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Overview

Vincent Plagnol is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers a range of important topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, Viral Infections and Immunology Research, and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer.

Publication venues frequented by Vincent Plagnol include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Circulation, Diabetologia, and UNC Libraries. These venues reflect a focus on both preprint and peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Frequent collaborators in Plagnol's research are:

  • Michael E. Weale
  • Fernando Riveros-Mckay
  • Peter Donnelly
  • Saskia Selzam
  • Rachel Moore

Among recent publications are:

  • UK Biobank release and systematic evaluation of optimised polygenic risk scores for 53 diseases and quantitative traits, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Integrated Polygenic Tool Substantially Enhances Coronary Artery Disease Prediction, 2021, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine
  • The complex genetic landscape of familial MDS and AML reveals pathogenic germline variants, 2020, Nature Communications
  • FUS ALS-causative mutations impair FUS autoregulation and splicing factor networks through intron retention, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Validation of an Integrated Risk Tool, Including Polygenic Risk Score, for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Multiple Ethnicities and Ancestries, 2021, The American Journal of Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Bayesian test for colocalisation between pairs of genetic association studies using summary statistics.

    Claudia Giambartolomei;Damjan Vukcevic;Eric E. Schadt;Lude Franke

  • Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis find that over 40 loci affect risk of type 1 diabetes

    Jeffrey C Barrett;David G Clayton;Patrick Concannon;Beena Akolkar

  • Robust associations of four new chromosome regions from genome-wide analyses of type 1 diabetes.

    John A. Todd;Neil M. Walker;Jason D. Cooper;Deborah J. Smyth

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    K Walter;J L Min;J Huang

  • The pattern of polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Magnus Nordborg;Tina T Hu;Yoko Ishino;Jinal Jhaveri

  • Dense genotyping identifies and localizes multiple common and rare variant association signals in celiac disease

    Gosia Trynka;Karen A Hunt;Nicholas A Bockett;Jihane Romanos

  • Imputation of sequence variants for identification of genetic risks for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

    Michael A Nalls;Vincent Plagnol;Dena G Hernandez

  • Shared and distinct genetic variants in type 1 diabetes and celiac disease.

    Deborah J. Smyth;Vincent Plagnol;Neil M. Walker;Jason D. Cooper

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • A robust model for read count data in exome sequencing experiments and implications for copy number variant calling

    Vincent Plagnol;James Curtis;Michael Epstein;Kin Y. Mok

  • Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase δ Gene Mutation Predisposes to Respiratory Infection and Airway Damage

    Ivan Angulo;Oscar Vadas;Fabien Garçon;Edward Banham-Hall

  • Atlas of the clinical genetics of human dilated cardiomyopathy

    Jan Haas;Karen S. Frese;Barbara Peil;Wanda Kloos

  • Recombination and linkage disequilibrium in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Sung Kim;Vincent Plagnol;Vincent Plagnol;Tina T Hu;Christopher Toomajian

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association study data identifies additional type 1 diabetes risk loci.

    Jason D Cooper;Deborah J Smyth;Adam M Smiles;Vincent Plagnol

  • Large-scale genetic fine mapping and genotype-phenotype associations implicate polymorphism in the IL2RA region in type 1 diabetes

    Christopher E Lowe;Jason D Cooper;Todd Brusko;Neil M Walker

  • Comprehensive Rare Variant Analysis via Whole-Genome Sequencing to Determine the Molecular Pathology of Inherited Retinal Disease

    K J Carss;G Arno;M Erwood;J Stephens

  • 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

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

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

  • CHiCAGO: robust detection of DNA looping interactions in Capture Hi-C data

    Jonathan Cairns;Paula Freire-Pritchett;Steven W. Wingett;Csilla Várnai

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

    Jie Huang;Bryan Howie;Shane McCarthy;Yasin Memari

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony T. Moore
Anthony T. Moore University of California, San Francisco
Andrew R. Webster
Andrew R. Webster University College London
Graham E. Holder
Graham E. Holder University College London
John A. Todd
John A. Todd University of Oxford
Alison J. Hardcastle
Alison J. Hardcastle University College London
Nicholas W. Wood
Nicholas W. Wood University College London
John Hardy
John Hardy University College London
David G. Clayton
David G. Clayton University of Cambridge
Elizabeth M. C. Fisher
Elizabeth M. C. Fisher University College London
Deborah J. Smyth
Deborah J. Smyth University of Cambridge

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