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Sang-Woon Choi publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sang-Woon Choi sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 204 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Sang-Woon Choi D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sang-Woon Choi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sang-Woon Choi is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and has contributed to multiple fields within biomedical research, particularly focusing on nutrition, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research output includes studies across several subfields such as physiology, molecular biology, nutrition and dietetics, public health, and oncology.

The scientist has published extensively in various well-regarded venues, with frequent contributions appearing in:

  • Nutrients
  • Nutrition Research and Practice
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Cell Host & Microbe

The main topics of their work revolve around diet and metabolism studies, nutritional studies and diet, nutrition, health and food behavior, epigenetics and DNA methylation, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and gut microbiota and health.

Some significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Sang-Woon Choi include:

  • "High-Fat Diet and Antibiotics Cooperatively Impair Mitochondrial Bioenergetics to Trigger Dysbiosis that Exacerbates Pre-inflammatory Bowel Disease" (2020, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • "A Traditional Korean Diet with a Low Dietary Inflammatory Index Increases Anti-Inflammatory IL-10 and Decreases Pro-Inflammatory NF-κB in a Small Dietary Intervention Study" (2020, Nutrients)
  • "Vitamin D and Exercise Are Major Determinants of Natural Killer Cell Activity, Which Is Age- and Gender-Specific" (2021, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • "Dietary modulation of gut microbiota for the relief of irritable bowel syndrome" (2021, Nutrition Research and Practice)
  • "Modulation of DNA methylation by one-carbon metabolism: a milestone for healthy aging" (2023, Nutrition Research and Practice)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Sukyung Chun
  • Seon-Joo Park
  • Myung-Sunny Kim
  • Hae-Jeung Lee
  • Phil-Kyung Shin

Their research spans a wide range of biological and clinical topics, combining approaches from biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and public health. The work touches on molecular mechanisms of nutrition, including epigenetic regulation and gut microbiota influences on health and disease.

Best Publications

  • Folate and carcinogenesis: an integrated scheme.

    Sang-Woon Choi;Joel B. Mason

  • A common mutation in the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene affects genomic DNA methylation through an interaction with folate status

    Simonetta Friso;Sang-Woon Choi;Domenico Girelli;Joel B. Mason

  • Epigenetics: A New Bridge between Nutrition and Health

    Sang-Woon Choi;Simonetta Friso

  • Genomic DNA Hypomethylation, a Characteristic of Most Cancers, Is Present in Peripheral Leukocytes of Individuals Who Are Homozygous for the C677T Polymorphism in the Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Gene

    Lori Lathrop Stern;Joel B. Mason;Jacob Selhub;Sang-Woon Choi

  • Tet1 is dispensable for maintaining pluripotency and its loss is compatible with embryonic and postnatal development.

    Meelad M. Dawlaty;Kibibi Ganz;Benjamin E. Powell;Yueh Chiang Hu

  • Epigenetics: the link between nature and nurture

    Stephanie A. Tammen;Simonetta Friso;Sang-Woon Choi

  • Folate status: effects on pathways of colorectal carcinogenesis

    Sang-Woon Choi;Joel B. Mason;Joel B. Mason

  • Antioxidative activity of the anthocyanin pigments cyanidin 3-O-beta-D-glucoside and cyanidin

    Takanori Tsuda;Mie Watanabe;Katsumi Ohshima;Seiji Norinobu

  • DNA Methylation Changes after 5-Aza-2′-Deoxycytidine Therapy in Patients with Leukemia

    Allen S. Yang;Ketan D. Doshi;Sang Woon Choi;Joel B. Mason

  • Gene-Nutrient Interactions and DNA Methylation

    Simonetta Friso;Sang-Woon Choi

  • A method to assess genomic dna methylation using high-performance liquid chromatography-electospray ionization mass spectrometry

    Sang-Woon Choi;Gregory Dolnikowski;Simonetta Friso;Jacob Selhub

  • DNA methylation, an epigenetic mechanism connecting folate to healthy embryonic development and aging.

    Kyong-chol Kim;Simonetta Friso;Sang-Woon Choi

  • Dietary folate protects against the development of macroscopic colonic neoplasia in a dose responsive manner in rats.

    Y I Kim;R N Salomon;F Graeme-Cook;S W Choi

  • Nutritional influences on epigenetics and age-related disease.

    Lara K. Park;Simonetta Friso;Sang-Woon Choi

  • Effects of alcohol on folate metabolism: implications for carcinogenesis.

    Joel B. Mason;Sang-Woon Choi

  • Epigenetic control of 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 gene promoter is related to human hypertension.

    Simonetta Friso;Francesca Pizzolo;Sang-Woon Choi;Patrizia Guarini

  • One-carbon metabolism and epigenetics.

    Simonetta Friso;Silvia Udali;Domenica De Santis;Sang Woon Choi

  • Cardiovascular epigenetics: from DNA methylation to microRNAs.

    Silvia Udali;Patrizia Guarini;Sara Moruzzi;Sang-Woon Choi

  • Chronic cigarette smoking is associated with diminished folate status, altered folate form distribution, and increased genetic damage in the buccal mucosa of healthy adults

    Helen E Gabriel;Jimmy W Crott;Haifa Ghandour;Gerard E Dallal

  • Gene-Nutrient Interactions in One-Carbon Metabolism

    Simonetta Friso;Sang-Woon Choi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob Selhub
Jacob Selhub Tufts University
Domenico Girelli
Domenico Girelli University of Verona
Xiang-Dong Wang
Xiang-Dong Wang Tufts University
Demetrius Albanes
Demetrius Albanes National Institutes of Health
Robert M. Russell
Robert M. Russell Tufts University
Laurence D. Parnell
Laurence D. Parnell United States Department of Agriculture
Chao-Qiang Lai
Chao-Qiang Lai US Department of Agriculture
Massimo Delledonne
Massimo Delledonne University of Verona
Peter W. Laird
Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute

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