Woon‐Puay Koh

Research interests

Publications

• Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention

  Nature Genetics · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01165-1

• A polygenic risk score improves risk stratification of coronary artery disease: a large-scale prospective Chinese cohort study

  European Heart Journal · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac093

• Association of Sleep Duration With All- and Major-Cause Mortality Among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea

  JAMA Network Open · 2021 · 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.22837

• Identification of Risk Loci for Parkinson Disease in Asians and Comparison of Risk Between Asians and Europeans

  JAMA Neurology · 2020 · 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.0428

• Tobacco Smoking and Mortality in Asia

  JAMA Network Open · 2019 · 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.1474

• Association of Diabetes With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Asia

  JAMA Network Open · 2019 · 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.2696

• Association of Body Mass Index and Age With Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk in Premenopausal Women

  JAMA Oncology · 2018 · 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.1771

• Association between type 2 diabetes and risk of cancer mortality: a pooled analysis of over 771,000 individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

  Diabetologia · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-017-4229-z

• Female chromosome X mosaicism is age-related and preferentially affects the inactivated X chromosome

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11843

• ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Coronary Heart Disease

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2016 · 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.2925

• Ovarian Cancer Risk Factors by Histologic Subtype: An Analysis From the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium

  Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2016.66.8178

• Red Meat Intake and Risk of ESRD

  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 2016 · 10.1681/asn.2016030248

• New loci and coding variants confer risk for age-related macular degeneration in East Asians

  Nature Communications · 2015 · 10.1038/ncomms7063

• Joint analysis of three genome-wide association studies of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Chinese populations

  Nature Genetics · 2014 · 10.1038/ng.3064

• Association between body mass index and cardiovascular disease mortality in east Asians and south Asians: pooled analysis of prospective data from the Asia Cohort Consortium

  BMJ · 2013 · 10.1136/bmj.f5446

• Western-Style Fast Food Intake and Cardiometabolic Risk in an Eastern Country

  Circulation · 2012 · 10.1161/circulationaha.111.084004

• Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2270

• Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1010679

• Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics: Viewpoints on the Current Status and Applications in Nutrition Research and Practice

  Lifestyle Genomics · 2011 · 10.1159/000327772

• Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0019930

• A shared susceptibility locus in PLCE1 at 10q23 for gastric adenocarcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

  Nature Genetics · 2010 · 10.1038/ng.649

• Antioxidant activity and profiles of common fruits in Singapore

  Food Chemistry · 2010 · 10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.04.002

• Antioxidant activity and profiles of common vegetables in Singapore

  Food Chemistry · 2009 · 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.11.038

• Coffee, tea, and incident type 2 diabetes: the Singapore Chinese Health Study

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2008 · 10.1093/ajcn/88.4.979

• Differential Effects of Black versus Green Tea on Risk of Parkinson's Disease in the Singapore Chinese Health Study

  American Journal of Epidemiology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwm338

• Green tea, black tea and colorectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies

  Carcinogenesis · 2006 · 10.1093/carcin/bgl024

• Green tea, black tea and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies

  Carcinogenesis · 2005 · 10.1093/carcin/bgi276

Current projects

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