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| 1 | A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 9,596 |
| 2 | Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries | Lancet, The | 2013 | 5,975 |
| 3 | Hazards of heavy metal contamination | British Medical Bulletin | 2003 | 4,902 |
| 4 | Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured populations | BMC Genetics | 2010 | 4,012 |
| 5 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,992 |
| 6 | Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids | Nature | 2010 | 3,300 |
| 7 | Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2020 | 3,152 |
| 8 | Global and regional burden of stroke during 1990–2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 3,114 |
| 9 | National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants | Lancet, The | 2011 | 3,065 |
| 10 | Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) | Science | 2020 | 3,052 |
| 11 | How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic? | Lancet, The | 2020 | 2,858 |
| 12 | BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis | PLoS Computational Biology | 2019 | 2,798 |
| 13 | Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 2,742 |
| 14 | A genome-wide association study identifies novel risk loci for type 2 diabetes | Nature | 2007 | 2,676 |
| 15 | Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,676 |
| 16 | adegenet 1.3-1: new tools for the analysis of genome-wide SNP data | Bioinformatics | 2011 | 2,653 |
| 17 | Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health | Nature | 2012 | 2,605 |
| 18 | The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 | Nature | 2015 | 2,261 |
| 19 | Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19: systematic review and critical appraisal | BMJ, The | 2020 | 2,238 |
| 20 | A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 2,178 |
| 21 | The State of US Health, 1990-2010 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2013 | 2,130 |
| 22 | Differential Impact of Blood Pressure–Lowering Drugs on Central Aortic Pressure and Clinical Outcomes | Circulation | 2006 | 2,108 |
| 23 | New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,014 |
| 24 | Rapid phylogenetic analysis of large samples of recombinant bacterial whole genome sequences using Gubbins | Nucleic Acids Research | 2015 | 2,004 |
| 25 | Current status of cadmium as an environmental health problem | Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology | 2009 | 1,926 |
| 26 | Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic | Nature | 2006 | 1,894 |
| 27 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,855 |
| 28 | Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height | Nature | 2010 | 1,804 |
| 29 | The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report | Lancet, The | 2019 | 1,767 |
| 30 | eBURST: Inferring Patterns of Evolutionary Descent among Clusters of Related Bacterial Genotypes from Multilocus Sequence Typing Data | Journal of Bacteriology | 2004 | 1,713 |
| 31 | Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia | Nature | 2005 | 1,606 |
| 32 | Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality—a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2017 | 1,597 |
| 33 | The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions | Statistics in Medicine | 2009 | 1,581 |
| 34 | The Burden of Primary Liver Cancer and Underlying Etiologies From 1990 to 2015 at the Global, Regional, and National Level | JAMA Oncology | 2017 | 1,536 |
| 35 | Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 1,472 |
| 36 | Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 1,421 |
| 37 | Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study | Lancet, The | 2010 | 1,406 |
| 38 | New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution | Nature | 2015 | 1,389 |
| 39 | Phenotype, genotype, and worldwide genetic penetrance of LRRK2-associated Parkinson's disease: a case-control study | Lancet Neurology, The | 2008 | 1,381 |
| 40 | The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2002 | 1,379 |
| 41 | Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2008 | 1,366 |
| 42 | Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995–2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data | The Lancet Global Health | 2013 | 1,352 |
| 43 | Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE) | Lancet Oncology, The | 2013 | 1,262 |
| 44 | Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 1,254 |
| 45 | Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia | Nature Genetics | 2009 | 1,249 |
| 46 | Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment | Nature | 2016 | 1,233 |
| 47 | Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil | Science | 2021 | 1,197 |
| 48 | Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity | Nature Genetics | 2008 | 1,187 |
| 49 | Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci | Nature | 2017 | 1,182 |
| 50 | A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25 | Nature | 2008 | 1,179 |
