Ni Zhao

Also affiliated with Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Jining Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Xiyuan Hospital

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMathematics

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 36 papers. Top paper: “Effects of processed meat and drinking water nitrate on oral and fecal microbial populations in a controlled feeding study”.

Effects of processed meat and drinking water nitrate on oral and fecal microbial populations in a controlled feeding study

Environmental Research(2021)10.1016/j.envres.2021.111084

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1.0DataRank · unranked

28 citations

Ni Zhao, James J. Goedert, Doratha A. Byrd, Yunhu Wan, Xing Hua +25 more

Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

Nature Medicine(2021)10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x

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0.918DataRank · unranked

454 citations

Audrey Renson, Genomic Standards Consortium, Cesare Furlanello, Shaimaa Elsafoury, Ludwig Geistlinger +98 more

MiRKAT: kernel machine regression-based global association tests for the microbiome

Bioinformatics(2020)10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa951

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62 citations

Ni Zhao, Xiang Zhan, Hyunwook Koh, Weijia Fu, Jun Chen +4 more

A powerful microbial group association test based on the higher criticism analysis for sparse microbial association signals

Microbiome(2020)10.1186/s40168-020-00834-9

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21 citations

Ni Zhao, Hyunwook Koh

Testing in Microbiome-Profiling Studies with MiRKAT, the Microbiome Regression-Based Kernel Association Test

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/xwgx-9y24

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9 citations

Tamar Ringel‐Kulka, Michael P. Epstein, Hua Zhou, Michael C. Wu, Jun Chen +5 more

Prioritizing individual genetic variants after kernel machine testing using variable selection: He et al.

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/qraj-7830

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Quaker E. Harmon, Kerry J. Ressler, Michael C. Wu, Karen N. Conneely, Ni Zhao +7 more

SigFuge: single gene clustering of RNA-seq reveals differential isoform usage among cancer samples

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/p1bn-vk90

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Christopher A. Maher, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Amy Johnson, Charles M. Perou, J. S. Marron +6 more

Rare variant testing across methods and thresholds using the multi-kernel sequence kernel association test (MK-SKAT)

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/pbzs-pw19

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Judong Shen, Yun Li, Eugene Urrutia, Seunggeun Lee, Ni Zhao +2 more

The LKB1 Tumor Suppressor as a Biomarker in Mouse and Human Tissues

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/cbam-0z89

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Diego H. Castrillón, D. Neil Hayes, Nabeel Bardeesy, Song Zhang, Thomas G. Stewart +5 more

High XRCC1 Protein Expression Is Associated with Poorer Survival in Patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/vbd7-7607

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Marion E. Couch, Stephen L. Harris, Bhishamjit S. Chera, Karen Fritchie, William K. Funkhouser +20 more

Differential Pathogenesis of Lung Adenocarcinoma Subtypes Involving Sequence Mutations, Copy Number, Chromosomal Instability, and Methylation

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/0bw4-4n26

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0 citations

Alden M. Parsons, Philip S. Bernard, Leigh B. Thorne, C. Ryan Miller, William K. Funkhouser +12 more

Powerful and robust non-parametric association testing for microbiome data via a zero-inflated quantile approach (ZINQ)

Microbiome(2021)10.1186/s40168-021-01129-3

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43 citations

Ni Zhao, Anna Plantinga, Lenore J. Launer, Anthony A. Fodor, Katie A. Meyer +2 more

Low Diversity in Nasal Microbiome Associated WithStaphylococcus aureusColonization and Bloodstream Infections in Hospitalized Neonates

Open Forum Infectious Diseases(2021)10.1093/ofid/ofab475

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12 citations

Dina F Khamash, Hyunwook Koh, Annie Voskertchian, Emily Egbert, Emmanuel F. Mongodin +5 more

Meta‐analysis methods for multiple related markers: Applications to microbiome studies with the results on multiple α‐diversity indices

Statistics in Medicine(2021)10.1002/sim.8940

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6 citations

Susan Tuddenham, Cynthia L. Sears, Ni Zhao, Hyunwook Koh

Kernel-based genetic association analysis for microbiome phenotypes identifies host genetic drivers of beta-diversity

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.10.15.464608

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2 citations

Wodan Ling, Xing Hua, Jee‐Young Moon, Jessica Williams‐Nguyen, Xiang Zhan +9 more

MiRKAT-MC: A Distance-Based Microbiome Kernel Association Test With Multi-Categorical Outcomes

Frontiers in Genetics(2022)10.3389/fgene.2022.841764

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13 citations

Mengyu He, Jun Chen, Ni Zhao, Xiang Zhan, Zhiwen Jiang

What Can We Learn about the Bias of Microbiome Studies from Analyzing Data from Mock Communities?

Genes(2022)10.3390/genes13101758

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3 citations

Robert E. Tyx, Angel J. Rivera, Ni Zhao, Glen A. Satten, Mo Li

Reusing a prepaid health plan’s fecal immunochemical tests for microbiome associations with colorectal adenoma

Scientific Reports(2022)10.1038/s41598-022-18870-w

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1 citations

Zhen‐Yi Wu, Cyndee Yonehara, Timothy B. Frankland, Rashmi Sinha, Gieira S. Jones +5 more

MiRKAT-MC: A Distance-Based Microbiome Kernel Association Test With Multi-Categorical Outcomes

UNC Libraries(2022)10.17615/1bqp-wm74

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0 citations

Mengyu He, Xiang Zhan, Jun Chen, Zhiwen Jiang, Ni Zhao

The mediating roles of the oral microbiome in saliva and subgingival sites between e-cigarette smoking and gingival inflammation

BMC Microbiology(2023)10.1186/s12866-023-02779-z

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43 citations

Hyunwook Koh, Michael Patatanian, Hermes Reyes-Caballero, Ni Zhao, Jill Meinert +4 more

Kernel-based genetic association analysis for microbiome phenotypes identifies host genetic drivers of beta-diversity

Microbiome(2023)10.1186/s40168-023-01530-0

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12 citations

Wodan Ling, Xing Hua, Jee‐Young Moon, Jessica Williams‐Nguyen, Xiang Zhan +9 more

Pre-pregnancy body mass index and gut microbiota of mothers and children 5 years postpartum

International Journal of Obesity(2023)10.1038/s41366-023-01322-4

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7 citations

Fan Jia, Moira K. Differding, Ni Zhao, Myriam Doyon, Luigi Bouchard +6 more

Accommodating multiple potential normalizations in microbiome associations studies

BMC Bioinformatics(2023)10.1186/s12859-023-05147-w

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8 citations

Wodan Ling, Ni Zhao, Anna Plantinga, Courtney A. Broedlow, Nichole R. Klatt +3 more

The sequence kernel association test for multicategorical outcomes

Genetic Epidemiology(2023)10.1002/gepi.22527

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2 citations

Haoyu Zhang, Thomas U. Ahearn, Montserrat García‐Closas, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Hongtu Zhu +3 more

MIDASim: a fast and simple simulator for realistic microbiome data

Microbiome(2024)10.1186/s40168-024-01822-z

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22 citations

Ni Zhao, Glen A. Satten, Mengyu He

Enhanced visualization of microbiome data in repeated measures designs

Frontiers in Genetics(2024)10.3389/fgene.2024.1480972

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1 citations

Rebecca A. Deek, Angela Zhang, Ni Zhao, Wodan Ling, Michael C. Wu +1 more

A Mixed Effect Similarity Matrix Regression Model (SMRmix) for Integrating Multiple Microbiome Datasets at Community Level

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.03.10.584315

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Ni Zhao, Mengyu He

A Mixed‐Effect Kernel Machine Regression Model for Integrative Analysis of Alpha Diversity in Microbiome Studies

Genetic Epidemiology(2024)10.1002/gepi.22596

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Mo Li, Ni Zhao, Runzhe Li

Genomic and functional characterization of a Butyricicoccus porcorum strain isolated from human gut microbiota

mSystems(2025)10.1128/msystems.00790-25

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6 citations

Peiling Geng, Alejandro Gaher Perez, Anakha Chandramana Maya, Brijesh Singh Yadav, Yuxuan Du +2 more

A systematic evaluation of highly variable gene selection methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing

Genome biology(2025)10.1186/s13059-025-03887-x

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4 citations

Jiuyao Lu, Yu-Zi Li, Weiqiang Zhou, Ni Zhao, Hongkai Ji +1 more

Maternal vaginal and fecal microbiota in later pregnancy contribute to child fecal microbiota development in the ECHO cohort

iScience(2025)10.1016/j.isci.2025.112211

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2 citations

Amii Kress, Justine W. Debelius, Ni Zhao, Ekaterina Smirnova, Sanjukta Bandyopadhyay +18 more

General Kernel Machine Methods for Multi‐Omics Integration and Genome‐Wide Association Testing With Related Individuals

Genetic Epidemiology(2025)10.1002/gepi.22610

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1 citations

Ni Zhao, Anna V. Mikhaylova, Angela Zhang, Wodan Ling, Florian Thibord +25 more

ZINQ-L: a zero-inflated quantile approach for differential abundance analysis of longitudinal microbiome data

Frontiers in Genetics(2025)10.3389/fgene.2024.1494401

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1 citations

Runzhe Li, John R. Lee, Ni Zhao, Wodan Ling, Shuai Li

Transplacental Antimicrobial Antibodies and Childhood Asthma: Maternal Nativity as an Upstream Factor

Allergy(2025)10.1111/all.70167

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0 citations

Kari C. Nadeau, Pamela A. Frischmeyer‐Guerrerio, Guoying Wang, August Jernbom Falk, Shuai Li +10 more

CAFT: A Compositional Log-Linear Model for Microbiome Data with Zero Cells

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.11.26.690468

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0 citations

Mo Li, Ni Zhao, Glen A. Satten

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Nature Genetics(2020)10.1038/s41588-020-0609-2

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578 citations

Thomas U. Ahearn, Julie Lecarpentier, Daniel R. Barnes, Jonathan Beesley, Guanghao Qi +95 more