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Andrew T. Hattersley

Andrew T. Hattersley

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2025
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Medicine
UK
2026

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Best Scientists

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179
Citations
157990
World Ranking
625
National Ranking
67

Medicine

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180
Citations
159406
World Ranking
364
National Ranking
43

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Andrew T. Hattersley is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected scientific fields, primarily focusing on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad domains, they have contributed substantially to subfields including endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, genetics, surgery, molecular biology, and obstetrics and gynecology.

Their work extensively addresses topics related to pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes and associated disorders, diabetes management and research, diabetes treatment and management, birth, development and health, genetic associations and epidemiology, as well as gestational diabetes research and management.

Hattersley's publication record features papers in several prominent venues related to diabetes and genetics. Frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Diabetologia, Diabetes Care, Diabetes, and the Yearbook of Pediatric Endocrinology.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew T. Hattersley include:

  • A reference map of potential determinants for the human serum metabolome, 2020, Nature
  • Precision Medicine in Diabetes: A Consensus Report From the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), 2020, Diabetes Care
  • Phantasia-The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes, 2020, Cortex
  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Precision medicine in diabetes: a Consensus Report from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), 2020, Diabetologia

Hattersley has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Their frequent co-authors include Angus G. Jones, Kashyap Patel, Beverley M. Shields, Ewan R. Pearson, and John Dennis.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity

    Timothy M. Frayling;Nicholas J. Timpson;Michael N. Weedon;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Replication of Genome-Wide Association Signals in UK Samples Reveals Risk Loci for Type 2 Diabetes

    Eleftheria Zeggini;Michael N. Weedon;Cecilia M. Lindgren;Timothy M. Frayling

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Activating Mutations in the Gene Encoding the ATP-Sensitive Potassium-Channel Subunit Kir6.2 and Permanent Neonatal Diabetes

    Anna L Gloyn;Ewan R. Pearson;Jennifer F. Antcliff;Peter Proks

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Sian Ellard
Sian Ellard University of Exeter
Timothy M. Frayling
Timothy M. Frayling University of Geneva
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford
Michael N. Weedon
Michael N. Weedon University of Exeter
Mark Walker
Mark Walker University of Ottawa
Eleftheria Zeggini
Eleftheria Zeggini Technical University of Munich
Ewan R. Pearson
Ewan R. Pearson University of Dundee
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen

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