Nicholas A. Watts

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genomics and Rare Diseases(34), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology(13), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities(12), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(10), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics(4)

Publications40 total

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia
UNC Libraries·2026Open Access
Improved allele frequencies in gnomAD through local ancestry inference
Nature Communications·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Exploring penetrance of clinically relevant variants in over 800,000 humans from the Genome Aggregation Database
2024· 11 citedOpen Access
The landscape of regional missense mutational intolerance quantified from 125,748 exomes
2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes
Nature·2024· 157 citedOpen Access
A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes
Nature·2023· 1.1k citedOpen Access
Inferring compound heterozygosity from large-scale exome sequencing data
Nature Genetics·2023· 30 citedOpen Access
Advanced variant classification framework reduces the false positive rate of predicted loss-of-function variants in population sequencing data
The American Journal of Human Genetics·2023· 24 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Genomic autopsy to identify underlying causes of pregnancy loss and perinatal death
Nature Medicine·2023Open Access
Inferring compound heterozygosity from large-scale exome sequencing data
2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Advanced variant classification framework reduces the false positive rate of predicted loss of function (pLoF) variants in population sequencing data
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Genomic autopsy to identify underlying causes of pregnancy loss and perinatal death
Nature Medicine·2023· 54 citedOpen Access
Systematic single-variant and gene-based association testing of thousands of phenotypes in 394,841 UK Biobank exomes
Cell Genomics·2022· 277 citedOpen Access
Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia
Nature Genetics·2022· 196 citedOpen Access
Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia
Nature·2022· 823 citedOpen Access
A genome-wide mutational constraint map quantified from variation in 76,156 human genomes
2022· 322 citedOpen Access
Mitochondrial DNA variation across 56,434 individuals in gnomAD
Genome Research·2022· 144 citedOpen Access
Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia
Open MIND·2022
Variant interpretation using population databases: Lessons from gnomAD
Human Mutation·2021· 41 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Landscape of multi-nucleotide variants in 125,748 human exomes and 15,708 genomes (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (2539), 10.1038/s41467-019-12438-5)
Nature Communications·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Matthew Solomonson(31), Anne O’Donnell‐Luria(28), Konrad J. Karczewski(25), Grace Tiao(25), Laura D. Gauthier(25), Laurent C. Francioli(24), Timothy Poterba(23), Mark J. Daly(23), Beryl B. Cummings(22), Jessica Alföldi(22), Ryan L. Collins(21), Kristen M. Laricchia(21), Eric Banks(20), Benjamin M. Neale(20), Cotton Seed(19), Christopher Vittal(19), Stacey Gabriel(19), Namrata Gupta(19), Ruchi Munshi(18), David Roazen(18)