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case western reserve university

DEPT. OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
& BIOSTATISTICS

 

Yuqun Luo, Ph.D.


Assistant Professor
Division of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology


Office: Wolstein Research Bldg, Room 1314
Phone: (216) 368-4424
E-mail: yuqun.luo@case.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Biostatistics, The Ohio State of University, 2002


Research Interests
Development, implementation, and application of statistical and computational methods to identify and characterize genetic factors underlying complex diseases and traits. Collaboration on projects studying such factors and their interaction with environmental and life-style factors.


Courses Taught
EPBI 454: Population Genetics in Genetic Epidemiology
EPBI 462: Computational Methods in Genetic Epidemiology


Recent Publications
Sinha R, Igo RP, Saini SK, Elston RC, and Luo YQ (2009) Bayesian intervals for linkage locations. Genetic Epidemiology. In press

Pandey JP, Namboodiri AM, Luo YQ, Wu YP, Elston RC, Thomas DL, Rosen HR, Goedert JJ (2008) Genetic markers of IgG and the outcome of infection with Hepatitis C virus. The journal of Infectious Diseases, 198(9), 1334-1336

Pandey JP, Luo YQ, Elston RC, Wu YP, Philp FH, Astemborski J, Thomas DL, Netski DM (2008) Immunoglobulin allotypes influence IgG antibody responses to Hepatitis C virus envelope proteins E1 and E2. Human Immunology, 69(3), 158-164

Sinha R and Luo YQ (2007) Efficient intermediate fine mapping: Confidence Set Inference with Likelihood Ratio Test statistics. Genetic Epidemiology, 31, 922-936

Licht BG, Lin SL, Luo YQ, Hyson LL, Licht MH, Harper, KM, Sullivan, SA, Fernandez, SA, and Johnston, EV (2007) Clinical characteristics and mode of inheritance of familial focal seizures in Standard Poodles. Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association, 231, 1520-1528

Won S, Sinha R, and Luo YQ (2007) Fine-scale linkage disequilibrium mapping: a comparison of coalescent-based and haplotype-clustering-based methods. BMC Proceedings 2007, 1(Suppl 1), S133

Sinha R and Luo YQ (2007) Two-step intermediate fine mapping with Likelihood Ratio Test statistics: Applications to Problems 2 and 3 datasets of GAW15. BMC Proceedings 2007, 1(Suppl 1), S146



Last Updated: February 9, 2009