, S. Moore, K. Mathews, B. Darbro +19 more
2022Human Mutation35 citations Open access
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Low-Level Dystrophin Expression Attenuating the Dystrophinopathy Phenotype
M. Waldrop, F. Gumienny, Saleh El Husayni, D. Frank +2 more
2017Neuromuscular Disorders29 citations Open access
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Sequence features of Oxytricha trifallax (class Spirotrichea) macronuclear telomeric and subtelomeric sequences.
Andre R. O. Cavalcanti, D. Dunn, R. Weiss, Glenn Herrick +2 more
2004Protist29 citations
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Evidence for the early divergence of tryptophanyl- and tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases
James R. Brown, F. Robb, R. Weiss, W. Doolittle
1997Journal of Molecular Evolution28 citations
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Adaptation by Deletogenic Replication Slippage in a Nascent Symbiont
Adam L. Clayton, D. G. Jackson, R. Weiss, C. Dale
2016Molecular biology and evolution27 citations Open access
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A highly informative CA/GT repeat polymorphism in intron 38 of the human neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene
C. Lázaro, A. Gaona, Ganfeng Xu, R. Weiss +1 more
1993Human Genetics27 citations
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Global expression profiling identifies a novel biosignature for protein aggregation R120GCryAB cardiomyopathy in mice.
N. Rajasekaran, M. Firpo, B. Milash, R. Weiss +1 more
2008Physiological Genomics25 citations Open access
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TXNIP gene not associated with familial combined hyperlipidemia in the NHLBI Family Heart Study.
H. Coon, Nanda A. Singh, D. Dunn, J. Eckfeldt +5 more
2004Atherosclerosis25 citations
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Profiling patterned transcripts in Drosophila embryos.
K. Simin, Anne Scuderi, James Reamey, D. Dunn +3 more
2002Genome Research24 citations Open access
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Incipient genome erosion and metabolic streamlining for antibiotic production in a defensive symbiont
T. Nechitaylo, Mario Sandoval-Calderón, T. Engl, N. Wielsch +7 more
2021Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America23 citations Open access
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Effect of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor genes (CHRN) on longitudinal cigarettes per day in adolescents and young adults.
D. Cannon, R. Mermelstein, D. Hedeker, H. Coon +5 more
2014Nicotine & Tobacco Research23 citations Open access
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Replication of Chimeric Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Containing HIV-2 Integrase (IN): Naturally Selected Mutations in IN Augment DNA Synthesis
Marcus Padow, Lilin Lai, C. Deivanayagam, L. DeLucas +4 more
2003Journal of Virology22 citations Open access
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