Brian G. Kral

ORCID: 0000-0001-9493-2084

Also affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 15 papers. Top paper: “Whole genome sequence analysis of blood lipid levels in >66,000 individuals”.

Whole genome sequence analysis of blood lipid levels in >66,000 individuals

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-33510-7

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1.6DataRank · unranked

75 citations

Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Akhil Pampana, David Zhang, Joseph Park +95 more

Powerful, scalable and resource-efficient meta-analysis of rare variant associations in large whole genome sequencing studies

Nature Genetics(2022)10.1038/s41588-022-01225-6

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1.2DataRank · unranked

63 citations

Corbin Quick, Hufeng Zhou, Sheila M. Gaynor, Yaowu Liu, Han Chen +95 more

Multi-ancestry genome-wide study identifies effector genes and druggable pathways for coronary artery calcification

Nature Genetics(2023)10.1038/s41588-023-01518-4

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0.753DataRank · unranked

150 citations

Maxime M. Bos, Hanna J. Barnes, Christian L. Lino Cardenas, Doris Wong, Haojie Lu +84 more

Rare variant contribution to the heritability of coronary artery disease

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-52939-6

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0.513DataRank · unranked

16 citations

Shoa L. Clarke, Gaëlle Auguste, Natalie R. Hasbani, Alanna C. Morrison, Adam S. Heath +95 more

Genetic loci associated with prevalent and incident myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium

PLoS ONE(2020)10.1371/journal.pone.0230035

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0.513DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Yi-Ping Fu, Michael R. Brown, Joshua C. Bis, Paul S. de Vries, Mary F. Feitosa +40 more

Rare variants in long non-coding RNAs are associated with blood lipid levels in the TOPMed whole-genome sequencing study

The American Journal of Human Genetics(2023)10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.09.003

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0.416DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Jacob A. Holdcraft, Donna K. Arnett +69 more

A statistical framework for multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies

Nature Computational Science(2025)10.1038/s43588-024-00764-8

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0.393DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Han Chen, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Eric Van Buren, Hufeng Zhou, Yuxuan Wang +95 more

Whole genome sequence analysis of blood lipid levels in >66,000 individuals

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.10.11.463514

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0.277DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Akhil Pampana, David Y Zhang, Joseph Park +80 more

Whole genome sequence analysis of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol across 246 K individuals

Genome biology(2025)10.1186/s13059-025-03698-0

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Eric Van Buren, Sara Haidermota, Darina Postupaka +95 more

Rare damaging CCR2 variants are associated with lower lifetime cardiovascular risk

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.08.14.23294063

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Rainer Malik, Omar El Bounkari, Natalie R. Hasbani, Jiang Li, Jennifer E. Huffman +60 more

Assessing the dose of regadenoson required to transiently alter blood-brain barrier integrity in patients with infiltrating gliomas

Neuro-Oncology Advances(2025)10.1093/noajnl/vdaf041

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Carlos G. Romo, Xiaobu Ye, Brian G. Kral, Roy E. Strowd, Glenn J. Lesser +7 more

Rare variants in long non-coding RNAs are associated with blood lipid levels in the TOPMed Whole Genome Sequencing Study

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.06.28.23291966

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0.146DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Jacob A. Holdcraft, Donna K. Arnett +69 more

A framework for detecting noncoding rare-variant associations of large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies

Nature Methods(2022)10.1038/s41592-022-01640-x

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0DataRank · unranked

109 citations

Xihao Li, Hufeng Zhou, Sheila M. Gaynor, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Theodore Arapoglou +95 more

Genetic loci associated with prevalent and incident myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.02.21.959312

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Yi‐Ping Fu, Michael R. Brown, Joshua C. Bis, Paul S. de Vries, Mary F. Feitosa +40 more

cellSTAAR: incorporating single-cell-sequencing-based functional data to boost power in rare variant association testing of noncoding regions

Nature Methods(2025)10.1038/s41592-025-02919-5

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Yi Zhang, Xihao Li, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Zilin Li, Hufeng Zhou +544 more