Robert F. Hillary

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 972 citations indexed

About

Robert F. Hillary is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert F. Hillary has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 972 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Robert F. Hillary's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (18 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (10 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Robert F. Hillary is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (18 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (10 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers). Robert F. Hillary collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Robert F. Hillary's co-authors include Una FitzGerald, Riccardo E. Marioni, Daniel L. McCartney, Andrew M. McIntosh, Kathryn L. Evans, Archie Campbell, Ian J. Deary, Rosie M. Walker, Anna J. Stevenson and Caroline Hayward and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Robert F. Hillary

28 papers receiving 967 citations

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Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age

2023 65 citations Elena Bernabeu, Daniel L. McCartney et al. Genome Medicine profile →

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Spencer Tung United States

David A. Buchner United States

Josine L. Min United Kingdom

Hannah R. Elliott United Kingdom

Elena Marasco Italy

Donghua Tian China

Michelle Stewart United States

Anna Lehman Canada

Stewart W. Morris United Kingdom

Melissa Smart United Kingdom

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Bernabeu, Elena, Paul Yousefi, Matthew Suderman, et al.. (2025). A blood- and brain-based EWAS of smoking. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3210–3210. 1 indexed citations

McKinnon, K. I. M., Kadi Vaher, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2024). Epigenetic scores derived in saliva are associated with gestational age at birth. Clinical Epigenetics. 16(1). 84–84.

Gadd, Danni A., Robert F. Hillary, Yipeng Cheng, et al.. (2024). Blood protein assessment of leading incident diseases and mortality in the UK Biobank. Nature Aging. 4(7). 939–948. 38 indexed citations

Crofts, Samuel, Robert F. Hillary, Daniel J. Simpson, et al.. (2024). Probabilistic inference of epigenetic age acceleration from cellular dynamics. Nature Aging. 4(10). 1493–1507. 6 indexed citations

Hillary, Robert F., Danni A. Gadd, Tin-Chi Lin, et al.. (2024). Systematic discovery of gene-environment interactions underlying the human plasma proteome in UK Biobank. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7346–7346. 2 indexed citations

Shen, Xueyi, Claire Green, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2023). Structural brain correlates of childhood trauma with replication across two large, independent community-based samples. European Psychiatry. 66(1). e19–e19. 9 indexed citations

Hillary, Robert F., Daniel L. McCartney, Elena Bernabeu, et al.. (2023). Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of 19 common disease states: A longitudinal, population-based linked cohort study of 18,413 Scottish individuals. PLoS Medicine. 20(7). e1004247–e1004247. 33 indexed citations

Bernabeu, Elena, Daniel L. McCartney, Danni A. Gadd, et al.. (2023). Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age. Genome Medicine. 15(1). 12–12. 65 indexed citations breakdown →

Hillary, Robert F., Archie Campbell, Lee Murphy, et al.. (2023). Integration of datasets for individual prediction of DNA methylation-based biomarkers. Genome biology. 24(1). 278–278. 1 indexed citations

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Hatton, Alesha, Robert F. Hillary, Elena Bernabeu, et al.. (2023). Blood-based genome-wide DNA methylation correlations across body-fat- and adiposity-related biochemical traits. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 110(9). 1564–1573. 2 indexed citations

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Robertson, Neil, Benjamin Livesey, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis identifies gene-specific fitness effects. Nature Medicine. 28(7). 1439–1446. 59 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F., Daniel L. McCartney, Allan F. McRae, et al.. (2022). Identification of influential probe types in epigenetic predictions of human traits: implications for microarray design. Clinical Epigenetics. 14(1). 100–100. 4 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F., Danni A. Gadd, Daniel L. McCartney, et al.. (2022). Genome‐ and epigenome‐wide studies of plasma protein biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease implicate TBCA and TREM2 in disease risk. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 14(1). e12280–e12280. 5 indexed citations

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Stevenson, Anna J., Danni A. Gadd, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2021). Creating and Validating a DNA Methylation-Based Proxy for Interleukin-6. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 76(12). 2284–2292. 20 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F., et al.. (2021). The neuropathology of autism: A systematic review of post-mortem studies of autism and related disorders. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 129. 35–62. 84 indexed citations

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Gadd, Danni A., Anna J. Stevenson, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2021). Epigenetic predictors of lifestyle traits applied to the blood and brain. Brain Communications. 3(2). fcab082–fcab082. 6 indexed citations

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McCartney, Daniel L., Rosie M. Walker, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2020). Birth weight associations with DNA methylation differences in an adult population. Epigenetics. 16(7). 783–796. 16 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F., Daniel L. McCartney, Sarah E. Harris, et al.. (2019). Genome and epigenome wide studies of neurological protein biomarkers in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3160–3160. 36 indexed citations

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Gibson, Jude, Tom C. Russ, Toni‐Kim Clarke, et al.. (2019). A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of epigenetic age acceleration. PLoS Genetics. 15(11). e1008104–e1008104. 74 indexed citations

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Hillary, Robert F. & Una FitzGerald. (2018). A lifetime of stress: ATF6 in development and homeostasis. Journal of Biomedical Science. 25(1). 48–48. 196 indexed citations

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