Giles S.H. Yeo

24.3k citations

167 papers · 13.5k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 62

Molecular Biology top 1%
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 0.05%
Physiology top 0.5%
Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.1%
Genetics top 0.5%

Co-authors: Stephen O’Rahilly Ruth J. F. Loos I. Sadaf Farooqi Julia M. Keogh Tim Cheetham Anthony P. Coll Brian Lam Lora K. Heisler
Topics: Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (62 papers)Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (38 papers)Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (30 papers)
Cited by: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems Nutrition and Dietetics Physiology
Journals: Nature New England Journal of Medicine Cell
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Giles S.H. Yeo

165 papers receiving 13.3k 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.

Clinical Spectrum of Obesity and Mutations in the Melanocortin 4 Receptor Gene

2003 1.2k citations I. Sadaf Farooqi, Julia M. Keogh et al. profile →
The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biology

2021 655 citations Ruth J. F. Loos, Giles S.H. Yeo Nature Reviews Genetics profile →
Dominant and recessive inheritance of morbid obesity associated with melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency

2000 583 citations I. Sadaf Farooqi, Giles S.H. Yeo et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
The bigger picture of FTO—the first GWAS-identified obesity gene

2013 450 citations Ruth J. F. Loos, Giles S.H. Yeo profile →
Loss-of-Function Mutation in the Dioxygenase-Encoding FTO Gene Causes Severe Growth Retardation and Multiple Malformations

2009 294 citations Giles S.H. Yeo, Vladimı́r Saudek et al. profile →
Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor-Expressing Cells in the Hypothalamus Regulate Food Intake

2019 237 citations John A. Tadross, Joseph Polex-Wolf et al. profile →
A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

2025 29 citations John A. Tadross, Kara Rainbow et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	From identity to function: unveiling the cellular complexity of hypothalamic feeding circuits 2025 ·Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders ·(unknown),John A. Tadross,Giles S.H. Yeo	0
2	Systemic proteome adaptions to 7-day complete caloric restriction in humans 2024 ·Nature Metabolism ·Maik Pietzner,(unknown),Kristoffer J. Kolnes,Per Bendix Jeppesen,(unknown),Øyvind Skattebo,(unknown),Bjørn Steen Skålhegg,Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski,Anders J. Kolnes,Giles S.H. Yeo,Stephen O’Rahilly,Jens‐Erik Beck Jensen,Claudia Langenberg	20
3	Low resting metabolic rate and increased hunger due to β-MSH and β-endorphin deletion in a canine model 2024 ·Science Advances ·Marie T. Dittmann,Gabriella Lakatos,(unknown),Jacek Mokrosiński,(unknown),I. Sadaf Farooqi,(unknown),Lewis G. Halsey,Rory P. Wilson,Stephen O’Rahilly,Giles S.H. Yeo,Eleanor Raffan	5
4	A program of successive gene expression in mouse one-cell embryos 2023 ·Cell Reports ·Maki Asami,Brian Lam,Martin Hoffmann,Toru Suzuki,Xin Lü,Naoko Yoshida,Marcella Ma,Kara Rainbow,Miodrag Gužvić,Matthew VerMilyea,Giles S.H. Yeo,Christoph Klein,Anthony C.F. Perry	14
5	High morbidity and mortality in children with untreated congenital deficiency of leptin or its receptor 2023 ·Cell Reports Medicine ·Sadia Saeed,(unknown),(unknown),Jaida Manzoor,(unknown),(unknown),Mickaël Canouil,Muhammad Ashar Ali,Hina Ayesha,Waqas Khan,I. Sadaf Farooqi,Giles S.H. Yeo,Stephen O’Rahilly,Amélie Bonnefond,Taeed A. Butt,Muhammad Arslan,Philippe Froguel	16
6	Dax1 modulates ERα-dependent hypothalamic estrogen sensing in female mice 2023 ·Nature Communications ·José M. Ramos Pittol,(unknown),Alexandra Milona,(unknown),Kara Rainbow,Brian Lam,John A. Tadross,Anthony Beucher,William H Colledge,Inês Cebola,Kevin G. Murphy,Irene Miguel‐Aliaga,Giles S.H. Yeo,Waljit S. Dhillo,Bryn M. Owen	5
7	POMC neuronal heterogeneity in energy balance and beyond: an integrated view 2021 ·Nature Metabolism ·Carmelo Quarta,Marc Claret,Lori M. Zeltser,Kevin W. Williams,Giles S.H. Yeo,Matthias H. Tschöp,Sabrina Diano,Jens C. Brüning,Daniela Cota	115
8	The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biologybreakdown → 2021 ·Nature Reviews Genetics ·Ruth J. F. Loos,Giles S.H. Yeo	655
9	Hypothalamic loss of Snord116 recapitulates the hyperphagia of Prader-Willi syndrome 2018 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Joseph Polex-Wolf,Brian Lam,Rachel Larder,John A. Tadross,Debra Rimmington,Fátima Bosch,Verónica Jiménez,Eduard Ayuso,Marcella Ma,Kara Rainbow,Anthony P. Coll,Stephen O’Rahilly,Giles S.H. Yeo	70
10	Obesity-associated gene TMEM18 has a role in the central control of appetite and body weight regulation 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Rachel Larder,(unknown),Pawan Gulati,Robin Antrobus,Y.C. Loraine Tung,Debra Rimmington,Eduard Ayuso,Joseph Polex-Wolf,Brian Lam,Cristina Dias,Darren W. Logan,Sam Virtue,Fátima Bosch,Giles S.H. Yeo,Vladimı́r Saudek,Stephen O’Rahilly,Anthony P. Coll	49
11	A coding variant in FTO confers susceptibility to thiopurine-induced leukopenia in East Asian patients with IBD 2016 ·Gut ·Han Sang Kim,Jae Hee Cheon,Eun Suk Jung,Joonhee Park,(unknown),Soo Jung Park,(unknown),Jinu Lee,Ulrich Rüther,Giles S.H. Yeo,Marcella Ma,Kyong Soo Park,Takeo Naito,Yoichi Kakuta,Ji Hyun Lee,Won Ho Kim,Min Goo Lee	28
12	TCR usage, gene expression and function of two distinct FOXP3⁺Treg subsets within CD4⁺CD25^hi T cells identified by expression of CD39 and CD45RO 2015 ·Immunology and Cell Biology ·Lingying Ye,Jane Goodall,Libin Zhang,Ekaterina V. Putintseva,Brian Lam,Lei Jiang,Wei Liu,Jian Yin,Li Lin,Ting Li,Xinyu Wu,Giles S.H. Yeo,Mikhail Shugay,Dmitriy M. Chudakov,Hill Gaston,Huji Xu	18
13	Ageing is associated with molecular signatures of inflammation and type 2 diabetes in rat pancreatic islets 2015 ·Diabetologia ·Ionel Sandovici,(unknown),Wendy N. Cooper,Noel H. Smith,Jane L. Tarry‐Adkins,Benjamin J. Dunmore,Julien Bauer,Simon Andrews,Giles S.H. Yeo,Susan E. Ozanne,Miguel Constância	21
14	From GWAS to biology: lessons from FTO 2011 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Yi‐Chun Loraine Tung,Giles S.H. Yeo	75
15	Hypothalamic Transcriptome Plasticity in Two Rodent Species Reveals Divergent Differential Gene Expression But Conserved Pathways 2010 ·Journal of Neuroendocrinology ·(unknown),Charles C.T. Hindmarch,Jing Qiu,Y.C. Loraine Tung,Giles S.H. Yeo,David Murphy	15
16	Elucidating the aetiology of Prader-Willi syndrome: deletion of the HBII-85 class of snoRNA is associated with hyperphagia, obesity and hypogonadism 2009 ·Journal of Medical Genetics ·Adam J. de Smith,Carolin Purmann,Robin Walters,Richard J. Ellis,Susan Holder,Mieke M. van Haelst,(unknown),U. L. Fairbrother,Mehul Dattani,Julia M. Keogh,Elana Henning,Giles S.H. Yeo,Stephen O’Rahilly,Philippe Froguel,I. Sadaf Farooqi,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore	1
17	PPAR gamma 2 Prevents Lipotoxicity by Controlling Adipose Tissue Expandability and Peripheral Lipid Metabolism 2007 ·PLoS Genetics ·Gema Medina‐Gómez,Sarah L. Gray,Laxman Yetukuri,Kenju Shimomura,Sam Virtue,Mark Campbell,Ruth Curtis,Mercedes Jimenez‐Liñan,Margaret Blount,Giles S.H. Yeo,Miguel López,Tuulikki Seppänen‐Laakso,Frances M. Ashcroft,Matej Orešič,Antonio Vidal‐Puig	342
18	A de novo mutation affecting human TrkB associated with severe obesity and developmental delay 2004 ·Nature Neuroscience ·Giles S.H. Yeo,(unknown),Justin J. Rochford,Julia M. Keogh,(unknown),(unknown),Stephen O’Rahilly,I. Sadaf Farooqi	434
19	Mutations in the human melanocortin-4 receptor gene associated with severe familial obesity disrupts receptor function through multiple molecular mechanisms 2003 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Giles S.H. Yeo	9
20	Generation and Analysis of 25 Mb of Genomic DNA from the Pufferfish Fugu rubripes by Sequence Scanning 1999 ·Genome Research ·Greg Elgar,Melody S. Clark,Stephen Meek,Sarah Smith,Sarah Warner,Yvonne J. K. Edwards,(unknown),Amanda Cottage,Giles S.H. Yeo,Yagnesh Umrania,Gary W. Williams,Sydney Brenner	70

About Giles S.H. Yeo

Giles S.H. Yeo is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Aging and Nutrition and Dietetics, having authored 167 papers that have together received 13.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (62 papers), Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (38 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (30 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (4.4k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (2.6k citations) and Physiology (3.6k citations). Giles S.H. Yeo has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Stephen O’Rahilly, Ruth J. F. Loos, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Julia M. Keogh, Tim Cheetham, Anthony P. Coll, Brian Lam, Lora K. Heisler, Benjamin Challis and Justin J. Rochford. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Cell.

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