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Overview

Qingyi Wei is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and specializes in research across medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their research topics focus on several key areas:

  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Head and neck cancer studies
  • Lung cancer treatments and mutations
  • Cancer-related gene regulation

Frequent publication venues for Qingyi Wei include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Molecular Carcinogenesis
  • Cancer Research
  • Frontiers in Oncology

Among their notable published papers are:

  • Genetic risk, incident gastric cancer, and healthy lifestyle: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies and prospective cohort study (2020, The Lancet Oncology)
  • Genetic Risk for Overall Cancer and the Benefit of Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle (2021, Cancer Research)
  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Two Novel Susceptible Regions for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck (2020, Cancer Research)
  • Distinguishing pericarpium citri reticulatae of different origins using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy combined with convolutional neural networks (2023, Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy)
  • Genome-wide association and functional interrogation identified a variant at 3p26.1 modulating ovarian cancer survival among Chinese women (2021, Cell Discovery)

Qingyi Wei frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Hongliang Liu
  • Sheng Luo
  • David C. Christiani
  • Christopher I. Amos
  • Philip Lazarus

Best Publications

  • Interaction between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium.

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Shu Chun Chuang;Stefania Boccia

  • Alcohol Drinking in Never Users of Tobacco, Cigarette Smoking in Never Drinkers, and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Simone Benhamou;Xavier Castellsague

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Cecelia A Laurie;Kenneth Rice;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • Modulation of Nucleotide Excision Repair Capacity by XPD Polymorphisms in Lung Cancer Patients

    Margaret R. Spitz;Xifeng Wu;Yunfei Wang;Li E. Wang

  • Repair of Tobacco Carcinogen-Induced DNA Adducts and Lung Cancer Risk: a Molecular Epidemiologic Study

    Qingyi Wei;Lie Cheng;Christopher I. Amos;Li E. Wang

  • DNA repair and aging in basal cell carcinoma: A molecular epidemiology study

    Qingyi Wei;Genevieve M. Matanoski;Evan R. Farmer;Mohammad A. Hedayati

  • Gastric cancer—molecular and clinical dimensions

    Roopma Wadhwa;Shumei Song;Ju Seog Lee;Yixin Yao

  • Genetic Susceptibility to Lung Cancer The Role of DNA Damage and Repair

    Margaret R. Spitz;Qingyi Wei;Qiong Dong;Christopher I. Amos

  • Shortened Telomere Length Is Associated with Increased Risk of Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

    Hongxia Ma;Hongxia Ma;Ziyuan Zhou;Sheng Wei;Zhensheng Liu

  • Polymorphisms of DNA repair gene XRCC1 in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

    Erich M. Sturgis;Edward J. Castillo;Lei Li;Rong Zheng

  • Reduced DNA Repair Capacity in Lung Cancer Patients

    Qingyi Wei;Lie Cheng;Waun Ki Hong;Margaret R. Spitz

  • Modulation of repair of ultraviolet damage in the host-cell reactivation assay by polymorphic XPC and XPD/ERCC2 genotypes.

    Yawei Qiao;Margaret R. Spitz;Hongbing Shen;Zhaozheng Guo

  • Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms increase risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in a Chinese population.

    Chunying Song;Deyin Xing;Wen Tan;Qingyi Wei

  • Cessation of alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and the reversal of head and neck cancer risk

    Manuela Marron;Manuela Marron;Paolo Boffetta;Zuo Feng Zhang;David Zaridze

  • Cigarette, Cigar, and Pipe Smoking and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancers: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Annah Wyss;Mia Hashibe;Shu Chun Chuang;Yuan Chin Amy Lee

  • Identification of genetic variants in base excision repair pathway and their associations with risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

    Bingtao Hao;Haijian Wang;Kaixin Zhou;Yi Li

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

    James D. McKay;Therese Truong;Valerie Gaborieau;Amelie Chabrier

  • Genome-wide association study identifies three new melanoma susceptibility loci

    Jennifer H. Barrett;Mark M. Iles;Mark Harland;John C. Taylor

  • Clinical Correlates of NRAS and BRAF Mutations in Primary Human Melanoma

    Julie A. Ellerhorst;Victoria R. Greene;Suhendan Ekmekcioglu;Carla L. Warneke

  • Polymorphisms in microRNA targets : a gold mine for molecular epidemiology

    Kexin Chen;Fengju Song;George A. Calin;Qingyi Wei

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich M. Sturgis
Erich M. Sturgis Baylor College of Medicine
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
Margaret R. Spitz
Margaret R. Spitz Baylor College of Medicine
Jeffrey E. Lee
Jeffrey E. Lee The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hongbing Shen
Hongbing Shen Nanjing Medical University
Jiali Han
Jiali Han Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Zhibin Hu
Zhibin Hu Nanjing Medical University
Daru Lu
Daru Lu Fudan University
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
David C. Christiani
David C. Christiani Harvard University

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