E-mail: zhangwen@mail.kiz.ac.cn or wzhangxy@gmail.com

Education and Professional Appointments:
2012.7 - 2014.6, Research Associate, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
2008.9 - 2012.6, Ph.D in Genetics, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Science
2005.9 - 2008.6, M.S in Cell Biology, Southern Medical University
2001.9 - 2005.6, B.S in Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University

Publication:
1. Zhang W, Xiao MS, Ji S, Tang J, Xu L, Li X, Li M, Wang HZ, Jiang HY, Zhang DF, Wang J, Zhang S, Xu XF, Yu L, Zheng P, Chen X, Yao Y-G*. 2014. 
    Promoter variant rs2301228 on the neural cell adhesion molecule 1 gene conferring risk of schizophrenia in Han Chinese.
    Schizophrenia Research, 160: 88-96

2.  Zhang W, Tang J, Zhang A-M, Peng M-S, Xie H-B, Tan L, Xu L, Zhang Y-P, Chen X*, Yao Y-G*. 2014.
     A matrilineal genetic legacy from the last glacial maximum confers susceptibility to schizophrenia in Han Chinese.
     Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 41: 397-407

3.  Li X, Zhang W*, Zhang C, Gong W, Tang J, Yi Z, Wang D, Lu W, Fang Y, Chen X, Yao Y-G*. 2014.
     No association between genetic variants of the LRRK2 gene and schizophrenia in Han Chinese. 
     Neuroscience Letters 566:210-215

4.  Zhang W, Chen X*, Gong W, Tang J, Tan L, Guo H, Yao Y-G*.2010.
     Common promoter variants of the NDUFV2 gene do not confer susceptibility to schizophrenia in Han Chinese. 
     Behavioral and Brain Functions Dec 29; 6: 75

5.  Zhang W, Cai W-W, Zhou W-P, Li H-P, Li L, Yan W, Deng Q-K, Zhang Y-P, Fu Y-X*, Xu X-M*. 2008. 
     Evidence of gene conversion in the evolutionary process of the codon 41-42 (-CTTT) mutation causing beta-thalassemia in Southern China. 
     Journal of Molecular Evolution 66: 436-445

6.  Lu J, Zou Y, Xu L, Yang R-X, Fan Y, Zhang W, Yu D*, Yao Y-G. 2014. 
     IDH1 p.R132 mutations may not be actively involved in the carcinogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma. 
     Medical Science Monitor 20:247-254

7.  Ma L, Tang J, Wang D, Zhang W, Liu W, Wang D, Liu X-H, Gong W, Yao Y-G*, Chen X*. 2013.
     Evaluating risk loci for schizophrenia distilled from genome-wide association studies in Han Chinese from central China. 
     Molecular Psychiatry 18:638-639

8.  Ma L, Zhang W, Tang J, Tan L, Yao Y-G*, Chen X. 2013.
     No association between genetic polymorphisms of the NDUFS7 gene and schizophrenia in Han Chinese.
     Psychiatric Genetics 23:29-32

9.  Cai J, Zhang W, Yi Z, Lu W, Wu Z, Chen J, Yu S, Fang Y, Zhang C*. 2013.
     Influence of polymorphisms in genes SLC1A1, GRIN2B, and GRIK2 on clozapine-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
     Psychopharmacology 230:49-55

10. Qiu Q-W, Wu D-D, Yu L-H, Yan T-Z, Zhang W, Li Z-T, Liu Y-H, Zhang Y-P, Xu X-M*. 2013.
     Evidence of recent natural selection on the Southeast Asian deletion (--(SEA)) causing α-thalassemia in South China.
     BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:63

11. Guo H, Zhuang X-Y, Zhang A-M, Zhang W, Yuan Y, Guo L, Yu D, Liu J, Yang DK, Yao Y-G*. 2012.
     Presence of mutation m.14484T>C in a Chinese family with maternally inherited essential hypertension but no expression of LHON.
     Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis of Disease 1822:1535-1543

12. Peng M-S, Palanichamy MG, Yao Y-G, Mitra B, Cheng Y-T, Zhao M, Liu J, Wang H-W, Pan H, Wang W-Z, Zhang A-M, Zhang W, Wang D, Zou Y, Yang Y, Chaudhuri TK, Kong Q-P*, Zhang Y-P*. 2011.
     Inland post-glacial dispersal in East Asia revealed by mitochondrial haplogroup M9a'b.
     BMC Biology Jan 10; 9: 2

13. Zhang A-M, Bandelt H-J, Jia X, Zhang W, Li S, Yu D, Wang D, Zhuang X-Y, Zhang Q*, 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

14. 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: 538-543

15. Hong YH, Jiang H, Xiao LT, Huang H, Zhang W. 2003.
     Cloning and sequence analysis of flower tissue-specific expression gene promoter PchsA from Petunia hybrida. 
     Journal of Hunan Agricultural University 29:474-477

16. Hong YH, Zhang W, Peng KQ, Tang J. 2003.
     Analysis of nine Hemerocalli citrine cultivars by RAPD.
     Journal of Hunan Agricultural University 29:496-499