Liang He

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Liang He is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Liang He has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Genetics, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Liang He's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (18 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (17 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (7 papers). Liang He is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (18 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (17 papers) and Influenza Virus Research Studies (7 papers). Liang He collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Finland. Liang He's co-authors include Manolis Kellis, Li‐Huei Tsai, José Dávila-Velderrain, David A. Bennett, B. Dinger, Fan Gao, Madhvi Menon, Hansruedi Mathys, Xueqiao Jiang and Shahin Mohammadi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Liang He

76 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of Alzheimer’s disease

2019 1.4k citations José Dávila-Velderrain, Liang He et al. profile →
APOE4 disrupts intracellular lipid homeostasis in human iPSC-derived glia

2021 197 citations Liang He, Manolis Kellis et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liang He United States	25	1.3k	841	807	498	397	80	3.1k
David Engblom Sweden	32	1.1k 0.8×	485 0.6×	454 0.6×	256 0.5×	393 1.0×	74	3.7k
Zhe Wang China	28	1.2k 0.9×	705 0.8×	576 0.7×	218 0.4×	67 0.2×	136	3.1k
Nian Xiong China	33	1.1k 0.9×	546 0.6×	575 0.7×	210 0.4×	110 0.3×	125	3.9k
Yun Li China	35	1.5k 1.2×	641 0.8×	648 0.8×	212 0.4×	81 0.2×	174	4.2k
Man Yu China	13	1.8k 1.4×	345 0.4×	1.4k 1.8×	125 0.3×	237 0.6×	44	4.0k
Futwan Al‐Mohanna Saudi Arabia	34	1.7k 1.3×	742 0.9×	200 0.2×	414 0.8×	130 0.3×	119	3.9k
Giovanni Rizzo Italy	36	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	411 0.5×	264 0.5×	188 0.5×	143	6.3k
Toshiyuki Motoike Japan	17	2.1k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	169 0.2×	231 0.5×	552 1.4×	31	3.5k
Masataka Nishimura Japan	37	1.0k 0.8×	447 0.5×	364 0.5×	340 0.7×	229 0.6×	116	4.3k
Marcus Seldin United States	34	2.4k 1.9×	1.6k 1.9×	172 0.2×	424 0.9×	274 0.7×	78	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Liang He

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liang He

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liang He

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Liang He. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Liang He based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Liang He. Liang He is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Hongxia, Liang He, Siyu Long, et al.. (2025). Advancing interpretable cardiac disease diagnosis via a transformer-convolutional hybrid network on electrocardiograms. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 152. 110675–110675. 1 indexed citations

He, Liang, et al.. (2025). Immunocytes Mediate the Effects of Gut Microbiome on Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Insights From a Mendelian Randomization Study. Mediators of Inflammation. 2025(1). 9956259–9956259.

Ling, Lei, Liang He, Jun Qiu, et al.. (2025). Predicting early diagnosis of intensive care unit-acquired weakness in septic patients using critical ultrasound and biological markers. BMC Anesthesiology. 25(1). 39–39. 1 indexed citations

Sumida, Tomokazu S., Matthew R. Lincoln, Liang He, et al.. (2024). An autoimmune transcriptional circuit drives FOXP3 ⁺ regulatory T cell dysfunction. Science Translational Medicine. 16(762). eadp1720–eadp1720. 8 indexed citations

He, Liang, et al.. (2023). A robust and fast two‐sample test of equal correlations with an application to differential co‐expression. Statistics in Medicine. 42(16). 2760–2776. 3 indexed citations

Hu, Ting, Liang He, Fan Yang, et al.. (2023). Testing for viral DNA integration among HPV‐positive women to detect cervical precancer: An observational cohort study. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 131(3). 309–318. 12 indexed citations

Hou, Lei, Xushen Xiong, Yongjin Park, et al.. (2023). Multitissue H3K27ac profiling of GTEx samples links epigenomic variation to disease. Nature Genetics. 55(10). 1665–1676. 11 indexed citations

He, Liang, José Dávila-Velderrain, Tomokazu S. Sumida, et al.. (2021). NEBULA is a fast negative binomial mixed model for differential or co-expression analysis of large-scale multi-subject single-cell data. Communications Biology. 4(1). 629–629. 63 indexed citations

He, Liang & Alexander M. Kulminski. (2020). Fast Algorithms for Conducting Large-Scale GWAS of Age-at-Onset Traits Using Cox Mixed-Effects Models. Genetics. 215(1). 41–58. 17 indexed citations

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Kulminski, Alexander M., et al.. (2020). Haplotype architecture of the Alzheimer's risk in the APOE region via co‐skewness. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 12(1). e12129–e12129. 12 indexed citations

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Mudge, Jonathan M., Irwin Jungreis, Toby Hunt, et al.. (2019). Discovery of high-confidence human protein-coding genes and exons by whole-genome PhyloCSF helps elucidate 118 GWAS loci. Genome Research. 29(12). 2073–2087. 43 indexed citations

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Liang, Jiwei, Jianping Sun, Xin Song, et al.. (2017). Association between fruit, vegetable, seafood, and dairy intake and a reduction in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Qingdao, China.. PubMed. 26(2). 255–261. 4 indexed citations

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Kulminski, Alexander M., Liang He, Irina Culminskaya, et al.. (2016). Pleiotropic Associations of Allelic Variants in a 2q22 Region with Risks of Major Human Diseases and Mortality. PLoS Genetics. 12(11). e1006314–e1006314. 20 indexed citations

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He, Liang & Janne Pitkäniemi. (2014). Family-based Bayesian collapsing method for rare-variant association study. BMC Proceedings. 8(S1). S37–S37. 1 indexed citations

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He, Liang, Qiwen Wu, Kaijun Jiang, et al.. (2014). Differences in transmissibility and pathogenicity of reassortants between H9N2 and 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A viruses from humans and swine. Archives of Virology. 159(7). 1743–1754. 6 indexed citations

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Liu, Xuemei, Liang He, B. Dinger, L.J. Stensaas, & Salvatore Fidone. (2013). Sustained Exposure to Cytokines and Hypoxia Enhances Excitability of Oxygen-Sensitive Type I Cells in Rat Carotid Body: Correlation with the Expression of HIF-1α Protein and Adrenomedullin. High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 14(1). 53–60. 12 indexed citations

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Loukola, Anu, Juho Wedenoja, Kaisu Keskitalo‐Vuokko, et al.. (2013). Genome-wide association study on detailed profiles of smoking behavior and nicotine dependence in a twin sample. Molecular Psychiatry. 19(5). 615–624. 46 indexed citations

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Liu, Xuemei, Liang He, B. Dinger, L.J. Stensaas, & Salvatore Fidone. (2012). Effect of Endothelin Receptor Antagonist Bosentan on Chronic Hypoxia-Induced Inflammation and Chemoafferent Neuron Adaptation in Rat Carotid Body. High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 13(3). 209–216. 10 indexed citations

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Laaksonen, Mikko, Liang He, & Janne Pitkäniemi. (2012). The Durations of Past Sickness Absences Predict Future Absence Episodes. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 55(1). 87–92. 43 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianliang, Liang He, B. Dinger, L.J. Stensaas, & S. Fidone. (2002). Chronic hypoxia upregulates connexin43 expression in rat carotid body and petrosal ganglion. Journal of Applied Physiology. 92(4). 1480–1486. 32 indexed citations

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