Shing Wan Choi

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Shing Wan Choi is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shing Wan Choi has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Genetics, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Shing Wan Choi's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (13 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers). Shing Wan Choi is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (13 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers). Shing Wan Choi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hong Kong. Shing Wan Choi's co-authors include Paul F. O’Reilly, Timothy Shin Heng Mak, Pak C. Sham, Robert M. Porsch, Xueya Zhou, Kylie P. Glanville, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Jean‐Baptiste Pingault, Ebba Du Rietz and Jonna Kuntsi and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Nature Genetics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Shing Wan Choi

23 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses

2020 967 citations Shing Wan Choi, Timothy Shin Heng Mak et al. Nature Protocols profile →
PRSice-2: Polygenic Risk Score software for biobank-scale data

2019 789 citations Shing Wan Choi, Paul F. O’Reilly GigaScience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shing Wan Choi United Kingdom	15	1.3k	644	327	307	260	24	2.6k
Verneri Anttila United States	18	1.9k 1.5×	764 1.2×	514 1.6×	301 1.0×	199 0.8×	30	3.2k
Toni‐Kim Clarke United Kingdom	31	787 0.6×	750 1.2×	206 0.6×	410 1.3×	298 1.1×	70	2.7k
W. David Hill United Kingdom	24	1.4k 1.1×	649 1.0×	292 0.9×	177 0.6×	281 1.1×	44	2.8k
Lea K. Davis United States	26	811 0.6×	603 0.9×	213 0.7×	165 0.5×	202 0.8×	105	2.1k
Alexander F. Wilson United States	30	1.3k 1.0×	903 1.4×	395 1.2×	139 0.5×	168 0.6×	109	3.8k
Timothy Shin Heng Mak Hong Kong	13	784 0.6×	375 0.6×	225 0.7×	189 0.6×	327 1.3×	22	1.7k
Patrick Sleiman United States	24	768 0.6×	632 1.0×	205 0.6×	131 0.4×	113 0.4×	94	2.4k
Maria Antonietta Stazi Italy	27	505 0.4×	422 0.7×	250 0.8×	318 1.0×	409 1.6×	91	2.7k
Pietro Maffei Italy	29	1.5k 1.2×	930 1.4×	128 0.4×	305 1.0×	168 0.6×	118	3.5k
Darina Czamara Germany	32	441 0.3×	725 1.1×	211 0.6×	167 0.5×	283 1.1×	93	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shing Wan Choi

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Choi, Shing Wan, et al.. (2025). Sex estimation using humerus volume in a Korean population with varying bone preservation. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 29485–29485.

Voloudakis, Georgios, Karen Therrien, Veera M. Rajagopal, et al.. (2024). Neuropsychiatric polygenic scores are weak predictors of professional categories. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(3). 595–608. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Zhiqiang, et al.. (2024). Preclinical Assessment of Safety and Efficacy of Deferoxamine (DFO)-pretreated Feline Adipose Mesenchymal Stem Cells. In Vivo. 39(1). 267–279. 1 indexed citations

Hoggart, Clive, Shing Wan Choi, Judit García‐González, et al.. (2023). BridgePRS leverages shared genetic effects across ancestries to increase polygenic risk score portability. Nature Genetics. 56(1). 180–186. 17 indexed citations

Choi, Shing Wan, Judit García‐González, Yunfeng Ruan, et al.. (2023). PRSet: Pathway-based polygenic risk score analyses and software. PLoS Genetics. 19(2). e1010624–e1010624. 34 indexed citations

Choi, Shing Wan, Timothy Shin Heng Mak, Clive Hoggart, & Paul F. O’Reilly. (2022). EraSOR: a software tool to eliminate inflation caused by sample overlap in polygenic score analyses. GigaScience. 12. 15 indexed citations

Pingault, Jean‐Baptiste, Frühling Rijsdijk, Tabea Schoeler, et al.. (2021). Genetic sensitivity analysis: Adjusting for genetic confounding in epidemiological associations. PLoS Genetics. 17(6). e1009590–e1009590. 33 indexed citations

Lord, Jodie, Rebecca Green, Shing Wan Choi, et al.. (2021). Disentangling Independent and Mediated Causal Relationships Between Blood Metabolites, Cognitive Factors, and Alzheimer’s Disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 167–179. 7 indexed citations

Sáez-Atiénzar, Sara, Sara Bandrés‐Ciga, Rebekah G. Langston, et al.. (2021). Genetic analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies contributing pathways and cell types. Science Advances. 7(3). 58 indexed citations

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Choi, Shing Wan, Timothy Shin Heng Mak, & Paul F. O’Reilly. (2020). Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses. Nature Protocols. 15(9). 2759–2772. 967 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rijsdijk, Frühling, Saskia P. Hagenaars, Shing Wan Choi, et al.. (2020). Studying individual risk factors for self-harm in the UK Biobank: A polygenic scoring and Mendelian randomisation study. PLoS Medicine. 17(6). e1003137–e1003137. 38 indexed citations

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Cheesman, Rosa, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Christopher Rayner, et al.. (2019). Familial Influences on Neuroticism and Education in the UK Biobank. Behavior Genetics. 50(2). 84–93. 14 indexed citations

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Hodgson, Karen, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Saskia P. Hagenaars, et al.. (2019). Cannabis use, depression and self‐harm: phenotypic and genetic relationships. Addiction. 115(3). 482–492. 35 indexed citations

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Schoeler, Tabea, Shing Wan Choi, Frank Dudbridge, et al.. (2019). Multi–Polygenic Score Approach to Identifying Individual Vulnerabilities Associated With the Risk of Exposure to Bullying. JAMA Psychiatry. 76(7). 730–730. 64 indexed citations

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Choi, Shing Wan & Paul F. O’Reilly. (2019). PRSice-2: Polygenic Risk Score software for biobank-scale data. GigaScience. 8(7). 789 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruan, Yunfeng, Shing Wan Choi, & Paul F. O’Reilly. (2019). INVESTIGATING SHRINKAGE METHODS TO IMPROVE ACCURACY OF GWAS AND PRS EFFECT SIZE ESTIMATES. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 29. S896–S897. 1 indexed citations

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Rietz, Ebba Du, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Kylie P. Glanville, et al.. (2017). Association of Polygenic Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With Co-occurring Traits and Disorders. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 3(7). 635–643. 75 indexed citations

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Mak, Timothy Shin Heng, Robert M. Porsch, Shing Wan Choi, Xueya Zhou, & Pak C. Sham. (2017). Polygenic scores via penalized regression on summary statistics. Genetic Epidemiology. 41(6). 469–480. 247 indexed citations

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Chiu, Yung‐Tuen, John Wong, Shing Wan Choi, et al.. (2016). Novel pre-mRNA splicing of intronically integrated HBV generates oncogenic chimera in hepatocellular carcinoma. Journal of Hepatology. 64(6). 1256–1264. 35 indexed citations

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Liu, Xuan, Shing Wan Choi, Thomas K. F. Wong, Tak‐Wah Lam, & Siu‐Ming Yiu. (2011). Detection of novel tandem duplication with next-generation sequencing. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 415–419. 1 indexed citations

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