Dr Ang Zhou

Research Associate UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance

City West Campus (08.301)
tel +61 8 830 20286

email Ang.Zhou@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Ang has a cross-disciplinary training in medical sciences (Ph.D. in 2013) and Biostatistics (M.A. in 2015). He is working as a research associate in the nutritional and genetic epidemiology group at the Australian Centre for Precision Health. Ang applies methodologies in genetic epidemiology to understand causal associations between modifiable lifestyle factors and health outcomes related to cognitive and cardiometabolic functions. His research also involves understanding gene-environment interplay on health outcomes.

UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance

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Research

Research themes

An age friendly world
Healthy futures
Transforming societies

Research focus

Clinical Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences
Public Health and Health Services
Nutrition and Dietetics
Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2020	Nicolopoulos, K, Mulugeta, A, Zhou, A & Hypponen, E 2020, 'Association between habitual coffee consumption and multiple disease outcomes: a Mendelian randomisation phenome-wide association study in the UK Biobank', Clinical Nutrition, in press, pp. 1-10.
2020	Stasinopoulos, L, Zhou, A & Hypponen, E 2020, 'Association of supplemental calcium and dairy milk intake with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the UK Biobank: a prospective cohort study', The British Journal of Nutrition: An International Journal of Nutritional Science, vol. 123, no. 5, pp. 574-582. 2
2019	Folley, S, Zhou, A, Llewellyn, DJ & Hyppenen, E 2019, 'Physical activity, APOE genotype, and cognitive decline: exploring gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank', Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 71, no, pp. 741-750. 10
2019	Gill, D, Benyamin, B, Moore, LS, Monori, G, Zhou, A, Koskeridis, F, Evangelou, E, Laffan, M, Walker, AP, Tsilidis, KK, Dehghan, A, Elliot, P, Hypponen, E, Tzoulaki, I & Rahimi, K 2019, 'Associations of genetically determined iron status across the phenome: a mendelian randomization study', PLoS Medicine, vol. 16, no. 6, article no. e1002833, pp. 1-16. Open access 1 2 129
2019	Huang, T, Wang, T, Zheng, Y, Ellervik, C, Zhou, A, Hyppönen, E & Qi, L and 127 other authors 2019, 'Association of birth weight with type 2 diabetes and glycemic traits: a mendelian randomization study', JAMA network open, vol. 2, no. 9, article no. e1910915, pp. 1-18. Open access 1 9
2019	Hypponen, E, Mulugeta, A, Zhou, A & Santhanakrishnan, VK 2019, 'A data-driven approach for studying the role of body mass in multiple diseases: a phenome-wide registry-based case-control study in the UK Biobank', The Lancet digital health, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. e116-e126. Open access 2 2 115
2019	Mulugeta, A, Zhou, A, King, C & Hyppönen, E 2019, 'Association between major depressive disorder and multiple disease outcomes: a phenome-wide Mendelian randomisation study in the UK Biobank', Molecular Psychiatry, online, pp. 1-8. Open access 164
2019	Mulugeta, A, Zhou, A, Vimaleswaran, KS, Dickson, C & Hypponen, E 2019, 'Depression increases the genetic susceptibility to high body mass index: evidence from UK Biobank', Depression and Anxiety, online, pp. 1-9. 1 1 3
2019	Skaaby, T, Kilpeläinen, TO, Taylor, AE, Mahendran, Y, Zhou, A, Hyppönen, E & Linneberg, A and 40 other authors 2019, 'Association of alcohol consumption with allergic disease and asthma: a multi-centre Mendelian randomization analysis', Addiction, vol. 114, no. 2, pp. 216-225. 3 2 2
2019	Tyrrell, J, Gebremichael, A, Wood, AR, Zhou, A, Beaumont, RN, Tuke, MA, Jones, SE, Ruth, KS, Yaghootkar, H, Sharp, S, Thompson, WD, Ji, Y, Harrison, J, Freathy, RM, Murray, A, Weedon, MN, Lewis, C, Frayling, TM & Hyppӧnen, E and 1 consortium 2019, 'Using genetics to understand the causal influence of higher BMI on depression', International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 834-848. Open access 23 15 216
2019	Zhou, A & Hyppönen, E 2019, 'Long-term coffee consumption, caffeine metabolism genetics, and risk of cardiovascular disease: a prospective analysis of up to 347,077 individuals and 8368 cases', American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 509-516. 9 7 529
2019	Zhou, A, Morris, H & Hyppönen, E 2019, 'Health effects associated with serum calcium concentrations: evidence from MR-PheWAS analysis in UK Biobank', Osteoporosis International, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2343-2348. 1
2018	Jiang, X, O'Reilly, PF, Aschard, H, Hsu, Y-H, Zhou, A, Hypponen, E & Kiel, DP and 97 other authors 2018, 'Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels', Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, article no. 260, pp. 1-12. Open access 77 72 65
2018	Kuźma, E, Hannon, E, Zhou, A, Lourida, I, Bethel, A, Levine, DA, Lunnon, K, Thompson-Coon, J, Hyppönen, E & Llewellyn, DJ 2018, 'Which risk factors causally influence Dementia? A systematic review of Mendelian randomization studies', Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 181-193. Open access 6 4 31
2018	Mulugeta, A, Zhou, A, Power, C & Hyppönen, E 2018, 'Obesity and depressive symptoms in mid-life: a population-based cohort study', BMC Psychiatry, vol. 18, no. 1, article no. 297, pp. 1-10. Open access 8 1
2018	Zhou, A, Taylor, AE, Karhunen, V, Zhan, Y & Hypponen, E and 23 other authors 2018, 'Habitual coffee consumption and cognitive function: a Mendelian randomization meta-analysis in up to 415,530 participants', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, article no. 7526, pp. 1-9. Open access 9 6 166
2017	Dale, CE, Fatemifar, G, Palmer, TM, White, J, Hyppönen, E, Zhou, A & Casas, JP and 37 other authors 2017, 'Causal associations of adiposity and body fat distribution with coronary heart disease, stroke subtypes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a Mendelian randomization analysis', Circulation, vol. 135, no. 24, pp. 2373-2388. Open access 97 93 100
2017	Maddock, J, Zhou, A, Cavadino, A, Kuźma, E & Hyppönen, E and 44 other authors 2017, 'Vitamin D and cognitive function: A Mendelian randomisation study', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, article no. 13230, pp. 1-8. Open access 16 13 97
2017	Skaaby, T, Taylor, AE, Jacobsen, RK, Paternoster, L, Zhou, A, Hyppönen, E & Linneberg, A and 47 other authors 2017, 'Investigating the causal effect of smoking on hay fever and asthma: A Mendelian randomization meta-analysis in the CARTA consortium', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, article no. 2224, pp. 1-9. Open access 9 9 5
2013	Sykes, S, Pringle, K, Zhou, A, Dekker, G, Roberts, C & Lumbers, E and 1 consortium 2013, 'Fetal sex and the circulating renin- angiotensin system during early gestation in women who later develop preeclampsia or gestational hypertension', Journal of Human Hypertension, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 133-139. 21 20
2013	Zhou, A, Dekker, GA, Lumbers, ER, Leemaqz, SY, Thompson, SD, Heinemann, G, McCowan, LM & Roberts, C 2013, 'The association of maternal ACE A11860G with small for gestational age babies is modulated by the environment and by fetal sex: Amulticentrex prospective case-control study', Molecular Human Reproduction, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 618-627. Open access 5 4
2012	Zhou, A, Dekker, G, Lumbers, E, Lee, S, Thompson, S, McCowan, L & Roberts, C 2012, 'The association of AGTR2 polymorphisms with preeclampsia and uterine artery bilateral notching is modulated by maternal BMI', Placenta, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 75-81. Open access 17 17

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Bispebjerg Hospital	DENMARK
Fudan University	CHINA
Harvard School of Public Health	UNITED STATES
Harvard University	UNITED STATES
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	UNITED KINGDOM
Karolinska Institute	SWEDEN
King's College London	UNITED KINGDOM
Peking University	CHINA
Research Centre for Prevention and Health	DENMARK
Tulane University	UNITED STATES
University College London	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Auckland	NEW ZEALAND
University of Bristol	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Copenhagen	DENMARK
University of Exeter	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Ioannina	GREECE
University of Michigan	UNITED STATES
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of Oulu	FINLAND
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Reading	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2017
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2017
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2017
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2016
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2016
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2016
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2015
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2015
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2015
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2014
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2014
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2014
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2013
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2013
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2013
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2012
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2012
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2012
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2011
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2011
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2011
Member Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)	2010
Member Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)	2010
Member Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)	2010

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Pain and depression: exploring gene-environment interactions and the role of stress	Current
Vitamin D, calcium and cardiovascular risk: a large scale study	Current
Physical activity, APOE genotype and cognitive function: exploring gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank	Completed
Relationship between obesity and depression: evidence from observational and genetic studies	Completed

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