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Genetics

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769
National Ranking
383

Medicine

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Citations
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Overview

Liming Liang is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans a broad range of topics primarily within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has produced a notable body of work focusing on diet, metabolism, and their relationships to health outcomes.

Their recent papers showcase investigations into nutrition, metabolism, and disease risk, including:

  • The Mediterranean diet, plasma metabolome, and cardiovascular disease risk, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Association of asthma and its genetic predisposition with the risk of severe COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Cooking fuels and risk of all-cause and cardiopulmonary mortality in urban China: a prospective cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Stability and reproducibility of proteomic profiles in epidemiological studies: comparing the Olink and SOMAscan platforms, 2022, PROTEOMICS
  • Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis- and tricarboxylic acid cycle-related metabolites, Mediterranean diet, and type 2 diabetes, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Liming Liang collaborates frequently with other researchers. The most common coauthors include:

  • Frank B. Hu
  • Clary B. Clish
  • Jun Li
  • Marta Guasch-Ferré
  • A. Heather Eliassen

The scientist's work appears prominently in several publication venues, reflecting a consistent focus on nutrition, epidemiology, and clinical nutrition research. These venues include:

  • Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • UNC Libraries

Their fields of study demonstrate a concentration in:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these domains, their work covers subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Physiology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Genetics
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Key research topics include:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Best Publications

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • 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

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

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

  • Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites.

    Liuqing Yang;Chunru Lin;Chunyu Jin;Joy C. Yang

  • Genetic variants regulating ORMDL3 expression contribute to the risk of childhood asthma

    Miriam F. Moffatt;Michael Kabesch;Liming Liang;Anna L. Dixon

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

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

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

    Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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

  • 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

  • A genome-wide association study of global gene expression

    Anna L Dixon;Anna L Dixon;Liming Liang;Miriam F Moffatt;Wei Chen

  • DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

    Brian H. Chen;Riccardo E. Marioni;Riccardo E. Marioni;Elena Colicino;Marjolein J. Peters

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • Mapping complex disease traits with global gene expression

    William Cookson;Liming Liang;Gonçalo Abecasis;Miriam Moffatt

  • Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

    Roby Joehanes;Allan C. Just;Riccardo E. Marioni;Luke C. Pilling

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • 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

  • An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

    Robert A. Scott;Laura J. Scott;Reedik Mägi;Letizia Marullo

  • Novel Crohn Disease Locus Identified by Genome-Wide Association Maps to a Gene Desert on 5p13.1 and Modulates Expression of PTGER4

    Cécile Libioulle;Edouard Louis;Sarah Hansoul;Cynthia Sandor

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

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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank B. Hu
Frank B. Hu Harvard University
Lu Qi
Lu Qi Harvard University
Dolores Corella
Dolores Corella University of Valencia
Miguel A. Martínez-González
Miguel A. Martínez-González University of Navarra
Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Emilio Ros
Emilio Ros University of Barcelona
Ramón Estruch
Ramón Estruch University of Barcelona
Clary B. Clish
Clary B. Clish Broad Institute
Jordi Salas-Salvadó
Jordi Salas-Salvadó Rovira i Virgili University
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London

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