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Yuanjia Wang
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Biography:
Dr. Wang's primary research interest is in statistical genetics with a focus on high-dimensional data analysis. With recent advance of technology in the fields of genetics and genomics, high throughput data are routinely generated and pose various challenges to their analyses. Dr. Wang's work involves developing efficient statistical methods and data mining tools to cope with large scale data. Her other research interests include semi-parametric inference and functional data analysis.
Education & Training:
PhD, Columbia University, 2005
BS, University of Science and Technology of China, 2001
Affiliation(s):
University Affiliations:
- New York State Psychiatric Institute
Additional Affiliations:
- Member, American Statistical Association
Honors and Awards:
- Calderone Research Prize for Junior Faculty, 2006
- Diversity Fellowship, 2009
Selected Publications:
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Wang Y, Ottman R, and Rabinowitz D "A Method for Estimating Penetrance from Families Sampled for Linkage Analysis." Biometrics 62 1081-1088 2006
Yip N, Kawut SM, Lederer DJ, Wilt JS, Wang Y, Sternberg D, D'Ovidio F, Sonett JR, Arcasoy SM "Immunoglobulin G Levels Before and After Lung Transplantation." Am J Respir Crit Care Med 173(8) 917-921 2006
Clark LN, Afridi S, Karlins E, Wang Y, Mejia-Santana H, Harris J, Louis ED, Cote LJ, Andrews H, Fahn S, Waters C, Ford B, Frucht S, Ottman R, and Marder K "Case-Control Study of the Parkin Gene in Early Onset PD." Archives of Neurology 63(4) 548-552 2006
Clark LN, Wang Y, Karlins E, Saito L, Mejia-Santana H, Harris J, Louis ED, Cote LJ, Andrews H, Fahn S, Waters C, Ford B, Frucht S, Ottman R, and Marder K "Frequency of LRRK2 Mutations in Early- and Late-onset Parkinson disease." Neurology 67(10) 1786-1791 2006
Yuanjia Wang, Yixin Fang, and Man Jin "A Ridge Penalized Principal-Components Approach Based on Heritability for High-dimensional Data." Human Heredity To appear
Wang Y, Clark LN, Marder K, and Rabinowitz D "Non-parametric Estimation of Genotype-specific Age-at-onset Distributions From Censored Kin-cohort Data." Biometrika To appear
Contact Information
Office/Address:
722 West 168th Street, Rm 205
New York, NY 10032
USA
Website Address:
Phone:
212-543-1311
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212-305-9408
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