Lee Murphy

42.5k citations

44 papers · 2.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 22

Impact in

Microbiology top 2%
- Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
Aging top 5%

Papers in ⓘ

Genetics 11
- Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting 3
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 7
- Birth, Development, and Health 4
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology 3

Co-authors: Michael A. Quail (6 shared papers)Julian Parkhill (5 shared papers)Riccardo E. Marioni (15 shared papers)Bart Barrell (3 shared papers)Stephen D. Bentley (3 shared papers)Sarah E. Harris (9 shared papers)Ian J. Deary (5 shared papers)Simon R. Cox (12 shared papers)
Journals: Brain Communications (2 papers)Scientific Reports (2 papers)Nature Communications (2 papers)Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (2 papers)Clinical Epigenetics (1 paper)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Lee Murphy

41 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age 2023 · 65 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Genome Medicine
2015 International Journal of Epidemiology
2006 PLoS Genetics

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1	Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes PLoS Genetics ·Stephen D. Bentley, David M. Aanensen, Angeliki Mavroidi, David Saunders, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Matthew Collins, Kathy Donohoe, D. James Harris, Lee Murphy, Michael A. Quail, Gabrielle Samuel, Ian C. Skovsted, Margit S. Kaltoft, Bart Barrell, Peter R. Reeves, Julian Parkhill, Brian G. Spratt Hit paper breakdown →	2006	567
2	The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 International Journal of Epidemiology ·Riccardo E. Marioni, Sonia Shah, Allan F. McRae, Stuart J. Ritchie, Graciela Muñiz‐Terrera, Sarah E. Harris, Jude Gibson, Paul Redmond, Simon R. Cox, Alison Pattie, Janie Corley, Adele Taylor, Lee Murphy, John M. Starr, Steve Horvath, Peter M. Visscher, Naomi R. Wray, Ian J. Deary Hit paper breakdown →	2015	397
3	Complete Sequence and Organization of pBtoxis, the Toxin-Coding Plasmid ofBacillus thuringiensissubsp.israelensis Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Colin Berry, Susan O’Neil, Yair Ben‐Dov, Andrew F. Jones, Lee Murphy, Michael A. Quail, Matthew T. G. Holden, David Harris, Arieh Zaritsky, Julian Parkhill	2002	247
4	Identification of 55,000 Replicated DNA Methylation QTL Scientific Reports ·Allan F. McRae, Riccardo E. Marioni, Sonia Shah, Jian Yang, Joseph E. Powell, Sarah E. Harris, Jude Gibson, Anjali K. Henders, Lisa Bowdler, Jodie N. Painter, Lee Murphy, Nicholas G. Martin, John M. Starr, Naomi R. Wray, Ian J. Deary, Peter M. Visscher, Grant W. Montgomery	2018	179
5	Sequencing and analysis of the genome of the Whipple's disease bacterium Tropheryma whipplei The Lancet ·Stephen D. Bentley, Matthias Maiwald, Lee Murphy, Mark J. Pallen, Corin Yeats, Lynn G. Dover, Halina Norbertczak, Gurdyal S. Besra, Michael A. Quail, David Harris, A. von Herbay, Arlette Goble, Simon Rutter, Robert Squares, S. Squares, Bart Barrell, Julian Parkhill, David A. Relman	2003	161
6	Prevalence of small inversions in yeast gene order evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cathal Seoighe, Nancy A. Federspiel, Ted Jones, Nancy F. Hansen, Vesna Bivolarovic, Ray Surzycki, Raquel Tamse, C. Komp, Lucas Huizar, Ronald W. Davis, Stewart Scherer, Evelyn Tait, Duncan J. Shaw, David Harris, Lee Murphy, Karen Oliver, K. Taylor, Marie‐Adèle Rajandream, Bart Barrell, Kenneth H. Wolfe	2000	111
7	Genetic and environmental exposures constrain epigenetic drift over the human life course Genome Research ·Sonia Shah, Allan F. McRae, Riccardo E. Marioni, Sarah E. Harris, Jude Gibson, Anjali K. Henders, Paul Redmond, Simon R. Cox, Alison Pattie, Janie Corley, Lee Murphy, Nicholas G. Martin, Grant W. Montgomery, John M. Starr, Naomi R. Wray, Ian J. Deary, Peter M. Visscher	2014	99
8	SCP1, a 356 023 bp linear plasmid adapted to the ecology and developmental biology of its host, Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) Molecular Microbiology ·Stephen D. Bentley, Susan J. Brown, Lee Murphy, David Harris, Michael A. Quail, Julian Parkhill, B. G. Barrell, Joseph R. McCormick, Ramón I. Santamaría, Richard Losick, Masayuki Yamasaki, Haruyasu Kinashi, C. W. Chen, Govind Chandra, Dagmara Jakimowicz, Helen M. Kieser, Tobias Kieser, Keith Chater	2004	89
9	Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age Genome Medicine ·Elena Bernabeu, Daniel L. McCartney, Danni A. Gadd, Robert F. Hillary, Ake T. Lu, Lee Murphy, Nicola Wrobel, Archie Campbell, Sarah E. Harris, David C. Liewald, Caroline Hayward, Cathie Sudlow, Simon R. Cox, Kathryn L. Evans, Steve Horvath, Andrew M. McIntosh, Matthew R. Robinson, Catalina A. Vallejos, Riccardo E. Marioni Hit paper breakdown →	2023	65
10	Longitudinal dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis identifies gene-specific fitness effects Nature Medicine ·Neil Robertson, Eric Latorre‐Crespo, Maria Terradas-Terradas, Jorge Lemos-Portela, Alison C. Purcell, Benjamin Livesey, Robert F. Hillary, Lee Murphy, Angie Fawkes, Louise MacGillivray, Mhairi Copland, Riccardo E. Marioni, Joseph A. Marsh, Sarah E. Harris, Simon R. Cox, Ian J. Deary, Linus J. Schumacher, Kristina Kirschner, Tamir Chandra	2022	59
11	Morning plasma cortisol as a cardiovascular risk factor: findings from prospective cohort and Mendelian randomization studies European Journal of Endocrinology ·Andrew Crawford, Stefan Söderberg, Clemens Kirschbaum, Lee Murphy, Mats Eliasson, Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith, Tommy Olsson, Naveed Sattar, Debbie A. Lawlor, Nicholas J. Timpson, Rebecca M. Reynolds, Brian R. Walker	2019	58
12	Comparison of the Genome Sequence of the Poultry PathogenBordetella aviumwith Those ofB. bronchiseptica,B. pertussis, andB. parapertussisReveals Extensive Diversity in Surface Structures Associated with Host Interaction Journal of Bacteriology ·Mohammed Sebaihia, Andrew Preston, Duncan J. Maskell, Holly Kuzmiak, John W. Connell, Natalie D. King, Paul E. Orndorff, David M. Miyamoto, Nicholas R. Thomson, D. James Harris, Arlette Goble, Angela Lord, Lee Murphy, Michael A. Quail, Simon Rutter, Robert Squares, Steven Squares, John R. Woodward, Julian Parkhill, Louise Temple	2006	56
13	Utility of Whole-Genome Sequencing of Escherichia coli O157 for Outbreak Detection and Epidemiological Surveillance Journal of Clinical Microbiology ·Anne Holmes, Lesley Allison, Melissa Ward, Timothy J. Dallman, Richard Clark, Angie Fawkes, Lee Murphy, Mary Hanson	2015	56
14	Gene Arrays atPneumocystis cariniiTelomeres Genetics ·Scott P. Keely, Hubert Renauld, Ann E. Wakefield, Melanie T. Cushion, A. George Smulian, Nigel Fosker, Audrey Fraser, David Harris, Lee Murphy, Claire Price, Michael A. Quail, Kathy Seeger, Sarah Sharp, Carolyn J. Tindal, Tim Warren, Eduard Zuiderwijk, B. G. Barrell, James R. Stringer, Neil Hall	2005	53
15	Evidence for a Dispersed Hox Gene Cluster in the Platyhelminth Parasite Schistosoma mansoni Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Raymond J. Pierce, Wenjie Wu, Hirohisa Hirai, Alasdair Ivens, Lee Murphy, Christophe Noël, David A. Johnston, François Artiguenave, Martin Adams, J. Cornette, Éric Viscogliosi, Moníque Capron, Guillaume Balavoine	2005	38
16	Unlocking the transcriptomic potential of formalin-fixed paraffin embedded clinical tissues: comparison of gene expression profiling approaches BMC Bioinformatics ·Arran Turnbull, Çiğdem Selli, Carlos Martínez-Pérez, Anu Fernando, Lorna Renshaw, J Keys, Jonine D. Figueroa, Xiaping He, Maki Tanioka, Alison F. Munro, Lee Murphy, Angie Fawkes, Richard Clark, Audrey Coutts, Charles M. Perou, Lisa A. Carey, J. Michael Dixon, Andrew H. Sims	2020	36
17	Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of 19 common disease states: A longitudinal, population-based linked cohort study of 18,413 Scottish individuals PLoS Medicine ·Robert F. Hillary, Daniel L. McCartney, Hannah M. Smith, Elena Bernabeu, Danni A. Gadd, Aleksandra D. Chybowska, Yipeng Cheng, Lee Murphy, Nicola Wrobel, Archie Campbell, Rosie M. Walker, Caroline Hayward, Kathryn L. Evans, Andrew M. McIntosh, Riccardo E. Marioni	2023	33
18	De novo DNA methyltransferase activity in colorectal cancer is directed towards H3K36me3 marked CpG islands Nature Communications ·Roza Masalmeh, Francesca Taglini, Cristina Rubio-Ramon, Kamila Irena Musialik, Jonathan Higham, Hazel Davidson‐Smith, Ioannis Kafetzopoulos, Kamila Pawlicka, Hannah Finan, Richard Clark, Jimi Wills, Andrew J. Finch, Lee Murphy, Duncan Sproul	2021	31
19	Pedigree and genotyping quality analyses of over 10,000 DNA samples from the Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study BMC Medical Genetics ·Shona M. Kerr, Archie Campbell, Lee Murphy, Caroline Hayward, Cathy Jackson, Louise V. Wain, Martin D. Tobin, Anna F. Dominiczak, Andrew D. Morris, Blair H. Smith, David J. Porteous	2013	31
20	Age-related gene expression changes, and transcriptome wide association study of physical and cognitive aging traits, in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 Aging ·Sarah E. Harris, Valentina Riggio, Louise Evenden, T. L. Gilchrist, Sarah McCafferty, Lee Murphy, Nicola Wrobel, Adele Taylor, Janie Corley, Alison Pattie, Simon R. Cox, Carmen Martín-Ruiz, James Prendergast, John M. Starr, Riccardo E. Marioni, Ian J. Deary	2017	29

About Lee Murphy

Lee Murphy is a scholar working on Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Emergency Medicine, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology, having authored 44 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (5 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (4 papers), Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (3 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (3 papers) and Congenital Heart Disease Studies (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Microbiology (279 citations), Aging (63 citations), Molecular Biology (1.3k citations), Endocrinology (90 citations) and Epidemiology (567 citations). Lee Murphy has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Michael A. Quail, Julian Parkhill, Riccardo E. Marioni, Bart Barrell, Stephen D. Bentley, Sarah E. Harris, Ian J. Deary, Simon R. Cox, David Harris and Jude Gibson. Their work appears in journals such as Brain Communications, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Epigenetics.

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