Daniel L. McCartney

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Daniel L. McCartney is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel L. McCartney has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Daniel L. McCartney's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (27 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (8 papers). Daniel L. McCartney is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (27 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (8 papers). Daniel L. McCartney collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Daniel L. McCartney's co-authors include Andrew M. McIntosh, Kathryn L. Evans, Rosie M. Walker, David J. Porteous, Stewart W. Morris, Riccardo E. Marioni, Ian J. Deary, Archie Campbell, Robert F. Hillary and Anna J. Stevenson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Daniel L. McCartney

34 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age

2023 65 citations Elena Bernabeu, Daniel L. McCartney et al. Genome Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel L. McCartney United Kingdom	19	700	263	175	152	130	35	1.1k
Rosie M. Walker United Kingdom	21	878 1.3×	259 1.0×	286 1.6×	164 1.1×	124 1.0×	59	1.4k
Julia L. MacIsaac Canada	20	728 1.0×	497 1.9×	199 1.1×	147 1.0×	129 1.0×	59	1.3k
Robert F. Hillary United Kingdom	16	517 0.7×	155 0.6×	171 1.0×	134 0.9×	72 0.6×	29	972
Kunio Miyake Japan	20	564 0.8×	178 0.7×	291 1.7×	133 0.9×	188 1.4×	87	1.3k
Jude Gibson United Kingdom	16	672 1.0×	236 0.9×	352 2.0×	183 1.2×	106 0.8×	20	1.2k
Jacob K. Kresovich United States	21	579 0.8×	268 1.0×	130 0.7×	159 1.0×	266 2.0×	43	1.2k
Karen Ho United Kingdom	10	664 0.9×	227 0.9×	410 2.3×	121 0.8×	132 1.0×	21	1.1k
Christian M. Page Norway	21	437 0.6×	392 1.5×	127 0.7×	83 0.5×	116 0.9×	61	1.1k
Josine L. Min United Kingdom	16	722 1.0×	172 0.7×	357 2.0×	178 1.2×	83 0.6×	26	1.3k
Sonja Zeilinger Germany	12	708 1.0×	266 1.0×	181 1.0×	229 1.5×	125 1.0×	12	1.2k

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Bernabeu, Elena, Paul Yousefi, Matthew Suderman, et al.. (2025). A blood- and brain-based EWAS of smoking. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3210–3210. 1 indexed citations

Tabassum, Rubina, Sanni Ruotsalainen, Mathias J. Gerl, et al.. (2025). Examining the link between 179 lipid species and 7 diseases using genetic predictors. EBioMedicine. 114. 105671–105671.

Crofts, Samuel, Robert F. Hillary, Daniel J. Simpson, et al.. (2024). Probabilistic inference of epigenetic age acceleration from cellular dynamics. Nature Aging. 4(10). 1493–1507. 6 indexed citations

Gadd, Danni A., Yipeng Cheng, Elena Bernabeu, et al.. (2024). Epigenetic Contributions to Clinical Risk Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 17(1). e004265–e004265. 10 indexed citations

McCartney, Daniel L., Anne Richmond, Archie Campbell, et al.. (2024). Generation Scotland: an update on Scotland’s longitudinal family health study. BMJ Open. 14(6). e084719–e084719. 4 indexed citations

Hillary, Robert F., Daniel L. McCartney, Elena Bernabeu, et al.. (2023). Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of 19 common disease states: A longitudinal, population-based linked cohort study of 18,413 Scottish individuals. PLoS Medicine. 20(7). e1004247–e1004247. 33 indexed citations

Bernabeu, Elena, Daniel L. McCartney, Danni A. Gadd, et al.. (2023). Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age. Genome Medicine. 15(1). 12–12. 65 indexed citations breakdown →

Hillary, Robert F., Archie Campbell, Lee Murphy, et al.. (2023). Integration of datasets for individual prediction of DNA methylation-based biomarkers. Genome biology. 24(1). 278–278. 1 indexed citations

Wheater, Emily, Paola Galdi, Daniel L. McCartney, et al.. (2022). DNA methylation in relation to gestational age and brain dysmaturation in preterm infants. Brain Communications. 4(2). fcac056–fcac056. 22 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F., Daniel L. McCartney, Allan F. McRae, et al.. (2022). Identification of influential probe types in epigenetic predictions of human traits: implications for microarray design. Clinical Epigenetics. 14(1). 100–100. 4 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F., Danni A. Gadd, Daniel L. McCartney, et al.. (2022). Genome‐ and epigenome‐wide studies of plasma protein biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease implicate TBCA and TREM2 in disease risk. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 14(1). e12280–e12280. 5 indexed citations

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Baranyi, Gergő, Ian J. Deary, Daniel L. McCartney, et al.. (2022). Life-course exposure to air pollution and biological ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Environment International. 169. 107501–107501. 33 indexed citations

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Vaher, Kadi, Laura de Nooij, Matthew Harris, et al.. (2021). Associations between alcohol use and accelerated biological ageing. Addiction Biology. 27(1). e13100–e13100. 30 indexed citations

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Stevenson, Anna J., Danni A. Gadd, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2021). Creating and Validating a DNA Methylation-Based Proxy for Interleukin-6. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 76(12). 2284–2292. 20 indexed citations

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Gadd, Danni A., Anna J. Stevenson, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2021). Epigenetic predictors of lifestyle traits applied to the blood and brain. Brain Communications. 3(2). fcab082–fcab082. 6 indexed citations

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McCartney, Daniel L., Rosie M. Walker, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2020). Birth weight associations with DNA methylation differences in an adult population. Epigenetics. 16(7). 783–796. 16 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F., Daniel L. McCartney, Sarah E. Harris, et al.. (2019). Genome and epigenome wide studies of neurological protein biomarkers in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3160–3160. 36 indexed citations

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Stevenson, Anna J., Daniel L. McCartney, Sarah E. Harris, et al.. (2018). Trajectories of inflammatory biomarkers over the eighth decade and their associations with immune cell profiles and epigenetic ageing. Clinical Epigenetics. 10(1). 159–159. 46 indexed citations

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McCartney, Daniel L., Rosie M. Walker, Stewart W. Morris, et al.. (2016). Identification of polymorphic and off-target probe binding sites on the Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip. Genomics Data. 9. 22–24. 222 indexed citations

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Zarin, Aref Arzan, Karsten Hokamp, Daniel L. McCartney, et al.. (2014). A Transcription Factor Network Coordinates Attraction, Repulsion, and Adhesion Combinatorially to Control Motor Axon Pathway Selection. Neuron. 81(6). 1297–1311. 23 indexed citations

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