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Michael C. Mahaney

Michael C. Mahaney

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

ORCID: 0000-0002-1341-3950

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.

Top 6%percentile

0.275Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Top data-sharing exemplar

The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Publisher Correction: Deep coverage whole genome sequences and plasma lipoprotein(a) in individuals of European and African ancestries

Nature Communications(2020)10.1038/s41467-020-15236-6

Top 57%

0.275DataRank

Top 57%2 citations

Sanni Ruotsalainen, Robert E. Handsaker, Maris Alver, Jonathan M. Bloom, Timothy Poterba +442 more

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 43. Top paper: “Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale”.

Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale

Nature Genetics(2020)10.1038/s41588-020-0676-4

N/A

5.3DataRank · unranked

295 citations

Zilin Li, Hufeng Zhou, Sheila M. Gaynor, Yaowu Liu, Han Chen +88 more

Deep coverage whole genome sequences and plasma lipoprotein(a) in individuals of European and African ancestries

Nature Communications(2018)10.1038/s41467-018-04668-w

N/A

3.7DataRank · unranked

109 citations

Sanni Ruotsalainen, Robert E. Handsaker, Maris Alver, Jonathan M. Bloom, Timothy Poterba +442 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

N/A

0.393DataRank · unranked

10 citations

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

Publisher Correction: Deep coverage whole genome sequences and plasma lipoprotein(a) in individuals of European and African ancestries

Nature Communications(2020)10.1038/s41467-020-15236-6

Top 57%

0.275DataRank

Top 57%2 citations

Sanni Ruotsalainen, Robert E. Handsaker, Maris Alver, Jonathan M. Bloom, Timothy Poterba +442 more

Rare damaging CCR2 variants are associated with lower lifetime cardiovascular risk

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.08.14.23294063

N/A

0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

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

N/A

0.146DataRank · unranked

1 citations

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

Genotype-by-socioeconomic status interaction influences heart disease risk scores and carotid artery thickness in Mexican Americans: the predominant role of education in comparison to household income and socioeconomic index

Frontiers in Genetics(2023)10.3389/fgene.2023.1132110

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Eron G. Manusov, Xi Mao, Joanne E. Curran, Harald H.H. Göring, Marcio Almeida +5 more

Metabolic syndrome traits exhibit genotype-by-environment interaction in relation to socioeconomic status in the Mexican American family heart study

Frontiers in Genetics(2024)10.3389/fgene.2024.1240462

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Eron G. Manusov, Xi Mao, Marcio Almeida, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran +5 more

Perception of Quality of Life, Brain Regions, and Cognitive Performance in Hispanic Adults: A Canonical Correlation Approach

Clinical and Translational Neuroscience(2025)10.3390/ctn9030033

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Jesús D. Melgarejo, Jesús Rivera-Sánchez, Lorena Velázquez‐Álvarez, Isabel Omaña‐Guzmán, Carlos Curtis-Lopez +9 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

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

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

Keeping 21st Century Paleontology Grounded: Quantitative Genetic Analyses and Ancestral State Reconstruction Re-Emphasize the Essentiality of Fossils

Biology(2022)10.3390/biology11081218

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Marianne F. Brasil, Michael C. Mahaney, Christopher A. Schmitt, Catherine E. Taylor, Leslea J. Hlusko +1 more

Genetic influences on dentognathic morphology in the Jirel population of Nepal

The Anatomical Record(2022)10.1002/ar.24857

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Ryan P. Knigge, Dana L. Duren, Sarah Williams‐Blangero, Janardan Subedi, Michael C. Mahaney +2 more

Hepatic transcript signatures predict atherosclerotic lesion burden prior to a 2-year high cholesterol, high fat diet challenge

PLoS ONE(2022)10.1371/journal.pone.0271514

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Kimberly D. Spradling‐Reeves, Jeannie Chan, Shifra Birnbaum, Deborah E. Newman, Anthony G. Comuzzie +5 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

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

15 citations

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