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

• Chloe Hequet
• Krzysztof Marianski
• Bing Dong
• Xueyu Guo
• Struan Donachie
• Priyatam Dutta

Selected publications

• Open access

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

  Lin, Y-P., Shi, Y., Zhang, R., Xue, X., Rao, S., Yin, L., Lui, K. F. H., Pan, D. J., Maurer, U., Choy, K-W., Paracchini, S., McBride, C. & So, H-C., 27 Mar 2024, In: npj Science of Learning. 9, 26, 18 p.

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

• Auditory Cortex Asymmetry Associations with Individual Differences in Language and Cognition

  Paracchini, S., 2023, In: Brain Sciences .

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

• Open access

  Auditory cortex asymmetry associations with individual differences in language and cognition

  Eckert, M. A., Vaden Jr., K. I. & Paracchini, S., 23 Dec 2023, In: Brain Sciences . 14, 1, 14.

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

• 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

  Elevated levels of mixed-hand preference in dyslexia: meta-analyses of 68 studies

  Packheiser, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Koufaki, A., Paracchini, S., Stein, C. C., Schmitz, J. & Ocklenburg, S., Nov 2023, In: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 154, 18 p., 105420.

  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

 

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