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National Ranking
2199

Overview

Jian-Min Yuan is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research activity spans extensive work within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Oncology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Genetics, and Epidemiology.

The main research topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Jian-Min Yuan's frequent co-authors are:

  • Woon-Puay Koh
  • Renwei Wang
  • Hung N. Luu
  • Aizhen Jin
  • Jennifer Adams-Haduch

Their work has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • Cancer Research
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Selected recent papers include:

  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals, 2020, Nature
  • Composite dietary antioxidant index and the risk of colorectal cancer: Findings from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, 2022, International Journal of Cancer
  • Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Differences in Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence Among Women Residing in Urban and Rural Communities in the United States, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Association between Pre-Diagnostic Serum Bile Acids and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Singapore Chinese Health Study, 2021, Cancers

Best Publications

  • Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

  • Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives : collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53.297 women with breast cancer and 100.239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;H. L. Miracle-McMahill;R. J. Coates

  • 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

  • Epidemiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

    Mimi C. Yu;Jian-Min Yuan

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

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

    Wei Zheng;Dale F. McLerran;Betsy Rolland;Xianglan Zhang

  • Dietary Factors and Risk of Breast Cancer: Combined Analysis of 12 Case—Control Studies

    G. R. Howe;T. Hirohata;T. G. Hislop;J. M. Iscovich

  • A follow-up study of urinary markers of aflatoxin exposure and liver cancer risk in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

    Geng Sun Qian;Ronald K. Ross;Mimi C. Yu;Jian Min Yuan

  • Urinary aflatoxin biomarkers and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma

    R. K. Ross;M. C. Yu;B. E. Henderson;J. M. Yuan

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Younghun Han;Xuchen Zong

  • Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

    Robert Carreras-Torres;Mattias Johansson;Philip C. Haycock;Kaitlin H. Wade

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • Isothiocyanates, glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 polymorphisms, and lung-cancer risk: a prospective study of men in Shanghai, China.

    Stephanie J London;Jian-Min Yuan;Fung-Lung Chung;Yu-Tang Gao

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

    Christian C. Abnet;Neal D. Freedman;Nan Hu;Zhaoming Wang;Zhaoming Wang

  • Environmental factors and risk for hepatocellular carcinoma

    Mimi C. Yu;Jian-Min Yuan

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis

    Eleanor Wheeler;Aaron Leong;Ching-Ti Liu;Marie-France Hivert

  • ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Coronary Heart Disease: Pooling Project of 19 Cohort Studies

    Liana C. Del Gobbo;Fumiaki Imamura;Stella Aslibekyan;Matti Marklund

  • Diet and breast cancer in Shanghai and Tianjin, China.

    J. M. Yuan;Q. S. Wang;R. K. Ross;B. E. Henderson

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

Frequent Co-Authors

Woon-Puay Koh
Woon-Puay Koh National University of Singapore
Mimi C. Yu
Mimi C. Yu University of Southern California
Yu-Tang Gao
Yu-Tang Gao Fudan University
Rob M. van Dam
Rob M. van Dam George Washington University
Jianjun Liu
Jianjun Liu Genome Institute of Singapore
Yong-Bing Xiang
Yong-Bing Xiang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Timothy J Wilt
Timothy J Wilt University of Minnesota
James R. Johnson
James R. Johnson University of Minnesota
Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center
An Pan
An Pan Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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