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Woon-Puay Koh

National University of Singapore
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Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics: viewpoints on the current status and applications in nutrition research and practice

M Fenech, A El-Sohemy, L Cahill, LR Ferguson… - Lifestyle …, 2011 - karger.com
Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics hold much promise for providing better nutritional advice to
the public generally, genetic subgroups and individuals. Because nutrigenetics and …

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

Y Chen, WK Copeland, R Vedanthan, E Grant, JE Lee… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To evaluate the association between body mass index and mortality from overall
cardiovascular disease and specific subtypes of cardiovascular disease in east and south …

Green tea, black tea and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies

CL Sun, JM Yuan, WP Koh, MC Yu - Carcinogenesis, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Experimental studies have shown that tea and tea polyphenols have anti-carcinogenic
properties against breast cancer. A number of epidemiologic studies, both case–control and …

[HTML][HTML] Association between body-mass index and risk of death in more than 1 million Asians

W Zheng, DF McLerran, B Rolland… - … England Journal of …, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Most studies that have evaluated the association between the body-mass index
(BMI) and the risks of death from any cause and from specific causes have been conducted …

Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

KB Jacobs, M Yeager, W Zhou, S Wacholder, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
In an analysis of 31,717 cancer cases and 26,136 cancer-free controls from 13 genome-
wide association studies, we observed large chromosomal abnormalities in a subset of …

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

CC Abnet, ND Freedman, N Hu, Z Wang, K Yu… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide association study of gastric cancer and esophageal
squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in ethnic Chinese subjects in which we genotyped …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention

Z Wang, A Emmerich, NJ Pillon, T Moore, D Hemerich… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although physical activity and sedentary behavior are moderately heritable, little is known
about the mechanisms that influence these traits. Combining data for up to 703,901 …

Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

JD McKay, RJ Hung, Y Han, X Zong… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Although several lung cancer susceptibility loci have been identified, much of the heritability
for lung cancer remains unexplained. Here 14,803 cases and 12,262 controls of European …

[HTML][HTML] Ovarian cancer risk factors by histologic subtype: an analysis from the ovarian cancer cohort consortium

N Wentzensen, EM Poole, B Trabert… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose An understanding of the etiologic heterogeneity of ovarian cancer is important for
improving prevention, early detection, and therapeutic approaches. We evaluated 14 …

ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid biomarkers and coronary heart disease: pooling project of 19 cohort studies

LC Del Gobbo, F Imamura, S Aslibekyan… - JAMA internal …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The role of ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids for primary prevention of coronary
heart disease (CHD) remains controversial. Most prior longitudinal studies evaluated self …