E-mail: zamsyz@yahoo.com

Education and Professional Appointments
2011.1 - 2012.5: Research Associate, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
2007.9 - 2010.12: Ph.D., Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Science, Kuming, China
2004.9 - 2007.6: M.M., Guiyang medical university, Guiyang, China
1997.9 - 2002.6: M.B., School of Medicine, Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao, China

Publication:

1. Zhang A-M, Bandelt H-J, Jia X-Y, Zhang W, Li S-Q, Yu D-D, Wang D, Zhuang X-Y, Zhang Q-J*, Yao Y-G*. 2011. Is Mitochondrial tRNA^phe Variant m.593T.C a Synergistically Pathogenic Mutation in Chinese LHON Families with m.11778G.A?. PloS ONE, 6: e26511; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026511.t001

2. Zhang A-M, Jia X, Zhang Q, Yao Y-G*. 2010. No association between the SNPs (rs3749446 and rs1402000) in the PARL gene and LHON in Chinese patients with m.11778G>A. Hum Genet, 128: 465-468

3. Yu D, Jia X, Zhang A-M, Guo X, Zhang Y-P, Zhang Q, Yao Y-G. 2010. Molecular characterization of six Chinese families with m.3460G>A and Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. Neurogenetics, 11: 349-356

4. Bi R, Zhang A-M, Zhang W, Kong Q-P, Wu B-L, Yang X-H, Wang D, Zou Y, Zhang Y-P, Yao Y-G. 2010. The acquisition of an inheritable 50-bp deletion in the human mtDNA control region does not affect the mtDNA copy number in peripheral blood cells. Human Mutation, 31: 538-43.

5. Zhang A-M, Zou Y, Guo X, Jia X, Zhang Q, Yao Y-G. 2009. Mitochondrial DNA mutation m.3635G>A may be associated with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy in Chinese. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 386: 392-395

6. Ji Y*, Zhang A-M*( * co-author), Jia X, Zhang Y-P, Xiao X, Li S, Guo X, Bandelt H-J, Zhang Q, Yao Y-G. 2008. Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups M7b1'2 and M8a affect clinical expression of leber hereditary optic neuropathy in Chinese families with the m.11778G-->A mutation. American Journal of Human Genetics, 83: 760-768

7. Zhang A-M, Jia X, Yao Y-G, Zhang Q. 2008. Co-occurrence of A1555G and G11778A in a Chinese family with high penetrance of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 376: 221-224