RECENT WORK

For published research papers in 2008 and earlier, please refer to my CV.

2012

Xu J, Yuan A and Zheng G. Bayes factor based on the trend test incorporating Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium: More powerful to detect genetic association. Annals of Human Genetics (to appear).

Wang L, Li Q, Li Z and Zheng G. Bayes factor based on a maximum statistic for case-control genetic association studies. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (to appear).

Zheng G, Wu CO, Yang S, Waclawiw M, DeMets DL and Geller NL. NHLBI clinical trials workshop: An executive summary. Statistics in Medicine (to appear in a special issue).

Zheng G, Wu CO, Kwak M, Jiang W, Joo J and Lima JAC. Joint analysis of binary and quantitative trait with data sharing and outcome-dependent sampling. Genetic Epidemiology. In press.

Xu J, Zheng G and Yuan A. Case-control genome-wide joint association study using semiparametric empirical model and approximate Bayes factor. Journal of Statistical Computation and simulation. In press.

Yuan A, Jeffries N and Zheng G. Maximum likelihood. Encyclopedia of Genetics, 2nd ed. In press.

Yuan A, Xu JF, Yue Q and Zheng G. Detecting case-control expression quantitative trait loci using locally most powerful or maximin robust rank tests. Statistics in Medicine. In press

Zheng G, Xu JF, Yuan A and Gastwirth JL. Single marker association analysis for unrelated samples. In Statistical Human Genetics: Methods and Protocols. Elston RC, Satagopan J and Sun S (eds.). Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 850. Humana Press, Inc. Springer.

Yuan A, Xu J and Zheng G. Root-n estimability of some missing data models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 106: 147-166.

2011

Yan LK, Liu A, Li Z and Zheng G. Optimal two-stage sequential robust design for genetic intervention studies. Statistics and Its Interface 4: 431-441.

Wang L, Li Q, Li Z and Zheng G. Bayes factors in the presence of population stratification. Statistics and Probability Letters 81: 836-841.

Li Q, Zheng G and Tiwari RC. Analysis of ordered categorical data with score averaging: With applications to case-control genetic associations. Journal of Applied Statistics 38: 1833-1843.

Yuan M, Xu JF, Yang YN and Zheng G. A robust test for 2XJ contingency table. Statistics and Its Interface 4: 1-10.

Zheng G, Yuan A and Jeffries N. Hybrid Bayes factors for genome-wide association studies when a robust test is used. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 55: 2698-2711.

Ganesh SK, Joo J, Skelding K, et al. (with Zheng G). Time course analysis of gene expression identifies multiple genes with differential expression in patients with in-stent restenosis. BMC Medical Genomics 4:20.

Jiang R, Dong J, Joo J, Geller NL and Zheng G. Simple strategies for haplotype analysis of the X chromosome with application to age-related macular degeneration. European Journal of Human Genetics 19: 801-806.

2010

Li Q, Zheng G, Liu A, Li Z and Yu K. On probability of correlated events. Science China Series A: Mathematics 53: 2937-2948.

Li Q, Zheng G, Liu A, Xiong S, Li Z and Yu K. The limiting bound of Efron's W-formula for hypothesis testing when a nuisance parameter is present only under the alternative. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 140: 1610-1617.

Zang Y, Fung WK and Zheng G. Simple algorithms to calculate asymptotic null distribution for robust tests in case-control genetic association studies in R. Journal of Statistical Software 33, issue 8.

Zheng G, Li Z, Gail MH and Gastwirth JL: Impact of population substructure on trend tests for genetic case-control association studies. Biometrics 66: 196-204.

Joo J, Kwak M and Zheng G: Improving power for testing genetic association in case-control studies by reducing alternative space. Biometrics 66: 266-276.

Joo J, Kwak M, Chen Z and Zheng G. Efficiency robust statistics for genetic linkage and association studies under genetic model uncertainty. Statistics in Medicine 29: 158-180.

Zang Y, Fung WK and Zheng G. Asymptotic powers for matched trend tests and robust matched trend tests in case-control genetic association studies. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 54: 65-77.

2009

Zheng G, Joo J, Zaykin D, Wu CO and Geller NL. Robust tests in genome-wide scans under incomplete linkage disequilibrium. Statistical Science 24: 503-516.

Zhang H, Li Q, Zang Y, Yang YN and Zheng G: Centralized genomic control: a simple approach correcting for population structures in case-control association studies. Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Life and Health Sciences. Ed. N. Balakrishnan, et al. Wiley: New York.

Jeffries N and Zheng G. Evaluation of an optimal ROC procedure. BMC Proceedings 3(Suppl 7): S56 (Proceedings of Genetic Analysis Workshop 16).

Joo J, Kwak M, Ahn K and Zheng G: A robust genome-wide scan statistic of the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium. Biometrics 65: 1115-1122.

Kwak M, Joo J and Zheng G: A robust test for two-stage design in genomewide association studies. Biometrics 65: 1288-1295.

Ganesh SK, Zakai NA, van Rooij FJA, et al. (with Zheng G). Multiple loci influence erythrocyte phenotypes in the CHARGE Consortium. Nature Genetics 41:1191-1198.

Yuan M, Yang YN and Zheng G: Two-stage genome-wide association studies with DNA pooling and genetic model selection. Statistica Sinica 19: 1769-1786.

Hui TP, Modarres R and Zheng G. Pseudo-maximum likelihood estimates using ranked set samples with applications to estimating correlation. Test: Journal of Spanish Statistical Society 18: 365-380.

Yuan M, Tian X, Zheng G and Yang YN. Adaptive transmission disequilibrium test for family trio design. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology Vol. 8 : Iss. 1, Article 30. DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1451.

Zheng G, Joo J, Tian X, Wu CO, Lin JP, Stylianou M, Waclawiw MA, and Geller NL. Robust genome-wide scans with genetic model selection using case-control design. Statistics and Its Interface (Festschrift for Prof. Joseph Gastwirth) 2:145-151.

Zheng G, Balakrishnan N and Park S. Fisher information in ordered data: A review. Statistics and Its Interface 2:101-113.

Zheng G, Joo J and Yang YN. Pearson's test, trend test and MAX are all trend tests with different types of scores. Annals of Human Genetics 73:133-140.

Li Q, Zheng G, Liang X and Yu K. Power of the robust single-marker tests for case-control association studies. Annals of Human Genetics 73:245-252.

Li Z, Zhang H, Zheng G, Gastwirth JL and Gail MH. Excess false positive rate caused by population stratification and disease rate heterogeneity in case-control association studies. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 53:1767-1781.

Zang Y, Fung WK and Zheng G. Tail strength to combine two p-values: Their correlation cannot be ignored. American Journal of Human Genetics 84:291-295.

Lin J-P, Schwaiger JP, Cupples LA, O'Donnell CJ, Zheng G, Schoenborn V, Hunt SC, Joo J and Kronenberg F. Conditional linkage and genome-wide association studies identify UGT1A1 as major gene for anti-atherogenic serum bilirubin levels - a Framingham Heart Study. Atherosclerosis 206: 228-233.