Wei Zhao

ORCID: 0009-0007-7984-9902 · 36 papers in corpus
observational 2018
Gene ·doi:10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.082

OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of functional genetic variant of IL12B in the pathogenesis of ovarian endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: This study included 815 patients with ovarian endometriosis and 788 women in the control group. Two polymorph…

2018
·doi:10.1101/267849

SUMMARY The human uterus is a highly dynamic tissue that undergoes repeated damage repair and regeneration during the menstrual cycle, which make it ideal model to study tissue regeneration and pathological process. Stem/progenitors were sp…

case-report 2018
Taiwanese journal of obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.tjog.2018.10.026
lab-animal 2018
International journal of medical sciences ·doi:10.7150/ijms.21645

Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding small RNAs that function as negative regulators of gene expression and are involved in tumour biology. The eIF4E-binding proteins (eIF4EBPs) play essential roles in preventing translation initia…

other 2018
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal gene…

other 2018
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0050-y

In the published version of this paper, the name of author Emanuele Di Angelantonio was misspelled. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

2018
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0082-3

In the version of this article originally published, one of the two authors with the name Wei Zhao was omitted from the author list and the affiliations for both authors were assigned to the single Wei Zhao in the author list. In addition, …

lab-animal 2017
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine ·doi:10.1111/jcmm.13163

Clinical pregnancies increasingly end in recurrent miscarriage (RM) during the first trimester, with genetic factors shouldering the main responsibility. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression in a wide array of important biological pr…

other 2016
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng.3698

The genetic architecture of human reproductive behavior-age at first birth (AFB) and number of children ever born (NEB)-has a strong relationship with fitness, human development, infertility and risk of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, …

rct 2016
Therapeutics and clinical risk management ·doi:10.2147/tcrm.s90567

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the therapeutic effect and safety of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy combined with gemcitabine in treating unresectable pancreatic carcinoma. METHODS: The 45 patients suffering from pancreatic car…

observational 2015
Biomedical reports ·doi:10.3892/br.2015.511

The first tumor metastasis-suppressor gene, nm23, may have an important role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis (EM). The present study aimed to evaluate whether nm23 gene polymorphisms are correlated with the risk of the development of E…