Karen A. Lillycrop

13.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
168 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

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Karen A. Lillycrop is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen A. Lillycrop has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Molecular Biology, 79 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 31 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Karen A. Lillycrop's work include Birth, Development, and Health (78 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (65 papers) and Fatty Acid Research and Health (23 papers). Karen A. Lillycrop is often cited by papers focused on Birth, Development, and Health (78 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (65 papers) and Fatty Acid Research and Health (23 papers). Karen A. Lillycrop collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. Karen A. Lillycrop's co-authors include Graham C. Burdge, Mark A. Hanson, Keith M. Godfrey, Alan A. Jackson, Emma Phillips, J.L. Slater-Jefferies, Peter D. Gluckman, D.S. Latchman, Christopher Torrens and Samuel P. Hoile and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Karen A. Lillycrop

163 papers receiving 8.8k citations

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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.

Dietary Protein Restriction of Pregnant Rats Induces and Folic Acid Supplementation Prevents Epigenetic Modification of Hepatic Gene Expression in the Offspring

2005 774 citations Karen A. Lillycrop, Emma Phillips et al. profile →
Epigenetic Gene Promoter Methylation at Birth Is Associated With Child’s Later Adiposity

2011 510 citations Keith M. Godfrey, Allan Sheppard et al. Diabetes profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen A. Lillycrop United Kingdom	48	4.6k	3.9k	1.7k	1.6k	1.2k	168	9.0k
Robert A. Waterland United States	41	3.9k 0.8×	4.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.7×	75	8.8k
Bastiaan T. Heijmans Netherlands	48	3.8k 0.8×	5.3k 1.4×	978 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	2.3k 1.9×	125	9.7k
Richard Saffery Australia	59	3.8k 0.8×	6.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	369	12.7k
L. H. Lumey United States	35	4.3k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	897 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	104	7.1k
Louis J. Muglia United States	66	2.5k 0.5×	3.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	254	14.4k
Graham C. Burdge United Kingdom	55	4.7k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	3.1k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	186	13.3k
Julie A. Owens Australia	56	7.7k 1.7×	1.9k 0.5×	4.8k 2.8×	1.8k 1.1×	905 0.8×	205	11.4k
Susan K. Murphy United States	60	2.9k 0.6×	6.6k 1.7×	877 0.5×	648 0.4×	2.1k 1.8×	264	12.3k
Abigail L. Fowden United Kingdom	60	8.1k 1.8×	2.5k 0.6×	5.0k 2.9×	1.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.7×	236	13.3k
Bernhard H. Breier New Zealand	51	4.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	192	9.8k

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Garratt, Emma, Elie Antoun, Leo D. Westbury, et al.. (2025). Early Life Environment Is Associated With Differential DNA Methylation of Primary Myoblasts From Older Individuals. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 8(1).

Irvine, Nicola A., Annette L. West, Johanna von Gerichten, et al.. (2023). Exogenous tetracosahexaenoic acid modifies the fatty acid composition of human primary T lymphocytes and Jurkat T cell leukemia cells contingent on cell type. Lipids. 58(4). 185–196. 1 indexed citations

Hochberg, Ze’ev, Robert Feil, Miguel Constância, et al.. (2023). Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming. Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology.

Seed, Paul T., Elie Antoun, Keith M. Godfrey, et al.. (2021). Folate and vitamin B12 status: associations with maternal glucose and neonatal DNA methylation sites related to dysglycaemia, in pregnant women with obesity. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 13(2). 168–176. 10 indexed citations

Titcombe, Philip, Robert Murray, Elie Antoun, et al.. (2021). Human non-CpG methylation patterns display both tissue-specific and inter-individual differences suggestive of underlying function. Epigenetics. 17(6). 653–664. 11 indexed citations

Antoun, Elie, Philip Titcombe, Kathryn V. Dalrymple, et al.. (2021). DNA methylation signatures in cord blood associated with birthweight are enriched for dmCpGs previously associated with maternal hypertension or pre-eclampsia, smoking and folic acid intake. Epigenetics. 17(4). 405–421. 6 indexed citations

Murray, Robert, Elie Antoun, Philip Titcombe, et al.. (2021). Influence of Maternal Lifestyle and Diet on Perinatal DNA Methylation Signatures Associated With Childhood Arterial Stiffness at 8 to 9 Years. Hypertension. 78(3). 787–800. 14 indexed citations

Yuan, Wei, Fei Gao, Yudong Xia, et al.. (2021). The genomic loci of specific human tRNA genes exhibit ageing-related DNA hypermethylation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2655–2655. 15 indexed citations

Stevenson, Kerrie, Karen A. Lillycrop, & Matt J. Silver. (2020). Fetal programming and epigenetics. Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research. 13. 1–6. 24 indexed citations

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Fisk, Helena L., Caroline E. Childs, Elizabeth A. Miles, et al.. (2020). Adipose tatty acid composition and gene expression in obesity, and response to chronic marine omega-3 fatty acid supplementation.. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 79(OCE2).

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Saffari, Ayden, Smeeta Shrestha, Sirazul A. Sahariah, et al.. (2020). Effect of maternal preconceptional and pregnancy micronutrient interventions on children’s DNA methylation: Findings from the EMPHASIS study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 112(4). 1099–1113. 13 indexed citations

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Cleal, Jane K., Kimberley D. Bruce, Hugh Thomas, et al.. (2019). Maternal Obesity during Pregnancy Alters Daily Activity and Feeding Cycles, and Hypothalamic Clock Gene Expression in Adult Male Mouse Offspring. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20(21). 5408–5408. 14 indexed citations

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Rauschert, Sebastian, Phillip E. Melton, Graham C. Burdge, et al.. (2019). Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy Induces Persistent Epigenetic Changes Into Adolescence, Independent of Postnatal Smoke Exposure and Is Associated With Cardiometabolic Risk. Frontiers in Genetics. 10. 770–770. 73 indexed citations

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Barton, Sheila J., Sherry Ngo, Paula Costello, et al.. (2017). DNA methylation of Th2 lineage determination genes at birth is associated with allergic outcomes in childhood. Clinical & Experimental Allergy. 47(12). 1599–1608. 31 indexed citations

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C.W., Ronald, Greg Tutino, Karen A. Lillycrop, Mark A. Hanson, & Wing Hung Tam. (2015). Maternal diabetes, gestational diabetes and the role of epigenetics in their long term effects on offspring. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 118(1-2). 55–68. 93 indexed citations

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Lillycrop, Karen A.. (2011). Effect of maternal diet on the epigenome: implications for human metabolic disease. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 70(1). 64–72. 77 indexed citations

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Godfrey, Keith M., Allan Sheppard, Peter D. Gluckman, et al.. (2011). Epigenetic Gene Promoter Methylation at Birth Is Associated With Child’s Later Adiposity. Diabetes. 60(5). 1528–1534. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lillycrop, Karen A., et al.. (2006). Dietary protein restriction in the pregnant rat induces altered epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor and peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor alpha in the heart of the offspring which is prevented by folic acid. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 6 indexed citations

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Underwood, Tim, et al.. (2006). Inhibition of p53 function in tumours that express the Pax3 proto-oncogene. Cancer Research. 66. 1167–1167. 1 indexed citations

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Lillycrop, Karen A., et al.. (1994). Repression of a Herpes Simplex Virus Immediate-Early Promoter by the Oct-2 Transcription Factor Is Dependent on an Inhibitory Region at the N Terminus of the Protein. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(11). 7633–7642. 14 indexed citations

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