Xing Xing

About Me

I’m a ScM Student in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. My current research focus on developing statistical models for meta-analysis. Under the guidance of Dr. Jessie Tong and Dr. Lifeng Lin, I am concentrating on IPD meta-regression methods and addressing publication bias. Additionally, I have a keen interest in genetics, specifically in Mendelian randomization and TWAS. My work also involves the epidemiologic analysis of musculoskeletal diseases, under the guidance of Dr. Guoqi Cai.

Outside of academia, I’m a dead hard fan of Juventus and Park Hyatt. - “fino alla fine”

Research Interests

• Evidence Synthesis
• Publication Bias
• Mendelian Randomization
• Musculoskeletal Diseases

Publications

Conference

• [Nov. 2024.] The Causal Effect of Sex Hormone-related Drugs on the Risk of Osteoarthritis – A Mendelian Randomization Study has been presented on ACR 2024.

• [Apr. 2024.] Predictive validity of machine learning vs a consensus-based MRI definition of osteoarthritis combined with radiographic osteoarthritis for the progression of cartilage loss, knee symptoms and total knee replacement has been presented on OARSI 2024.

Collaboration

• [Mar. 2025] Global trends and projections in the burden of malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage has been published by the Discover Public Health.

• [Mar. 2025] The association between endogenous sex hormones and knee osteoarthritis in women: a population-based cohort study has been published by the Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

• [Jan. 2025] The Role of Double-Zero-Event Studies in Evidence Synthesis: Evaluating Robustness Using the Fragility Index has been published by the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.

• [Dec. 2024] Causal association between bone mineral density and the risk of joint replacement in patients with osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization study has been published by the Clinical Rheumatology.

• [Dec. 2024] Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Monitoring Criteria in Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy has been published by the JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery.

• [Nov. 2024] Association of prognostic nutritional index with the presence and all-cause mortality of rheumatoid arthritis: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2018 has been published by the BMC Public Health.

• [Sep. 2024] Global, regional, and national burden of Burkitt lymphoma from 1990 to 2021 and predictions to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 has been published by the Blood Cancer Journal.

• [Aug. 2024] The relationship between MRI-detected hip abnormalities and hip pain in hip osteoarthritis: a systematic review has been published by the Rheumatology International.

• [Jul. 2024] Association of physical activity trajectories over 8 years and risk of knee replacement: data from the osteoarthritis initiative has been published by the BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

• [Jul. 2024] A novel prognostic index for extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma in the era of pegaspargase/L-asparaginase has been published by the Future Oncology.

• [Jun. 2024] Clinicopathological analysis of immunohistochemical CD47 and signal-regulatory protein-α expression in Extranodal Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma has been published by the Annals of Hematology.

• [May. 2024] The global burden of lymphoma: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study has been published by the Public Health.

• [May. 2024] Socioeconomic status, individual behaviors and risk for Lymphomas: a Mendelian randomization study has been published by the Journal of Cancer.

• [May. 2024] Association between air pollution and male sexual function: A nationwide observational study in China has been published by the Journal of Hazardous Materials.

• [Feb. 2024] Clinicopathologic features and survival outcomes of CD30 expression in extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma has been published by the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

• [Oct. 2023] Association of smoking with cartilage loss of knee osteoarthritis: data from two longitudinal cohorts has been published by BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

Services

Journal Reviewers

• Research Synthesis Methods
• BMC Medicine
• BMC Public health
• European Journal of Medical Research
• Biochemical Genetics
• Mammalian Genome
• Lipids in Health and Disease

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