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Named after the University of Sankore in Timbuktu — one of the world’s oldest centres of learning. Every figure here is computed from work-level records in our own graph, never copied from a source’s summary count.

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André van der Merwe · Sankore

Western Cape Department of Health

André van der Merwe

ORCID, self-asserted

ORCID 0000-0002-2006-8331

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Publications

27

Citations

149

h-index

5

Computed over the works the graph holds, so it is a floor rather than a career figure.

i10-index

5

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Publications

2 works in the graph, newest first.

Heterogeneous genetic architectures of prostate cancer susceptibility in sub-Saharan Africa
2024Nature GeneticsJournal21 citations10.1038/s41588-024-01931-3
Testing the generalizability of ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores to predict prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
2022Genome biologyJournalOpen access41 citations10.1186/s13059-022-02766-z