RESEARCH INTERESTS

Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, Computational Statistics, Epidemiology, Biomedical Research

APPOINTMENTS

07/2007 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA

09/2005 - 06/2007, Researcher Associate, Section of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

PUBLICATIONS

1. Yu, Z. and Schaid, D. (2008). Testing whether genetic polymorphisms explain correlation of quantitative measures of gene expression, and application to genetic network analysis. Statistics in Medicine. (to appear)

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

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

4. Yu, Z. and Schaid, D. (2007). Application of haplotype sequential scan method to case-control data. BMC Proceedings, S21.

5. Guerra, R. and Yu, Z. (2005). Single nucleotide polymorphisms and their applications, book chapter in Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics, W. Zhang and I. Shmulevich (editors). Second Edition, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

6. Guerra, R., Yu, Z., Marcovina, S., Peshock, R., Cohen, JC, Hobbs, HH. (2005). Lipoprotein(a) and apolipoprotein(a) isoforms: no association with coronary artery calcification in the Dallas Heart Study, Circulation, 111: 1471-1479.

7. Levine, R., Yu, Z., Hanley, W. and Nitao, J. (2005). Implementing the random scan Gibbs sampler, Computational Statistics, 20: 177-196.

8. Levine, R., Yu, Z., Hanley, W. and Nitao, J. (2005). Implementing componentwise Hastings algorithms, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 48: 363-389.

1. Jain, T., Peshock, R., McGuire, DK., Willett, D., Yu, Z., Vega, GL., Guerra, R., Hobbs, HH., Grundy, SM. and the Dallas Heart Study Investigators (2004). African Americans and Caucasians have a similar prevalence of coronary calcium in the Dallas Heart Study, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 44: 1011-1017.

TALKS

1. “An integrated analysis of genetic variants and co-expressed genes.” Colorado State University, CO; University of California, Irvine, CA; Purdue University; Lafayette, IN. 2007

2. “Sequential haplotype analysis.” MDAnderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, January 2007

3. “Genome-wide association analysis using sequential haplotype scan statistics.” International Genetic Epidemiology Society, 15th Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 2006

4. “Reconstruction of haplotype blocks and application to association analysis.” Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, March 2005

5. The impact of marker density, marker select strategy and samples size on the robustness of estimated haplotype blocks.” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 2005

6. “Haplotype blocks and association analysis.” Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 2005

7. “The effect of marker density on haplotype block structure.” International Genetic Epidemiology Society, 14th Annual Meeting, Park City, UT, October 2005

8. “Haplotype block based association mapping.” The joint meeting of the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics (CSPS) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), Beijing, China, July 2005

9. 9“Comparison of single-marker versus haplotype analyses in association studies.” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2005

10. “Statistical methods for haplotype estimation and association Studies.” Joint Statistical Meeting, Toronto, Canada, August 2004

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

1. International Genetic Epidemiology Society, 15th Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 2006

2. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2005

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

· MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS

Genetics, Nature Genetics

· MEMBERSHIPS

American Statistical Association

American Society for Human Genetics

International Genetic Epidemiology Society

Institute of Mathematical Statistics