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67327
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National Ranking
22

Overview

E. Shyong Tai is affiliated with the National University of Singapore. Their research spans several key areas within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on genetics, physiology, molecular biology, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, and epidemiology.

Their work prominently covers topics such as genetic associations and epidemiology, diet and metabolism studies, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, adipose tissue and metabolism, metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, and nutritional studies and diet.

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Xueling Sim
  • Rob M. van Dam
  • Ching-Yu Cheng
  • Chin Meng Khoo
  • Charumathi Sabanayagam

Their publications have appeared in notable venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • UNC Libraries

Among their recent scholarly works are:

  • A deep learning algorithm to detect chronic kidney disease from retinal photographs in community-based populations, 2020, The Lancet Digital Health
  • A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effects of a Smartphone Application-Based Lifestyle Coaching Program on Gestational Weight Gain, Glycemic Control, and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The SMART-GDM Study, 2020, Diabetes Care
  • An atlas of genetic scores to predict multi-omic traits, 2023, Nature
  • Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Predicts Development of Immune-Related Adverse Events and Outcomes from Immune Checkpoint Blockade: A Case-Control Study, 2021, Cancers
  • The Singapore National Precision Medicine Strategy, 2023, Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • 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

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • 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

  • Six new loci associated with blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or triglycerides in humans.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Olle Melander;Candace Guiducci;Aarti Surti

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Can We Apply the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome to Asians

    Chee Eng Tan;Stefan Ma;Daniel Wai;Suok Kai Chew

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • SNPs in KCNQ1 are associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in East Asian and European populations

    Hiroyuki Unoki;Atsushi Takahashi;Takahisa Kawaguchi;Kazuo Hara

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies eight new loci for type 2 diabetes in east Asians

    Yoon Shin Cho;Chien Hsiun Chen;Chien Hsiun Chen;Cheng Hu;Jirong Long

  • Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: A meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

    Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen;Lu Qi;Soren Brage;Stephen J. Sharp

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common variants associated with blood pressure variation in east Asians

    Norihiro Kato;Fumihiko Takeuchi;Yasuharu Tabara;Tanika N. Kelly

  • Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci

    Jaspal S Kooner;Danish Saleheen;Xueling Sim;Joban Sehmi;Joban Sehmi

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Tien Yin Wong
Tien Yin Wong Tsinghua University
Ching-Yu Cheng
Ching-Yu Cheng National University of Singapore
Jianjun Liu
Jianjun Liu Genome Institute of Singapore
Rob M. van Dam
Rob M. van Dam George Washington University
Xueling Sim
Xueling Sim National University of Singapore
Tin Aung
Tin Aung National University of Singapore
Chiea Chuen Khor
Chiea Chuen Khor Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Yik Ying Teo
Yik Ying Teo National University of Singapore
Jie Jin Wang
Jie Jin Wang University of Sydney
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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