Lavinia Paternoster

24.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Lavinia Paternoster is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lavinia Paternoster has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Genetics, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Lavinia Paternoster's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (23 papers), Dermatology and Skin Diseases (13 papers) and Asthma and respiratory diseases (13 papers). Lavinia Paternoster is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (23 papers), Dermatology and Skin Diseases (13 papers) and Asthma and respiratory diseases (13 papers). Lavinia Paternoster collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Lavinia Paternoster's co-authors include George Davey Smith, Kate Tilling, David M. Evans, John P. Kemp, Gibran Hemani, Cathie Sudlow, Beaté St Pourcain, Nicholas J. Timpson, Tom R. Gaunt and Ruth E. Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lavinia Paternoster

68 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

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 →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lavinia Paternoster United Kingdom	25	998	522	462	291	259	73	2.4k
Markku Ryynänen Finland	38	953 1.0×	1.1k 2.0×	897 1.9×	76 0.3×	154 0.6×	132	4.4k
Tarja Laitinen Finland	30	362 0.4×	382 0.7×	1.3k 2.7×	87 0.3×	266 1.0×	98	2.9k
Thomas F. Wienker Germany	32	755 0.8×	1.9k 3.7×	317 0.7×	213 0.7×	238 0.9×	79	4.1k
Fortunato Lombardo Italy	27	801 0.8×	361 0.7×	184 0.4×	203 0.7×	62 0.2×	124	2.2k
Carlos García United States	39	253 0.3×	1.4k 2.6×	309 0.7×	209 0.7×	428 1.7×	170	4.3k
Antonio Bellastella Italy	42	849 0.9×	765 1.5×	358 0.8×	82 0.3×	425 1.6×	160	4.9k
Farook Al‐Azzawi United Kingdom	28	1.0k 1.0×	358 0.7×	113 0.2×	126 0.4×	227 0.9×	95	2.7k
Małgorzata Waśniewska Italy	32	965 1.0×	839 1.6×	269 0.6×	33 0.1×	163 0.6×	204	3.5k
Mathieu Lemire Canada	22	699 0.7×	1.7k 3.3×	511 1.1×	57 0.2×	171 0.7×	49	3.0k
Dominique Brémond‐Gignac France	28	278 0.3×	389 0.7×	87 0.2×	158 0.5×	333 1.3×	207	2.5k

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Paternoster, Lavinia, et al.. (2025). Genetic inference of on-target and off-target side-effects of antipsychotic medications. PLoS Genetics. 21(7). e1011793–e1011793.

Ramessur, Ravi, Jake Saklatvala, Ashley Budu‐Aggrey, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Link Between Genetic Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease and Psoriasis. JAMA Cardiology. 9(11). 1009–1009. 10 indexed citations

Mahedy, Liam, Emma L. Anderson, Kate Tilling, et al.. (2024). Investigation of genetic determinants of cognitive change in later life. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 31–31. 3 indexed citations

Mitchell, Ruth E., April Hartley, Venexia Walker, et al.. (2023). Strategies to investigate and mitigate collider bias in genetic and Mendelian randomisation studies of disease progression. PLoS Genetics. 19(2). e1010596–e1010596. 35 indexed citations

Sobczyk, Maria, Tom R. Gaunt, & Lavinia Paternoster. (2021). MendelVar: gene prioritization at GWAS loci using phenotypic enrichment of Mendelian disease genes. Bioinformatics. 37(1). 1–8. 12 indexed citations

Budu‐Aggrey, Ashley, Neil M Davies, Lavinia Paternoster, et al.. (2021). Investigating the causal relationship between allergic disease and mental health. Clinical & Experimental Allergy. 51(11). 1449–1458. 20 indexed citations

Mitchell, Ruth E., Gibran Hemani, George Davey Smith, et al.. (2021). Genetic Analyses of Common Infections in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Cohort. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 727457–727457. 7 indexed citations

Budu‐Aggrey, Ashley, Sarah Watkins, Ben Brumpton, et al.. (2020). Assessment of a causal relationship between body mass index and atopic dermatitis. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 147(1). 400–403. 17 indexed citations

Hartley, April, Eleanor Sanderson, Lavinia Paternoster, et al.. (2020). Mendelian randomization provides evidence for a causal effect of higher serum IGF-1 concentration on risk of hip and knee osteoarthritis. Lara D. Veeken. 60(4). 1676–1686. 14 indexed citations

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Haworth, Simon, Ruth E. Mitchell, Laura J. Corbin, et al.. (2019). Apparent latent structure within the UK Biobank sample has implications for epidemiological analysis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 333–333. 176 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Manuel A. R., Judith M. Vonk, Agnieszka Szwajda, et al.. (2019). Genetic Architectures of Childhood- and Adult-Onset Asthma Are Partly Distinct. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(4). 665–684. 160 indexed citations

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Abuabara, Katrina, Morgan Ye, Charles E. McCulloch, et al.. (2019). Clinical onset of atopic eczema: Results from 2 nationally representative British birth cohorts followed through midlife. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 144(3). 710–719. 47 indexed citations

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Paternoster, Lavinia, Olga E.M. Savenije, Jon Heron, et al.. (2017). Identification of atopic dermatitis subgroups in children from 2 longitudinal birth cohorts. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 141(3). 964–971. 132 indexed citations

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Zheng, Jie, Philip Haycock, Gibran Hemani, et al.. (2016). LD hub and MR-base: online platforms for preforming LD score regression and Mendelian randomization analysis using GWAS summary data. Behavior Genetics. 46(6). 815–815. 5 indexed citations

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Paternoster, Lavinia, Marie Standl, Hansjörg Baurecht, David M. Evans, & Stephan Weidinger. (2015). Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies 11 novel risk loci for atopic dermatitis. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 1 indexed citations

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Hollensted, Mette, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Henri Theil, et al.. (2015). Common variants in LEPR, IL6, AMD1, and NAMPT do not associate with risk of juvenile and childhood obesity in Danes: a case–control study. BMC Medical Genetics. 16(1). 105–105. 9 indexed citations

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Sallis, Hannah, Colin Steer, Lavinia Paternoster, George Davey Smith, & Jonathan Evans. (2014). Perinatal depression and omega-3 fatty acids: A Mendelian randomisation study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 166. 124–131. 37 indexed citations

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Paternoster, Lavinia, Alexei I. Zhurov, Arshed Toma, et al.. (2012). Genome-wide Association Study of Three-Dimensional Facial Morphology Identifies a Variant in PAX3 Associated with Nasion Position. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 90(3). 478–485. 129 indexed citations

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Paternoster, Lavinia, Laura D Howe, Kate Tilling, et al.. (2011). Adult height variants affect birth length and growth rate in children. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(20). 4069–4075. 35 indexed citations

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Dubern, B., Corneliu Hénégar, Lavinia Paternoster, et al.. (2011). Association between CST3 rs2424577 Polymorphism and Corpulence Related Phenotypes during Lifetime in Populations of European Ancestry. Obesity Facts. 4(2). 131–144. 3 indexed citations

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