| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 2 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 3 | New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution | Nature | 2015 | 1,328 |
| 4 | A catalog of genetic loci associated with kidney function from analyses of a million individuals | Nature Genetics | 2019 | 549 |
| 5 | New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk | Nature Communications | 2016 | 245 |
| 6 | Incontinence medication response relates to the female urinary microbiota | International Urogynecology Journal | 2016 | 213 |
| 7 | Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations | Nature | 2015 | 173 |
| 8 | Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits | Nature Communications | 2017 | 169 |
| 9 | Genome-wide association meta-analyses and fine-mapping elucidate pathways influencing albuminuria | Nature Communications | 2019 | 133 |
| 10 | A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2018 | 123 |
| 11 | Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene–smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids | Nature Genetics | 2019 | 112 |
| 12 | Image Guided Cervical Brachytherapy: 2014 Survey of the American Brachytherapy Society | International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics | 2016 | 104 |
| 13 | Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium | PLoS Genetics | 2017 | 98 |
| 14 | Comparison of Two ELISA Methods and Mass Spectrometry for Measurement of Vitamin D-Binding Protein: Implications for the Assessment of Bioavailable Vitamin D Concentrations Across Genotypes | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 2016 | 97 |
| 15 | Physical activity does not influence obesity risk: time to clarify the public health message | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 95 |
| 16 | The Human Skin Microbiome Associates with the Outcome of and Is Influenced by Bacterial Infection | MBio | 2015 | 94 |
| 17 | Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries | PLoS ONE | 2018 | 94 |
| 18 | Male Bladder Microbiome Relates to Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms | European Urology Focus | 2020 | 92 |
| 19 | Urinary microbes and postoperative urinary tract infection risk in urogynecologic surgical patients | International Urogynecology Journal | 2018 | 91 |
| 20 | Multiancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2019 | 85 |
| 21 | Waist Circumference, Body Mass Index, and ESRD in the REGARDS (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) Study | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2016 | 84 |
| 22 | Effect of Advanced HIV Infection on the Respiratory Microbiome | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2016 | 83 |
| 23 | Factors Associated with Medication Nonadherence among Hypertensives in Ghana and Nigeria | International Journal of Hypertension | 2015 | 81 |
| 24 | The Western Diet and Chronic Kidney Disease | Current Hypertension Reports | 2015 | 81 |
| 25 | Association of Variants at BCL11A and HBS1L-MYB with Hemoglobin F and Hospitalization Rates among Sickle Cell Patients in Cameroon | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 80 |
| 26 | Impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid Expansion on Cancer Admissions and Surgeries | Annals of Surgery | 2018 | 79 |
| 27 | Leveraging social influence to address overweight and obesity using agent-based models: The role of adolescent social networks | Social Science and Medicine | 2015 | 76 |
| 28 | Lipid profile, cardiovascular disease and mortality in a Mediterranean high-risk population: The ESCARVAL-RISK study | PLoS ONE | 2017 | 72 |
| 29 | Pro-Survival Lipid Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Metabolically Programs T Cells to Limit Anti-tumor Activity | Cell Reports | 2019 | 71 |
| 30 | Low income, community poverty and risk of end stage renal disease | BMC Nephrology | 2014 | 69 |
| 31 | Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma: A survival analysis of 159 cases from the SEER database (2001‐2011) | Journal of Surgical Oncology | 2017 | 69 |
| 32 | Human CD26high T cells elicit tumor immunity against multiple malignancies via enhanced migration and persistence | Nature Communications | 2017 | 67 |
| 33 | Energy compensation and adiposity in humans | Current Biology | 2021 | 63 |
| 34 | Time trends in the association of ESRD incidence with area‐level poverty in the US population | Hemodialysis International | 2016 | 62 |
| 35 | Stratification of ovarian tumor pathology by expression of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and PD-ligand- 1 (PD-L1) in ovarian cancer | Journal of Ovarian Research | 2018 | 60 |
| 36 | A fully adjusted two‐stage procedure for rank‐normalization in genetic association studies | Genetic Epidemiology | 2019 | 60 |
| 37 | Modeling Social Norms and Social Influence in Obesity | Current Epidemiology Reports | 2015 | 59 |
| 38 | Assessing the ocular surface microbiome in severe ocular surface diseases | Ocular Surface | 2020 | 59 |
| 39 | Vaginal brachytherapy for postoperative endometrial cancer: 2014 Survey of the American Brachytherapy Society | Brachytherapy | 2016 | 58 |
| 40 | Fecal transplantation and butyrate improve neuropathic pain, modify immune cell profile, and gene expression in the PNS of obese mice | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 57 |
| 41 | Diversity of the midstream urine microbiome in adults with chronic kidney disease | International Urology and Nephrology | 2018 | 53 |
| 42 | Household air pollution and the lung microbiome of healthy adults in Malawi: a cross-sectional study | BMC Microbiology | 2016 | 49 |
| 43 | The microbiome of calcium-based urinary stones | Urolithiasis | 2020 | 49 |
| 44 | The Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) Manual for Retrospective Laboratory Standardization of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Data | Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL | 2017 | 47 |
| 45 | General Steps to Standardize the Laboratory Measurement of Serum Total 25-Hydroxyvitamin D | Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL | 2017 | 45 |
| 46 | Baseline Assessment of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Assay Performance: A Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) Interlaboratory Comparison Study | Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL | 2017 | 45 |
| 47 | Implications of standardization of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D data for the evaluation of vitamin D status in Germany, including a temporal analysis | BMC Public Health | 2018 | 44 |
| 48 | Human Heredity and Health (H3) in Africa Kidney Disease Research Network | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2015 | 43 |
| 49 | Increasing Mortality in Adults With Diabetes and Low Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in the Absence of Albuminuria | Diabetes Care | 2018 | 43 |
| 50 | Association of Hospital Discharge Against Medical Advice With Readmission and In-Hospital Mortality | JAMA Network Open | 2020 | 42 |
