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Dr. Deng’s work is published in over 600 peer-reviewed publications including journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Review Endocrinology, Nature Communications, American Journal of Human Genetics, Endocrine Review, Plos Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, Molecular Psychiatry, Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Molecular Cell Proteomics. As of April 2023, these publications have been cited more than >26,760 times and his H-index is 81 and i10 index is 488. Dr, Deng’s primary research interests include all those areas that are related addressing the question: What and how genetic and environmental factors incur higher risk of, or better protection against, complex diseases, such as osteoporosis, sarcopenia and Alzheimer’s Disease, in different sex and ethnic groups. Dr. Deng has won numerous NIH grants, including P50 and R01 grants and a U19 program grant and has advised/mentored more than 100 graduate students and faculty. Many of his mentees have become tenured professors winning their own grants with their own research centers/programs and some become academic and industrial administrators such as associate deans, department chairs and CEO and vice president of genomics companies.
Memberships
Level of Instruction:
graduate
Center Section: Center Director
Our research group is interested in genetic dissection of human...
Omics, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Genetics of Complex Diseases
View Dr. Deng's publications at his NCBI profile page.