Yong-gang Yao
Principal Investigator
Division of Medical Genetics & Evolutionary Medicine
Kunming Institute of Botany
China
Biography
Dr. Yong-Gang Yao, Principal Investigator, Professor of Genetics, Acting Director of Kunming Institute of Zoology. Dr. Yao is working on the genetic basis and molecular mechanisms of human diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, leprosy and LHON. He is currently hosting a research project on the biology of Chinese tree shrew and the establishment of its inbreeding line. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed research articles and commentaries on SCI-indexed journals, including Am J Hum Genet, Blood, Mol Psychiatry, Hum Mol Genet, Autophagy and Nat Commun. Many of his papers are highly cited, with a total citation time of 3069 and an h index of 30. Dr. Yao serves as association editor of J Hum Genet, academic editor of PLoS ONE, receiving editor of Infect Genet Evol, editorial board member of J Genet Genomics and editor-in-chief of Zool Res. He has received many awards including the State Natural Science Award of China.
Research Interest
Onset risk factors and pathogenesis of Alzheimer‘s disease, schizophrenia, leprosy, and LHON, Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases and drug addiction, Biology of Chinese tree shrew and the establishment of its inbreeding line
Publications
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Li H, Bi R, Fan Y, Wu Y, Tang Y, Li Z, He Y, Zhou J, Tang J, Chen X, Yao YG. mtDNA Heteroplasmy in Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia. Molecular neurobiology. 2016 Jun 24:1-0.
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Wang D, Xu L, Lv L, Su LY, Fan Y, Zhang DF, Bi R, Yu D, Zhang W, Li XA, Li YY. Association of the LRRK2 genetic polymorphisms with leprosy in Han Chinese from Southwest China. Genes and immunity. 2015 Mar 1;16(2):112.
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Li CH, Yan LZ, Ban WZ, Tu Q, Wu Y, Wang L, Bi R, Ji S, Ma YH, Nie WH, Lv LB. Long-term propagation of tree shrew spermatogonial stem cells in culture and successful generation of transgenic offspring. Cell Research. 2017 Feb 1;27(2):241-52.
