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Sekar Kathiresan

Sekar Kathiresan publishes mostly in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Surgery, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment.

World rank
#49,052
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#22,569
of 358,040
Works
31
Citations
561
Citations per work
18.1

What does Sekar Kathiresan research?

Genetics: 35.6%Molecular Biology: 22.2%Surgery: 6.7%Epidemiology: 6.7%other fields: 28.8%36%top field
Genetics35.6%Molecular Biology22.2%Surgery6.7%Epidemiology6.7%other fields28.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Genetics36% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology22% of their works
  3. 3Surgery7% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology7% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine7% of their works
  6. 6Rheumatology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sekar Kathiresan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Population Genetics, Haplotype Mapping, Mendelian Randomization, Marker-Assisted Selection, Metabolic Syndrome and Genome-wide Association Studies.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Genetic Variation122 topics
  2. Genome-Wide Association102 topics
  3. Population Genetics102 topics
  4. Haplotype Mapping81 topic
  5. Mendelian Randomization81 topic
  6. Marker-Assisted Selection62 topics
  7. Metabolic Syndrome52 topics
  8. Genome-wide Association Studies41 topic
  9. Quantitative Trait Loci41 topic
  10. NAFLD31 topic
  11. NASH31 topic
  12. ANGPTL321 topic
  13. Folate21 topic
  14. Genomic Selection21 topic
  15. Homocysteine21 topic
  16. Lipoprotein Lipase21 topic
  17. Plant Breeding21 topic
  18. BRCA111 topic
  19. BRCA211 topic
  20. Biochemical Genetics11 topic
  21. Metabolic Disorders11 topic

Where does Sekar Kathiresan work?

Sekar Kathiresan's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts General Hospital, United States.

How many publications and citations does Sekar Kathiresan have?

Science Explorer counts 31 works and 561 citations for Sekar Kathiresan, ranking #49,052 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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