Faculty Appointments
Associate Professor of Medicine
Education
Ph.D., Clinical Pharmacology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong KongB.Sc., Biochemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
Research Description
The Ng lab is interested in research related to the genetics of type 2 diabetes, the complications of diabetes (e.g. diabetic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease), and contributors to diabetes (e.g. obesity, insulin resistance and insulin secretion) in African Americans and other populations. We apply a wide range of genomics (genome-wide association, exome sequencing, polygenic risk scores) approaches and integrate with metabolomics to dissect the genetic architecture of diabetes and related phenotypes. We lead the MEDIA consortium, a GWAS meta-analysis study of type 2 diabetes in African Americans. We collaborate extensively with national and international consortia including AAGILE, AMP-T2D, CHARGE, DIAMANTE, T2D-GENES, TOPMed and MVP for genomic studies of various cardiometabolic phenotypes.
Research Keywords
Genomics, Metabolomics, Cardiometabolic Diseases, Statistical Genetics