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Ken K. Ong

- Verified email at mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk - Cited by 73820

Kin-Weng Kong

- Verified email at um.edu.my - Cited by 3606

Edward Kong

- Verified email at fas.harvard.edu - Cited by 3014

[HTML][HTML] Carotenoids and their isomers: color pigments in fruits and vegetables

HE Khoo, KN Prasad, KW Kong, Y Jiang, A Ismail - Molecules, 2011 - mdpi.com
Fruits and vegetables are colorful pigment-containing food sources. Owing to their
nutritional benefits and phytochemicals, they are considered as ‘functional food ingredients’. …

Sarcoma of the breast: an update on a rare entity

SZ Lim, KW Ong, BKT Tan, S Selvarajan… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - jcp.bmj.com
Breast sarcoma is a rare condition. It consists of a heterogeneous group of non-epithelial
tumours arising from the mesenchymal tissue of the breast. It has a distinctly different natural …

Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity

…, SM Ring, MS Sandhu, A Scherag, MA Sims, K Song… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
To identify common variants influencing body mass index (BMI), we analyzed genome-wide
association data from 16,876 individuals of European descent. After previously reported …

Exome sequencing identifies highly recurrent MED12 somatic mutations in breast fibroadenoma

WK Lim, CK Ong, J Tan, AA Thike, CCY Ng… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Fibroadenomas are the most common breast tumors in women under 30 (refs. 1 , 2 ). Exome
sequencing of eight fibroadenomas with matching whole-blood samples revealed recurrent …

Genomic landscapes of breast fibroepithelial tumors

J Tan, CK Ong, WK Lim, CCY Ng, AA Thike, LM Ng… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Breast fibroepithelial tumors comprise a heterogeneous spectrum of pathological entities,
from benign fibroadenomas to malignant phyllodes tumors 1 . Although MED12 mutations …

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

JJ Lee, R Wedow, A Okbay, E Kong, O Maghzian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in
a sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome-…

Rapid infancy weight gain and subsequent obesity: systematic reviews and hopeful suggestions

KK Ong, RJF Loos - Acta paediatrica, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In a systematic review, we identified 21 separate studies with data on the association between
rapid infancy weight gain, up to age 2 y, and subsequent obesity risk. Uniformly all studies …

Genetic variation in LIN28B is associated with the timing of puberty

…, K Northstone, SM Ring, C Rubin, MA Sims, K Song… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
The timing of puberty is highly variable 1 . We carried out a genome-wide association study
for age at menarche in 4,714 women and report an association in LIN28B on chromosome 6 (…

Photodynamic-therapy-activated immune response against distant untreated tumours in recurrent angiosarcoma

PSP Thong, KW Ong, NSG Goh, KW Kho… - The lancet …, 2007 - thelancet.com
We report the case of a 64-year-old Chinese man with histologically proven multifocal
angiosarcoma of the head and neck. To our knowledge, this was the first clinical case in which …

Fatty acid oxidation is a druggable gateway regulating cellular plasticity for driving metastasis in breast cancer

…, V Tan, B Tan, P Madhukumar, WS Yong, KW Ong… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Cell state transitions control the functional behavior of cancer cells. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal
transition (EMT) confers cancer stem cell-like properties, enhanced tumorigenicity and …