Cliona Molony

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Cliona Molony is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Cliona Molony has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Cliona Molony's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (6 papers), Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies (5 papers) and Urological Disorders and Treatments (5 papers). Cliona Molony is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (6 papers), Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies (5 papers) and Urological Disorders and Treatments (5 papers). Cliona Molony collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and France. Cliona Molony's co-authors include Vivian G. Cheung, Teresa M. Weber, Richard S. Spielman, Kathryn G. Ewens, Michael P. Morley, Eric E. Schadt, Xia Yang, Hua Zhong, Lee M. Kaplan and Jun Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Cliona Molony

26 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Genetic analysis of genome-wide variation in human gene expression

2004 946 citations Michael P. Morley, Cliona Molony et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cliona Molony United States	17	1.3k	863	235	223	167	28	2.2k
Rany M. Salem United States	24	919 0.7×	956 1.1×	484 2.1×	340 1.5×	149 0.9×	56	2.7k
Celia Pilar Martinez‐Jimenez Germany	15	1.1k 0.8×	289 0.3×	132 0.6×	136 0.6×	167 1.0×	27	1.6k
Albert V. Smith United States	22	1.3k 1.0×	733 0.8×	222 0.9×	199 0.9×	89 0.5×	59	2.4k
Chikara Shimizu Japan	20	911 0.7×	230 0.3×	277 1.2×	272 1.2×	218 1.3×	94	2.1k
Christopher D. Brown United States	29	1.2k 1.0×	567 0.7×	130 0.6×	124 0.6×	237 1.4×	50	2.2k
Eugene Chudin United States	19	1.7k 1.3×	504 0.6×	96 0.4×	90 0.4×	313 1.9×	29	2.3k
Ingrid C. Gaemers Netherlands	20	780 0.6×	356 0.4×	277 1.2×	157 0.7×	117 0.7×	33	1.5k
Klementina Fon Tacer United States	18	1.4k 1.1×	288 0.3×	381 1.6×	196 0.9×	146 0.9×	34	2.1k
Jean‐Ju Chung United States	22	940 0.7×	282 0.3×	271 1.2×	202 0.9×	61 0.4×	46	2.4k
Norman P. Gerry United States	23	1.3k 1.0×	578 0.7×	265 1.1×	314 1.4×	325 1.9×	39	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cliona Molony

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20 of 20 papers shown

Molony, Cliona, et al.. (2025). Endocrine Late Effects. Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America. 54(2). 307–314.

Luizon, Marcelo R., Walter L. Eckalbar, Yao Wang, et al.. (2016). Genomic Characterization of Metformin Hepatic Response. PLoS Genetics. 12(11). e1006449–e1006449. 40 indexed citations

Su, Zheng, Junjie Zhang, Cliona Molony, et al.. (2016). Species specific exome probes reveal new insights in positively selected genes in nonhuman primates. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 33876–33876. 3 indexed citations

Fitzpatrick, Darren J., Colm J. Ryan, Naisha Shah, et al.. (2015). Genome-wide epistatic expression quantitative trait loci discovery in four human tissues reveals the importance of local chromosomal interactions governing gene expression. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 109–109. 6 indexed citations

Narayanan, Manikandan, Jimmy Huynh, Kai Wang, et al.. (2014). Common dysregulation network in the human prefrontal cortex underlies two neurodegenerative diseases. Molecular Systems Biology. 10(7). 743–743. 138 indexed citations

Poordad, Fred, Jean–Pierre Bronowicki, Stuart C. Gordon, et al.. (2012). Factors That Predict Response of Patients With Hepatitis C Virus Infection to Boceprevir. Gastroenterology. 143(3). 608–618.e5. 150 indexed citations

Greenawalt, Danielle M., Radu Dobrin, Eugene Chudin, et al.. (2011). A survey of the genetics of stomach, liver, and adipose gene expression from a morbidly obese cohort. Genome Research. 21(7). 1008–1016. 99 indexed citations

Yang, Xia, Bin Zhang, Cliona Molony, et al.. (2010). Systematic genetic and genomic analysis of cytochrome P450 enzyme activities in human liver. Genome Research. 20(8). 1020–1036. 207 indexed citations

Derry, Jonathan M.J., Judy Zhong, Cliona Molony, et al.. (2010). Identification of Genes and Networks Driving Cardiovascular and Metabolic Phenotypes in a Mouse F2 Intercross. PLoS ONE. 5(12). e14319–e14319. 36 indexed citations

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Su, Wan‐Lin, Solveig K. Sieberts, Robert Kleinhanz, et al.. (2010). Assessing the prospects of genome-wide association studies performed in inbred mice. Mammalian Genome. 21(3-4). 143–152. 16 indexed citations

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Aronne, Louis J., Serena Tonstad, Manuel Moreno, et al.. (2010). A clinical trial assessing the safety and efficacy of taranabant, a CB1R inverse agonist, in obese and overweight patients: a high-dose study. International Journal of Obesity. 34(5). 919–935. 73 indexed citations

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Zhong, Hua, Xia Yang, Lee M. Kaplan, Cliona Molony, & Eric E. Schadt. (2010). Integrating Pathway Analysis and Genetics of Gene Expression for Genome-wide Association Studies. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 86(4). 581–591. 168 indexed citations

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Dobrin, Radu, Jun Zhu, Cliona Molony, et al.. (2009). Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease. Genome biology. 10(5). R55–R55. 125 indexed citations

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Stone, David J., Cliona Molony, Christine Suver, Eric E. Schadt, & William Z. Potter. (2009). ApoE genotyping as a progression-rate biomarker in phase II disease-modification trials for Alzheimer's disease. The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 10(3). 161–164. 16 indexed citations

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Degnan, J. H., Jessica Lasky‐Su, Benjamin A. Raby, et al.. (2008). Genomics and genome-wide association studies: An integrative approach to expression QTL mapping. Genomics. 92(3). 129–133. 16 indexed citations

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Kelly, H. William, Cliona Molony, John M. Darlow, et al.. (2007). A genome-wide scan for genes involved in primary vesicoureteric reflux. Journal of Medical Genetics. 44(11). 710–717. 32 indexed citations

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Kelly, Helena, Sean Ennis, Akihiro Yoneda, et al.. (2005). Uroplakin III is not a major candidate gene for primary vesicoureteral reflux. Eur J Hum Genet. 2 indexed citations

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Morley, Michael P., Cliona Molony, Teresa M. Weber, et al.. (2004). Genetic analysis of genome-wide variation in human gene expression. Nature. 430(7001). 743–747. 946 indexed citations breakdown →

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Molony, Cliona, Anthony J. Fitzgerald, & Denis C. Shields. (2004). Overdispersion of allele frequency differences between populations: implications for meta-analyses of genotypic disease associations. European Journal of Human Genetics. 13(1). 79–85. 5 indexed citations

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Kelly, Helena, Sean Ennis, Akihiro Yoneda, et al.. (2004). Uroplakin III is not a major candidate gene for primary vesicoureteral reflux. European Journal of Human Genetics. 13(4). 500–502. 27 indexed citations

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