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Overview

Andrew Wong is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The topics most frequently addressed in their work encompass Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Diet and Metabolism Studies, and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) as a drug target for cardiovascular disease, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Early childhood lower respiratory tract infection and premature adult death from respiratory disease in Great Britain: a national birth cohort study, 2023, The Lancet
  • OUP accepted manuscript, 2020, Brain
  • Evaluating access to health and care services during lockdown by the COVID-19 survey in five UK national longitudinal studies, 2021, BMJ Open
  • Novel DNA methylation signatures of tobacco smoking with trans-ethnic effects, 2021, Clinical Epigenetics

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative research efforts include Marcus Richards, David M. Cash, Nick C. Fox, Jonathan M. Schott, and Nish Chaturvedi.

Andrew Wong's work has been published extensively in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Clinical Epigenetics
  • Genome Biology

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial

    Jörg Ederle;Joanna Dobson;Joanna Dobson;Roland L. Featherstone;Leo H. Bonati;Leo H. Bonati

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibition, type 2 diabetes, and bodyweight: evidence from genetic analysis and randomised trials.

    Daniel I Swerdlow;David Preiss;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Michael Holmes

  • Mutations in the gene encoding the 3'-5' DNA exonuclease TREX1 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Min Ae Lee-Kirsch;Maolian Gong;Dipanjan Chowdhury;Lydia Senenko

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Tenecteplase versus Alteplase before Thrombectomy for Ischemic Stroke

    Bruce C.V. Campbell;Peter J. Mitchell;Leonid Churilov;Nawaf Yassi

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Genetic variants near TNFAIP3 on 6q23 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Robert R Graham;Chris Cotsapas;Chris Cotsapas;Leela Davies;Rachel Hackett

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • HMG-COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITION, TYPE 2 DIABETES, AND BODYWEIGHT: EVIDENCE FROM GENETIC ANALYSIS AND RANDOMISED TRIALS

    D Swerdlow;D Preiss;A D Hingorani;N Sattar

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I. Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Maegi;Andrea Ganna

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Marcus Richards
Marcus Richards University College London
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Rebecca Hardy
Rebecca Hardy University College London
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Aroon D. Hingorani
Aroon D. Hingorani University College London
Ken K. Ong
Ken K. Ong University of Cambridge
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen

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