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Overview

Lu Qi is a researcher affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research covers multiple main topics, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Lu Qi has published extensively, with important papers that include:

  • "A neuroanatomical basis for electroacupuncture to drive the vagal-adrenal axis" (2021, Nature)
  • "Association Between Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease" (2020, JAMA Internal Medicine)
  • "The Mediterranean diet, plasma metabolome, and cardiovascular disease risk" (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • "Joint exposure to various ambient air pollutants and incident heart failure: a prospective analysis in UK Biobank" (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • "Metabolically healthy obesity, transition to unhealthy metabolic status, and vascular disease in Chinese adults: A cohort study" (2020, PLoS Medicine)

The venues where Lu Qi frequently publishes include:

  • Circulation
  • Diabetes
  • UNC Libraries
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • European Heart Journal

Lu Qi collaborates often with several co-authors, with notable frequent collaborators being:

  • Yoriko Heianza
  • Hao Ma
  • Xiang Li
  • Tao Zhou
  • George A. Bray

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • 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

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • 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

  • Gut microbiome and serum metabolome alterations in obesity and after weight-loss intervention

    Ruixin Liu;Jie Hong;Xiaoqiang Xu;Qiang Feng

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Frank B. Hu
Frank B. Hu Harvard University
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
Frank M. Sacks
Frank M. Sacks Harvard University
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Daniel I. Chasman
Daniel I. Chasman Brigham and Women's Hospital

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