Yong Hou

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
observational 2023
iScience ·doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105839

The oral microbiome has been implicated in a growing number of diseases; however, determinants of the oral microbiome and their roles remain elusive. Here, we investigated the oral (saliva and tongue dorsum) metagenome, the whole genome, an…

observational 2022
Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics ·doi:10.1016/j.gpb.2021.01.005

The vagina contains at least a billion microbial cells, dominated by lactobacilli. Here we perform metagenomic shotgun sequencing on cervical and fecal samples from a cohort of 516 Chinese women of reproductive age, as well as cervical, fec…

observational 2018
Aging ·doi:10.18632/aging.101461

Copy number variations (CNVs) have been shown to cause numerous diseases, however, their roles in human lifespan remain elusive. In this study, we investigate the association of CNVs with longevity by comparing the Han Chinese genomes of lo…