Alan E. Renton

15.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Alan E. Renton is a scholar working on Genetics, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan E. Renton has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Genetics, 17 papers in Neurology and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alan E. Renton's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (13 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (12 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (12 papers). Alan E. Renton is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (13 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (12 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (12 papers). Alan E. Renton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Finland. Alan E. Renton's co-authors include Bryan J. Traynor, Adriano Chiò, Nicholas Wood, L. Miguel Martins, Hélène Plun‐Favreau, Alison Goate, Edoardo Marcora, H. Desmond, Sonia Gandhi and Alexander J. Whitworth and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Neuroscience and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Alan E. Renton

42 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

State of play in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetics

2013 1.1k citations Alan E. Renton, Adriano Chiò et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
The complex genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease: novel insights and future directions

2023 153 citations Shea J. Andrews, Alan E. Renton et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan E. Renton United States	20	1.6k	1.1k	735	548	509	43	2.6k
Stéphanie Millecamps France	26	1.1k 0.7×	959 0.9×	555 0.8×	477 0.9×	388 0.8×	49	2.4k
Antonia Ratti Italy	29	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.9×	1.2k 1.6×	387 0.7×	415 0.8×	97	3.6k
Jemeen Sreedharan United Kingdom	14	2.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.9×	593 1.1×	532 1.0×	23	3.0k
Frédérique René France	28	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	360 0.7×	418 0.8×	59	2.9k
Pietro Fratta United Kingdom	32	2.6k 1.6×	2.0k 1.9×	1.6k 2.2×	483 0.9×	499 1.0×	59	4.0k
Diane McKenna‐Yasek United States	25	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	531 1.0×	386 0.8×	35	3.0k
Thomas Philips United States	11	1.6k 1.0×	870 0.8×	858 1.2×	693 1.3×	404 0.8×	15	2.5k
Johnathan Cooper‐Knock United Kingdom	25	1.4k 0.9×	963 0.9×	836 1.1×	369 0.7×	348 0.7×	69	2.2k
Hibiki Kawamata United States	28	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	309 0.4×	303 0.6×	652 1.3×	41	2.9k
Sigrun Roeber Germany	23	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	447 0.6×	715 1.3×	878 1.7×	50	2.7k

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Wang, Dongyu, Yanbing Wang, Honghuang Lin, et al.. (2025). Frequency of variants in Mendelian Alzheimer's disease genes within the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 104(3). 841–851. 1 indexed citations

Andrews, Shea J., Michaël E. Belloy, Alan E. Renton, et al.. (2024). Dementia risk scores, apolipoprotein E, and risk of Alzheimer's disease: One size does not fit all. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(12). 8595–8604. 2 indexed citations

Llibre‐Guerra, Jorge J., Ruijin Lu, Alan E. Renton, et al.. (2024). Cognitive reserve influences symptom onset and longitudinal decline in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S3). e086295–e086295.

Llibre‐Guerra, Jorge J., Miao Jiang, Isaac Acosta, et al.. (2024). Social determinants of health but not global genetic ancestry predict dementia prevalence in Latin America. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(7). 4828–4840. 11 indexed citations

Yu, Chenglong, Joanne Ryan, Suzanne G. Orchard, et al.. (2023). Validation of newly derived polygenic risk scores for dementia in a prospective study of older individuals. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(12). 5333–5342. 7 indexed citations

Bowles, Kathryn R., Derian A. Pugh, Yiyuan Liu, et al.. (2022). 17q21.31 sub-haplotypes underlying H1-associated risk for Parkinson’s disease are associated with LRRC37A/2 expression in astrocytes. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 17(1). 48–48. 21 indexed citations

Riaz, Moeen, Aamira Huq, Joanne Ryan, et al.. (2021). Effect of APOE and a polygenic risk score on incident dementia and cognitive decline in a healthy older population. Aging Cell. 20(6). e13384–e13384. 22 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhihui, Badri N. Vardarajan, Alan E. Renton, et al.. (2020). A quantitative trait rare variant nonparametric linkage method with application to age-at-onset of Alzheimer’s disease. European Journal of Human Genetics. 28(12). 1734–1742. 3 indexed citations

Renton, Alan E., Wentian Li, Nir Barzilai, et al.. (2019). Empirical design of a variant quality control pipeline for whole genome sequencing data using replicate discordance. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16156–16156. 9 indexed citations

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Kaivola, Karri, Lilja Jansson, Johan G. Eriksson, et al.. (2019). C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat length in older population: normal variation and effects on cognition. Neurobiology of Aging. 84. 242.e7–242.e12. 11 indexed citations

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He, Zongxiao, Di Zhang, Alan E. Renton, et al.. (2017). The Rare-Variant Generalized Disequilibrium Test for Association Analysis of Nuclear and Extended Pedigrees with Application to Alzheimer Disease WGS Data. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 100(2). 193–204. 14 indexed citations

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Pletniková, Olga, Kelly L. Sloane, Alan E. Renton, et al.. (2014). Hippocampal sclerosis dementia with the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion. Neurobiology of Aging. 35(10). 2419.e17–2419.e21. 35 indexed citations

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Renton, Alan E., Adriano Chiò, & Bryan J. Traynor. (2013). State of play in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetics. Nature Neuroscience. 17(1). 17–23. 1136 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kaivorinne, Anna-Lotta, Michaela K. Bode, Hannu Tuominen, et al.. (2013). Clinical Characteristics of C9ORF72-Linked Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 251–262. 27 indexed citations

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Kaivorinne, Anna-Lotta, Virpi Moilanen, Alan E. Renton, et al.. (2012). Novel TARDBP Sequence Variant and C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion in a Family With Frontotemporal Dementia. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders. 28(2). 190–193. 16 indexed citations

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Majounie, Elisa, Yevgeniya Abramzon, Alan E. Renton, et al.. (2012). Large C9orf72 repeat expansions are not a common cause of Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 33(10). 2527.e1–2527.e2. 34 indexed citations

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Sharma, Simone, Rina Bandopadhyay, Tammaryn Lashley, et al.. (2011). LRRK2 expression in idiopathic and G2019S positive Parkinson's disease subjects: a morphological and quantitative study. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 37(7). 777–790. 35 indexed citations

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Deas, Emma, Hélène Plun‐Favreau, Sonia Gandhi, et al.. (2010). PINK1 cleavage at position A103 by the mitochondrial protease PARL. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(5). 867–879. 390 indexed citations

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Kumaran, Ravindran, Jana Vandrovcová, Simone Sharma, et al.. (2009). Differential DJ-1 gene expression in Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Disease. 36(2). 393–400. 41 indexed citations

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Moisoi, Nicoleta, Kristina Klupsch, Valentina Fedele, et al.. (2008). Mitochondrial dysfunction triggered by loss of HtrA2 results in the activation of a brain-specific transcriptional stress response. Cell Death and Differentiation. 16(3). 449–464. 143 indexed citations

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