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1013

Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 217 publications — 63rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Epidemiology, Physiology, and Oncology.

The primary focus areas of Wan's research include liver disease diagnosis and treatment, gut microbiota and health, diet and metabolism studies, psoriasis treatment and pathogenesis, dermatology and skin diseases, drug transport, and resistance mechanisms, as well as the interrelations of diet, metabolism, and disease.

Wan has published extensively in several key journals. The most frequent venues for their research publications include the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Biomarker Research, Nutrients, Liver Research, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Wan, notable publications are:

  • Short-Term Exposure to a Western Diet Induces Psoriasiform Dermatitis by Promoting Accumulation of IL-17A-Producing γδ T Cells, 2020, Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Long-term effects of western diet consumption in male and female mice, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Short-Term Western Diet Intake Promotes IL-23-Mediated Skin and Joint Inflammation Accompanied by Changes to the Gut Microbiota in Mice, 2021, Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Diet-induced obesity exacerbates imiquimod-mediated psoriasiform dermatitis in anti-PD-1 antibody-treated mice: Implications for patients being treated with checkpoint inhibitors for cancer, 2020, Journal of Dermatological Science
  • Dysregulated bile acid receptor-mediated signaling and IL-17A induction are implicated in diet-associated hepatic health and cognitive function, 2020, Biomarker Research

Wan collaborates frequently with several researchers. The most common coauthors include Prasant Kumar Jena, Lili Sheng, Samuel Hwang, Tahereh Setayesh, and Zhenrui Shi.

Best Publications

  • Retinoid pathway and cancer therapeutics.

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  • Human carboxylesterases HCE1 and HCE2: Ontogenic expression, inter-individual variability and differential hydrolysis of oseltamivir, aspirin, deltamethrin and permethrin

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  • Expression of Constitutive Androstane Receptor, Hepatic Nuclear Factor 4α, and P450 Oxidoreductase Genes Determines Interindividual Variability in Basal Expression and Activity of a Broad Scope of Xenobiotic Metabolism Genes in the Human Liver

    Matthew Wortham;Maciej Czerwinski;Lin He;Andrew Parkinson

  • Immunohistochemical localization of entactin and laminin in mouse embryos and fetuses.

    Tsung Chieh Wu;Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan;Albert E. Chung;Ivan Damjanov

  • The expression of antiapoptotic protein survivin is transcriptionally upregulated by DEC1 primarily through multiple sp1 binding sites in the proximal promoter

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  • Monoclonal antibodies to laminin reveal the heterogeneity of basement membranes in the developing and adult mouse tissues.

    Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan;T. C. Wu;A. E. Chung;I. Damjanov

  • Implications of microbiota and bile acid in liver injury and regeneration

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  • Detection of estrogen receptor messenger ribonucleic acid in human oocytes and cumulus-oocyte complexes using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction * †

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  • Pregnane X receptor is essential for normal progression of liver regeneration.

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  • Nrf2 Inhibits LXRα-Dependent Hepatic Lipogenesis by Competing with FXR for Acetylase Binding

    Hee Yeon Kay;Won Dong Kim;Se Jin Hwang;Hueng Sik Choi

  • Dysregulated bile acid synthesis and dysbiosis are implicated in Western diet–induced systemic inflammation, microglial activation, and reduced neuroplasticity

    Prasant Kumar Jena;Lili Sheng;Jacopo Di Lucente;Lee-Way Jin

  • Retinoids induce cytochrome P450 3A4 through RXR/VDR-mediated pathway

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  • Analysis of the CYP2D6 gene polymorphism and enzyme activity in African-Americans in southern California.

    Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan;Russell E. Poland;Guang Han;Tamiko Konishi

  • ADH1B*1, ADH1C*2, DRD2 (-141C Ins), and 5-HTTLPR are associated with alcoholism in Mexican American men living in Los Angeles.

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  • Nuclear Receptors and Inflammatory Diseases

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  • Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor α-mediated Pathways Are Altered in Hepatocyte-specific Retinoid X Receptor α-deficient Mice

    Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan;Yan Cai;William Lungo;Paul Fu

  • Retinoid X Receptor α Regulates Glutathione Homeostasis and Xenobiotic Detoxification Processes in Mouse Liver

    Yong Wu;Xiaoxue Zhang;Fawzia Bardag-Gorce;Rose C V Robel

  • Pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease: the role of nuclear receptors

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  • MiR-22-silenced cyclin A expression in colon and liver cancer cells is regulated by bile acid receptor

    Fan Yang;Ying Hu;Hui Xin Liu;Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan;Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan

  • Putative tumor-suppressor gene on chromosome 11 is important in sporadic endocrine tumor formation.

    Patricia J. Eubanks;Mark P. Sawicki;Ghassan J. Samara;Richard Gatti

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel W. French
Samuel W. French UCLA Medical Center
Ivan Damjanov
Ivan Damjanov University of Kansas
Samuel T Hwang
Samuel T Hwang University of California, Davis
Curtis D. Klaassen
Curtis D. Klaassen University of Kansas
David A. Mills
David A. Mills University of California, Davis
Frank J. Gonzalez
Frank J. Gonzalez National Institutes of Health
Keiko Ozato
Keiko Ozato Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Lee-Way Jin
Lee-Way Jin University of California, Davis
Zhengtao Wang
Zhengtao Wang Shanghai University
Richard A. Gatti
Richard A. Gatti University of California, Los Angeles

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