Students

Ph.D. students and year of graduation

• Jongwoo Song, 2003
  Dissertation title:  "A clustering algorithm with applications to gene expression data "


• Irina Ostrovnaya, 2006
  Dissertation title:  "Estimating Error Rates for Independent and Dependent Test Statistics"


• Baoguan Ke, 2008
  Dissertation title:  "Statistical Methods for Association Mapping of Quantitative and Binary Trait Loci"


• Minsun Song, 2008
  Dissertation title:  "Restricted parameter space models for testing gene-gene interactions"


• Omar De la Cruz, 2008
  Dissertation title:  "Geometric Approaches in the Analysis of Genetic Data"

Masters students and year of graduation

• Jie Peng, 2007
  Paper title:  "The Feasibility of a Genome-Wide Linkage Study of a Large Asthma Pedigree"


• Stacy Steinberg, 2006
  Paper title:  "Detection of Relationship Errors in Inbred Pedigrees"


• Nathaniel Loman, 2006
  Paper title:  "Detection of Allelic Deletion via Inference of Loss of Heterozygosity in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by use of a Hidden Markov Model"


• Jake Byrnes (jointly mentored with Vanja Dukic), 2005
  Paper title:  "Using a HMM to Identify Ectopic Gene Conversion Events"


• Brinda Bijawat (jointly mentored with Lianne Kurina and Paul J. Rathouz), 2005
  Paper title:  "The Impact of Coronary Heart Disease and Arthritis on Depressive Symptoms - A Longitudinal Study"


• Brooke Sowell, 2005
  Paper title:  "Estimating the Recovery Kinetics of tER Sites"


• Nicholas Chamandy, 2003
  Paper title:  "The Monopoly Sampler: an illustration of convergence assessment techniques for Markov chain Monte Carlo"


• Wen-Hsin Feng, 2003
  Paper title:  "Two-Marker Likelihood based Transmission Disequilibrium Test for Association Studies"


• Hua Tang, 2003
  Paper title:  "A New Amino Acid Distance"


• Irina Ostrovnaya, 2003
  Paper title:  "Improved estimation of the False Discovery Rate with application to genetic association studies"


• Xin Dong (jointly mentored with Nancy J. Cox), 2002
  Paper title:  "Maternal and Parent-of-Origin Effects of Serotonin Transporter Gene (SLC6A4) in Autistic Disorder"


• Ping Zhang, 2001
  Paper title:  "Empirical Data and Simulation Study of Somatic Hypermutation in Immunoglobin Genes"