Robert M. Plenge

21.0k citations
65 papers · 5.1k · 2 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

  • Rheumatology top 0.2%
    • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
    • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Immunology top 2%
    • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
    • Immune Cell Function and Interaction

Papers in

  • Rheumatology 44
    • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies 31
    • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research 21
  • Immunology 18
    • T-cell and B-cell Immunology 11
Co-authors
Peter K. Gregersen (24 shared papers)Lars Klareskog (12 shared papers)Lars Alfredsson (8 shared papers)Leonid Padyukov (8 shared papers)Soumya Raychaudhuri (14 shared papers)Katherine Siminovitch (5 shared papers)Eli A. Stahl (8 shared papers)Jane Worthington (7 shared papers)
Journals
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (5 papers)Nature Genetics (4 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (4 papers)Molecular Medicine (3 papers)PLoS Genetics (3 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesSwedenNetherlands

In The Last Decade

Robert M. Plenge

63 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Robert M. Plenge's Hit Papers

Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis 2012 · 656 citations
6560+6+13Years since publication200400600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2012 Nature Genetics
  2. 2006 Nature Genetics

Peers

Robert M. Plenge
Comparison fields: 5 of 120
  • Rheumatology 2.2k
  • Immunology 1.4k
  • Genetics 1.1k
  • Genetics 378
  • Gastroenterology 129
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Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis
Nature Genetics ·Soumya Raychaudhuri, Cynthia Sandor, Eli A. Stahl, Jan Freudenberg, Hye Soon Lee, Xiaoming Jia, Lars Alfredsson, Leonid Padyukov, Lars Klareskog, Jane Worthington, Katherine Siminovitch, Sang‐Cheol Bae, Robert M. Plenge, Peter K. Gregersen, Paul I. W. de Bakker
Hit paper breakdown →		2012656
2
A common haplotype of interferon regulatory factor 5 (IRF5) regulates splicing and expression and is associated with increased risk of systemic lupus erythematosus
Nature Genetics ·Robert Graham, Sergey V. Kozyrev, Emily C. Baechler, Mitsu Reddy, Robert M. Plenge, Jason W. Bauer, Ward Ortmann, Thearith Koeuth, Ma Francisca González Escribano, the Argentine and Spanish Collaborative Groups, Bernardo A. Pons‐Estel, Michelle Petri, Mark J. Daly, Peter K. Gregersen, Javier Martı́n, David Altshuler, Timothy W. Behrens, Marta E. Alarcón‐Riquelme
Hit paper breakdown →		2006528
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Replication of Putative Candidate-Gene Associations with Rheumatoid Arthritis in >4,000 Samples from North America and Sweden: Association of Susceptibility with PTPN22, CTLA4, and PADI4
The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Robert M. Plenge, Leonid Padyukov, Elaine F. Remmers, Shaun Purcell, Annette T. Lee, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Frederick Wolfe, Daniel L. Kastner, Lars Alfredsson, David Altshuler, Peter K. Gregersen, Lars Klareskog, John D. Rioux
2005438
4
Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions Involving HLA-DRB1, PTPN22, and Smoking in Two Subsets of Rheumatoid Arthritis
The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Henrik Källberg, Leonid Padyukov, Robert M. Plenge, Johan Rönnelid, Peter K. Gregersen, Annette H M van der Helm–van Mil, René E. M. Toes, T. Huizinga, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson
2007341
5
Bayesian inference analyses of the polygenic architecture of rheumatoid arthritis
Nature Genetics ·Eli A. Stahl, Daniel Wegmann, Gosia Trynka, Javier Gutierrez‐Achury, Ron Do, Benjamin F. Voight, Peter Kraft, Robert Y. Chen, Henrik Källberg, Fina Kurreeman, Sekar Kathiresan, Cisca Wijmenga, Peter K. Gregersen, Lars Alfredsson, Katherine Siminovitch, Jane Worthington, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Robert M. Plenge
2012284
6
REL, encoding a member of the NF-κB family of transcription factors, is a newly defined risk locus for rheumatoid arthritis
Nature Genetics ·Peter K. Gregersen, C. I. Amos, Annette T. Lee, Yue Lu, Elaine F. Remmers, Daniel L. Kastner, Michael F. Seldin, Lindsey A. Criswell, Robert M. Plenge, V. Michael Holers, Ted R. Mikuls, Tuulikki Sokka, Larry W. Moreland, S. Louis Bridges, Gang Xie, Ann B. Begovich, Katherine Siminovitch
2009250
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Analysis and Application of European Genetic Substructure Using 300 K SNP Information
PLoS Genetics ·Chao Tian, Robert M. Plenge, Michael R. Ransom, Annette Lee, Pablo Villoslada, Carlo Selmi, Lars Klareskog, Ann E. Pulver, Lihong Qi, Peter K. Gregersen, Michael F. Seldin
2008181
8
Normalization of Plasma 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D Is Associated with Reduced Risk of Surgery in Crohn’s Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ·Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, Andrew Cagan, Vivian S. Gainer, Tianxi Cai, Su-Chun Cheng, Guergana Savova, Pei Chen, Peter Szolovits, Zongqi Xia, Philip L. De Jager, Stanley Y. Shaw, Susanne Churchill, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Isaac S. Kohane, Robert M. Plenge, Shawn N. Murphy, Katherine P. Liao
2013175
9
Specificity of the STAT4 Genetic Association for Severe Disease Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
PLoS Genetics ·Kimberly E. Taylor, Elaine F. Remmers, Annette T. Lee, Ward Ortmann, Robert M. Plenge, Chao Tian, Sharon A. Chung, Joanne Nititham, Geoffrey Hom, Amy Kao, F. Yesim Demirci, M. Ilyas Kamboh, Michelle Petri, Susan Manzi, Daniel L. Kastner, Michael F. Seldin, Peter K. Gregersen, Timothy W. Behrens, Lindsey A. Criswell
2008165
10
Genome-Wide Association Scan Identifies Candidate Polymorphisms Associated with Differential Response to Anti-TNF Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Molecular Medicine ·Chunyu Liu, Franak Batliwalla, Wentian Li, Annette Lee, Ronenn Roubenoff, Evan Beckman, Houman Khalili, Aarti Damle, Marlena Kern, Richard Furie, Josée Dupuis, Robert M. Plenge, Marieke J. H. Coenen, Timothy W. Behrens, John P. Carulli, Peter K. Gregersen
2008162
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Fine Mapping Seronegative and Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis to Shared and Distinct HLA Alleles by Adjusting for the Effects of Heterogeneity
The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Buhm Han, Dorothée Diogo, (unknown), Henrik Källberg, Alexandra Zhernakova, John Bowes, Leonid Padyukov, Yukinori Okada, Miguel Á. González‐Gay, Solbritt Rantapää‐Dahlqvist, Javier Martı́n, T. Huizinga, Robert M. Plenge, Jane Worthington, Peter K. Gregersen, Lars Klareskog, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Soumya Raychaudhuri
2014122
12
Different patterns of associations with anti–citrullinated protein antibody–positive and anti–citrullinated protein antibody–negative rheumatoid arthritis in the extended major histocompatibility complex region
Arthritis & Rheumatism ·Bo Ding, Leonid Padyukov, Emeli Lundström, Mark Seielstad, Robert M. Plenge, Jorge R. Oksenberg, Peter K. Gregersen, Lars Alfredsson, Lars Klareskog
2008104
13
Genetic Basis of Autoantibody Positive and Negative Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk in a Multi-ethnic Cohort Derived from Electronic Health Records
The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Fina Kurreeman, Katherine P. Liao, Lori B. Chibnik, Brendan Hickey, Eli A. Stahl, Vivian S. Gainer, Gang Li, Lynn Bry, Scott Mahan, Kristin Ardlie, Brian Thomson, Peter Szolovits, Susanne Churchill, Shawn N. Murphy, Tianxi Cai, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Isaac S. Kohane, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Robert M. Plenge
201190
14
Using genetic and clinical data to understand response to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug therapy: data from the Brigham and Women's Hospital Rheumatoid Arthritis Sequential Study
Lara D. Veeken ·Christine Iannaccone, Y. C. Lee, Jing Cui, Michelle Frits, Robert J. Glass, Robert M. Plenge, David H. Solomon, M. Weinblatt, Nancy A. Shadick
201085
15
Cumulative association of 22 genetic variants with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis risk
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases ·Elizabeth W. Karlson, Lori B. Chibnik, Peter Kraft, Jing Cui, Brendan T Keenan, Bo Ding, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, Robert M. Plenge
201081
16
Quantifying missing heritability at known GWAS loci.
eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, Dorothée Diogo, Eli A. Stahl, Peter K. Gregersen, Jane Worthington, Lars Klareskog, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Robert M. Plenge, Alkes L. Price, Alexander Gusev, Gaurav Bhatia, Bogdan Paşaniuc, Noah Zaitlen
201380
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Associations of autoantibodies, autoimmune risk alleles, and clinical diagnoses from the electronic medical records in rheumatoid arthritis cases and non–rheumatoid arthritis controls
Arthritis & Rheumatism ·Katherine P. Liao, Fina Kurreeman, Gang Li, Grant Duclos, Shawn N. Murphy, Raul J. Guzman, Tianxi Cai, Namrata Gupta, Vivian S. Gainer, Peter H. Schur, Jing Cui, Joshua C. Denny, Peter Szolovits, Susanne Churchill, Isaac S. Kohane, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Robert M. Plenge
201275
18
Disciplined approach to drug discovery and early development
Science Translational Medicine ·Robert M. Plenge
201674
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PhIP-Seq characterization of autoantibodies from patients with multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis
Journal of Autoimmunity ·H. Benjamin Larman, Uri Laserson, Luís Querol, Katrijn Verhaeghen, Nicole L. Solimini, George Xu, Paul L. Klarenbeek, George M. Church, David A. Hafler, Robert M. Plenge, Peter A. Nigrović, Philip L. De Jager, Ilse Weets, Geert A. Martens, Kevin C. O’Connor, Stephen J. Elledge
201374
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Predictors of severe outcomes associated with Clostridium difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics ·Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, R. Guzman‐Perez, Vivian S. Gainer, Tianxi Cai, Susanne Churchill, Isaac S. Kohane, Robert M. Plenge, Shawn N. Murphy
201273

About Robert M. Plenge

Robert M. Plenge is a scholar working on Rheumatology, Immunology, Genetics, Genetics and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, having authored 65 papers that have together received 5.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (31 papers), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research (21 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (11 papers), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (11 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (9 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions (7 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Rheumatology (2.2k citations), Immunology (1.4k citations), Genetics (1.1k citations), Genetics (378 citations) and Gastroenterology (129 citations). Robert M. Plenge has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Peter K. Gregersen, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, Leonid Padyukov, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Katherine Siminovitch, Eli A. Stahl, Jane Worthington, Daniel L. Kastner and Annette T. Lee. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Nature Genetics, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Medicine and PLoS Genetics.

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