Weihong Tang, PhD, MS, MD, FAHA

Selected Publications:

Most recent publications first. * equally contributing first author

Tang W, Schwienbacher C, Lopez LM, Ben-Shlomo Y, Oudot-Mellakh T, Johnson AD, Samani JN, Basu S, Gögele M,Davies G, Lowe GDO, Tregouet DA, Tan A, Pankow JS, Tenesa A, Levy D, Volpato C, Rumley A, Gow AJ, Minelli C, Yarnell JWG,Porteous DJ, Starr JM, Gallacher J, Boerwinkle E, Visscher PM,Pramstaller PP, Cushman M, Emilsson V, Plump AS, Matijevic N, Morange PE, Deary IJ, Hicks AA,Folsom AR.  Genetic associations for activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time, their gene expression profiles, and risk of coronary artery disease. Am J Hum Genet 2012; 91: 152-162. PMCID: PMC3397273

*Xi B, Liang Y, Reilly KH, Wang Q, Hu Y, Tang W. Trends in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among Chinese adults 1991-2009. Int J Cardiol 2012; 158: 326-329. PMCID: PMC3374129

Fung GJ, Steffen LM, Zhou X, Harnack L, Tang W, Lutsey PL, Loria CM, Reis JP, Van Horn LV. Vitamin D intake is inversely related to the risk of developing metabolic syndrome among African American and white men and women over 20 years: CARDIA. AJCN 2012; 96: 24-29. PMCID: PMC3374731

Alonso A, Tang W, Agarwal SK, Soliman EZ, Chamberlain AM, Folsom AR. Hemostatic markers are associated with risk and prognosis of atrial fibrillation: The ARIC Study. Int J Cardiol 2012;155(2):217-222. PMCID: PMC3025309

Xi B, Tang W, Wang Q. Polymorphism near the ATP2B1 gene is associated with hypertension risk in East Asians: A meta-analysis involving 15,909 cases and 18,529 controls. Blood Press 2012;21(2):134-138. PMCID: PMC – Journal in Process

Lutsey PL, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Pankow JS, Alonso A, Smolenski  DJ, Tang W, Coresh J, Volcik KA, Ballantyne CM, Boerwinkle E, Folsom AR. Relation of lipid gene scores to longitudinal trends in lipid levels and incidence of abnormal lipid levels among Caucasians: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012;5(1):73-80. PMCID: PMC3288431

Gieger C*, Radhakrishnan A*, Cvejic A*, Tang W*, et al. New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation. Nature in press.  Nature 2011;480(7376):201-208. PMCID: PMC3335296

Taylor KC, Lange LA, Zabaneh D, Lange E, Keating BJ, Tang W, Smith NL, Joseph A. Delaney JA, Kumari8 M, Hingorani A, North KE, Reiner AP. A Gene-Centric Association Scan for Coagulation Factor VII Levels in European and African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) Consortium. Hum Mol Genet 2011;20(17)3525-3534. PLMCID: PMC3153310

Lemaitre RN*, Tanaka T*, Tang W*, Manichaikul N*, Foy M*, Kabagambe EK, Nettleton JA, King IB, Weng LC, Bhattacharya S, Bandinelli S, Bis JC, Rich SS, Jacobs DR Jr, Cherubini A, McKnight B, Liang S, Gu X, Rice K, Laurie CC, Lumley T, Browning BL, Psaty BM, Chen YDI, Friedlander Y, Djousse L, Wu JHY, Siscovick DS, Uitterlinden AG, Arnett DK, Ferrucci L*, Fornage M*, Tsai MY*, Mozaffarian D*, Steffen LM*. Genetic loci associated with plasma phospholipid n-3 fatty acids: A meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies from the CHARGE consortium. PLoS Genet 2011;7(7):e1002193. Epub 2011 Jul 28. PMCID: PMC3145614

Lutsey PL, Cushman M, Heckbert SR, Tang W, Folsom AR. Longer legs are associated with greater risk of incident venous thromboembolism: The Longitudinal Study of Thromboembolism Etiology (LITE). Thromb Haemost 2011;106(1):113-120. PMCID: PMC3180885

Campos M, Sun W, Yu F, Barbalic M, Tang W, Chambless LE, Wu KK, Ballantyne C, Folsom AR, Boerwinkle E, Dong JF. Genetic determinants of plasma von Willebrand factor antigen levels: a target gene SNP and haplotype analysis of ARIC cohort. Blood 2011;117(19):5224-5230. PMCID: PMC3109544

Smith NL, Rice KM, Bovill EG, Cushman M, Bis JC, McKnight B, Lumley T, Glazer NL, van Hylckama Vlieg A, Tang W, Dehghan A, Strachan DP, O'Donnell CJ, Rotter JI, Heckbert SR, Psaty BM, Rosendaal FR. Genetic variation associated with plasma von Willebrand factor levels and the risk of incident venous thrombosis. Blood 2011;117(22):6007-6011. PMCID: PMC3112044

Lo KS, Wilson JG, Lange LA, Folsom AR, Galarneau G, Ganesh SK, Grant SF, Keating BJ, McCarroll SA, Mohler Iii ER, O'Donnell CJ, Palmas W, Tang W, Tracy RP, Reiner AP, Lettre G. Genetic association analysis highlights new loci that modulate hematological trait variation in Caucasians and African Americans. Hum Genet 2011;129(3):307-317. PMCID: PMC – Journal in Process

Shimbo D, Muntner P, Mann D, Barr RG, Tang W, Post W, Lima J, Burke G, Bluemke D, Shea S. Association of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy with Incident Hypertension: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Epidemiol 2011;173(8):898-905. PMCID: PMC3105258

Wassel CL, Lange LA, Keating BJ, Taylor KC, Johnson AD, Palmer C, Ho LA, Smith NL, Lange EM, Li Y, Yang Q, Delaney JA, Tang W, Tofler G, Redline S, Taylor HA, Wilson JG, Tracy RP, Jacobs DR Jr, Folsom AR, Green D. O’Donnell CJ, Reiner AP. Association of genomic loci from a cardiovascular gene SNP array with fibrinogen levels in European Americans and African-Americans from six cohort studies: The Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe). Blood 2011;117(1):268-275. PMCID: PMC3037748

Professional Experience:

December 2007-present, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota

2004-2007, Research Associate, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota

2001-2004, Postdoctoral Fellow, NHLBI Training Grant in Cardiovascular Disease Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota

1994-1995, Research Scientist, Division of Epidemiology, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Honors:

April 2012-present, Fellow, American Heart Association