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  • Genome wide association studies of complex diseases

    M. Chen, J. Cho, H. Zhao (2011) Incorporating biological pathways via a Markov random field model in genome-wide association studies. PLoS Genetics, 7: e1001353.

    L. Hou, M. Chen, C. K. Zhang, J. Cho, H. Zhao (2014) Guilt by Rewiring: Gene prioritization through network rewiring in genome wide association studies. Human Molecular Genetics, 23: 2780-2790.

    D. Chung, C. Yang, C. Li, J. Gelernter, H. Zhao (2014) GPA: A statistical approach to prioritizing GWAS results by integrating pleiotropy and annotation. PLOS Genetics, 10: e1004787.

    J. Jiang, C. Li, D. Paul, C. Yang, H. Zhao (2016) On high-dimensional misspecified mixed model analysis in genome-wide association study. Annals of Statistics, 44: 2127–2160.

    Q. Lu, R. Powles, Q. Wang, J. He, H. Zhao (2016) Integrative tissue-specific functional annotations in the human genome provide novel insights on many complex traits and improve signal prioritization in genome wide association studies. PLOS Genetics, 12: e1005947.

    D. Chung, H. J. Kim, H. Zhao (2017) graph-GPA: A graphical model for prioritizing GWAS results and investigating pleiotropic architecture. PLOS Computational Biology, 13: e1005388.

    Q. Lu, R. L. Powles, S. Abdallah, D. Ou, Q. Wang, Y. Hu, Y. Lu, W. Liu, B. Li, S. Mukherjee, P. K. Crane, H. Zhao (2017) Systematic tissue-specific functional annotation of the human genome highlights immune-related DNA elements for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. PLOS Genetics, 13: e1006933.

    Q. Lu, B. Li, D. Ou, M. Erlendsdottir, R. L. Powles, T. Jiang, Y. Hu, D. Chang, C. Jin, W. Dai, Q. He, Z. Liu, S. Mukherjee, P. K. Crane, H. Zhao (2017) A powerful approach to estimating annotation-stratified genetic covariance using GWAS summary statistics. American Journal of Human Genetics, 101: 939-964.

    Y. Hu, M. Li, Q. Lu, H. Weng, J. Wang, S. M. Zekavat, Z. Yu, B. Li, J. Gu, S. Muchnik, Y. Shi, B. W. Kunkle, S. Mukherjee, P. Natarajan, A. Naj, A. Kuzma, Y. Zhao, P. K. Crane, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, H. Lu, H. Zhao (2019) A statistical framework for cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association analysis. Nature Genetics, 51: 568-576.

  • Genetic risk predictions

    C. Li, C. Yang, J. Gelernter, H. Zhao (2014) Improving genetic risk prediction by leveraging pleiotropy. Human Genetics, 133: 639-650.

    Y. Hu, Q. Lu, R. Powles, X. Yao, C. Yang, F. Fang, X. Xu, H. Zhao (2017) Leveraging functional annotations in genetic risk prediction for human complex diseases. PLOS Computational Biology, 13: e1005589.

    Y. Hu, Q. Lu, W. Liu, Y. Zhang, M. Li, H. Zhao (2017) Joint modeling of genetically correlated diseases and functional annotations increases accuracy of polygenic risk prediction. PLOS Genetics, 13: e1006836.

    S. Song, W. Jiang, L. Hou, H. Zhao (2020) Leveraging effect size distributions to improve polygenic risk scores derived from summary statistics of genome-wide association studies. PLOS Computational Biology, 16: e1007565.

  • Whole exome and whole genome sequencing analysis

    S. Zaidi, M. Choi, H. Wakimoto, L. Ma, J. Jiang, J. D. Overton, A. Romano-Adesman, R. D. Bjornson, R. E. Breitbart, K. K. Brown, N. J. Carriero, Y. H. Cheung, J. Deanfield, S. DePalma, K. A. Fakhro, J. Glessner, H. Hakonarson, M. J. Italia, J. R. Kaltman, J. Kaski, R. Kim, J. K. Kline, T. Lee, J. Leipzig, A. Lopez, S. M. Mane, L. E. Mitchell, J. W. Newburger, M. Parfenov, I. Pe’er, G. Porter, A. E. Roberts, R. Sachidanandam, S. J. Sanders, H. S. Seiden, M. W. State, S. Subramanian, I. R. Tikhonova, W. Wang, D. Warburton, P. S. White, I. A. Williams, H. Zhao, J. G. Seidman, M. Brueckner, W. K. Chung, B. D. Gelb, E. Goldmuntz, C. E. Seidman, R. P. Lifton (2013) De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease. Nature, 498: 220-223.

    S. C. Jin, J. Homsy, S. Zaidi, Q. Lu, S. Morton, S. R. DePalma, X. Zeng, H. Qi, W. Chang, W.-C. Hung, M. C. Sierant, S. Haider, J. Zhang, J. Knight, R. D. Bjornson, C. Castaldi, I. R. Tikhonoa, K. Bilguvar, S. M. Mane, S. J. Sanders, S. Mital, M. Russell, W. Gaynor, J. Deanfield, A. Giardini, G. A. Porter Jr., D. Srivastava, C. W. Lo, Y. Shen, W. S. Watkins, M. Yandell, H. J. Yost, M. Tristani-Firouzi, J. W. Newburger, A. E. Roberts, R. Kim, H. Zhao, J. R. Kaltman, E. Goldmuntz, W. K. Chung, J. G. Seidman, B. D. Gelb, C. E. Seidman2, R. P. Lifton, M. Brueckner (2017)

    Contribution of rare inherited and de novo variants among 2,871 congenital heart disease probands. Nature Genetics, 49: 1593-1601.

  • Cancer genomics

    Y. Zhang, Z. Ouyang, H. Zhao (2017) A statistical framework for data integration through graphical models with application to cancer genomics. Annals of Applied Statistics, 11: 161-184.

    L. Zeng, J. L. Warren, H. Zhao (2019) Phylogeny-based tumor subclone identification using a Bayesian feature allocation model. Annals of Applied Statistics, 13: 1212–1241.

    D. Tang, S. Park, H. Zhao (2019) NITUMID: Nonnegative Matrix Factorization-based Immune-TUmor MIcroenvironment Deconvolution. Bioinformatics, 36: 1344-1350.

    S. Park, H. Xu, H. Zhao (2020) Integrating multidimensional data for clustering analysis with applications to cancer patient data. Journal of American Statistical Association, in press.

  • Neuroscience

    Z. Lin, S. Sanders, M. Li, N. Sestan, M. State, H. Zhao (2015) A Markov random field-based approach to characterizing human brain development using spatial-temporal transcriptome data. Annals of Applied Statistics, 9: 429–451.

    Y. Zhu, A. M. M. Sousa, T. Gao, M. Skarica, M. Li, G. Santpere, P. Esteller-Cucala, D. Juan, L. Ferrández-Peral, F. O. Gulden, M. Yang, D. J. Miller, T. Marques-Bonet, Y. Imamura Kawasawa, H. Zhao, N. Sestan (2018) Spatiotemporal transcriptomic divergence across human and macaque brain development. Science 362(6420).

  • Single cell analysis

    S. Park, H. Zhao (2018) Spectral clustering based on learning similarity matrix. Bioinformatics, 34: 2069-2076.

    Y. Liu, J. Warren, H. Zhao (2019) A hierarchical Bayesian model for single-cell clustering using RNA-sequencing data. Annals of Applied Statistics, Volume 13: 1733-1752.

  • Microbiome analysis

    T. Wang, H. Zhao (2017) Structured subcomposition selection in regression and its application to microbiome data analysis. Annals of Applied Statistics, 11: 771-791.

    T. Wang, H. Zhao (2017) A Dirichlet-tree multinomial regression model for associating dietary nutrients with gut microorganisms. Biometrics, 73: 792-801.

    T. Wang, H. Zhao (2017) Constructing predictive microbial signatures at multiple taxonomic levels. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 112: 1022-1031.

    T. Wang, C. Yang, H. Zhao (2019) Prediction analysis for microbiome sequencing data. Biometrics, 75: 875-884.

  • Network models

    B. Li, H. Chun, H. Zhao (2012) Sparse estimation of conditional graphical models with application to gene networks. Journal of American Statistical Association, 107: 152-167.

    B. Li, H. Chun, H. Zhao (2014) On an additive semi-graphoid model for statistical networks with application to pathway analysis. Journal of American Statistical Association, 109: 1188-1204.

    H. Chun, X. Zhang, H. Zhao (2015) Gene regulation network inference with joint sparse Gaussian graphical models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 24: 954–974.

    Y. Hu, H. Zhao (2016) CCor: a whole genome network-based similarity measure between two genes. Biometrics, 72: 1216-1225.

    Z. Lin, T. Wang, C. Yang, H. Zhao (2017) On joint estimation of Gaussian graphical models for spatial and temporal data. Biometrics, 73: 769-779.

    K. Lee, B. Li, H. Zhao (2016) On an additive partial correlation operator and nonparametric estimation of graphical models. Biometrika, 103: 513-530.

    K-Y Lee, T. Liu, B. Li, H. Zhao (2020) Learning causal networks via additive faithfulness. Journal of Machine Learning Research, in press.

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