Yang Zong

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
observational 2023
iScience ·doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105839

The oral microbiome has been implicated in a growing number of diseases; however, determinants of the oral microbiome and their roles remain elusive. Here, we investigated the oral (saliva and tongue dorsum) metagenome, the whole genome, an…

observational 2022
Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics ·doi:10.1016/j.gpb.2021.01.005

The vagina contains at least a billion microbial cells, dominated by lactobacilli. Here we perform metagenomic shotgun sequencing on cervical and fecal samples from a cohort of 516 Chinese women of reproductive age, as well as cervical, fec…

lab-animal 2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·doi:10.1073/pnas.1217982109

Carcinomas most often result from the stepwise acquisition of genetic alterations within the epithelial compartment. The surrounding stroma can also play an important role in cancer initiation and progression. Given the rare frequencies of …