Dr. Xiaoling Wang

Postgraduate
Boulder, CO, 2003
Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins

PhD
Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, 2002
Genetic Epidemiology

MD
Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China, 1997
Preventative Medicine

Member of the American Heart Association

1R01DK117365 (X. Wang/R. Harris)
09/2018-08/2024

“Role of skeletal muscle health on poor lifestyle related type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk.”

This project aims to find how the skeletal muscle health and its molecular transducer play a role in chronic diseases linked with unhealthy lifestyles such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

AHA SFRN 863620 (A, Guha/X. Wang)
7/1/2021-6/30/2025                                                                                           

“Role of Obesity, Ancestry and Social Determinants of Health for Cancer development in African American Individuals with Cardiovascular Disease”

This is the population project inside a center grant from AHA targeting on cardio-oncology. The overall goal is to understand the contribution of obesity and its associate health disparity to cancer risk in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Intramural Grants Program (X. Wang/B. Barbak) 
1/1/2024 – 4/30/2025

Augusta University

“Stress, chronodisruption and accelerated aging: the mechanistic view from diurnal oscillations of salivary metabolomics and microbiome”

This pilot study aims to provide proof-of-concept that metabolites and microbiota profiling of multiple-time points salivary samples can help to identify novel circadian biomarkers and new mechanisms for stress related accelerated aging.

2004
AHA postdoctoral Fellowship

2007
AHA SDG award

2008
Outstanding Clinical Science Faculty Award, GHSU, Medical College of Georgia

1. Su S, Lewis TT, Belsky DW, Liu Y, Zhang K, Snieder H, Wang X. Impact of psychosocial stress in early life on pace of aging in young adulthood. Clin Epigenetics. 2025 Nov 10;17(1):186. doi: 10.1186/s13148-025-02002-y.
2. Drouard G, Mykkänen J, Heiskanen J, Pohjonen J, Ruohonen S, Pahkala K, Lehtimäki T, Wang X, Ollikainen M, Ripatti S, Pirinen M, Raitakari O, Kaprio J. Exploring machine learning strategies for predicting cardiovascular disease risk factors from multi-omic data. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2024 May 2;24(1):116.
3. Hubers N, Drouard G, Jansen R, Pool R, Hottenga JJ, Ollikainen M, Wang X, Willemsen G, Kaprio J, Boomsma DI, van Dongen J. Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Analyses in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins. Am J Med Genet A. 2024 Dec 16:e63971.
4. Wang X, Xu Y, Li X, Mansuri A, McCall WV, Liu Y, Su S. Day-to-day deviations in sleep parameters and biological aging: Findings from the NHANES 2011-2014. Sleep Health. 2023 Aug 28:S2352-7218(23)00168-7. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.07.018.
5. Xu Y, Barnes VA, Harris RA, Altvater M, Williams C, Norland K, Looney J, Crandall R, Su S, Wang X. Sleep Variability, Sleep Irregularity, and Nighttime Blood Pressure Dipping. Hypertension. 2023 Oct 6. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.21497.
6. Xu Y, Su S, Li X, Mansuri A, McCall WV, Wang X. Blunted rest-activity circadian rhythm increases the risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality in US adults. Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 30;12(1):20665. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-24894-z.
7. Huang Y, Ollikainen M, Muniandy M, …, Wang X. Identification, Heritability, and Relation With Gene Expression of Novel DNA Methylation Loci for Blood Pressure. Hypertension. 2020 Jul;76(1):195-205. PMID: 32520614
8. Wang, X., Pan, Y. C., Zhu, H., Hao, G., Huang, Y., Barnes, V., Shi, H., Snieder, H., Pankow, J., North, K., Grove, M., Guan, W., Demerath, E., Dong, Y., Su, S. (2018). An epigenome-wide study of obesity in African American youth and young adults: novel findings, replication in neutrophils, and relationship with gene expression. Clinical epigenetics, 10, 3.