Maggie Ng
Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Training Center
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.
Keywords: Diabetes , African Americans , Genomics , Metabolomics , Cardiometabolic Diseases , Statistical Genetics
Research Area: Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism , Genomics , Proteomics/Metabolomics