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World Ranking
307
National Ranking
54

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Peter Donnelly is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology. Additional subfields include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, DNA Repair Mechanisms, and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Michael E. Weale
  • Vincent Plagnol
  • Fernando Riveros-Mckay
  • Saskia Selzam
  • Rachel Moore

Peter Donnelly has published regularly in several academic venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  • Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Notable papers authored or coauthored by Donnelly include:

  • UK Biobank release and systematic evaluation of optimised polygenic risk scores for 53 diseases and quantitative traits (2022, bioRxiv)
  • Platypus and echidna genomes reveal mammalian biology and evolution (2021, Nature)
  • The Configuration of RPA, RAD51, and DMC1 Binding in Meiosis Reveals the Nature of Critical Recombination Intermediates (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • Genotyping and population characteristics of the China Kadoorie Biobank (2023, Cell Genomics)
  • A systematic evaluation of the performance and properties of the UK Biobank Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Release (2024, PLoS ONE)

Peter Donnelly was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data

    Jonathan K. Pritchard;Matthew Stephens;Peter Donnelly

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • 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 new statistical method for haplotype reconstruction from population data.

    Matthew Stephens;Nicholas J. Smith;Peter Donnelly

  • The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

    Clare Bycroft;Colin Freeman;Desislava Petkova;Desislava Petkova;Gavin Band

  • The International HapMap Project

    John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

  • A haplotype map of the human genome

    John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

  • A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

    Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

  • A flexible and accurate genotype imputation method for the next generation of genome-wide association studies.

    Bryan N. Howie;Peter Donnelly;Peter Donnelly;Jonathan Marchini

  • A Comparison of Bayesian Methods for Haplotype Reconstruction from Population Genotype Data

    Matthew Stephens;Peter Donnelly

  • A new multipoint method for genome-wide association studies by imputation of genotypes

    Jonathan Marchini;Bryan Howie;Simon Myers;Gil McVean

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

    Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

  • Association Mapping in Structured Populations

    Jonathan K. Pritchard;Matthew Stephens;Noah A. Rosenberg;Peter Donnelly

  • Transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in humans

    Tuuli Lappalainen;Michael Sammeth;Marc R. Friedländer;Peter A. C. ‘t Hoen

  • 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

  • Replicating genotype–phenotype associations

    Stephen J. Chanock;Teri Manolio;Michael Boehnke;Eric Boerwinkle

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Hunt
Sarah Hunt European Bioinformatics Institute
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Matthew A. Brown
Matthew A. Brown Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Colin N. A. Palmer
Colin N. A. Palmer University of Dundee
Matti Pirinen
Matti Pirinen University of Helsinki
Jenefer M. Blackwell
Jenefer M. Blackwell Telethon Kids Institute
Sarah Edkins
Sarah Edkins Cardiff University
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University

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