Gibran Hemani

53.6k citations

110 papers · 16.4k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 40

Genetics top 0.05%
Molecular Biology top 1%
Epidemiology top 1%
Physiology top 1%
Surgery top 2%

Co-authors: George Davey Smith Jack Bowden Kate Tilling Jie Zheng Philip Haycock David M. Evans Caroline L. Relton Tom R. Gaunt
Topics: Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (65 papers)Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (29 papers)Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (22 papers)
Cited by: Genetics Biological Psychiatry Rheumatology
Journals: Nature Nature Communications Bioinformatics
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Gibran Hemani

106 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

2018 4.4k citations Gibran Hemani, Jie Zheng et al. profile →
Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studies

2014 2.6k citations George Davey Smith, Gibran Hemani Human Molecular Genetics profile →
Orienting the causal relationship between imprecisely measured traits using GWAS summary data

2017 1.4k citations Gibran Hemani, Kate Tilling et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
Evaluating the potential role of pleiotropy in Mendelian randomization studies

2018 871 citations Gibran Hemani, George Davey Smith et al. Human Molecular Genetics profile →
Recent Developments in Mendelian Randomization Studies

2017 662 citations Jie Zheng, Maria Carolina Borges et al. profile →
Improved Heritability Estimation from Genome-wide SNPs

2012 429 citations Gibran Hemani et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →
Statistical inference in two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization using robust adjusted profile score

2020 426 citations Gibran Hemani et al. profile →
LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic correlation analysis

2016 406 citations Jie Zheng, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Systematic identification of genetic influences on methylation across the human life course

2016 351 citations Tom R. Gaunt, Hashem A. Shihab et al. profile →
Evidence for causal effects of lifetime smoking on risk for depression and schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomisation study

2019 349 citations Robyn E. Wootton, Rebecca C. Richmond et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Genetic inference of on-target and off-target side-effects of antipsychotic medications 2025 ·PLoS Genetics ·(unknown),(unknown),Lavinia Paternoster,Golam M. Khandaker,Tom R. Gaunt,Gibran Hemani	0
2	Unidirectional and bidirectional causation between smoking and blood DNA methylation: evidence from twin-based Mendelian randomisation 2025 ·European Journal of Epidemiology ·(unknown),Conor V. Dolan,(unknown),Jouke‐Jan Hottenga,René Pool,Brad Verhulst,Dorret I. Boomsma,Charles E. Breeze,Eco J. C. de Geus,Gibran Hemani,Josine L. Min,Roseann E. Peterson,Hermine H. Maes,Jenny van Dongen,Michael C. Neale	0
3	Use of genetic correlations to examine selection bias 2024 ·Genetic Epidemiology ·Chin Yang Shapland,Apostolos Gkatzionis,Gibran Hemani,Kate Tilling	0
4	The importance of family-based sampling for biobanks 2024 ·Nature ·Neil M Davies,Gibran Hemani,Jenae M. Neiderhiser,Hilary C. Martin,Melinda Mills,Peter M. Visscher,Loïc Yengo,Alexander I. Young,Matthew C. Keller	8
5	The impact of fatty acids biosynthesis on the risk of cardiovascular diseases in Europeans and East Asians: a Mendelian randomization study 2022 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Maria Carolina Borges,(unknown),Jie Zheng,Gibran Hemani,Laurence J Howe,Amand F. Schmidt,James R Staley,R Thomas Lumbers,Albert Henry,Rozenn N. Lemaître,Tom R. Gaunt,Michael V. Holmes,George Davey Smith,Aroon D. Hingorani,Debbie A. Lawlor	8
6	Investigating the transparency of reporting in two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization studies using the MR-Base platform 2022 ·International Journal of Epidemiology ·Benjamin Woolf,(unknown),(unknown),Veronika Skrivankova,(unknown),Julian P. T. Higgins,Gibran Hemani,Marcus R. Munafò,George Davey Smith,James Yarmolinsky,Rebecca C. Richmond	29
7	Evaluating and implementing block jackknife resampling Mendelian randomization to mitigate bias induced by overlapping samples 2022 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Si Fang,Gibran Hemani,Tom G. Richardson,Tom R. Gaunt,George Davey Smith	15
8	The use of negative control outcomes in Mendelian randomization to detect potential population stratification 2021 ·International Journal of Epidemiology ·Eleanor Sanderson,Tom G. Richardson,Gibran Hemani,George Davey Smith	61
9	Education, intelligence and Alzheimer’s disease: evidence from a multivariable two-sample Mendelian randomization study 2020 ·International Journal of Epidemiology ·Emma L. Anderson,Laura D Howe,Kaitlin H. Wade,Yoav Ben‐Shlomo,W. David Hill,Ian J. Deary,Eleanor Sanderson,Jie Zheng,Roxanna Korologou‐Linden,Evie Stergiakouli,George Davey Smith,Neil M Davies,Gibran Hemani	95
10	EpiGraphDB: a database and data mining platform for health data science 2020 ·Bioinformatics ·Yi Liu,Benjamin Elsworth,Pau Erola,Valeriia Haberland,Gibran Hemani,Matthew Lyon,Jie Zheng,O. C. Lloyd,(unknown),Tom R. Gaunt	28
11	Schizophrenia risk and reproductive success: a Mendelian randomization study 2019 ·Royal Society Open Science ·Rebecca B. Lawn,Hannah Sallis,Amy E. Taylor,Robyn E. Wootton,George Davey Smith,Neil M Davies,Gibran Hemani,Abigail Fraser,Ian S. Penton‐Voak,Marcus R. Munafò	15
12	A Phenome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study of Pancreatic Cancer Using Summary Genetic Data 2019 ·Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Ryan Langdon,Rebecca C. Richmond,Gibran Hemani,Jie Zheng,Kaitlin H. Wade,Robert Carreras‐Torres,Mattias Johansson,Paul Brennan,Robyn E. Wootton,Marcus R. Munafò,George Davey Smith,Caroline L. Relton,Emma E. Vincent,Richard M. Martin,Philip Haycock	16
13	Shared polygenic risk and causal inferences in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2019 ·Annals of Neurology ·Sara Bandrés‐Ciga,Alastair J. Noyce,Gibran Hemani,(unknown),Andrea Calvo,Gabriele Mora,Pentti Tienari,David J. Stone,Mike A. Nalls,Andrew Singleton,Adriano Chiò,(unknown)	109
14	Apparent latent structure within the UK Biobank sample has implications for epidemiological analysis 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Simon Haworth,Ruth E. Mitchell,Laura J. Corbin,Kaitlin H. Wade,Tom Dudding,Ashley Budu‐Aggrey,David Carslake,Gibran Hemani,Lavinia Paternoster,George Davey Smith,Neil M Davies,Daniel J. Lawson,Nicholas J. Timpson	176
15	PhenoSpD: an integrated toolkit for phenotypic correlation estimation and multiple testing correction using GWAS summary statistics 2018 ·GigaScience ·Jie Zheng,Tom G. Richardson,Louise A C Millard,Gibran Hemani,Benjamin Elsworth,(unknown),Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson,Benjamin M. Neale,Philip Haycock,George Davey Smith,Tom R. Gaunt	40
16	Meffil: efficient normalization and analysis of very large DNA methylation datasets 2018 ·Bioinformatics ·Josine L. Min,Gibran Hemani,George Davey Smith,Caroline L. Relton,Matthew Suderman	179
17	LD hub and MR-base: online platforms for preforming LD score regression and Mendelian randomization analysis using GWAS summary data 2016 ·Behavior Genetics ·Jie Zheng,Philip Haycock,Gibran Hemani,Benjamin Elsworth,Hashem A. Shihab,Charles Laurin,A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu,Laurence J Howe,Kaitlin H. Wade,Nicole M. Warrington,Hilary K. Finucane,Alkes L. Price,Verneri Anttila,Lavinia Paternoster,Richard M. Martin,Caroline L. Relton,Tom R. Gaunt,George Davey Smith,Benjamin M. Neale,David M. Evans	5
18	Dominance Genetic Variation Contributes Little to the Missing Heritability for Human Complex Traits 2015 ·The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Zhihong Zhu,Andrew Bakshi,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Gibran Hemani,Sang Lee,Ilja M. Nolte,Jana V. van Vliet‐Ostaptchouk,Harold Snieder,Tōnu Esko,Lili Milani,Reedik Mägi,Andres Metspalu,William Hill,Bruce S. Weir,Michael E. Goddard,Peter M. Visscher,Jian Yang	143
19	Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studiesbreakdown → 2014 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·George Davey Smith,Gibran Hemani	2608
20	Mendelianrandomization:geneticanchors forcausal inference in epidemiological studies 2014 ·George Davey Smith,Gibran Hemani	1

About Gibran Hemani

Gibran Hemani is a scholar working on Genetics, Biological Psychiatry and Modeling and Simulation, having authored 110 papers that have together received 16.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (65 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (29 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (8.3k citations), Biological Psychiatry (246 citations) and Rheumatology (1.3k citations). Gibran Hemani has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include George Davey Smith, Jack Bowden, Kate Tilling, Jie Zheng, Philip Haycock, David M. Evans, Caroline L. Relton, Tom R. Gaunt, Denis Baird and Benjamin Elsworth. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

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