Loukas Zagkos

425 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 179 citations indexed

About

Loukas Zagkos is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Loukas Zagkos has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 179 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Loukas Zagkos's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 papers). Loukas Zagkos is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 papers). Loukas Zagkos collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and United States. Loukas Zagkos's co-authors include Dipender Gill, Benjamin Woolf, Héléne T. Cronjé, Mark T. Mc Auley, Stephen Burgess, Susanna C. Larsson, Nikos I. Kavallaris, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Marie‐Joe Dib and Fotios Drenos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Neurology and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

Loukas Zagkos

21 papers receiving 176 citations

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Proteomic changes upon treatment with semaglutide in individuals with obesity

2025 20 citations Lasse Maretty, Dipender Gill et al. Nature Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Loukas Zagkos United Kingdom	8	52	49	23	22	21	22	179
Olga Giannakopoulou United Kingdom	7	53 1.0×	39 0.8×	13 0.6×	12 0.5×	17 0.8×	12	164
Magda Wojtara United States	7	30 0.6×	47 1.0×	36 1.6×	25 1.1×	9 0.4×	37	203
Smeeta Shrestha Singapore	10	32 0.6×	78 1.6×	30 1.3×	12 0.5×	10 0.5×	18	247
Youjie Zeng China	7	31 0.6×	81 1.7×	27 1.2×	11 0.5×	31 1.5×	43	189
Amna Khamis United Kingdom	8	72 1.4×	77 1.6×	34 1.5×	29 1.3×	52 2.5×	11	214
María Teresa Flores-Dorantes Mexico	4	41 0.8×	66 1.3×	38 1.7×	34 1.5×	58 2.8×	4	208
Gianluca Piccolo Italy	8	72 1.4×	90 1.8×	30 1.3×	49 2.2×	27 1.3×	30	254
Mayu Watanabe Japan	9	17 0.3×	66 1.3×	39 1.7×	33 1.5×	38 1.8×	32	256
Juyoung Lee South Korea	9	79 1.5×	76 1.6×	18 0.8×	28 1.3×	13 0.6×	18	202
Jing Shen China	8	23 0.4×	24 0.5×	26 1.1×	31 1.4×	37 1.8×	20	167

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Loukas Zagkos

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Maretty, Lasse, Dipender Gill, Lotte Simonsen, et al.. (2025). Proteomic changes upon treatment with semaglutide in individuals with obesity. Nature Medicine. 31(1). 267–277. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Zagkos, Loukas, et al.. (2024). Exploring the contribution of lifestyle to the impact of education on the risk of cancer through Mendelian randomization analysis. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6074–6074.

Zagkos, Loukas, et al.. (2024). Using genetics to investigate the association between lanosterol and cataract. Frontiers in Genetics. 15. 1231521–1231521. 3 indexed citations

Zagkos, Loukas, Marie‐Joe Dib, Héléne T. Cronjé, et al.. (2024). Cerebrospinal Fluid C1-Esterase Inhibitor and Tie-1 Levels Affect Cognitive Performance: Evidence from Proteome-Wide Mendelian Randomization. Genes. 15(1). 71–71. 1 indexed citations

Zagkos, Loukas, Héléne T. Cronjé, Benjamin Woolf, et al.. (2024). Genetic investigation into the broad health implications of caffeine: evidence from phenome-wide, proteome-wide and metabolome-wide Mendelian randomization. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 81–81. 3 indexed citations

Woolf, Benjamin, Héléne T. Cronjé, Loukas Zagkos, et al.. (2024). Comparison of caffeine consumption behavior with plasma caffeine levels as exposure measures in drug-target mendelian randomization. American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(12). 1776–1784. 8 indexed citations

Woolf, Benjamin, Amy M. Mason, Loukas Zagkos, et al.. (2024). MRSamePopTest: introducing a simple falsification test for the two-sample mendelian randomisation ‘same population’ assumption. BMC Research Notes. 17(1). 27–27. 2 indexed citations

Zagkos, Loukas, Georgios Markozannes, Wei Xu, et al.. (2023). Appraising the Causal Role of Risk Factors in Coronary Artery Disease and Stroke: A Systematic Review of Mendelian Randomization Studies. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(20). e029040–e029040. 5 indexed citations

Giontella, Alice, Héléne T. Cronjé, Loukas Zagkos, et al.. (2023). Caffeine Intake, Plasma Caffeine Level, and Kidney Function: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Nutrients. 15(20). 4422–4422. 7 indexed citations

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Woolf, Benjamin, Héléne T. Cronjé, Loukas Zagkos, et al.. (2023). Appraising the causal relationship between plasma caffeine levels and neuropsychiatric disorders through Mendelian randomization. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 296–296. 14 indexed citations

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Giontella, Alice, Loukas Zagkos, Milan S. Geybels, et al.. (2023). Renoprotective effects of genetically proxied fibroblast growth factor 21: Mendelian randomization, proteome-wide and metabolome-wide association study. Metabolism. 145. 155616–155616. 9 indexed citations

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Zagkos, Loukas, Fotios Drenos, Pauline Emmett, et al.. (2023). Associations of adolescents’ diet and meal patterns with school performance in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986: A Mendelian randomisation study. Appetite. 190. 107036–107036. 1 indexed citations

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Gill, Dipender, Benjamin Woolf, Loukas Zagkos, Héléne T. Cronjé, & Ioanna Tzoulaki. (2023). Cardiovascular Efficacy of Lipid-Lowering Drug Targets Is Not Entirely Explained by Apolipoprotein B Reduction: Mendelian Randomization Evidence. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 16(5). 490–492. 1 indexed citations

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Gill, Dipender, Loukas Zagkos, Thomas Benzing, et al.. (2023). The citrate transporter SLC13A5 as a therapeutic target for kidney disease: evidence from Mendelian randomization to inform drug development. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 504–504. 4 indexed citations

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Zagkos, Loukas, Marie‐Joe Dib, Rui Pinto, et al.. (2022). Associations of genetically predicted fatty acid levels across the phenome: A mendelian randomisation study. PLoS Medicine. 19(12). e1004141–e1004141. 25 indexed citations

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Woolf, Benjamin, Loukas Zagkos, & Dipender Gill. (2022). TwoStepCisMR: A Novel Method and R Package for Attenuating Bias in cis-Mendelian Randomization Analyses. Genes. 13(9). 1541–1541. 24 indexed citations

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Dib, Marie‐Joe, Kourosh R. Ahmadi, Loukas Zagkos, et al.. (2022). Associations of Genetically Predicted Vitamin B12 Status across the Phenome. Nutrients. 14(23). 5031–5031. 4 indexed citations

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Zagkos, Loukas, et al.. (2021). A mathematical model which examines age-related stochastic fluctuations in DNA maintenance methylation. Experimental Gerontology. 156. 111623–111623. 5 indexed citations

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Zagkos, Loukas, et al.. (2019). Data-driven selection and parameter estimation for DNA methylation mathematical models. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 467. 87–99. 6 indexed citations

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Zagkos, Loukas, et al.. (2018). Mathematical models of DNA methylation dynamics: Implications for health and ageing. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 462. 184–193. 18 indexed citations

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