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Overview

Kwong Wai Choy is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specific focus on Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Molecular Biology. Additional areas of study include Surgery and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics, including Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies, and Renal and Related Cancers.

Kwong Wai Choy has contributed to multiple publications across various journals. Frequent publication venues include Genes, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prenatal Diagnosis, Human Genetics, and the Hong Kong Medical Journal.

Recent notable papers include:

  • The Pregnancy Outcome of Mosaic Embryo Transfer: A Prospective Multicenter Study and Meta-Analysis, 2020, Genes
  • Global retinoblastoma survival and globe preservation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of associations with socioeconomic and health-care factors, 2022, The Lancet Global Health
  • Long-Molecule Sequencing, 2020, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
  • Low-pass genome sequencing: a validated method in clinical cytogenetics, 2020, Human Genetics
  • ASPM-lexical tone association in speakers of a tone language: Direct evidence for the genetic-biasing hypothesis of language evolution, 2020, Science Advances

Collaborations are a notable part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Zirui Dong, Tak Yeung Leung, Matthew Hoi Kin Chau, Ye Cao, and Yvonne K. Kwok.

Best Publications

  • Aqueous humor levels of vascular endothelial growth factor and pigment epithelium-derived factor in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and choroidal neovascularization.

    Jian-Ping Tong;Wai-Man Chan;David T.L. Liu;Timothy Y.Y. Lai

  • Therapeutic potentials of gene silencing by RNA interference: principles, challenges, and new strategies.

    Yan Deng;Chi Chiu Wang;Kwong Wai Choy;Quan Du

  • MiR-222 Overexpression Confers Cell Migratory Advantages in Hepatocellular Carcinoma through Enhancing AKT Signaling

    Queenie W-L Wong;Arthur K-K Ching;Anthony W-H Chan;Kwong-Wai Choy

  • TBX6 Null Variants and a Common Hypomorphic Allele in Congenital Scoliosis

    Wu N;Ming X;Xiao J;Wu Z

  • Truncations in the TIGR gene in individuals with and without primary open-angle glaucoma.

    Dennis S. C. Lam;Yuk Fai Leung;John K. H. Chua;Larry Baum

  • EZH2-mediated concordant repression of Wnt antagonists promotes β-catenin-dependent hepatocarcinogenesis

    Alfred S. L. Cheng;Suki S. Lau;Yangchao Chen;Yutaka Kondo

  • Low-pass whole-genome sequencing in clinical cytogenetics: a validated approach

    Zirui Dong;Jun Zhang;Ping Hu;Haixiao Chen

  • Non-invasive prenatal sequencing for multiple Mendelian monogenic disorders using circulating cell-free fetal DNA

    Jinglan Zhang;Jianli Li;Jennifer B Saucier;Yanming Feng

  • Non-invasive prenatal testing for fetal chromosomal abnormalities by low-coverage whole-genome sequencing of maternal plasma DNA: review of 1982 consecutive cases in a single center

    T. K. Lau;S. W. Cheung;P. S. S. Lo;A. N. Pursley

  • Secondary findings from non-invasive prenatal testing for common fetal aneuploidies by whole genome sequencing as a clinical service.

    Tze Kin Lau;Fu Man Jiang;Robert J. Stevenson;Tsz Kin Lo

  • MicroRNA-182 plays an onco-miRNA role in cervical cancer

    Tao Tang;Hoi Kin Wong;Wenyi Gu;Mei-yung Yu

  • Constitutive activation of distinct NF-κB signals in EBV-associated nasopharyngeal carcinoma

    Grace Tin-Yun Chung;Wilson Pak-Kin Lou;Chit Chow;Ka-Fai To

  • Authentication of nasopharyngeal carcinoma tumor lines.

    Sylvia Yat Yee Chan;Kwong Wai Choy;Sai Wah Tsao;Qian Tao

  • Trolox-Equivalent Antioxidant Capacity Assay Versus Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity Assay in Plasma

    Chi Chiu Wang;Ching Yan Chu;Kai On Chu;Kwong Wai Choy

  • Noninvasive prenatal molecular karyotyping from maternal plasma

    Wai Kwun Rossa Chiu;Yuk Ming Dennis Lo;Kwan Chee Chan;Peiyong Jiang

  • Extensive Genetic Diversity and Substructuring Among Zebrafish Strains Revealed Through Copy Number Variant Analysis

    Kim H. Brown;Kimberly P. Dobrinski;Arthur S. Lee;Arthur S. Lee;Omer Gokcumen

  • Disseminated Peritoneal Leiomyomatosis after Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy with Characteristic Molecular Cytogenetic Findings of Uterine Leiomyoma

    Zehra Ordulu;Paola Dal Cin;Wilson W.S. Chong;Kwong Wai Choy

  • Innate Immune Response by Ficolin Binding in Apoptotic Placenta Is Associated with the Clinical Syndrome of Preeclampsia

    Chi Chiu Wang;Ka Wing Yim;Terence C.W. Poon;Kwong Wai Choy

  • Pharmacokinetic studies of green tea catechins in maternal plasma and fetuses in rats

    Kai On Chu;Chi Chiu Wang;Ching Yan Chu;Kwok Ping Chan

  • Uptake and distribution of catechins in fetal organs following in utero exposure in rats

    K.O. Chu;C.C. Wang;C.Y. Chu;K.W. Choy

Frequent Co-Authors

Chi Pui Pang
Chi Pui Pang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dennis S.C. Lam
Dennis S.C. Lam Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Ka-Fai To
Ka-Fai To Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kwok Wai Lo
Kwok Wai Lo Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sau Wai Cheung
Sau Wai Cheung Baylor College of Medicine
Cynthia C. Morton
Cynthia C. Morton Brigham and Women's Hospital
Herman S. Cheung
Herman S. Cheung University of Miami
Chad A. Shaw
Chad A. Shaw Baylor College of Medicine
Sai Wah Tsao
Sai Wah Tsao University of Hong Kong
Jun Wang
Jun Wang University of Central Florida

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