Shuo Wang
University of Notre Dame, USA
Biography
Shuo Wang has majored in Public Health and is pursuing PhD degree at Peking University (Sep 2013). She is now a visiting PhD student at University of Notre Dame (Oct 2015). Her research focus is on the genetic risk factors of obesity in children and adolescents, including single nucleotide polymorphisms, gene-behavior interaction and DNA methylation. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals including PLoS One, Chinese Journal of Child Health Care, Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, etc.
Abstract
Abstract : Childhood obesity interacts with the HIF3A variant on plasma ALT mediated by DNA methylation