John R. B. Perry

84.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

John R. B. Perry is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Reproductive Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, John R. B. Perry has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Genetics, 28 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Reproductive Medicine. Recurrent topics in John R. B. Perry's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (26 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (10 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (9 papers). John R. B. Perry is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (26 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (10 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (9 papers). John R. B. Perry collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. John R. B. Perry's co-authors include Felix R. Day, Ken K. Ong, Benjamin M. Neale, Brendan Bulik‐Sullivan, Hilary K. Finucane, Po‐Ru Loh, Laramie E. Duncan, Elise Robinson, Alexander Gusev and Verneri Anttila and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John R. B. Perry

67 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

2015 2.2k citations Felix R. Day, John R. B. Perry et al. profile →
Puberty timing associated with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and also diverse health outcomes in men and women: the UK Biobank study

2015 367 citations Felix R. Day, Ken K. Ong et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior

2019 213 citations Andrea Ganna, Karin J. H. Verweij et al. Science profile →
A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

2025 29 citations Katherine A. Kentistou, John R. B. Perry et al. profile →

Peers

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Felix R. Day United Kingdom

Jacques Tremblay Canada

Dale R. Nyholt Australia

Anna Murray United Kingdom

Benjamin Elsworth United Kingdom

Andrew R. Wood United Kingdom

Richa Saxena United States

Brendan Bulik‐Sullivan United States

Sven Sandin Sweden

Anjali K. Henders Australia

Felix R. Day United Kingdom

John R. B. Perry

2.3k ×0.9

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1.1k ×0.8

633 ×1.1

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409 ×0.7

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562 ×1.0

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Countries citing papers authored by John R. B. Perry

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John R. B. Perry

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tyrer, Jonathan P., Joe Dennis, Xin Yang, et al.. (2025). Using Family History Data to Improve the Power of Association Studies: Application to Cancer in UK Biobank. Genetic Epidemiology. 49(1). e22609–e22609. 1 indexed citations

Tyrer, Jonathan P., Joe Dennis, Xin Yang, et al.. (2025). The contribution of coding variants to the heritability of multiple cancer types using UK Biobank whole-exome sequencing data. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(4). 903–912.

Lockhart, Sam, Brian Lam, Yajie Zhao, et al.. (2025). Effects of Rare Coding Variants in Severe Early-Onset Obesity Genes in the Population-Based UK Biobank Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 110(11). e3774–e3782. 2 indexed citations

Lockhart, Sam, Yajie Zhao, Vladimı́r Saudek, et al.. (2025). Rare Variants in HTRA1, SGTB, and RBM12 Confer Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Independent of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 18(6). e005233–e005233.

Day, Felix R., et al.. (2025). Higher Circulating Testosterone Linked to Higher CAD Risk in Men: Mendelian Randomization and Survival Analyses. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 111(4). e1029–e1036.

Chen, Jianhua, Sam Lockhart, Brian Lam, et al.. (2025). Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Indicates Causal Relationships Between Circulating Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Metabolic Health. Diabetes. 74(10). 1863–1872.

Mukhtar, Toqir K, Joe Dennis, Xin Yang, et al.. (2024). Protein-truncating and rare missense variants in ATM and CHEK2 and associations with cancer in UK Biobank whole-exome sequence data. Journal of Medical Genetics. 61(11). 1016–1022. 5 indexed citations

Kentistou, Katherine A., et al.. (2024). Population-Based Study of Rare Coding Variants in NR5A1/SF-1. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 8(12). bvae178–bvae178. 2 indexed citations

Mack, Jasmine A., Ulla Sovio, Felix R. Day, et al.. (2024). Genetic Variants Associated With Preeclampsia and Maternal Serum sFLT1 Levels. Hypertension. 82(5). 839–848.

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Kentistou, Katherine A., Marc Vaudel, Stasa Stankovic, et al.. (2024). Likely causal effects of insulin resistance and IGF-1 bioaction on childhood and adult adiposity: a Mendelian randomization study. International Journal of Obesity. 48(11). 1650–1655.

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Dearden, Laura, Isadora C. Furigo, Lucas C. Pantaleão, et al.. (2024). Maternal obesity increases hypothalamic miR-505-5p expression in mouse offspring leading to altered fatty acid sensing and increased intake of high-fat food. PLoS Biology. 22(6). e3002641–e3002641. 8 indexed citations

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Maharaj, Avinaash, Jack Williams, Katharina Schilbach, et al.. (2023). Characterization of dominant-negative growth hormone receptor variants reveals a potential therapeutic target for short stature. European Journal of Endocrinology. 188(4). 353–365.

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Brown, Derek W., Liam D. Cato, Yajie Zhao, et al.. (2023). Shared and distinct genetic etiologies for different types of clonal hematopoiesis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5536–5536. 17 indexed citations

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Cai, Lina, Tomas I. Gonzales, Eleanor Wheeler, et al.. (2023). Causal associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and type 2 diabetes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3904–3904. 25 indexed citations

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Anderson, Greg M., Jennifer W. Hill, Ursula B. Kaiser, et al.. (2023). Metabolic control of puberty: 60 years in the footsteps of Kennedy and Mitra’s seminal work. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 20(2). 111–123. 24 indexed citations

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Olsen, Kristina Wendelboe, Juan Castillo‐Fernandez, Anne Zedeler, et al.. (2020). A distinctive epigenetic ageing profile in human granulosa cells. Human Reproduction. 35(6). 1332–1345. 33 indexed citations

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Ganna, Andrea, Karin J. H. Verweij, Michel G. Nivard, et al.. (2019). Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior. Science. 365(6456). 213 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burgess, Stephen, Deborah J. Thompson, Jessica M. B. Rees, et al.. (2017). Dissecting Causal Pathways Using Mendelian Randomization with Summarized Genetic Data: Application to Age at Menarche and Risk of Breast Cancer. Genetics. 207(2). 481–487. 135 indexed citations

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Prins, Bram P., Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Yanchun Bao, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide analysis of health-related biomarkers in the UK Household Longitudinal Study reveals novel associations. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11008–11008. 67 indexed citations

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Rahmani, Maziar, Madalene A. Earp, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani, et al.. (2013). Shared genetic factors for age at natural menopause in Iranian and European women. Human Reproduction. 28(7). 1987–1994. 12 indexed citations

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