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D-Index
73
Citations
23433
World Ranking
2025
National Ranking
250

Best Publications

  • Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Testing of Biological Ascertainment for Mendelian Randomization Studies

    Santiago Rodriguez;Tom R. Gaunt;Ian N. M. Day

  • Predicting the functional, molecular, and phenotypic consequences of amino acid substitutions using hidden Markov models.

    Hashem A. Shihab;Julian Gough;David Neil Cooper;Peter Daniel Stenson

  • An efficient procedure for genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms.

    Shu Ye;Sahar Dhillon;Xiayi Ke;Andrew R. Collins

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

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • An integrative approach to predicting the functional effects of non-coding and coding sequence variation

    Hashem A. Shihab;Mark F. Rogers;Julian Gough;Matthew E. Mort

  • Molecules in focus Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II)

    Sandra D. O'Dell;Ian N.M. Day

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • Improved imputation of low-frequency and rare variants using the UK10K haplotype reference panel

    Jie Huang;Bryan Howie;Shane McCarthy;Yasin Memari

  • Correction: Corrigendum: TCTEX1D2 mutations underlie Jeune asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy with impaired retrograde intraflagellar transport

    Miriam Schmidts;Yuqing Hou;Claudio R. Cortes;Dorus A. Mans

  • Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

    Matthew R. Robinson;Aaron Kleinman;Mariaelisa Graff;Anna A.E. Vinkhuyzen

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-analysis across 32 Studies Identifies Multiple Lipid Loci

    Folkert W. Asselbergs;Yiran Guo;Yiran Guo;Erik P A Van Iperen;Suthesh Sivapalaratnam

  • Cubic exact solutions for the estimation of pairwise haplotype frequencies: implications for linkage disequilibrium analyses and a web tool 'CubeX'

    Tom R. Gaunt;Santiago Rodríguez;Ian N. M. Day

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-Analysis across 39 Studies Identifies Type 2 Diabetes Loci

    Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena;Clara C. Elbers;Clara C. Elbers;Yiran Guo;Inga Peter

  • Predicting the functional consequences of cancer-associated amino acid substitutions

    Hashem A. Shihab;Julian Gough;David N. Cooper;Ian N. M. Day

  • Gene-centric Association Signals for Lipids and Apolipoproteins Identified via the HumanCVD BeadChip

    Philippa J. Talmud;Fotios Drenos;Sonia Shah;Tina Shah

  • Genome-Wide Association Scan Meta-Analysis Identifies Three Loci Influencing Adiposity and Fat Distribution

    Cecilia M. Lindgren;Iris M. Heid;Joshua C. Randall;Claudia Lamina

  • Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study

    Ervin R. Fox;J. Hunter Young;Yali Li;Albert W. Dreisbach

  • 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

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Steve E. Humphries University College London
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Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
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Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
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Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
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Nicholas J. Timpson University of Bristol
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Shah Ebrahim London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
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Inês Barroso University of Exeter
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Jian'an Luan University of Cambridge

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