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Overview

Yong-Bing Xiang is affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, focusing primarily on medicine with an emphasis on epidemiology, public health, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and molecular biology.

The research topics they explore include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Yong-Bing Xiang cover multiple areas of epidemiological and cancer research:

  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals, 2020, Nature
  • Diet and liver cancer risk: a narrative review of epidemiological evidence, 2020, British Journal Of Nutrition
  • Coffee and tea consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease and cancer: a pooled analysis of prospective studies from the Asia Cohort Consortium, 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Global pattern and trends of colorectal cancer survival: a systematic review of population-based registration data, 2021, Cancer Biology and Medicine
  • Variation in oral microbiome is associated with future risk of lung cancer among never-smokers, 2020, Thorax

Frequent collaborative partners in research include:

  • Honglan Li
  • Yuting Tan
  • Zhuoying Li
  • Qiuming Shen
  • Wei Zheng

Yong-Bing Xiang's work has been published repeatedly in several key venues, indicating consistent contributions to certain domains:

  • International Journal of Cancer
  • UNC Libraries
  • PubMed
  • Journal of Digestive Diseases
  • Hepatoma Research

Best Publications

  • Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

    Wei Zheng;Dale F. McLerran;Betsy Rolland;Xianglan Zhang

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Cancer survival in Africa, Asia, and Central America: a population-based study

    Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan;Rajaraman Swaminathan;Hermann Brenner;Kexin Chen

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • A shared susceptibility locus in PLCE1 at 10q23 for gastric adenocarcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

    Christian C. Abnet;Neal D. Freedman;Nan Hu;Zhaoming Wang;Zhaoming Wang

  • Meta-analysis identifies common variants associated with body mass index in east Asians

    Wanqing Wen;Yoon Shin Cho;Wei Zheng;Rajkumar Dorajoo;Rajkumar Dorajoo

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation

    Norihiro Kato;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Fumihiko Takeuchi;Niek Verweij

  • Identification of Genetic Susceptibility Loci for Colorectal Tumors in a Genome-Wide Meta-analysis

    Ulrike Peters;Ulrike Peters;Shuo Jiao;Fredrick R. Schumacher;Carolyn M. Hutter;Carolyn M. Hutter

  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals

    Cassandra N Spracklen;Cassandra N Spracklen;Momoko Horikoshi;Young Jin Kim;Kuang Lin

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci in never-smoking women in Asia.

    Qing Lan;Chao A. Hsiung;Keitaro Matsuo;Yun Chul Hong

  • Genetic variants in STAT4 and HLA-DQ genes confer risk of hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma

    De Ke Jiang;Jielin Sun;Guangwen Cao;Yao Liu

  • Association between body mass index and cardiovascular disease mortality in east Asians and south Asians: pooled analysis of prospective data from the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Yu Chen;Wade K. Copeland;Rajesh Vedanthan;Eric Grant

  • Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Paolo Boffetta;Dale McLerran;Yu Chen;Manami Inoue

  • Genome-wide association study of glioma and meta-analysis.

    Preetha Rajaraman;Beatrice S. Melin;Zhaoming Wang;Zhaoming Wang;Roberta McKean-Cowdin

  • Identification of new genetic risk variants for type 2 diabetes.

    Xiao-Ou Shu;Jirong Long;Qiuyin Cai;Lu Qi

  • Large-scale genetic study in East Asians identifies six new loci associated with colorectal cancer risk

    Ben Zhang;Wei Hua Jia;Koichi Matsuda;Sun Seog Kweon

  • Cruciferous vegetable consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total and cardiovascular disease mortality

    Xianglan Zhang;Xiao-Ou Shu;Yong-Bing Xiang;Gong Yang

  • Association of genetic variation in FTO with risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes with data from 96,551 East and South Asians

    H. Li;T. O. Kilpeläinen;C. Liu;J. Zhu

  • Soya food intake and risk of endometrial cancer among Chinese women in Shanghai: population based case-control study.

    Wang Hong Xu;Wei Zheng;Yong Bing Xiang;Zhi Xian Ruan

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiao-Ou Shu
Xiao-Ou Shu Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Qiuyin Cai
Qiuyin Cai Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Yu-Tang Gao
Yu-Tang Gao Fudan University
Gong Yang
Gong Yang Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hui Cai
Hui Cai Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jirong Long
Jirong Long Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Wanqing Wen
Wanqing Wen Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Jian-Min Yuan
Jian-Min Yuan University of Pittsburgh

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