This study analyzes 226 Magnaporthe oryzae strains infecting finger millet in eastern Africa, revealing genetic differentiation and effector gene variation linked to virulence.

bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2025 · PreprintPlant Biology

Identification of Growth Differentiation Factor-15 as An Early Predictive Biomarker for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis: A Nested Case-control Study of UK Biobank Proteomic Data

Hao Wang, Xiaoqian Xu, Lichen Shi, Cheng Huang, Yameng Sun, Hong You, Jidong Jia, You-Wen He, Yuanyuan Kong

This study identifies GDF15 as an early predictive biomarker for MASH using UK Biobank proteomic data, showing high accuracy up to 10 years before diagnosis.

Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism · Feb 5, 2025Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Interaction of amisulpride with GLUT1 at the blood-brain barrier. Relevance to Alzheimer's disease

Sevda Tomova Boyanova, Ethlyn Lloyd-Morris, Christopher Peter Corpe, Khondaker Miraz Rahman, Doaa Boshra Farag, Lee K. Page, Hao Wang, Alice L. Fleckney, Ariana P. Gatt, Claire Troakes, Gema Vizcay‐Barrena, Roland A. Fleck, Suzanne Reeves, Sarah Ann Thomas

This study investigates how amisulpride interacts with GLUT1 at the blood-brain barrier and how Alzheimer's disease affects this transport mechanism.

PLoS ONE · Oct 24, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Larger cerebral cortex is genetically correlated with greater frontal area and dorsal thickness

Carolina Makowski, Hao Wang, Anjali Srinivasan, Anna Qi, Yuqi Qiu, Dennis van der Meer, Oleksandr Frei, Jingjing Zou, Peter M. Visscher, Jian Yang, Chi‐Hua Chen

The paper investigates the genetic architecture of cortical expansion and regionalization by comparing genome-wide association studies of 24 cortical regions with and without adjustment for global measures, finding distinct genetic loci associated with different regions.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Mar 9, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience