Cathryn M. Lewis

90.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
372 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Cathryn M. Lewis is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cathryn M. Lewis has authored 372 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Genetics, 78 papers in Molecular Biology and 42 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Cathryn M. Lewis's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (98 papers), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (26 papers) and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (25 papers). Cathryn M. Lewis is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (98 papers), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (26 papers) and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (25 papers). Cathryn M. Lewis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Cathryn M. Lewis's co-authors include Evangelos Vassos, Jack Euesden, Paul F. O’Reilly, Sheila Fisher, Christopher G. Mathew, Robin Murray, Jeremy Sanderson, Alastair Forbes, Stefan Schreiber and Muddassar M. Mirza and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Cathryn M. Lewis

352 papers receiving 15.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Association between insertion mutation in NOD2 gene and Crohn's disease in German and British populations
    2001 837 citations Cathryn M. Lewis, Christopher G. Mathew et al. profile →
  2. PRSice: Polygenic Risk Score software
    2014 736 citations Jack Euesden, Cathryn M. Lewis et al. profile →
  3. Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments
    2020 714 citations Cathryn M. Lewis, Evangelos Vassos profile →
  4. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, ameliorates motor deficits in a mouse model of Huntington's disease
    2003 667 citations Emma Hockly, Victoria M. Richon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Meta-analysis of the Association Between the Level of Cannabis Use and Risk of Psychosis
    2016 535 citations Cathryn M. Lewis, Robin Murray et al. Schizophrenia Bulletin profile →
  6. The contribution of NOD2 gene mutations to the risk and site of disease in inflammatory bowel disease
    2002 523 citations Cathryn M. Lewis, Christopher G. Mathew et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Cathryn M. Lewis 5.7k 4.2k 2.0k 1.8k 1.6k 372 16.3k
P. Eline Slagboom 4.1k 0.7× 8.8k 2.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 644 0.4× 465 23.3k
Robert E. Ferrell 4.5k 0.8× 6.7k 1.6× 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 384 20.7k
Jürg Ott 8.5k 1.5× 10.6k 2.5× 1.8k 0.9× 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 343 25.1k
Grant W. Montgomery 11.3k 2.0× 7.8k 1.9× 2.6k 1.3× 1.4k 0.7× 946 0.6× 507 26.1k
John Blangero 9.8k 1.7× 7.2k 1.7× 1.3k 0.6× 3.5k 2.0× 1.7k 1.0× 644 28.6k
Nicholas J. Timpson 9.3k 1.6× 5.2k 1.2× 1.4k 0.7× 3.1k 1.7× 931 0.6× 250 22.6k
Lon R. Cardon 13.6k 2.4× 8.9k 2.1× 2.6k 1.3× 2.1k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 188 28.2k
David M. Evans 6.2k 1.1× 4.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 2.0k 1.1× 606 0.4× 277 15.4k
Gibran Hemani 8.3k 1.5× 4.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.6× 2.1k 1.2× 681 0.4× 110 16.4k
Tatiana Foroud 4.5k 0.8× 7.1k 1.7× 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 405 20.1k

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All Works

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Chen, Wenlong Carl, Chantal Babb de Villiers, Sang Hyuck Lee, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide association study identifies common variants associated with breast cancer in South African Black women. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3542–3542. 1 indexed citations
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Sham, Pak C., et al.. (2023). Common and rare variant associations with latent traits underlying depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 46–46. 1 indexed citations
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Arathimos, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Investigating the role of the relaxin-3/RXFP3 system in neuropsychiatric disorders and metabolic phenotypes: A candidate gene approach. PLoS ONE. 18(11). e0294045–e0294045. 1 indexed citations
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Martin, Joanna, Charlotte Dennison, Lucy Riglin, et al.. (2023). Estimating the impact of transmitted and non-transmitted psychiatric and neurodevelopmental polygenic scores on youth emotional problems. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(2). 238–246. 5 indexed citations
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Muchengeti, Mazvita, Debbie Bradshaw, Wenlong Carl Chen, et al.. (2023). Kaposi sarcoma‐associated herpesvirus, HIV‐1 and Kaposi sarcoma risk in black South Africans diagnosed with cancer during antiretroviral treatment rollout. International Journal of Cancer. 152(10). 2081–2089. 4 indexed citations
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Thompson, Susan, Arthavan Selvanathan, Cathryn M. Lewis, et al.. (2023). Treatment of HMG-CoA Lyase Deficiency—Longitudinal Data on Clinical and Nutritional Management of 10 Australian Cases. Nutrients. 15(3). 531–531. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Lingyan, James E. Peters, Bram P. Prins, et al.. (2022). Systematic Mendelian randomization using the human plasma proteome to discover potential therapeutic targets for stroke. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6143–6143. 59 indexed citations
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Kullo, Iftikhar J., Cathryn M. Lewis, Michael Inouye, et al.. (2022). Polygenic scores in biomedical research. Nature Reviews Genetics. 23(9). 524–532. 82 indexed citations
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Arathimos, Ryan, Chiara Fabbri, Evangelos Vassos, et al.. (2022). Latent subtypes of manic and/or irritable episode symptoms in two population-based cohorts. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 221(6). 722–731. 4 indexed citations
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Pain, Oliver, Kylie P. Glanville, Saskia P. Hagenaars, et al.. (2021). Imputed gene expression risk scores: a functionally informed component of polygenic risk. Human Molecular Genetics. 30(8). 727–738. 13 indexed citations
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Vassos, Evangelos, Sarah Tosato, Charlotte Dennison, et al.. (2021). Lack of Support for the Genes by Early Environment Interaction Hypothesis in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 48(1). 20–26. 19 indexed citations
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Howard, David M., Lasse Folkersen, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, et al.. (2020). Genetic stratification of depression in UK Biobank. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 163–163. 17 indexed citations
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Chen, Wenlong Carl, Elvira Singh, Mazvita Muchengeti, et al.. (2020). Johannesburg Cancer Study (JCS): contribution to knowledge and opportunities arising from 20 years of data collection in an African setting. Cancer Epidemiology. 65. 101701–101701. 15 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Heath, Eilís Hannon, Matthew Hill, et al.. (2018). Expression quantitative trait loci in the developing human brain and their enrichment in neuropsychiatric disorders. Genome biology. 19(1). 194–194. 84 indexed citations
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Botía, Juan A., Jana Vandrovcová, Paola Forabosco, et al.. (2017). An additional k-means clustering step improves the biological features of WGCNA gene co-expression networks. BMC Systems Biology. 11(1). 47–47. 186 indexed citations
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Euesden, Jack, Gerome Breen, Anne Farmer, Peter McGuffin, & Cathryn M. Lewis. (2015). The relationship between schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis revisited: Genetic and epidemiological analyses. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 168(2). 81–88. 25 indexed citations
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Ligthart, Lannie, Jouke‐Jan Hottenga, Cathryn M. Lewis, et al.. (2014). Genetic risk score analysis indicates migraine with and without comorbid depression are genetically different disorders. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 61 indexed citations
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Forabosco, Paola, Susan L. Neuhausen, Luigi Greco, et al.. (2009). Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Linkage Studies in Celiac Disease. Human Heredity. 68(4). 223–230. 6 indexed citations
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Hockly, Emma, Victoria M. Richon, Donna L. Smith, et al.. (2003). Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, ameliorates motor deficits in a mouse model of Huntington's disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(4). 2041–2046. 667 indexed citations breakdown →

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