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Cathryn M. Lewis publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cathryn M. Lewis sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 631 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Cathryn M. Lewis D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cathryn M. Lewis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 124 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Cathryn M. Lewis is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Medicine. The scientist has a strong focus in Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main research topics covered by Cathryn M. Lewis include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Cathryn M. Lewis has contributed to a variety of academic publications, with frequent work appearing in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Psychological Medicine

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments, 2020, Genome Medicine
  • Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association study of MRI markers of cerebral small vessel disease in 42,310 participants, 2020, Nature Communications

Cathryn M. Lewis often collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Oliver Pain
  • Andrew M. McIntosh
  • Chiara Fabbri
  • Jonathan R. I. Coleman
  • Gerome Breen

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 strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1

    Yoshio Miki;Jeff Swensen;Donna Shattuck-Eidens;P. Andrew Futreal

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Localization of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, to chromosome 13q12-13

    Richard Wooster;Susan L. Neuhausen;Jonathan Mangion;Yvette Quirk

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

    David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • Genome Scan Meta-Analysis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Part II: Schizophrenia

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Douglas F. Levinson;Lesley H. Wise;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • 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

  • Sequence variants in the autophagy gene IRGM and multiple other replicating loci contribute to Crohn's disease susceptibility.

    Miles Parkes;Jeffrey C Barrett;Natalie J Prescott;Mark Tremelling

  • Association between insertion mutation in NOD2 gene and Crohn's disease in German and British populations

    Jochen Hampe;Andrew Cuthbert;Peter J. P. Croucher;Muddassar M. Mirza

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, ameliorates motor deficits in a mouse model of Huntington's disease

    E. Hockly;V.M. Richon;B. Woodman;D.L. Smith

  • Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

    Cathryn M. Lewis;Evangelos Vassos

  • The contribution of NOD2 gene mutations to the risk and site of disease in inflammatory bowel disease

    Andrew P. Cuthbert;Sheila A. Fisher;Muddassar M. Mirza;Kathy King

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerome Breen
Gerome Breen King's College London
Rudolf Uher
Rudolf Uher Dalhousie University
Christopher G. Mathew
Christopher G. Mathew King's College London
Peter McGuffin
Peter McGuffin King's College London
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Andrew M. McIntosh
Andrew M. McIntosh University of Edinburgh
Jeremy D. Sanderson
Jeremy D. Sanderson Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Anne Farmer
Anne Farmer King's College London
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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