Matt J. Silver

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

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Matt J. Silver is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matt J. Silver has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Matt J. Silver's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (15 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (12 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Matt J. Silver is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (15 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (12 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Matt J. Silver collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Gambia and United States. Matt J. Silver's co-authors include Andrew M. Prentice, Giovanni Montana, LuAnn Wilkerson, Sophie E. Moore, Robert A. Waterland, Branwen J. Hennig, Paula Domínguez-Salas, Thomas E. Nichols, Maria S. Baker and Eleonora Laritsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Matt J. Silver

31 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Maternal nutrition at conception modulates DNA methylation of human metastable epialleles

2014 360 citations Paula Domínguez-Salas, Sophie E. Moore et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matt J. Silver United Kingdom	18	684	529	343	196	179	31	1.6k
Timothy P. York United States	28	370 0.5×	412 0.8×	247 0.7×	303 1.5×	218 1.2×	73	1.9k
Gunnar Kaati Sweden	9	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 2.1×	453 1.3×	248 1.3×	248 1.4×	13	2.1k
Oliver Lyttleton United Kingdom	10	973 1.4×	733 1.4×	291 0.8×	132 0.7×	152 0.8×	16	1.5k
V. Hesse Germany	23	373 0.5×	316 0.6×	369 1.1×	143 0.7×	87 0.5×	83	1.4k
Jenny van Dongen Netherlands	21	642 0.9×	307 0.6×	511 1.5×	142 0.7×	144 0.8×	66	1.6k
Jakob Grove Denmark	32	470 0.7×	765 1.4×	775 2.3×	355 1.8×	88 0.5×	93	2.8k
Cheryl K. Walker United States	26	550 0.8×	821 1.6×	384 1.1×	349 1.8×	94 0.5×	58	2.6k
Dongqing Wang United States	21	941 1.4×	192 0.4×	187 0.5×	265 1.4×	125 0.7×	80	2.2k
Michelle Lampl United States	23	245 0.4×	727 1.4×	151 0.4×	469 2.4×	246 1.4×	68	2.0k

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Cho, Yoonsu, Fabian Falck, Michael Katell, et al.. (2025). Methodological opportunities in genomic data analysis to advance health equity. Nature Reviews Genetics. 26(9). 635–649. 1 indexed citations

Thu, Nguyễn Thị Hoài, Yoonsu Cho, Alona Sosinsky, et al.. (2025). Equity in cancer genomics in the UK: a cross-sectional analysis of a national cancer cohort. The Lancet Oncology. 26(7). 971–980. 1 indexed citations

Kessler, Noah J., et al.. (2023). Metastable epialleles in humans. Trends in Genetics. 40(1). 52–68. 5 indexed citations

Kessler, Noah J., Miho Ishida, Charalambos Demetriou, et al.. (2022). Tissue- and ethnicity-independent hypervariable DNA methylation states show evidence of establishment in the early human embryo. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(12). 6735–6752. 7 indexed citations

James, Philip, Zakari Ali, Andrew E. Armitage, et al.. (2021). The Role of Nutrition in COVID-19 Susceptibility and Severity of Disease: A Systematic Review. Journal of Nutrition. 151(7). 1854–1878. 90 indexed citations

Candler, Toby, Noah J. Kessler, Chathura Gunasekara, et al.. (2021). DNA methylation at a nutritionally sensitive region of the PAX8 gene is associated with thyroid volume and function in Gambian children. Science Advances. 7(45). eabj1561–eabj1561. 10 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

James, Philip, Zakari Ali, Andrew E. Armitage, et al.. (2020). Could nutrition modulate COVID-19 susceptibility and severity of disease? A systematic review. medRxiv. 13 indexed citations

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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James, Philip, Andrew M. Prentice, Sophie E. Moore, et al.. (2020). Periconceptional environment predicts leukocyte telomere length in a cross-sectional study of 7–9 year old rural Gambian children. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9675–9675. 3 indexed citations

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James, Philip, et al.. (2019). A novel nutritional supplement to reduce plasma homocysteine in nonpregnant women: A randomised controlled trial in The Gambia. PLoS Medicine. 16(8). e1002870–e1002870. 5 indexed citations

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Candler, Toby, Peter Kühnen, Andrew M. Prentice, & Matt J. Silver. (2019). Epigenetic regulation of POMC; implications for nutritional programming, obesity and metabolic disease. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 54. 100773–100773. 53 indexed citations

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Gunasekara, Chathura, C. Anthony Scott, Eleonora Laritsky, et al.. (2019). A genomic atlas of systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans. Genome biology. 20(1). 105–105. 68 indexed citations

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Kessler, Noah J., Robert A. Waterland, Andrew M. Prentice, & Matt J. Silver. (2018). Establishment of environmentally sensitive DNA methylation states in the very early human embryo. Science Advances. 4(7). eaat2624–eaat2624. 51 indexed citations

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Silver, Matt J., Karen D. Corbin, Garrett Hellenthal, et al.. (2015). Evidence for negative selection of gene variants that increase dependence on dietary choline in a Gambian cohort. The FASEB Journal. 29(8). 3426–3435. 15 indexed citations

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Silver, Matt J., Noah J. Kessler, Branwen J. Hennig, et al.. (2015). Independent genomewide screens identify the tumor suppressor VTRNA2-1 as a human epiallele responsive to periconceptional environment. Genome Biology. 16(1). 118–118. 121 indexed citations

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Silver, Matt J., et al.. (2012). Fast Identification of Biological Pathways Associated with a Quantitative Trait Using Group Lasso with Overlaps. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 11(1). Article 7–Article 7. 29 indexed citations

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Silver, Matt J., Giovanni Montana, & Thomas E. Nichols. (2010). False positives in neuroimaging genetics using voxel-based morphometry data. NeuroImage. 54(2). 992–1000. 119 indexed citations

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Silver, Matt J. & Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. (2006). Spatial effects favour the evolution of niche construction. Theoretical Population Biology. 70(4). 387–400. 64 indexed citations

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Silver, Matt J. & LuAnn Wilkerson. (1991). Effects of tutors with subject expertise on the problem-based tutorial process. Academic Medicine. 66(5). 298–300. 112 indexed citations

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