Low bias current and high gain in BJTs, large area for MOSFETs, topology is probably less a concern for noise except to keep it simple in the front end. Since noise is uncorrelated (I assume you are talking about thermal, shot, and so forth rather than quantization noise) most things you add to the circuit (e.g. for lower distortion) tends to hurt noise. I have several books on noise, but they are buried, and pretty old (though the fundamentals have not changed, but they may be hard to find now). If you are an IEEE member you can search the CAS and JSSC libraries for tutorials.