Christopher N. Foley

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Christopher N. Foley is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher N. Foley has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Christopher N. Foley's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers) and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (3 papers). Christopher N. Foley is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers) and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (3 papers). Christopher N. Foley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Finland. Christopher N. Foley's co-authors include Stephen Burgess, James R Staley, Joanna M. M. Howson, Verena Zuber, Elias Allara, Philip G. Breen, Jessica M. B. Rees, Paul Kirk, Apostolos Gkatzionis and Amy M. Mason and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Christopher N. Foley

15 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A robust and efficient method for Mendelian randomization... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2021 100 200 300
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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.

  1. A robust and efficient method for Mendelian randomization with hundreds of genetic variants
    2020 364 citations Stephen Burgess, Christopher N. Foley et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. A fast and efficient colocalization algorithm for identifying shared genetic risk factors across multiple traits
    2021 212 citations Christopher N. Foley, James R Staley et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher N. Foley United Kingdom 13 602 337 191 183 151 15 1.4k
Benjamin B. Sun United Kingdom 10 689 1.1× 444 1.3× 179 0.9× 110 0.6× 161 1.1× 15 1.4k
Aliya Gifford United States 12 512 0.9× 350 1.0× 192 1.0× 177 1.0× 132 0.9× 22 1.6k
Wes Spiller United Kingdom 8 632 1.0× 252 0.7× 179 0.9× 83 0.5× 119 0.8× 14 1.1k
Alice R Carter United Kingdom 10 430 0.7× 206 0.6× 191 1.0× 130 0.7× 106 0.7× 23 1.0k
Jean Morrison United States 8 701 1.2× 538 1.6× 188 1.0× 91 0.5× 147 1.0× 12 1.6k
Kristin Brown‐Gentry United States 14 648 1.1× 548 1.6× 112 0.6× 137 0.7× 118 0.8× 26 1.4k
Teresa Ferreira Portugal 18 789 1.3× 571 1.7× 194 1.0× 268 1.5× 164 1.1× 69 2.0k
Aris Baras United States 21 757 1.3× 669 2.0× 278 1.5× 186 1.0× 216 1.4× 46 1.9k
Zhongshang Yuan China 22 332 0.6× 312 0.9× 206 1.1× 214 1.2× 122 0.8× 103 1.4k
Jessica N. Cooke Bailey United States 23 330 0.5× 374 1.1× 250 1.3× 140 0.8× 99 0.7× 64 1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher N. Foley

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Gadd, Danni A., Robert F. Hillary, Yipeng Cheng, et al.. (2024). Blood protein assessment of leading incident diseases and mortality in the UK Biobank. Nature Aging. 4(7). 939–948. 38 indexed citations
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Hillary, Robert F., Danni A. Gadd, Tin-Chi Lin, et al.. (2024). Systematic discovery of gene-environment interactions underlying the human plasma proteome in UK Biobank. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7346–7346. 2 indexed citations
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Kurki, Mitja, Christopher N. Foley, Chia‐Yen Chen, et al.. (2022). Genetic associations of protein-coding variants in human disease. Nature. 603(7899). 95–102. 70 indexed citations
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Bowker, Nicholas, Stephen Burgess, Christopher N. Foley, et al.. (2021). Genetically Predicted Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide (GIP) Levels and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Are Driven by Distinct Causal Variants in the GIPR Region. Diabetes. 70(11). 2706–2719. 16 indexed citations
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Foley, Christopher N., James R Staley, Philip G. Breen, et al.. (2021). A fast and efficient colocalization algorithm for identifying shared genetic risk factors across multiple traits. Nature Communications. 12(1). 764–764. 212 indexed citations breakdown →
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Foley, Christopher N., Amy M. Mason, Paul Kirk, & Stephen Burgess. (2020). MR-Clust: clustering of genetic variants in Mendelian randomization with similar causal estimates. Bioinformatics. 37(4). 531–541. 35 indexed citations
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Burgess, Stephen, Christopher N. Foley, Elias Allara, James R Staley, & Joanna M. M. Howson. (2020). A robust and efficient method for Mendelian randomization with hundreds of genetic variants. Nature Communications. 11(1). 376–376. 364 indexed citations breakdown →
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Foley, Christopher N. & James R Staley. (2020). cnfoley/hyprcoloc: First release of software. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Breen, Philip G., Christopher N. Foley, Tjarda Boekholt, & Simon Portegies Zwart. (2020). Newton versus the machine: solving the chaotic three-body problem using deep neural networks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(2). 2465–2470. 49 indexed citations
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Rees, Jessica M. B., Christopher N. Foley, & Stephen Burgess. (2019). Factorial Mendelian randomization: using genetic variants to assess interactions. International Journal of Epidemiology. 49(4). 1147–1158. 55 indexed citations
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Khandaker, Golam M., Verena Zuber, Jessica M. B. Rees, et al.. (2019). Shared mechanisms between coronary heart disease and depression: findings from a large UK general population-based cohort. Molecular Psychiatry. 25(7). 1477–1486. 179 indexed citations
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Allara, Elias, Paul Carter, Apostolos Gkatzionis, et al.. (2019). Genetic Determinants of Lipids and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 12(12). e002711–e002711. 79 indexed citations
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Burgess, Stephen, Verena Zuber, Apostolos Gkatzionis, & Christopher N. Foley. (2018). Modal-based estimation via heterogeneity-penalized weighting: model averaging for consistent and efficient estimation in Mendelian randomization when a plurality of candidate instruments are valid. International Journal of Epidemiology. 47(4). 1242–1254. 47 indexed citations
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Burgess, Stephen, Christopher N. Foley, & Verena Zuber. (2018). Inferring Causal Relationships Between Risk Factors and Outcomes from Genome-Wide Association Study Data. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 19(1). 303–327. 193 indexed citations
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Salisbury, Dereck, et al.. (2017). Translation of an evidence-based therapeutic exercise program for patients with peripheral artery disease. Journal of Vascular Nursing. 36(1). 23–33. 12 indexed citations

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