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135
Citations
91642
World Ranking
2022
National Ranking
210

Overview

Jian'an Luan is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on medicine. Luan's work reflects significant contributions across various subfields, including genetics, molecular biology, physiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, as well as endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their research covers a range of topics, prominently featuring genetic associations and epidemiology, nutrition, genetics, and disease, and bioinformatics and genomic networks. Additional areas of focus include cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, adipose tissue and metabolism, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Luan has frequently published in several distinguished venues. The most common publication outlets include UNC Libraries, Nature Genetics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, and Nature. These venues reflect the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of their research endeavors.

Collaborative efforts have been a significant aspect of Luan's scientific contributions. They have worked extensively with the following frequent co-authors:

  • Claudia Langenberg (47 joint publications)
  • Nicholas J. Wareham (29 joint publications)
  • Reedik Mägi (25 joint publications)
  • Stefan Gustafsson (24 joint publications)
  • Guðmar Þorleifsson (24 joint publications)

Notable recent papers by Jian'an Luan include:

  • The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids (2021) published in Nature
  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits (2021) published in Nature Genetics
  • Mapping the proteo-genomic convergence of human diseases (2021) published in Science
  • Genome-wide Association Study for Vitamin D Levels Reveals 69 Independent Loci (2020) published in The American Journal of Human Genetics

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • 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

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

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

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

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.

    Evangelos Evangelou;Evangelos Evangelou;Helen R. Warren;Helen R. Warren;David Mosen-Ansorena;Borbala Mifsud

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary time and cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents

    Ulf Ekelund;Jian'an Luan;Lauren B. Sherar;Dale W. Esliger

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Claudia Langenberg
Claudia Langenberg Queen Mary University of London
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter
Jing Hua Zhao
Jing Hua Zhao University of Cambridge
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool

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