Sonia Shah

23.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sonia Shah is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonia Shah has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sonia Shah's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (10 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (7 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Sonia Shah is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (10 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (7 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (7 papers). Sonia Shah collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Sonia Shah's co-authors include Naomi R. Wray, Peter M. Visscher, Allan F. McRae, Aroon D. Hingorani, Mika Kivimäki, John C. Whittaker, Sarah E. Harris, Ian J. Deary, Riccardo E. Marioni and Lee Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Blood and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Sonia Shah

48 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Use of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol gene score to distinguish patients with polygenic and monogenic familial hypercholesterolaemia: a case-control study

2013 411 citations Philippa J. Talmud, Sonia Shah et al. The Lancet profile →
The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

2015 397 citations Riccardo E. Marioni, Sonia Shah et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonia Shah United Kingdom	21	1.2k	609	560	289	262	50	2.6k
Brendan J. Keating United States	28	909 0.8×	823 1.4×	401 0.7×	252 0.9×	200 0.8×	102	2.8k
Rita M. Cantor United States	31	868 0.7×	639 1.0×	430 0.8×	305 1.1×	263 1.0×	66	2.7k
Thomas F. Wienker Germany	32	1.9k 1.6×	755 1.2×	642 1.1×	462 1.6×	221 0.8×	79	4.1k
Matthew P. Johnson United States	26	829 0.7×	444 0.7×	210 0.4×	372 1.3×	188 0.7×	64	2.4k
Timothy J. Cole Australia	29	730 0.6×	288 0.5×	435 0.8×	343 1.2×	334 1.3×	79	3.0k
Giriraj R. Chandak India	30	895 0.8×	831 1.4×	637 1.1×	108 0.4×	159 0.6×	95	2.9k
Hideki Mizunuma Japan	35	888 0.8×	485 0.8×	289 0.5×	535 1.9×	132 0.5×	154	3.9k
Celeste Eng United States	31	1.0k 0.9×	749 1.2×	760 1.4×	481 1.7×	149 0.6×	81	3.5k
Davide Gentilini Italy	30	1.6k 1.4×	694 1.1×	189 0.3×	497 1.7×	187 0.7×	111	3.3k
Peter Henneman Netherlands	26	898 0.8×	454 0.7×	196 0.3×	139 0.5×	181 0.7×	90	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonia Shah

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Shafiq, M., et al.. (2025). A Review on the Potential Role of Humanin Peptide and its Analogs in the Regulation of Autophagy Pathways for Therapeutic Application in Metabolic Disorders. Protein and Peptide Letters. 32(3). 161–170.

Abdallah, Abdallah M., Hifzur Rahman Ansari, Muhammad Shuaib, et al.. (2025). Immune transcriptomic analysis on COVID-19 patients with varying clinical presentations identifies severity markers. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 23416–23416.

Haq, Nowreen, et al.. (2024). CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF THE GLOBAL ACTIVITY LIMITATION INDICATOR WITH DISABILITY MEASURES IN ADULTS UNDER 65 SUFFERING FROM SPINAL AND HEPATIC HEALTH ISSUES. 4(1). 48–60. 1 indexed citations

McIntosh, Andrew M., et al.. (2023). Investigating the potential anti-depressive mechanisms of statins: a transcriptomic and Mendelian randomization analysis. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 110–110. 6 indexed citations

Keshvani, Neil, Sonia Shah, Karen Chiswell, et al.. (2023). Sex Differences in Long-Term Outcomes Following Acute Heart Failure Hospitalization: Findings from the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. European Journal of Heart Failure. 25(9). 1544–1554. 16 indexed citations

Shah, Sonia, Matthew W. Segar, Colby Ayers, et al.. (2022). Supranormal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction, Stroke Volume, and Cardiovascular Risk. JACC Heart Failure. 10(8). 583–594. 42 indexed citations

Marioni, Riccardo E., Sarah E. Harris, Sonia Shah, et al.. (2017). The epigenetic clock and telomere length are independently associated with chronological age and mortality. International Journal of Epidemiology. 47(1). 356–356. 24 indexed citations

Swerdlow, Daniel I., Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Sonia Shah, et al.. (2016). Selecting instruments for Mendelian randomization in the wake of genome-wide association studies. International Journal of Epidemiology. 45(5). 1600–1616. 213 indexed citations

Marioni, Riccardo E., Sonia Shah, Allan F. McRae, et al.. (2015). The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. International Journal of Epidemiology. 44(4). 1388–1396. 397 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benyamin, Beben, Sonia Shah, Anjali K. Henders, et al.. (2015). Sharing a Placenta is Associated With a Greater Similarity in DNA Methylation in Monochorionic Versus Dichorionic Twin Pars in Blood at Age 14. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 18(6). 680–685. 4 indexed citations

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He, Ji, Lu Tang, Beben Benyamin, et al.. (2015). C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in Chinese sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiology of Aging. 36(9). 2660.e1–2660.e8. 39 indexed citations

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Aiamkitsumrit, Benjamas, Will Dampier, Julio Martín‐García, et al.. (2014). Defining Differential Genetic Signatures in CXCR4- and the CCR5-Utilizing HIV-1 Co-Linear Sequences. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e107389–e107389. 12 indexed citations

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Shah, Sonia, Aikaterini Alexaki, Vanessa Pirrone, et al.. (2014). Functional properties of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat containing single-nucleotide polymorphisms in Sp site III and CCAAT/enhancer binding protein site I. Virology Journal. 11(1). 92–92. 19 indexed citations

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Talmud, Philippa J., Sonia Shah, Ros Whittall, et al.. (2013). Use of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol gene score to distinguish patients with polygenic and monogenic familial hypercholesterolaemia: a case-control study. The Lancet. 381(9874). 1293–1301. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

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Papp, Audrey C., Julia K. Pinsonneault, Daqing Wang, et al.. (2012). Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein (CETP) Polymorphisms Affect mRNA Splicing, HDL Levels, and Sex-Dependent Cardiovascular Risk. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e31930–e31930. 45 indexed citations

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Smith, Andrew J., Philip Howard, Sonia Shah, et al.. (2012). Use of Allele-Specific FAIRE to Determine Functional Regulatory Polymorphism Using Large-Scale Genotyping Arrays. PLoS Genetics. 8(8). e1002908–e1002908. 21 indexed citations

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Yiannakouris, Nikos, Jackie A. Cooper, Sonia Shah, et al.. (2011). IRS1 gene variants, dysglycaemic metabolic changes and type-2 diabetes risk. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 22(12). 1024–1030. 20 indexed citations

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Shah, Sonia, et al.. (2009). Regulation of HIV-1 transcription in cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage. Retrovirology. 6(1). 118–118. 83 indexed citations

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Holmes, Michael V., Sonia Shah, Aspasia Angelakopoulou, et al.. (2009). Complex disease genetics: present and future translational applications. Genome Medicine. 1(11). 104–104. 2 indexed citations

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Shah, Sonia & Jacqueline A. Pallas. (2009). Identifying differential exon splicing using linear models and correlation coefficients. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(1). 26–26. 20 indexed citations

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