Eilís Hannon

16.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Eilís Hannon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Eilís Hannon has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Molecular Biology, 52 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Eilís Hannon's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (68 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (28 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (23 papers). Eilís Hannon is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (68 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (28 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (23 papers). Eilís Hannon collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Eilís Hannon's co-authors include Jonathan Mill, Leonard C. Schalkwyk, Katie Lunnon, Joe Burrage, Nicholas J. Bray, David J. Llewellyn, Elina Hyppönen, Elżbieta Kuźma, Ilianna Lourida and Thomas J. Littlejohns and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Nature Communications and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Eilís Hannon

93 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Association of Lifestyle and Genetic Risk With Incidence of Dementia

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Ruth Pidsley Australia

Katie Lunnon United Kingdom

Kathryn L. Evans United Kingdom

Zachary Kaminsky United States

Chloe C. Y. Wong United Kingdom

Artūras Petronis Canada

Sarah E. Harris United Kingdom

Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Netherlands

Edwin J. C. G. van den Oord United States

Ake T. Lu United States

Ruth Pidsley Australia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eilís Hannon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Eilís Hannon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Eilís Hannon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Eilís Hannon. Eilís Hannon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Walker, Emma, Emma Dempster, Barry A. Chioza, et al.. (2025). Guidance for the design and analysis of cell-type-specific DNA methylation epidemiology studies. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 26(4). 1 indexed citations

Clifton, Nicholas E., Emma Walker, Isabel Castanho, et al.. (2025). Setd1a Loss-of-function Disrupts Epigenetic Regulation of Ribosomal Genes via Altered DNA Methylation. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 52(2). 1 indexed citations

Gillespie, Amy, Emma Walker, Eilís Hannon, et al.. (2024). Longitudinal changes in DNA methylation associated with clozapine use in treatment-resistant schizophrenia from two international cohorts. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 390–390. 3 indexed citations

Caspi, Avshalom, Gemma Shireby, Jonathan Mill, et al.. (2023). Accelerated Pace of Aging in Schizophrenia: Five Case-Control Studies. Biological Psychiatry. 95(11). 1038–1047. 18 indexed citations

Lin, Simeng, Eilís Hannon, Mark Reppell, et al.. (2023). Whole Blood DNA Methylation Changes Are Associated with Anti-TNF Drug Concentration in Patients with Crohn’s Disease. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 18(8). 1190–1201. 7 indexed citations

Pihlstrøm, Lasse, Gemma Shireby, Hanneke Geut, et al.. (2022). Epigenome-wide association study of human frontal cortex identifies differential methylation in Lewy body pathology. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4932–4932. 15 indexed citations

Shireby, Gemma, Emma Dempster, Rebecca G. Smith, et al.. (2022). DNA methylation signatures of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology in the cortex are primarily driven by variation in non-neuronal cell-types. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5620–5620. 60 indexed citations

Shireby, Gemma, Emma Dempster, Joe Burrage, et al.. (2022). Uncertainty quantification of reference-based cellular deconvolution algorithms. Epigenetics. 18(1). 2137659–2137659. 8 indexed citations

Gunasekara, Chathura, Eilís Hannon, Harry A. Mackay, et al.. (2021). A machine learning case–control classifier for schizophrenia based on DNA methylation in blood. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 412–412. 14 indexed citations

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Hannon, Eilís, Georgina Mansell, Emma Walker, et al.. (2021). Assessing the co-variability of DNA methylation across peripheral cells and tissues: Implications for the interpretation of findings in epigenetic epidemiology. PLoS Genetics. 17(3). e1009443–e1009443. 32 indexed citations

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Cameron, Darren, Eilís Hannon, Emma Dempster, et al.. (2021). Sites of active gene regulation in the prenatal frontal cortex and their role in neuropsychiatric disorders. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 186(6). 376–388. 7 indexed citations

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Sugden, Karen, Eilís Hannon, Louise Arseneault, et al.. (2020). Patterns of Reliability: Assessing the Reproducibility and Integrity of DNA Methylation Measurement. Patterns. 1(2). 100014–100014. 81 indexed citations

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Rovira, Paula, Cristina Sánchez‐Mora, Mireia Pagerols, et al.. (2020). Epigenome-wide association study of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 199–199. 14 indexed citations

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Shireby, Gemma, Jonathan Davies, Paul T. Francis, et al.. (2020). Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex. Brain. 143(12). 3763–3775. 110 indexed citations

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Wong, Chloe C. Y., Rebecca G. Smith, Eilís Hannon, et al.. (2019). Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling identifies convergent molecular signatures associated with idiopathic and syndromic autism in post-mortem human brain tissue. Human Molecular Genetics. 28(13). 2201–2211. 59 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Eilís Hannon, Janet Harwood, et al.. (2019). Dynamic expression of genes associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder across development. Translational Psychiatry. 9(1). 74–74. 27 indexed citations

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Mansell, Georgina, T.J. Gorrie-Stone, Yanchun Bao, et al.. (2019). Guidance for DNA methylation studies: statistical insights from the Illumina EPIC array. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 366–366. 180 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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Hannon, Eilís, Olivia Knox, Karen Sugden, et al.. (2018). Characterizing genetic and environmental influences on variable DNA methylation using monozygotic and dizygotic twins. PLoS Genetics. 14(8). e1007544–e1007544. 117 indexed citations

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Smith, Adam R., Rebecca G. Smith, Eilís Hannon, et al.. (2016). Increased DNA methylation near TREM2 is consistently seen in the superior temporal gyrus in Alzheimer's disease brain. Neurobiology of Aging. 47. 35–40. 67 indexed citations

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