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Qing Lan is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States, focusing on research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields including molecular biology, health toxicology and mutagenesis, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and oncology.

The scientist's research covers key topics such as air quality and health impacts, carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, epigenetics and DNA methylation, energy and environment impacts, lung cancer treatments and mutations, RNA modifications and cancer, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

Frequent publication venues for Qing Lan include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Environment International
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Qing Lan has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, notably Nathaniel Rothman (in over 100 collaborations combined), Roel Vermeulen, Wei Hu, and Bryan A. Bassig.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Global, regional, and national burden of respiratory tract cancers and associated risk factors from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2021), published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers (2021), published in Nature Genetics
  • Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer (2022), published in Nature Genetics
  • Variation in oral microbiome is associated with future risk of lung cancer among never-smokers (2020), published in Thorax
  • Prospective study of oral microbiome and gastric cancer risk among Asian, African American and European American populations (2021), published in International Journal of Cancer

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study.

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Tomi F. Akinyemiju;Faris Hasan Al Lami;Tahiya Alam

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Mohsen Naghavi;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • The State of US Health, 1990-2010: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Jerry Abraham;Mohammed K. Ali;Miriam Alvarado

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Joan B Soriano;Parkes J Kendrick;Katherine R Paulson;Vinay Gupta

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2016 a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study global burden of disease cancer collaboration

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Tomi F. Akinyemiju;Faris Hasan Al Lami;Tahiya Alam

  • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990???2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Katrina F. Ortblad;Caterina Guinovart;Stephen S. Lim

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Nancy Fullman;Jamal Yearwood;Solomon M Abay;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Haidong Wang;Chelsea A. Liddell;Matthew M. Coates;Meghan D. Mooney

  • Hematotoxicity in Workers Exposed to Low Levels of Benzene

    Qing Lan;Luoping Zhang;Guilan Li;Roel Vermeulen

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Roel Vermeulen
Roel Vermeulen Utrecht University
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Mark P. Purdue
Mark P. Purdue National Institutes of Health
Tongzhang Zheng
Tongzhang Zheng Brown University
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Martyn T. Smith
Martyn T. Smith University of California, Berkeley
Yong-Bing Xiang
Yong-Bing Xiang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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