Varun Kilaru

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Varun Kilaru is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Varun Kilaru has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Varun Kilaru's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (22 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (10 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (7 papers). Varun Kilaru is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (22 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (10 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (7 papers). Varun Kilaru collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Varun Kilaru's co-authors include Alicia K. Smith, Karen N. Conneely, Kerry J. Ressler, Bekh Bradley, Kristina B. Mercer, Elisabeth B. Binder, Tanja Jovanović, Richard Barfield, Torsten Klengel and Lynn M. Almli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Varun Kilaru

38 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with PACAP and the PAC1 receptor

2011 617 citations Kerry J. Ressler, Kristina B. Mercer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Varun Kilaru United States	20	1.2k	674	569	512	418	38	2.6k
Lynn M. Almli United States	26	800 0.6×	362 0.5×	610 1.1×	461 0.9×	384 0.9×	42	2.2k
Kristina B. Mercer United States	21	1.4k 1.2×	728 1.1×	1.4k 2.4×	1.1k 2.2×	488 1.2×	26	4.1k
Darina Czamara Germany	32	725 0.6×	524 0.8×	329 0.6×	283 0.6×	441 1.1×	93	2.3k
Bridget M. Nugent United States	19	899 0.7×	556 0.8×	445 0.8×	146 0.3×	639 1.5×	32	2.7k
Zachary Kaminsky United States	30	2.1k 1.7×	495 0.7×	220 0.4×	541 1.1×	989 2.4×	56	3.8k
Chloe C. Y. Wong United Kingdom	30	2.0k 1.6×	605 0.9×	160 0.3×	522 1.0×	1.0k 2.5×	49	3.6k
Nadine Provençal Canada	21	763 0.6×	446 0.7×	377 0.7×	477 0.9×	192 0.5×	40	1.7k
Michael J. Meaney Canada	20	431 0.3×	599 0.9×	687 1.2×	390 0.8×	238 0.6×	38	2.2k
Alexandre V. Patchev Germany	14	563 0.5×	407 0.6×	501 0.9×	184 0.4×	275 0.7×	19	1.5k
Hanna E. Stevens United States	26	400 0.3×	394 0.6×	321 0.6×	190 0.4×	212 0.5×	69	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Varun Kilaru

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Venkateswaran, Suresh, Hari K. Somineni, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2022). Methylation quantitative trait loci are largely consistent across disease states in Crohn’s disease. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(4). 4 indexed citations

Hack, Laura M., Shota Nishitani, Anna K. Knight, et al.. (2021). Epigenetic prediction of 17β-estradiol and relationship to trauma-related outcomes in women. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100045–100045. 2 indexed citations

Curtis, Sarah W., Dawayland O. Cobb, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide DNA methylation differences and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure in a US population. Epigenetics. 16(3). 338–352. 13 indexed citations

Katrinli, Şeyma, Adriana Lori, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2019). Association of HLA locus alleles with posttraumatic stress disorder. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 81. 655–658. 24 indexed citations

Knight, Anna K., Anne L. Dunlop, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2018). Characterization of gene expression changes over healthy term pregnancies. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0204228–e0204228. 14 indexed citations

Jovanović, Tanja, L. Alexander Vance, Dorthie Cross, et al.. (2017). Exposure to Violence Accelerates Epigenetic Aging in Children. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 8962–8962. 132 indexed citations

Knight, Anna K., Karen N. Conneely, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2017). SLC9B1 methylation predicts fetal intolerance of labor. Epigenetics. 13(1). 33–39. 18 indexed citations

Bhavnani, Suresh K., Varun Kilaru, Shyam Visweswaran, et al.. (2017). Methylation differences reveal heterogeneity in preterm pathophysiology: results from bipartite network analyses. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 46(5). 509–521. 9 indexed citations

Smith, Alicia K., Tanja Jovanović, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2017). A Gene-Based Analysis of Acoustic Startle Latency. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 8. 117–117. 7 indexed citations

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Park, Hea Jin, Dorothy B. Hausman, Richard B. Meagher, et al.. (2017). DNA Methylation Changes in Whole Blood and CD16+ Neutrophils in Response to Chronic Folic Acid Supplementation in Women of Childbearing Age. International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research. 87(5-6). 271–278. 3 indexed citations

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Parets, Sasha, Karen N. Conneely, Varun Kilaru, Ramkumar Menon, & Alicia K. Smith. (2015). DNA methylation provides insight into intergenerational risk for preterm birth in African Americans. Epigenetics. 10(9). 784–792. 46 indexed citations

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Almli, Lynn M., Jennifer S. Stevens, Alicia K. Smith, et al.. (2015). A genome‐wide identified risk variant for PTSD is a methylation quantitative trait locus and confers decreased cortical activation to fearful faces. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 168(5). 327–336. 56 indexed citations

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Smith, Alicia K., Karen N. Conneely, Thaddeus W. W. Pace, et al.. (2014). Epigenetic changes associated with inflammation in breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 38. 227–236. 53 indexed citations

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Smith, Alicia K., Varun Kilaru, Torsten Klengel, et al.. (2014). DNA extracted from saliva for methylation studies of psychiatric traits: Evidence tissue specificity and relatedness to brain. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 168(1). 36–44. 264 indexed citations

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Parets, Sasha, Karen N. Conneely, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2013). Fetal DNA Methylation Associates with Early Spontaneous Preterm Birth and Gestational Age. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67489–e67489. 75 indexed citations

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Schroeder, James W., Alicia K. Smith, Patricia A. Brennan, et al.. (2012). DNA methylation in neonates born to women receiving psychiatric care. Epigenetics. 7(4). 409–414. 53 indexed citations

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Smith, Alicia K., Karen N. Conneely, D. Jeffrey Newport, et al.. (2012). Prenatal antiepileptic exposure associates with neonatal DNA methylation differences. Epigenetics. 7(5). 458–463. 38 indexed citations

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Kilaru, Varun, Richard Barfield, James W. Schroeder, Alicia K. Smith, & Karen N. Conneely. (2012). MethLAB: A graphical user interface package for the analysis of array-based DNA methylation data. Epigenetics. 7(3). 225–229. 36 indexed citations

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Smith, Alicia K., Karen N. Conneely, Varun Kilaru, et al.. (2011). Differential immune system DNA methylation and cytokine regulation in post‐traumatic stress disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 156(6). 700–708. 254 indexed citations

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Schroeder, James W., Karen N. Conneely, Joseph F. Cubells, et al.. (2011). Neonatal DNA methylation patterns associate with gestational age. Epigenetics. 6(12). 1498–1504. 83 indexed citations

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