Dan Liviu Nicolae

Research Interests

My research falls into three areas: the genetics of complex diseases, with an emphasis on inflammatory bowel disease and asthma related phenotypes, statistical genetics, and theoretical statistics. Statistical genetics problems focus on developing statistical methods for complex trait mapping, with a current emphasis on genome-wide association studies. I am interested in likelihood applications to gene mapping, multi-locus models and testing for gene-environment interaction, linkage disequilibrium as a mapping tool, and measures of relative information in genetic studies. I am also interested in functional genomics and the analysis of gene expression data. Mathematical statistics topics I am working on include Bayesian and frequentist ways of measuring the amount of missing data, artificial likelihoods in hypothesis testing, and Monte-Carlo integration.

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Publications

You can find a list of papers using the above link. You can contact me directly if you would like copies of papers that are not published, but are listed as preprints.

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Some of the courses I taught

Stat 220 E - Winter 1998 : Statistical Methods and Their Applications

Stat 343 - Fall 1999 : Applied Linear Statistical Methods

Stat 455 - Winter 2000 : Statistical Methods for Gene-Mapping

Stat 463 - Winter 2000 : Topics in Statistical Inference

Stat 220 - Winter 2001 : Statistical Methods and Their Applications

Stat 34300 - Fall 2001 : Applied Linear Statistical Methods

Stat 220 - Winter 2002 : Statistical Methods and Their Applications

Stat 34300 - Fall 2002 : Applied Linear Statistical Methods

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Personal stuff



nicolae@galton.uchicago.edu