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Allan F. McRae is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has a focus on research within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Neurology, Immunology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's research topics encompass areas such as Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Frequent publication venues for Allan F. McRae include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • Genome biology
  • Genome Medicine

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Allan F. McRae are:

  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation (2021), Nature Genetics
  • Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations (2021), Cell
  • Risk prediction of late-onset Alzheimer's disease implies an oligogenic architecture (2020), Nature Communications
  • Analysis of DNA methylation associates the cystine-glutamate antiporter SLC7A11 with risk of Parkinson's disease (2020), Nature Communications
  • Epigenetic scores for the circulating proteome as tools for disease prediction (2022), eLife

Collaborations have been frequent with co-authors including Naomi R. Wray, Riccardo E. Marioni, Peter M. Visscher, Ian J. Deary, and Anjali K. Henders.

Best Publications

  • DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life.

    Riccardo E Marioni;Riccardo E Marioni;Sonia Shah;Allan F McRae;Brian H Chen

  • DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

    Brian H. Chen;Riccardo E. Marioni;Riccardo E. Marioni;Elena Colicino;Marjolein J. Peters

  • Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

    Roby Joehanes;Allan C. Just;Riccardo E. Marioni;Luke C. Pilling

  • A versatile gene-based test for genome-wide association studies

    Jimmy Z. Liu;Allan F. Mcrae;Dale R. Nyholt;Sarah E. Medland

  • DNA methylation profiles in monozygotic and dizygotic twins

    Zachary A. Kaminsky;Thomas Tang;Sun Chong Wang;Sun Chong Wang;Carolyn Ptak

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 143 risk variants and putative regulatory mechanisms for type 2 diabetes

    Angli Xue;Yang Wu;Zhihong Zhu;Futao Zhang

  • The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

    Marjolein J. Peters;Roby Joehanes;Luke C. Pilling;Claudia Schurmann;Claudia Schurmann

  • GWAS on family history of Alzheimer’s disease

    Riccardo E. Marioni;Sarah E. Harris;Qian Zhang;Allan F. McRae

  • The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

    Riccardo E Marioni;Sonia Shah;Allan F McRae;Stuart J Ritchie

  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation

    J.L. Min;G. Hemani;E. Hannon;K.F. Dekkers

  • Signatures of negative selection in the genetic architecture of human complex traits

    Jian Zeng;Ronald de Vlaming;Yang Wu;Matthew R. Robinson

  • Integrative analysis of omics summary data reveals putative mechanisms underlying complex traits.

    Yang Wu;Jian Zeng;Futao Zhang;Zhihong Zhu

  • Identifying gene targets for brain-related traits using transcriptomic and methylomic data from blood

    Ting Qi;Yang Wu;Jian Zeng;Futao Zhang

  • A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption.

    C Liu;R E Marioni;R E Marioni;Åsa K Hedman;L Pfeiffer

  • Common Variants in the Trichohyalin Gene Are Associated with Straight Hair in Europeans

    Sarah E. Medland;Dale R. Nyholt;Jodie N. Painter;Brian P. McEvoy

  • Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach

    Michael M Mendelson;Michael M Mendelson;Michael M Mendelson;Riccardo E. Marioni;Riccardo E. Marioni;Roby Joehanes;Roby Joehanes;Chunyu Liu;Chunyu Liu

  • DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases

    Symen Ligthart;Carola Marzi;Stella Aslibekyan;Michael M. Mendelson;Michael M. Mendelson;Michael M. Mendelson

  • Improved precision of epigenetic clock estimates across tissues and its implication for biological ageing

    Qian Zhang;Costanza L. Vallerga;Rosie M. Walker;Tian Lin

  • Contribution of genetic variation to transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation

    Allan F McRae;Joseph E Powell;Anjali K Henders;Lisa Bowdler

  • Common and rare variant association analyses in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology

    Wouter van Rheenen;Rick A. A. van der Spek;Mark K. Bakker;Joke J. F. A. van Vugt

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Visscher
Peter M. Visscher University of Oxford
Riccardo E. Marioni
Riccardo E. Marioni University of Edinburgh
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Naomi R. Wray
Naomi R. Wray University of Queensland
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Jian Yang
Jian Yang University of Birmingham
Anjali K. Henders
Anjali K. Henders University of Queensland
Sarah E. Harris
Sarah E. Harris University of Edinburgh
Andrew M. McIntosh
Andrew M. McIntosh University of Edinburgh

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