| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Statistical Tests of Neutrality of Mutations Against Population Growth, Hitchhiking and Background Selection | Genetics | 1997 | 5,823 |
| 2 | Identification of a urate transporter, ABCG2, with a common functional polymorphism causing gout | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 562 |
| 3 | Maximum likelihood estimation of the heterogeneity of substitution rate among nucleotide sites. | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 1995 | 519 |
| 4 | Rates of Nucleotide Substitution in Angiosperm Mitochondrial DNA Sequences and Dates of Divergence Between Brassica and Other Angiosperm Lineages | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1999 | 343 |
| 5 | New Statistical Tests of Neutrality for DNA Samples From a Population | Genetics | 1996 | 261 |
| 6 | High Polymorphism at the Human Melanocortin 1 Receptor Locus | Genetics | 1999 | 258 |
| 7 | Population Structure in Admixed Populations: Effect of Admixture Dynamics on the Pattern of Linkage Disequilibrium | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2001 | 240 |
| 8 | Multiple transporters associated with malaria parasite responses to chloroquine and quinine | Molecular Microbiology | 2003 | 237 |
| 9 | Development of a Highly Polymorphic STR Marker for Identity Testing Purposes at the Human Androgen Receptor Gene (HUMARA) | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 1998 | 220 |
| 10 | Natives or immigrants: modern human origin in east asia | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2000 | 216 |
| 11 | The utility of short tandem repeat loci beyond human identification: Implications for development of new DNA typing systems | Electrophoresis | 1999 | 209 |
| 12 | Discovery of Ca2+-relevant and differentiation-associated genes downregulated in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using cDNA microarray | Oncogene | 2004 | 177 |
| 13 | Molecular evolution of trichromacy in primates | Vision Research | 1998 | 151 |
| 14 | Blood Leukocyte DNA Methylation Predicts Risk of Future Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease | Circulation | 2019 | 151 |
| 15 | CODIS STR Loci Data from 41 Sample Populations | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 2001 | 146 |
| 16 | The size distribution of insertions and deletions in human and rodent pseudogenes suggests the logarithmic gap penalty for sequence alignment | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1995 | 145 |
| 17 | Coalescing into the 21st Century: An Overview and Prospects of Coalescent Theory | Theoretical Population Biology | 1999 | 132 |
| 18 | Common variants at 12q15 and 12q24 are associated with infant head circumference | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 130 |
| 19 | Genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in a sample from Mexico City and a meta-analysis of a Mexican-American sample from Starr County, Texas | Diabetologia | 2011 | 114 |
| 20 | Prospective study of sickle cell trait and venous thromboembolism incidence | Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis | 2015 | 113 |
| 21 | Origins and antiquity of X-linked triallelic color vision systems in New World monkeys | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 101 |
| 22 | Genome-wide gene and pathway analysis | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2010 | 99 |
| 23 | What Amino Acid Properties Affect Protein Evolution? | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1998 | 98 |
| 24 | Adaptive evolution of color vision genes in higher primates | Science | 1995 | 97 |
| 25 | On origin of genetic code and tRNA before translation | Biology Direct | 2011 | 85 |
| 26 | Evolution of paired domains: Isolation and sequencing of jellyfish and hydra Pax genes related to Pax-5 and Pax-6 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1997 | 76 |
| 27 | On the origin of the genetic code: signatures of its primordial complementarity in tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases | Heredity | 2008 | 73 |
| 28 | Identification of Genetic Networks | Genetics | 2004 | 72 |
| 29 | (null) | Genetica | 1998 | 67 |
| 30 | Distribution of three HIV-1 resistance-conferring polymorphisms (SDF1-3′A, CCR2-64I, and CCR5-Δ32) in global populations | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2000 | 67 |
| 31 | Y-chromosome SNP haplotypes suggest evidence of gene flow among caste, tribe, and the migrant Siddi populations of Andhra Pradesh, South India | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2001 | 66 |
| 32 | A general additive distance with time-reversibility and rate variation among nucleotide sites. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1996 | 65 |
| 33 | Molecular Genetics of Spectral Tuning in New World Monkey Color Vision | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1998 | 64 |
| 34 | Knowledge-Driven Analysis Identifies a Gene–Gene Interaction Affecting High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels in Multi-Ethnic Populations | PLoS Genetics | 2012 | 64 |
| 35 | Accounting for Evolutionary Rate Variation among Sequence Sites Consistently Changes Universal Phylogenies Deduced from rRNA and Protein-Coding Genes | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 1999 | 62 |
| 36 | Interaction of the glutathione S-transferase genes and cigarette smoking on risk of lower extremity arterial disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study | Atherosclerosis | 2001 | 61 |
| 37 | Comparison of the Power and Accuracy of Biallelic and Microsatellite Markers in Population-Based Gene-Mapping Methods | American Journal of Human Genetics | 1999 | 60 |
| 38 | Glutathione-S-transferase genotypes, smoking, and their association with markers of inflammation, hemostasis, and endothelial function: the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study | Atherosclerosis | 2003 | 60 |
| 39 | Maximum likelihood estimates of admixture in northeastern Mexico using 13 short tandem repeat loci | American Journal of Human Biology | 2002 | 59 |
| 40 | Origins and selection of p53 mutations in lung carcinogenesis | Seminars in Cancer Biology | 2005 | 55 |
| 41 | Entropy-based information gain approaches to detect and to characterize gene-gene and gene-environment interactions/correlations of complex diseases | Genetic Epidemiology | 2011 | 54 |
| 42 | Sex Differences in Mutation Rate in Higher Primates Estimated from AMG Intron Sequences | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1997 | 53 |
| 43 | Estimating Effective Population Size or Mutation Rate With Microsatellites | Genetics | 2004 | 49 |
| 44 | The association of genetic variants of type 2 diabetes with kidney function | Kidney International | 2012 | 48 |
| 45 | Secondary findings and carrier test frequencies in a large multiethnic sample | Genome Medicine | 2015 | 47 |
| 46 | Diabetes and Obesity-Related Genes and the Risk of Neural Tube Defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2012 | 46 |
| 47 | Estimating the Age of the Common Ancestor of Men from the ZFY Intron | Science | 1996 | 45 |
| 48 | Association of Common C-Reactive Protein (CRP) Gene Polymorphisms With Baseline Plasma CRP Levels and Fenofibrate Response | Diabetes Care | 2008 | 44 |
| 49 | DQ microsatellite association studies in three ethnic groups | Tissue Antigens | 1997 | 43 |
| 50 | Estimating the Age of the Common Ancestor of a DNA Sample Using the Number of Segregating Sites | Genetics | 1996 | 41 |
