Zhaoxia Yu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor


Department of Statistics
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-1250

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Research Interests

Genetic association analysis, multi-locus analysis, gene-gene interactions, genotype calling and uncertainties, family-based association tests

 

Current Teaching

STAT200B: Intermediate Probability and Statistical Theory (II)

STAT257: Introduction to Statistical Genetics

 

Selected peer-reviewed articles

(a complete list can be found here)

o   Yu Z, Gillen D, Li CF, Demetriou M. (2013) Incorporating parental information into family-based association tests. Biostatistics (doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxs048) supplementary material

o   Yu Z (2012). Family-based association tests using genotype data with uncertainty. Biostatistics, 13:228-240.

o   Shahbaba B, Shachaf CM, Yu Z. (2012) A pathway analysis method for genome-wide association studies. Statistics in Medicine, 31:988-1000.

o   Yu Z, Deng L. (2011) Pseudosibship methods in the case-parents design. Statistics in Medicine, 30:3236-3251.

o   Yu Z, Wang S (2011). Contrasting linkage-disequilibrium as a multi-locus family-based association test. Genetic Epidemiology, 35:487-498.

o   Yu Z (2011). Testing gene-gene interactions in the case-parents design. Human Heredity, 71:171-179.

o   Weng L, Macciardi F, Subramanian A, Guffanti G, Potkin SG, Yu Z, Xie X. (2011) SNP-based pathway enrichment analysis for genome-wide association studies. BMC Bioinformatics, 12:99.

o   Browning B, Yu Z. (2009). Simultaneous genotype calling and haplotype phasing improves genotype accuracy and reduces false positive associations for genome-wide association studies. American Journal of Human Genetics, 85:847-861.

o   Yu Z, Garner C, Ziogas A, Anton-Culver H, Schaid D. (2009). Genotype determination for polymorphisms in linkage disequilibrium. BMC Bioinformatics, 10:63.

o   Yu Z, Wang L, Hildebrandt MAT, Schaid D. (2008). Testing whether genetic variation explains correlation of quantitative measures of gene expression, and application to genetic network analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 27:3847 - 3867.

o   Yu Z, Schaid D. (2007). Methods to impute missing genotypes for population data. Human Genetics, 122:495-504.

o   Yu Z, Schaid D. (2007). Sequential haplotype scan methods for association analysis. Genetic Epidemiology, 31: 553-564.

 

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