Wei Zheng

Research interests

Publications

• Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

  Nature Genetics · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-00748-0

• Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2263-3

• CircRNA-SORE mediates sorafenib resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma by stabilizing YBX1

  Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-020-00375-5

• Adiposity, metabolites, and colorectal cancer risk: Mendelian randomization study

  BMC Medicine · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01855-9

• Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Cells and Brain Organoids Reveal SARS-CoV-2 Neurotropism Predominates in Choroid Plexus Epithelium

  Cell stem cell · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2020.09.016

• Circulating Levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 and Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 Associate With Risk of Colorectal Cancer Based on Serologic and Mendelian Randomization Analyses

  Gastroenterology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2019.12.020

• Cross-Cancer Genome-Wide Analysis of Lung, Ovary, Breast, Prostate, and Colorectal Cancer Reveals Novel Pleiotropic Associations

  Cancer Research · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-15-2980

• Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

  The Lancet · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30175-1

• Identification of small-molecule inhibitors of Zika virus infection and induced neural cell death via a drug repurposing screen

  Nature Medicine · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4184

• PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

  Journal of Medical Genetics · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2016-103839

• Anthropometric Factors and Thyroid Cancer Risk by Histological Subtype: Pooled Analysis of 22 Prospective Studies

  Thyroid · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2015.0319

• Characterization of Large Structural Genetic Mosaicism in Human Autosomes

  The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.01.011

• Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pancreatic cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3052

• Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative–specific breast cancer risk loci

  Nature Genetics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2561

• Epigenetic analysis leads to identification of HNF1B as a subtype-specific susceptibility gene for ovarian cancer

  Nature Communications · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2629

• Genome-wide association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci in never-smoking women in Asia

  Nature Genetics · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2456

• Genome-wide association study of glioma and meta-analysis

  Human Genetics · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-012-1212-0

• Meta-analysis identifies common variants associated with body mass index in east Asians

  Nature Genetics · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.1087

• The 5p15.33 Locus Is Associated with Risk of Lung Adenocarcinoma in Never-Smoking Females in Asia

  PLoS Genetics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001051

• A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

  Nature Genetics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.522

• Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.429

• High-throughput screening assays for the identification of chemical probes

  Nature Chemical Biology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2007.17

• Quantitative high-throughput screening: A titration-based approach that efficiently identifies biological activities in large chemical libraries

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604348103

• Ionizing radiation activates the ATM kinase throughout the cell cycle

  Oncogene · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1203444

• KSHV antibodies among Americans, Italians and Ugandans with and without Kaposi's sarcoma

  Nature Medicine · 1996 · 10.1038/nm0896-925

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