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  Faculty
      Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo
      Professor Tian Zheng

  Graduate Student
      Yuejing Ding

  Programmer
      Lei Cong

  Collaborators
      Inchi Hu (HKSTU)
      Hongyu Zhao (Yale)

  Past Members
      Iuliana Ionita
      Xin Liu
      Hui Wang
      Xin Yan

    Professor Tian Zheng

        Ph.D., Columbia University 2002
        tzheng@stat.columbia.edu
        Phone: 212-851-2134
        Fax: 212-851-2164
        Office: 1007 SSW

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Research Interest: Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, computational biology, social networks, sample surveys, statistical computation, nonparametric statistics, statistical education.

Selected Publications:

  1. Lo SH, Zheng T (2002) Backward Haplotype Transmission Algorithm (BHTA): a Fast Multiple-Marker Screening Method. Human Heredity 53:197-215
  2. Zheng T (2002) Multiple-marker screening approach towards the mapping of complex traits in human genetics. Doctoral Dissertation.
  3. Lo SH, Zheng T (2004) A demonstration and findings of a statistical approach through reanalysis of inflammatory bowel disease data. PNAS 101:10386-91.[Highlighted in Nature Genetics]
  4. Zheng T, Salganik MJ, Gelman A (2006) “How many people do you know in prison?”: Using overdispersion in count data to estimate social structure in networks. JASA 101(474): 409-423. [ms file].
  5. Zheng T, Lo SH (2006) Evaluating the repeatability of two studies of a large number of objects: Modified Kendall Rank-Order Association Test. Forthcoming.
  6. Kerman J, Gelman A, Zheng T, Ding Y (2006) Visualization in Bayesian Data Analysis. In Handbook of Computational Statistics (Volume III) Data Visualization, Chun-houh Chen, Wolfgang Härdle, and Antony Unwin (eds) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. Forthcoming.
  7. Zheng T, Wang H, Lo SH (2006) Backward genotype-trait Association (BGTA) - based dissection of complex traits in case-control design. Human Heredity. Forthcoming .
  8. Zheng T, Ichiba T, Morton BR (2006) Assessing Substitution Variation in Grass Chloroplast DNA. Submitted.
  9. Rzhetsky A, Zheng T, Weinreb C (2006) RANG: self-improving models of molecular pathways in four neurological disorders. Submitted.
  10. Rosner E, Zheng T (2006) Helpfulness of the genders--a student project. Submitted. (This is a magazine style article on Teaching Statistics)
  11. Iossifov I, Zheng T, Baron M, Gilliam TC, Rzhetsky A (2006) Genetic-linkage mapping of complex hereditary disorders to a whole-genome molecular-interaction network. Submitted.
  12. Zheng T, Wang S, Cong L, Ding Y, Ionita-Laza I, Lo SH (2006) Joint study of genetic regulators for Expression Traits Related to Breast Cancer. GAW 15 contribution. Submitted.
  13. Cong L, Zheng T, Ionita-Laza I, Ding Y, Lo SH (2006) A Comprehensive Analysis of Association between Several Candidate Genes and Rheumatoid Arthritis in Samples from North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC). GAW 15 contribution. Submitted.
  14. Ding Y, Zheng T, Ionita-Laza I, Cong L, Lo SH (2006) Constructing Association Network in Two-Stage Analysis: An application of Backward Genotype-Trait Association (BGTA) Algorithm to NARAC Data. GAW 15 contribution. Submitted.
  15. Ionita-Laza I, Ding Y, Zheng T, Cong L, Lo SH (2006) Combined Linkage and Association Analysis of the NARAC Dataset. GAW 15 contribution. Submitted.
  16. Li Z, Zheng T, Califano A, Floratos A (2006) Pattern-based Mining Strategy for Multi-Locus Association Analysis on GAW15 Problem 2 Chromosome 18 Dataset. GAW 15 contribution. Submitted.
  17. Wang S, Zheng T, Wang Y (2006) Transcription activity hotspot, is it real or an artifact? GAW 15 contribution. Submitted.
 
 
 
 
The research described on this website is supported by grants from NIH and NSF.