Jinzhen Guo, Ph.D.

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Jinzhen Guo, Ph.D., received his B.S. in public health, his M.S. in nutrition and food hygiene, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, China. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, the University of Southern California, and UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research interests include epigenetics in neurodegenerative disease and genome instability.

• Epigenetics in neurodegenerative disease
• Genome instability

Associations of the ages at menarche and menopause with blood pressure and hypertension among middle-aged and older Chinese women: a cross-sectional analysis of the baseline data of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Shen L, Wang L, Hu Y, Liu T, Guo J, Shen Y, Zhang R, Miles T, Li C Hypertension Research 2019 May 42 730-738

MutSβ promotes trinucleotide repeat expansion by recruiting DNA polymerase β to nascent (CAG) n or (CTG) n hairpins for error-prone DNA synthesis

Guo J, Gu L, Leffak M, Li GM Cell Research 2016 Jul 26 775-786

Coordinated processing of 3′ slipped (CAG)_n/(CTG) _n hairpins by DNA polymerases β and δ preferentially induces repeat expansions

Chan NL, Guo J, Zhang T, Mao G, Hou C, Yuan F, Huang J, Zhang Y, Wu J, Gu L, Li GM Journal of Biological Chemistry 2013 May 288 15015-15022

• The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
  Graduate/Postdoctoral Travel Award (2013)