Ma RCW

ORCID: 0000-0002-1227-803X · 2 papers in corpus · active 2016-2021
2021
Development of genome-wide polygenic risk scores for lipid traits and clinical applications for dyslipidemia, subclinical atherosclerosis, and diabetes cardiovascular complications among East Asians.
Genome medicine ·doi:10.1186/s13073-021-00831-z

BackgroundThe clinical utility of personal genomic information in identifying individuals at increased risks for dyslipidemia and cardiovascular diseases remains unclear.MethodsWe used data from Biobank Japan (n = 70,657-128,305) and develo…

2016
Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease.
Nature ·doi:10.1038/nature19806

Birth weight (BW) has been shown to be influenced by both fetal and maternal factors and in observational studies is reproducibly associated with future risk of adult metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular dis…