Dr. Yuanhao Yang is research fellow at Mater Research Institute, with high-level expertise in computational and statistical genetics and genomics. His research field focuses on understanding the genetic and genomic etiology of human complex traits and common diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, depression and autism, through large-scale genetic/genomic and multi-omics data, including 1) revealing the genetic architecture of complex traits and common diseases using advanced genome-wide association study (GWAS)-based quantitative genetics methods; and 2) identifying potential relationships between disease risk and cellular genotypes/pathways using single-cell RNA sequence/spatial transcriptomics data and technology.
Gough, Madeline, Liu, Cheng, Srinivasan, Bhuvana, Wilkinson, Lisa, Dunk, Louisa, Yang, Yuanhao, Schreiber, Veronika, Tuffaha, Haitham, Kryza, Thomas, Hooper, John D., Lakhani, Sunil R. and Snell, Cameron E. (2023). Improved concordance of challenging human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 dual in-situ hybridisation cases with the use of a digital image analysis algorithm in breast cancer. Histopathology, 83 (4), 647-656. doi: 10.1111/his.15000
Lin, Siying, Zhang, Haoyang, Qi, Mengling, Cooper, David N., Yang, Yuedong, Yang, Yuanhao and Zhao, Huiying (2023). Inferring the genetic relationship between brain imaging-derived phenotypes and risk of complex diseases by Mendelian randomization and genome-wide colocalization. NeuroImage, 279 120325, 120325. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120325
Conference Publication: HER2 in situ hybridization testing in breast cancer: applying algorithm-assisted assessment to reduce interobserver variability in difficult cases
Gough, Madeline, Liu, Cheng, Srinivasan, Bhuvana, Wilkinson, Lisa, Dunk, Louisa, Yang, Yuanhao, Tuffaha, Haitham, Kryza, Thomas, Hooper, John D., Lakhani, Sunil R. and Snell, Cameron Edward (2023). HER2 in situ hybridization testing in breast cancer: applying algorithm-assisted assessment to reduce interobserver variability in difficult cases. 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL United States, 2-6 June 2023. Alexandria, VA United States: American Society of Clinical Oncology. doi: 10.1200/jco.2023.41.16_suppl.e13561
(2023–2027) University of Tasmania
Cellular genomics of Parkinson's disease
Doctor Philosophy
Applying long-read sequencing technologies to cancer genomes
Doctor Philosophy
Gough, Madeline, Liu, Cheng, Srinivasan, Bhuvana, Wilkinson, Lisa, Dunk, Louisa, Yang, Yuanhao, Schreiber, Veronika, Tuffaha, Haitham, Kryza, Thomas, Hooper, John D., Lakhani, Sunil R. and Snell, Cameron E. (2023). Improved concordance of challenging human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 dual in-situ hybridisation cases with the use of a digital image analysis algorithm in breast cancer. Histopathology, 83 (4), 647-656. doi: 10.1111/his.15000
Lin, Siying, Zhang, Haoyang, Qi, Mengling, Cooper, David N., Yang, Yuedong, Yang, Yuanhao and Zhao, Huiying (2023). Inferring the genetic relationship between brain imaging-derived phenotypes and risk of complex diseases by Mendelian randomization and genome-wide colocalization. NeuroImage, 279 120325, 120325. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120325
Novel plasma and brain proteins that are implicated in multiple sclerosis
Lin, Xin, Yang, Yuanhao, Gresle, Melissa, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Han, Xikun, Stankovich, Jim, Fuh-Ngwa, Valery, Charlesworth, Jac, Burdon, Kathryn P, Butzkueven, Helmut, Taylor, Bruce V, Zhou, Yuan and AusLong/Ausimmune Investigators Group Steve Simpson-Yap (2023). Novel plasma and brain proteins that are implicated in multiple sclerosis. Brain, 146 (6) awac420, 2464-2475. doi: 10.1093/brain/awac420
Interactions between the lipidome and genetic and environmental factors in autism
Yap, Chloe X., Henders, Anjali K., Alvares, Gail A., Giles, Corey, Huynh, Kevin, Nguyen, Anh, Wallace, Leanne, McLaren, Tiana, Yang, Yuanhao, Hernandez, Leanna M., Gandal, Michael J., Hansell, Narelle K., Cleary, Dominique, Grove, Rachel, Hafekost, Claire, Harun, Alexis, Holdsworth, Helen, Jellett, Rachel, Khan, Feroza, Lawson, Lauren P., Leslie, Jodie, Levis Frenk, Mira, Masi, Anne, Mathew, Nisha E., Muniandy, Melanie, Nothard, Michaela, Miller, Jessica L., Nunn, Lorelle, Strike, Lachlan T. ... The Busselton Health Study Investigators (2023). Interactions between the lipidome and genetic and environmental factors in autism. Nature Medicine, 29 (4), 936-949. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02271-1
Jiao, Bin, Li, Rihui, Zhou, Hui, Qing, Kunqiang, Liu, Hui, Pan, Hefu, Lei, Yanqin, Fu, Wenjin, Wang, Xiaoan, Xiao, Xuewen, Liu, Xixi, Yang, Qijie, Liao, Xinxin, Zhou, Yafang, Fang, Liangjuan, Dong, Yanbin, Yang, Yuanhao, Jiang, Haiyan, Huang, Sha and Shen, Lu (2023). Neural biomarker diagnosis and prediction to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease using EEG technology. Alzheimer's Research and Therapy, 15 (1) 32, 32. doi: 10.1186/s13195-023-01181-1
The shared genetic landscape of blood cell traits and risk of neurological and psychiatric disorders
Yang, Yuanhao, Zhou, Yuan, Nyholt, Dale R., Yap, Chloe X., Tannenberg, Rudolph K., Wang, Ying, Wu, Yang, Zhu, Zhihong, Taylor, Bruce V. and Gratten, Jacob (2023). The shared genetic landscape of blood cell traits and risk of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Cell Genomics, 3 (2) 100249, 100249. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100249
Lin, Xin, Yang, Yuanhao, Fuh-Ngwa, Valery, Yin, Xianyong, Simpson-Yap, Steve, van der Mei, Ingrid, Broadley, Simon A, Ponsonby, Anne-Louise, Burdon, Kathryn P, Taylor, Bruce V, Zhou, Yuan and Ausimmune/ AusLong Investigators Group (2023). Genetically determined serum serine level has a novel causal effect on multiple sclerosis risk and predicts disability progression. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 94 (7) jnnp-2022-330259, 1-6. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2022-330259
GPR183 antagonism reduces macrophage infiltration in influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infection
Foo, Cheng Xiang, Bartlett, Stacey, Chew, Keng Yih, Ngo, Minh Dao, Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Helle, Jayakody Arachchige, Buddhika, Matthews, Benjamin, Reed, Sarah, Wang, Ran, Smith, Christian, Sweet, Matthew J., Burr, Lucy, Bisht, Kavita, Shatunova, Svetlana, Sinclair, Jane E., Parry, Rhys, Yang, Yuanhao, Lévesque, Jean-Pierre, Khromykh, Alexander, Rosenkilde, Mette Marie, Short, Kirsty R. and Ronacher, Katharina (2023). GPR183 antagonism reduces macrophage infiltration in influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infection. European Respiratory Journal, 61 (3) 2201306, 1-15. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01306-2022
Lu, Zhiya, Zhang, Haoyang, Yang, Yuanhao and Zhao, Huiying (2023). Sex differences of the shared genetic landscapes between type 2 diabetes and peripheral artery disease in East Asians and Europeans. Human Genetics, 142 (7), 965-980. doi: 10.1007/s00439-023-02573-x
Xiu, Xuehao, Zhang, Haoyang, Xue, Angli, Cooper, David N., Yan, Li, Yang, Yuedong, Yang, Yuanhao and Zhao, Huiying (2022). Genetic evidence for a causal relationship between type 2 diabetes and peripheral artery disease in both Europeans and East Asians. BMC Medicine, 20 (1) 300, 1-16. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02476-0
Integrating Genetic Structural Variations and Whole-Genome Sequencing Into Clinical Neurology
Lin, Xin, Yang, Yuanhao, Melton, Phillip E., Singh, Vikrant, Simpson-Yap, Steve, Burdon, Kathryn P., Taylor, Bruce V. and Zhou, Yuan (2022). Integrating Genetic Structural Variations and Whole-Genome Sequencing Into Clinical Neurology. Neurology: Genetics, 8 (4) e200005, 1-12. doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000200005
Sheng, Yong H., Davies, Julie M., Wang, Ran, Wong, Kuan Yau, Giri, Rabina, Yang, Yuanhao, Begun, Jakob, Florin, Timothy H., Hasnain, Sumaira Z. and McGuckin, Michael A. (2022). MUC1 mediated macrophage activation promotes colitis-associated colorectal cancer via activating the IL-6/STAT3 axis. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 14 (4), 789-811. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2022.06.010
Yang, Yuanhao, Musco, Hannah, Simpson-Yap, Steve, Zhu, Zhihong, Wang, Ying, Lin, Xin, Zhang, Jiawei, Taylor, Bruce, Gratten, Jacob and Zhou, Yuan (2021). Investigating the shared genetic architecture between multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel diseases. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 5641, 5641. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25768-0
Zhang, Haoyang, Xiu, Xuehao, Xue, Angli, Yang, Yuedong, Yang, Yuanhao and Zhao, Huiying (2021). Mendelian randomization study reveals a population-specific putative causal effect of type 2 diabetes in risk of cataract. International Journal of Epidemiology, 50 (6), 2024-2037. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyab175
Analysis of common genetic variation and rare CNVs in the Australian Autism Biobank
Yap, Chloe X., Alvares, Gail A., Henders, Anjali K., Lin, Tian, Wallace, Leanne, Farrelly, Alaina, McLaren, Tiana, Berry, Jolene, Vinkhuyzen, Anna A. E., Trzaskowski, Maciej, Zeng, Jian, Yang, Yuanhao, Cleary, Dominique, Grove, Rachel, Hafekost, Claire, Harun, Alexis, Holdsworth, Helen, Jellett, Rachel, Khan, Feroza, Lawson, Lauren, Leslie, Jodie, Levis Frenk, Mira, Masi, Anne, Mathew, Nisha E., Muniandy, Melanie, Nothard, Michaela, Visscher, Peter M., Dawson, Paul A., Dissanayake, Cheryl ... Gratten, Jacob (2021). Analysis of common genetic variation and rare CNVs in the Australian Autism Biobank. Molecular Autism, 12 (1) 12, 12. doi: 10.1186/s13229-020-00407-5
Imprint of assortative mating on the human genome
Yengo, Loic, Robinson, Matthew R., Keller, Matthew C., Kemper, Kathryn E., Yang, Yuanhao, Trzaskowski, Maciej, Gratten, Jacob, Turley, Patrick, Cesarini, David, Benjamin, Daniel J., Wray, Naomi R., Goddard, Michael E., Yang, Jian and Visscher, Peter M. (2018). Imprint of assortative mating on the human genome. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (12), 948-954. doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0476-3
Molecular genetic overlap between migraine and major depressive disorder
Yang, Yuanhao, Zhao, Huiying, Boomsma, Dorret I., Ligthart, Lannie, Belin, Andrea C., Smith, George Davey, Esko, Tonu, Freilinger, Tobias M., Hansen, Thomas Folkmann, Ikram, M. Arfan, Kallela, Mikko, Kubisch, Christian, Paraskevi, Christofidou, Strachan, David P., Wessman, Maija, International Headache Genetics Consortium, van den Maagdenberg, Arn M. J. M., Terwindt, Gisela M. and Nyholt, Dale R. (2018). Molecular genetic overlap between migraine and major depressive disorder. European Journal of Human Genetics, 26 (8), 1202-1216. doi: 10.1038/s41431-018-0150-2
Zhao, Huiying, Nyholt, Dale R., Yang, Yuanhao, Wang, Jihua and Yang, Yuedong (2017). Improving the detection of pathways in genome-wide association studies by combined effects of SNPs from Linkage Disequilibrium blocks. Scientific Reports, 7 (1) 3512. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03826-2
A continuum of genetic liability for minor and major depression
Corfield, E. C., Yang, Y., Martin, N. G. and Nyholt, D. R. (2017). A continuum of genetic liability for minor and major depression. Translational Psychiatry, 7 (5) e1131, e1131-e1131. doi: 10.1038/tp.2017.99
Familial aggregation of migraine and depression: insights from a large Australian twin sample
Yang, Yuanhao, Zhao, Huiying, Heath, Andrew C., Madden, Pamela A. F., Martin, Nicholas G. and Nyholt, Dale R. (2016). Familial aggregation of migraine and depression: insights from a large Australian twin sample. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19 (4), 312-321. doi: 10.1017/thg.2016.43
Shared genetic factors underlie migraine and depression
Yang, Yuanhao, Zhao, Huiying, Heath, Andrew C., Madden, Pamela A. F., Martin, Nicholas G. and Nyholt, Dale R. (2016). Shared genetic factors underlie migraine and depression. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19 (4), 341-350. doi: 10.1017/thg.2016.46
Genetic epidemiology of migraine and depression
Yang, Yuanhao, Ligthart, Lannie, Terwindt, Gisela M., Boomsma, Dorret I., Rodriguez-Acevedo, Astrid J. and Nyholt, Dale R. (2016). Genetic epidemiology of migraine and depression. Cephalalgia, 36 (7), 679-691. doi: 10.1177/0333102416638520
Gough, Madeline, Liu, Cheng, Srinivasan, Bhuvana, Wilkinson, Lisa, Dunk, Louisa, Yang, Yuanhao, Tuffaha, Haitham, Kryza, Thomas, Hooper, John D., Lakhani, Sunil R. and Snell, Cameron Edward (2023). HER2 in situ hybridization testing in breast cancer: applying algorithm-assisted assessment to reduce interobserver variability in difficult cases. 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL United States, 2-6 June 2023. Alexandria, VA United States: American Society of Clinical Oncology. doi: 10.1200/jco.2023.41.16_suppl.e13561
Gratten, Jacob, Yang, Yuanhao, Trzaskowski, Maciej, Kemper, Kathryn, Yengo, Loic, Zheng, Zhili, Zhang, Futao, Zhu, Zhihong, Mcrae, Allan, Yang, Jian, Wray, Naomi and Visscher, Peter (2019). Common genetic variation explains a high proportion of the elevated risk of psychiatric disorders in children of younger mothers. 26th World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), Glasgow, Scotland, 11-15 October, 2018. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2018.08.167
(2023–2027) University of Tasmania
Cellular genomics of Parkinson's disease
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Applying long-read sequencing technologies to cancer genomes
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors: