David M. Evans

71.2k citations

277 papers · 15.4k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 57

Impact in

Genetics top 0.1%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Rheumatology top 0.5%

Papers in

Genetics 105
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 79
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 29
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 21
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 39
- Birth, Development, and Health 37

Co-authors: George Davey Smith Gibran Hemani Jie Zheng Nicholas J. Timpson Philip Haycock Denis Baird Jack Bowden Tom R. Gaunt
Journals: Behavior Genetics (16 papers)International Journal of Epidemiology (13 papers)Human Molecular Genetics (11 papers)Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) (10 papers)PLoS Genetics (8 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Australia United States

In The Last Decade

David M. Evans

265 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome 2018 · 4.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 eLife
2017 Current Epidemiology Reports
2017 International Journal of Epidemiology
2016 Genome biology
2016 Bioinformatics
2015 Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

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#	Work
1	The genetics of low and high birthweight and their relationship with cardiometabolic disease Diabetologia ·Gunn-Helen Moen, Liang‐Dar Hwang, Bone Meredith, Nicole M. Warrington, David M. Evans	2025	0
2	Estimating disease heritability from complex pedigrees allowing for ascertainment and covariates The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Doug Speed, David M. Evans	2024	1
3	Investigating a possible causal relationship between maternal serum urate concentrations and offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomization study International Journal of Epidemiology ·J. L. Kovar, М. Суханова, Jack Bowden, Beverly M. Shields, Debbie A. Lawlor, Nicole M. Warrington, David M. Evans, Rachel M. Freathy, Robin N. Beaumont	2022	5
4	Fetal alleles predisposing to metabolically favorable adiposity are associated with higher birth weight Human Molecular Genetics ·William Thompson, Robin N. Beaumont, Alan Kuang, Nicole M. Warrington, Yingjie Ji, Jessica Tyrrell, Andrew R. Wood, Denise Scholtens, Bridget Knight, David M. Evans, William L. Lowe, Gillian Santorelli, XG Hong, Dan Mason, Andrew T. Hattersley, Timothy M. Frayling, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Jian Zhong Hu, Debbie A. Lawlor, Rachel M. Freathy	2021	3
5	Higher maternal adiposity reduces offspring birthweight if associated with a metabolically favourable profile Diabetologia ·William Thompson, Robin N. Beaumont, Alan Kuang, Nicole M. Warrington, Yingjie Ji, Jessica Tyrrell, Andrew R. Wood, Denise Scholtens, Bridget Knight, David M. Evans, William L. Lowe, Gillian Santorelli, Rafaq Azad, Dan Mason, Andrew T. Hattersley, Timothy M. Frayling, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Maria Carolina Borges, Debbie A. Lawlor, Rachel M. Freathy	2021	7
6	Investigating the causal effect of maternal vitamin B12 and folate levels on offspring birthweight International Journal of Epidemiology ·Gunn-Helen Moen, Robin N. Beaumont, Niels Grarup, Christine Sommer, Beverley M. Shields, Debbie A. Lawlor, Rachel M. Freathy, David M. Evans, Nicole M. Warrington	2020	6
7	RSPO3 impacts body fat distribution and regulates adipose cell biology in vitro Nature Communications ·Nellie Y. Loh, James E. N. Minchin, Katherine E. Pinnick, Hengsheng Wang, Marijana Todorčević, Nathan Denton, Julia S. El-Sayed Moustafa, John P. Kemp, Celia L. Gregson, David M. Evans, Matt J. Neville, Kerrin S. Small, Mark I. McCarthy, Anubha Mahajan, John F. Rawls, Fredrik Karpe, Constantinos Christodoulides	2020	39
8	Estimating indirect parental genetic effects on offspring phenotypes using virtual parental genotypes derived from sibling and half sibling pairs PLoS Genetics ·Liang‐Dar Hwang, Justin D. Tubbs, 聂蓉, Mischa Lundberg, Gunn-Helen Moen, Geng Wang, Nicole M. Warrington, Pak C. Sham, Gabriel Cuéllar-Partida, David M. Evans	2020	18
9	Identification and Validation of Targets for Osteoporosis: Evidence from Whole exome Sequencing in 42,263 individuals, CRISPR-Cas9 and murine models Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Lætitia Laurent, Sirui Zhou, Vincenzo Forgetta, J. Brent Richards, John P. Kemp, David M. Evans, Albéna Pramatarova, Peter I. Croucher, Graham R. Williams, J. H. Duncan Bassett, David Goltzman	2019	1
10	Using a two-sample Mendelian randomization design to investigate a possible causal effect of maternal lipid concentrations on offspring birth weight International Journal of Epidemiology ·Liang‐Dar Hwang, Debbie A. Lawlor, Rachel M. Freathy, David M. Evans, Nicole M. Warrington	2019	46
11	Sarcoma Cell Line Screen of Oncology Drugs and Investigational Agents Identifies Patterns Associated with Gene and microRNA Expression Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Beverly A. Teicher, Eric C. Polley, Mark W. Kunkel, David M. Evans, Thomas Silvers, René Delosh, Julie Laudeman, Benjamin Ackermann, Russell Reinhart, Michael Selby, John Connelly, Erik Harris, Anne Monks, Joel Morris	2015	55
12	Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies 11 novel risk loci for atopic dermatitis Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Lavinia Paternoster, Marie Standl, Hansjörg Baurecht, David M. Evans, Stephan Weidinger	2015	1
13	Genetic Variation in Prostate-Specific Antigen–Detected Prostate Cancer and the Effect of Control Selection on Genetic Association Studies Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Duleeka Knipe, David M. Evans, John P. Kemp, Rosalind A. Eeles, Douglas F. Easton, Zsofia Kote‐Jarai, Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch, Jenny Donovan, Freddie C. Hamdy, David E. Neal, George Davey Smith, Mark Lathrop, Richard M. Martin	2014	25
14	Bivariate genetic association analysis of pediatric total-body DXA parameters identifies two novel genetic variants that jointly influence bone mineral content and bone area Journal of Bone and Mineral Research ·John P. Kemp, Carolina Medina‐Gómez, Nicole M. Warrington, Denise H. M. Heppe, Nicholas J. Timpson, Ling Oei, Beaté St Pourcain, Claudia J. Kruithof, M. Carola Zillikens, Albert Hofman, André G. Uitterlinden, George Davey Smith, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Jonathan H. Tobias, Fernando Rivadeneira, David M. Evans	2014	0
15	Using Genetic Proxies for Lifecourse Sun Exposure to Assess the Causal Relationship of Sun Exposure with Circulating Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer Risk Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Carolina Bonilla, Rebecca Gilbert, John P. Kemp, Nicholas J. Timpson, David M. Evans, Jenny Donovan, Freddie C. Hamdy, David E. Neal, William D. Fraser, George Davey Smith, Sarah J. Lewis, Mark Lathrop, Richard M. Martin	2013	20
16	Alterations in polyamine catabolic enzymes in human breast cancer tissue. PubMed ·Heather Wallace, Steven D. Quinn, David M. Evans, Nicolas Lavigne, Dang Qin-hua, Steven D. Heys	2000	66
17	Model Theory of Groups and Automorphism Groups UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·David M. Evans	1997	6
18	Management of women with abnormal cervical smears: supplement to terminology in gynaecological cytopathology. Journal of Clinical Pathology ·David M. Evans, Elizabeth Hudson, Christopher L. Brown, Óscar Fernández Ramírez, Manochehr Azrang, E F Mackenzie	1987	15
19	The British Society of Gastroenterology Gut ·C. André, R Lambert, Sier, David M. Evans, John Craven, Á. Száz, Brendan Cleary, Kidung Dalu Sriyoko, Robert Chapman, D G Colin‐Jones, 复旦大学信息与传播研究中心课题组, V. S. Chadwick, Jennifer Jones, J. C. Debongnie, Timothy S. Gaginella, S.F. 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20	IAS volume 44 Cover and Front matter Symposium - International Astronomical Union ·David M. Evans, Beverley J. Wills, RICH SALAZAR, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1972	1

About David M. Evans

David M. Evans is a scholar working on Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rheumatology and Developmental Biology, having authored 277 papers that have together received 15.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (79 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (37 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (29 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (21 papers), Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (18 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (15 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (14 papers) and Asthma and respiratory diseases (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (6.2k citations), Rheumatology (1.3k citations), Internal Medicine (242 citations), Molecular Biology (4.3k citations) and Physiology (1.6k citations). David M. Evans has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Frequent co-authors include George Davey Smith, Gibran Hemani, Jie Zheng, Nicholas J. Timpson, Philip Haycock, Denis Baird, Jack Bowden, Tom R. Gaunt, Caroline L. Relton and Hashem A. Shihab. Their work appears in journals such as Behavior Genetics, International Journal of Epidemiology, Human Molecular Genetics, Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) and PLoS Genetics.

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