Prof Silvia Paracchini

Prof Silvia Paracchini

Professor of Neurogenetics and Genomics

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3542
Email
sp58@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I lead the Neurogenetics group. We are interested in the genetic basis of complex cognitive and behavioural phenotypes using multidisciplinary approaches.

PhD supervision

  • Struan Donachie
  • Chloe Hequet
  • Krzysztof Marianski
  • Bing Dong
  • Mariya Shtumpf

Selected publications

  • Open access

    Dyslexia-related loci are significantly associated with language and literacy in Chinese–English bilingual Hong Kong Chinese twins

     Chung, C. Y., Pan, D. J., Paracchini, S., Jiang, W., So, H-C., McBride, C., Maurer, U., Zheng, M. & Choy, K. W., 5 Sept 2023, In: Human Genetics.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skills and educational attainment

     Schmitz, J., Abbondanza, F., Marianski, K., Luciano, M. & Paracchini, S., 25 Jul 2023, In: npj Science of Learning. 8, 10 p., 25.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Language and reading impairments are associated with increased prevalence of non-right handedness

    Abbondanza, F., Dale, P. S., Wang, C. A., Hayiou-Thomas, M. E., Toseeb, U., Koomar, T. S., Wigg, K. G., Feng, Y., Price, K. M., Kerr, E. N., Guger, S. L., Lovett, M. W., Strug, L. J., van Bergen, E., Dolan, C. V., Tomblin, J. B., Moll, K., Schulte-Körne, G., Neuhoff, N., Warnke, A., & 13 others Fisher, S. E., Barr, C. L., Michaelson, J. J., Boomsma, D. I., Snowling, M. J., Hulme, C., Whitehouse, A. J. O., Pennell, C. E., Newbury, D. F., Stein, J., Talcott, J. B., Bishop, D. V. M. & Paracchini, S., 22 Jun 2023, In: Child Development. 94, 4, p. 970-984 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • A genome-wide association study of Chinese and English language abilities in Hong Kong Chinese children

     Paracchini, S., 2022, (medRxiv).

    Research output: Working paper › Preprint

  • Auditory cortex asymmetries relate to vocabulary knowledge because of shared polygenic influences

     Eckert, M. A., Vaden, Jr., K. I., Marianski, K. & Paracchini, S., 1 Dec 2022, PsyArXiv, 18 p.

    Research output: Working paper › Preprint

  • Open access

    Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia

    Doust, C., Fontanillas, P., Eising, E., Gordon, S. D., Wang, Z., Alagöz, G., Moltz, B., 23andMe Research Team, Quantitative Trait Working Group of the GenLang Consortium, St Pourcain, B., Francks, C., Marioni, R. E., Zhao, J., Paracchini, S., Talcott, J. B., Monaco, A. P., Stein, J. F., Gruen, J. R., Olson, R. K., Willcutt, E. G., & 9 others DeFries, J. C., Pennington, B. F., Smith, S. D., Wright, M. J., Martin, N. G., Auton, A., Bates, T. C., Fisher, S. E. & Luciano, M., 20 Oct 2022, In: Nature Genetics. 54, p. 1621-1629 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people

    Eising, E., Mirza-Schreiber, N., de Zeeuw, E. L., Wang, C. A., Truong, D. T., Allegrini, A. G., Shapland, C. Y., Zhu, G., Wigg, K. G., Gerritse, M., Molz, B., Alagöz, G., Gialluisi, A., Abbondanza, F., Rimfeld, K., van Donkelaar, M., Liao, Z., Jansen, P. R., Andlauer, T. F. M., Bates, T. C., & 75 others Bernard, M., Blokland, K., Bonte, M., Børglum, A. D., Bourgeron, T., Brandeis, D., Ceroni, F., Csépe, V., Dale, P. S., de Jong, P. F., DeFries, J. C., Démonet, J-F., Demontis, D., Feng, Y., Gordon, S. D., Guger, S. L., Hayiou-Thomas, M. E., Hernández-Cabrera, J. A., Hottenga, J-J., Hulme, C., Kere, J., Kerr, E. N., Koomar, T., Landerl, K., Leonard, G., Lovett, M. W., Lyytinen, H., Martin, N. G., Martinelli, A., Maurer, U., Michaelson, J., Moll, K., Monaco, A. P., Morgan, A. T., Nőthen, M. M., Pausova, Z., Pennell, C. E., Pennington, B. F., Price, K. M., Rajagopal, V. M., Ramus, F., Richer, L., Simpson, N. H., Smith, S., Snowling, M. J., Stein, J., Strug, L. J., Talcott, J. B., Tiemeier, H., van der Schroeff, M. M. P., Verhoef, E., Watkins, K. E., Wilkinson, M., Wright, M. J., Barr, C. L., Boomsma, D. I., Carreiras, M., Franken, M-C. J., Gruen, J. R., Luciano, M., Müller-Myhsok, B., Newbury, D. F., Olson, R. ., Paracchini, S., Paus, T., Plomin, R., Reilly, S., Schulte-Körne, G., Tomblin, B., van Bergen, E., Whitehouse, A. J. O., Willcutt, E. G., St Pourcain, B., Francks, C. & Fisher, S. E., 30 Aug 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 35, 12 p., e2202764119.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Handedness in twins: meta-analyses

     Pfeifer, L. S., Schmitz, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Peterburs, J., Paracchini, S. & Ocklenburg, S., 15 Jan 2022, In: BMC Psychology. 10, 19 p., 11.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Hypothesis-driven genome-wide association studies provide novel insights into genetics of reading disabilities

     Price, K. M., Wigg, K. G., Eising, E., Feng, Y., Blokland, K., Wilkinson, M., Kerr, E. N., Guger, S. L., Quantitative Trait Working Group of the GenLang Consortium, Fisher, S. E., Lovett, M. W., Strug, L. J., Barr, C. L. & Paracchini, S., 29 Nov 2022, In: Translational Psychiatry. 12, 9 p., 495.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Identification of loci involved in childhood visual acuity and associations with cognitive skill and educational attainment

     Paracchini, S., Schmitz, J., Abbondanza, F. & Marianski, K., 2022, (PsyArXiv).

    Research output: Working paper › Preprint

 

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