Preconception B-Vitamin and Homocysteine Status, Conception, and Early Pregnancy Loss (2007)
Ronnenberg, Alayne G., Venners, Scott A., Xu, Xiping, Chen, Changzhong, Wang, Lihua, Guang, Wenwei, ...
Maternal vitamin status contributes to clinical spontaneous abortion, but the role of B-vitamin and homocysteine status in subclinical early pregnancy loss is unknown. Three-hundred sixty-four...
Venners, Scott A., Liu, Xue, Perry, Melissa J., Korrick, Susan A., Li, Zhiping, Yang, Fan, ...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge is limited of how estrogen and progesterone variability in fertile women are associated with achieving pregnancy. METHODS: From 1996 to 1998, we enrolled 347 textile workers...
Perry, Melissa J., Ouyang, Fengxiu, Korrick, Susan A., Venners, Scott A., Chen, Changzhong, Xu, Xiping, ...
The authors explored whether exposure to 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) and its isomers and metabolites affects female reproductive hormones characterized by urinary...
Venners, Scott A., Liu, Xue, Perry, Melissa J., Korrick, Susan A., Li, Zhiping, Yang, Fan, ...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge is limited of how estrogen and progesterone variability in fertile women are associated with achieving pregnancy. METHODS: From 1996 to 1998, we enrolled 347 textile workers...
Venners, Scott A., Liu, Xue, Perry, Melissa J., Korrick, Susan A., Li, Zhiping, Yang, Fan, ...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge is limited of how estrogen and progesterone variability in fertile women are associated with achieving pregnancy. METHODS: From 1996 to 1998, we enrolled 347 textile workers...
Venners, Scott A., Korrick, Susan, Xu, Xiping, Chen, Changzhong, Guang, Wenwei, Huang, Aiqun, ...
Previous studies of pregnancy losses and 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) were limited because they did not include losses prior to clinical detection of pregnancy and because...
Venners, Scott A., Korrick, Susan, Xu, Xiping, Chen, Changzhong, Guang, Wenwei, Huang, Aiqun, ...
Previous studies of pregnancy losses and 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) were limited because they did not include losses prior to clinical detection of pregnancy and because...
Venners, Scott A., Korrick, Susan, Xu, Xiping, Chen, Changzhong, Guang, Wenwei, Huang, Aiqun, ...
Previous studies of pregnancy losses and 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) were limited because they did not include losses prior to clinical detection of pregnancy and because...
Hao, Ke, Wang, Xiaobin, Niu, Tianhua, Xu, Xin, Li, Ang, Chang, Weili, ...
Preterm delivery (PTD) is the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The etiology of PTD is largely unknown but is believed to be complex, encompassing multiple genetic and...
Hao, Ke, Wang, Xiaobin, Niu, Tianhua, Xu, Xin, Li, Ang, Chang, Weili, ...
Preterm delivery (PTD) is the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The etiology of PTD is largely unknown but is believed to be complex, encompassing multiple genetic and...
Paternal Smoking and Pregnancy Loss: A Prospective Study Using a Biomarker of Pregnancy (2004)
Venners, Scott A., Wang, Xiaobin, Chen, Changzhong, Wang, Lihua, Chen, Dafang, Guang, Wenwei, ...
Results of studies on paternal smoking and spontaneous abortions have been inconsistent. The authors examined the effect of paternal smoking on the risk of pregnancy loss in a prospective cohort of...
Hao, Ke, Wang, Xiaobin, Niu, Tianhua, Xu, Xin, Li, Ang, Chang, Weili, ...
Preterm delivery (PTD) is the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The etiology of PTD is largely unknown but is believed to be complex, encompassing multiple genetic and...
Niu, Tianhua., Seielstad, Mark., Zeng, Xuan., Li, Guang., Apffel, Alex., Hahnenberger, Karen., ...
Human Biology - Volume 73, Number 3, June 2001
Tofu Consumption and Blood Lead Levels in Young Chinese Adults (2001)
Chen, Changzhong, Wang, Xiaobin, Chen, Dafang, Li, Guang, Ronnenberg, Alayne, Watanabe, Hirokatsu, ...
Tofu is a commonly consumed food in China. Tofu may interfere with lead absorption and retention because of its high calcium content. In this observational study, the authors examined whether dietary...
Body Mass Index and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Rural Chinese Population (2000)
Hu, Frank B., Wang, Binyan, Chen, Changzhong, Jin, Yongtang, Yang, Jianhua, Stampfer, Meir J., ...
The metabolic consequences of obesity are well-documented in Western populations. However, limited data are available on the association between body mass index (BMI) and cardiovascular risk factors...
Nicotine dependence and its familial aggregation in Chinese (2000)
Niu, Tianhua, Chen, Changzhong, Ni, Jiatong, Wang, Binyan, Fang, Zhian, Shao, Hong, ...
Background Nicotine dependence is a significant public health problem. This study attempted to characterize the prevalence and familial aggregation of nicotine dependence in China. Methods In 1998,...
Wang, Xiaobin, Chen, Dafang, Niu, Tianhua, Wang, Zhaoxi, Wang, Lihua, Ryan, Louise, ...
This study investigated whether the association between low level benzene exposure and shortened gestation is modified by two susceptibility genes, CYP1A1 and GSTT1. This report includes 542 (302...
Nelson, Heather H., Wiencke, John K., Christiani, David C., Cheng, T.J., Zuo, Zheng-Fa, Schwartz, Brian S., ...
In humans the glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes encode four classes of proteins (GST) important in the detoxification of reactive electrophiles. Recently, a gene deletion polymorphism was...
Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Pulmonary Function in a 24-Year Longitudinal Study (1995)
Xu, Xiping, Laird, Nan, Dockery, Douglas W., Schouten, Jan P., Rijcken, Bert, Weiss, Scott T.
This paper proposes the use of two-factor models (age-period and age-cohort models) to estimate age, period, and cohort effects on pulmonary function by using the data collected in a 24-year...
WARE, JAMES H., DOCKERY, DOUGLAS W., LOUIS, THOMAS A., XU, XIPING, FERRIS, BENJAMIN G., SPEIZER, FRANK E.
This paper describes methods for simultaneous cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of repeated measurements obtained in cohort studies with regular examination schedules, then uses these methods...
A Genomewide Search for Quantitative-Trait Loci Underlying Asthma
Xu, Xin, Fang, Zhian, Wang, Binyan, Chen, Changzhong, Guang, Wenwei, Jin, Yongtang, ...
A genomewide screen for quantitative-trait loci (QTLs) that underlie asthma was performed on 533 Chinese families with asthma, by the unified Haseman-Elston method. Nine asthma-related phenotypes...
Particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and daily mortality in Chongqing, China.
Venners, Scott A, Wang, Binyan, Xu, Zhonggui, Schlatter, Yu, Wang, Lihua, Xu, Xiping
In 1995, daily mortality in a district of Chongqing, China, was analyzed from January through December for associations with daily ambient sulfur dioxide and fine particles (airborne particles with...
Bone resorption is affected by follicular phase length in female rotating shift workers.
Lohstroh, Pete N, Chen, Jiangang, Ba, Jianming, Ryan, Louise M, Xu, Xiping, Overstreet, James W, ...
Stressors as subtle as night work or shift work can lead to irregular menstrual cycles, and changes in reproductive hormone profiles can adversely affect bone health. This study was conducted to...
Effect of Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Levels of Urinary Hormone Markers
Chen, Changzhong, Wang, Xiaobin, Wang, Lihua, Yang, Fan, Tang, Genfu, Xing, Houxun, ...
Our recent study showed a dose–response relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the risk of early pregnancy loss. Smoking is known to affect female reproductive hormones. We...
A Unified Haseman-Elston Method for Testing Linkage with Quantitative Traits
Xu, Xin, Weiss, Scott, Xu, Xiping, Wei, L. J.
The Haseman and Elston (H-E) method uses a simple linear regression to model the squared trait difference of sib pairs with the shared allele identical by descent (IBD) at marker locus for linkage...
Bayesian Haplotype Inference for Multiple Linked Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Niu, Tianhua, Qin, Zhaohui S., Xu, Xiping, Liu, Jun S.
Haplotypes have gained increasing attention in the mapping of complex-disease genes, because of the abundance of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the limited power of conventional...
Feng, Yan, Niu, Tianhua, Xing, Houxun, Xu, Xin, Chen, Changzhong, Peng, Shaojie, ...
Nicotine is the major addictive substance in cigarettes, and genes involved in sensing nicotine are logical candidates for vulnerability to nicotine addiction. We studied six single-nucleotide...
A Genomewide Search for Quantitative-Trait Loci Underlying Asthma
Xu, Xin, Fang, Zhian, Wang, Binyan, Chen, Changzhong, Guang, Wenwei, Jin, Yongtang, ...
A genomewide screen for quantitative-trait loci (QTLs) that underlie asthma was performed on 533 Chinese families with asthma, by the unified Haseman-Elston method. Nine asthma-related phenotypes...
Particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and daily mortality in Chongqing, China.
Venners, Scott A, Wang, Binyan, Xu, Zhonggui, Schlatter, Yu, Wang, Lihua, Xu, Xiping
In 1995, daily mortality in a district of Chongqing, China, was analyzed from January through December for associations with daily ambient sulfur dioxide and fine particles (airborne particles with...
Bone resorption is affected by follicular phase length in female rotating shift workers.
Lohstroh, Pete N, Chen, Jiangang, Ba, Jianming, Ryan, Louise M, Xu, Xiping, Overstreet, James W, ...
Stressors as subtle as night work or shift work can lead to irregular menstrual cycles, and changes in reproductive hormone profiles can adversely affect bone health. This study was conducted to...
Effect of Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Levels of Urinary Hormone Markers
Chen, Changzhong, Wang, Xiaobin, Wang, Lihua, Yang, Fan, Tang, Genfu, Xing, Houxun, ...
Our recent study showed a dose–response relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the risk of early pregnancy loss. Smoking is known to affect female reproductive hormones. We...
A Unified Haseman-Elston Method for Testing Linkage with Quantitative Traits
Xu, Xin, Weiss, Scott, Xu, Xiping, Wei, L. J.
The Haseman and Elston (H-E) method uses a simple linear regression to model the squared trait difference of sib pairs with the shared allele identical by descent (IBD) at marker locus for linkage...
Short Sleep Duration and Adiposity in Chinese Adolescents
Yu, Yunxian, Lu, Brandon S., Wang, Binyan, Wang, Hongjian, Yang, Jianhua, Li, Zhiping, ...
Feng, Yan, Mao, Guangyun, Ren, Xiaowei, Xing, Houxun, Tang, Genfu, Li, Qiang, ...
OBJECTIVE—The purpose of this study was to investigate whether genetic variants could influence the antidiabetic efficacy of gliclazide in type 2 diabetic patients.
A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Linkage Analysis to Map Loci Linked to Stature in Chinese Population
Hong, Xiumei, Tsai, Hui-Ju, Liu, Xin, Li, Zhiping, Liu, Xue, Tang, Genfu, ...
Context: A number of genome-wide scans of stature have been reported previously, but with inconsistent results. The inconsistency may be partly due to differential population characteristics and...