2026 Mina Ryten: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	69	2316	2201	288	276	224	30467

Overview

Mina Ryten is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a total of 238 publications in the former and 149 in the latter.

Their work focuses on several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, and Physiology. The scientist's research topics of interest include:

Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
RNA Research and Splicing
Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
RNA regulation and disease
Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Mina Ryten has contributed to prominent scientific venues where they have frequently published. The most common publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain
Nature Communications
Movement Disorders
Brain Communications

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including John Hardy, Regina H. Reynolds, Emil K. Gustavsson, Sonia García-Ruiz, and Juan A. Botía.

Among their recent publications are:

"Mutational signature in colorectal cancer caused by genotoxic pks+ E. coli" (2020) in Nature
"ggtranscript: an R package for the visualization and interpretation of transcript isoforms using ggplot2" (2022) in Bioinformatics
"Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson's disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome" (2021) in Nature Communications
"Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets" (2021) in JAMA Neurology
"Developmental Consequences of Defective ATG7-Mediated Autophagy in Humans" (2021) in New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the cause of chromosome 9p21-linked ALS-FTD

Alan E. Renton;Elisa Majounie;Adrian James Waite;Javier Simón-Sánchez;Javier Simón-Sánchez

4892
Citations
Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

2354
Citations
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

1978
Citations
Mutational signature in colorectal cancer caused by genotoxic pks+ E. coli.

Cayetano Pleguezuelos-Manzano;Jens Puschhof;Axel Rosendahl Huber;Arne van Hoeck

1057
Citations
Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

933
Citations
The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

824
Citations
The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

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

746
Citations
Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

723
Citations
Genetic variability in the regulation of gene expression in ten regions of the human brain

Adaikalavan Ramasamy;Adaikalavan Ramasamy;Daniah Trabzuni;Sebastian Guelfi;Vibin Varghese

695
Citations
Rare coding variants in the phospholipase D3 gene confer risk for Alzheimer’s disease

C Cruchaga;CM Karch;SC Jin;BA Benitez

530
Citations
Parkinson's disease induced pluripotent stem cells with triplication of the α-synuclein locus

Michael J. Devine;Mina Ryten;Petr Vodicka;Alison J. Thomson

517
Citations
Structural brain abnormalities in the common epilepsies assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study.

Christopher D Whelan;Christopher D Whelan;Andre Altmann;Juan A Botía;Neda Jahanshad

502
Citations
Evidence for 28 genetic disorders discovered by combining healthcare and research data

J Kaplanis;K E Samocha;L Wiel;Z Zhang

473
Citations
Excessive burden of lysosomal storage disorder gene variants in Parkinson's disease

L.A. Robak;L.A. Robak;I.E. Jansen;I.E. Jansen;J van Rooij;A.G. Uitterlinden

458
Citations
Loss of VPS13C Function in Autosomal-Recessive Parkinsonism Causes Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Increases PINK1/Parkin-Dependent Mitophagy.

Suzanne Lesage;Valérie Drouet;Elisa Majounie;Vincent Deramecourt

454
Citations
Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

S. E. Stewart;D. Yu;J. M. Scharf;B. M. Neale

420
Citations
Unbiased screen for interactors of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 supports a common pathway for sporadic and familial Parkinson disease

A. Beilina;I. N. Rudenko;A. Kaganovich;L. Civiero

402
Citations
A Two-Stage Meta-Analysis Identifies Several New Loci for Parkinson's Disease

V. Plagnol;M.A. Nalls;J.M. Bras;D.G. Hernandez;D.G. Hernandez

379
Citations
Major Shifts in Glial Regional Identity Are a Transcriptional Hallmark of Human Brain Aging.

Lilach Soreq;Lilach Soreq;Jamie Rose;Eyal Soreq;John Hardy

368
Citations
Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

342
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John Hardy University College London

Adaikalavan Ramasamy A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Michael E. Weale King's College London

Dena G. Hernandez National Institutes of Health

Henry Houlden University College London

Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health

Colin Smith University of Edinburgh

Nicholas W. Wood University College London

Mike A. Nalls National Institutes of Health

Mark R. Cookson National Institutes of Health

External Links

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