Joshua M. Akey

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

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Top 1%percentile

18.6Author DataRank

Indexed papers

3in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

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

Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues

Nature(2017)10.1038/nature24277

Top 1%

10.1DataRank

Top 1%4706 citations

Barbara E. Engelhardt, Stephen B. Montgomery, Sara Mostafavi, Ayellet V. Segrè, Hailei Zhang +227 more

Papers

Driven by 28 papers — median percentile 96. Top paper: “Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues”.

Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues

Nature(2017)10.1038/nature24277

Top 1%

10.1DataRank

Top 1%4706 citations

Barbara E. Engelhardt, Stephen B. Montgomery, Sara Mostafavi, Ayellet V. Segrè, Hailei Zhang +227 more

Great ape genetic diversity and population history

Nature(2013)10.1038/nature12228

Top 4%

5.8DataRank

Top 4%992 citations

Peter H. Sudmant, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Alexandra P. Lewis, Joanna L. Kelley, Belen Lorente-Galdos +83 more

Transcriptomic signatures across human tissues identify functional rare genetic variation

Science(2020)10.1126/science.aaz5900

N/A

5.0DataRank · unranked

166 citations

Benjamin J. Strober, Jonah Einson, Nathan S. Abell, François Aguet, Alvaro N. Barbeira +183 more

Personal and population genomics of human regulatory variation

Genome Research(2012)10.1101/gr.134890.111

N/A

4.5DataRank · unranked

112 citations

Andrew B. Stergachis, Matthew T. Maurano, Jost Vielmetter, Christopher M. Taylor, Robert E. Thurman +4 more

A vast resource of allelic expression data spanning human tissues

Genome Biology(2020)10.1186/s13059-020-02122-z

Top 8%

2.7DataRank

Top 8%147 citations

François Aguet, Pejman Mohammadi, Kristin G. Ardlie, Anthony Philippakis, Leanne Haggerty +159 more

The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome

Nature(2012)10.1038/nature11232

N/A

1.2DataRank · unranked

2882 citations

Eric Rynes, Richard Humbert, Jost Vielmetter, Matthew T. Maurano, Eric Haugen +57 more

Targeted and genome-scale strategies reveal gene-body methylation signatures in human cells

Nature Biotechnology(2009)10.1038/nbt.1533

N/A

1.1DataRank · unranked

1102 citations

Joshua M. Akey, Yuan Gao, Je-Hyuk Lee, Emily M LeProust, In-Hyun Park +7 more

An expansive human regulatory lexicon encoded in transcription factor footprints

Nature(2012)10.1038/nature11212

N/A

1.0DataRank · unranked

802 citations

Jost Vielmetter, Andrew B. Stergachis, Alex P. Reynolds, Eric Haugen, Benjamin Vernot +36 more

Effect of predicted protein-truncating genetic variants on the human transcriptome

Science(2015)10.1126/science.1261877

N/A

0.877DataRank · unranked

345 citations

Matti Pirinen, Donald F. Conrad, Monkol Lek, Emily K. Tsang, Konrad J. Karczewski +206 more

Population-scale tissue transcriptomics maps long non-coding RNAs to complex disease

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.050

N/A

0.804DataRank · unranked

212 citations

Daniel C. Nachun, Nicole M. Ferraro, Michael J. Gloudemans, Abhiram S. Rao, Craig Smail +168 more

Evaluation of cognitive function in the Dog Aging Project: associations with baseline canine characteristics

Scientific Reports(2022)10.1038/s41598-022-15837-9

N/A

0.524DataRank · unranked

32 citations

Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Stephen M. Schwartz, Kate E. Creevy, Audrey Ruple, Vanessa Wilkins +23 more

Age and Physical Activity Levels in Companion Dogs: Results From the Dog Aging Project

The Journals of Gerontology Series A(2022)10.1093/gerona/glac099

N/A

0.520DataRank · unranked

31 citations

Devin Collins, Kate E. Creevy, Daniel E.L. Promislow, Joshua M. Akey, Brooke Benton +23 more

Banking on a new understanding: translational opportunities from veterinary biobanks

GeroScience(2023)10.1007/s11357-023-00763-z

N/A

0.312DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Lara Mouttham, Joshua M. Akey, Brooke Benton, Elhanan Borenstein, Amanda E. Coleman +23 more

MutagenesisForge: A Framework for Modeling Codon-Level Mutational Biases and Calculating dN/dS

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.08.28.667654

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Rob Bierman, Huixin Xu, Joshua M. Akey, Cooper Koers

Pervasive context-dependent effects in the genetic architecture of complex and quantitative traits revealed by a powerful multiparent mapping population in yeast

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.27.683165

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Russell S. Lo, Lauren Ames, Trey S. Morgan, Katherine Owens, Anne E. Clark +7 more

Dogs and humans share biomarkers of mortality

The Journals of Gerontology Series A(2025)10.1093/gerona/glaf279

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Joshua M. Akey, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Daniel Raftery, Kate E Creevy, D E L Promislow +1 more

Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

277 citations

Aaron B. Wolf, Wenqing Fu, Liming Li, Joshua M. Akey, Lu Chen

Implications of localized charge for human influenza A H1N1 hemagglutinin evolution: Insights from deep mutational scans

PLoS Computational Biology(2020)10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007892

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Ned S. Wingreen, Simon A. Levin, Joshua M. Akey, Bryan T. Grenfell +1 more

Editorial overview: Evolutionary genomics – from molecular mechanisms to phenotypes to populations

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development(2020)10.1016/j.gde.2020.08.001

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Joshua M. Akey

A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/svad-an83

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Albert M. Levin, James Graham Wilson, Tina V. Hartert, Christopher O. Olopade, H. Richard Johnston +57 more

Deep sequencing of 1320 genes reveals the landscape of protein-truncating variants and their contribution to psoriasis in 19,973 Chinese individuals

Genome Research(2021)10.1101/gr.267963.120

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Qi Zhen, Mingzhou Bai, Lin Fang, Yong Zhang, Li Bao +23 more

Evolution of Human-specific Alleles Protecting Cognitive Function of Grandmothers

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.11.26.470088

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Naazneen Khan, Troy J. Comi, Andrea Verhagen, Aniruddha Sasmal, Sandra Diaz +7 more

The contribution of Neanderthal introgression to modern human traits

Current Biology(2022)10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.027

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

86 citations

Audrey Tjahjadi, Samantha L. Miller, Joshua M. Akey, Serena Tucci, Patrick Reilly

Social determinants of health and disease in companion dogs: a cohort study from the Dog Aging Project

Evolution Medicine and Public Health(2023)10.1093/emph/eoad011

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Layla Brassington, Kelly Jin, Greer Dolby, Sandi Shrager, Devin Collins +26 more

Characterizing dog cognitive aging using spontaneous problem-solving measures: development of a battery of tests from the Dog Aging Project

GeroScience(2024)10.1007/s11357-024-01278-x

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Emily E. Bray, Stephanie McGrath, Gene E. Alexander, Theadora A. Block, Naomi Chao +38 more

Archaic hominin admixture and its consequences for modern humans

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development(2024)10.1016/j.gde.2024.102280

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Joshua M. Akey, Debashree Tagore

Comparing owner reported and genetic breed identification reveals high concordance in a large cohort from the Dog Aging Project

Scientific Reports(2025)10.1038/s41598-025-15095-5

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Christoph Reichel, A. Keyser, Matthew D. Dunbar, Joshua M. Akey, Brooke Benton +19 more

Dogs and humans share biomarkers of mortality

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.08.20.671317

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Joshua M. Akey, Noah Snyder‐Mackler, Daniel Raftery, Kate E. Creevy, Daniel E.L. Promislow +1 more

Joshua M. Akey

Indexed papers

Top data-sharing exemplar

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