Rui Xiao, PhD
| Office Location | 635, Blockley Hall |
| Office Phone | 215-746-4474 |
| rxiao@mail.med.upenn.edu | |
Faculty Information | |
| CCEB Appointment | Senior Scholar, Biostatistics |
| Primary Faculty Appointment | Assistant Professor of Biostatistics @ HUP, University of Pennsylvania Perelman SOM |
Research Statement
Dr. Xiao's primary research interests are statistical genetics and genomics. She is also interested in collaborative research in pediatrics.
Selected Publications
Xiao R., Boehnke M.: Quantifying and correcting for the winner's curse in quantitative-trait association studies. Genetic Epidemiology, in press.
Fogarty M.P., Xiao R., Prokunina-Olsson L., Scott L.J., Mohlke K.L. : Allelic expression imbalance at high-density lipoprotein cholesterol locus MMAB-MVK. Human Molecular Genetics 19(10): 1921-1929, 2010.
Xiao, R., Boehnke, M.: Quantifying and correcting for the winner's curse in genetic association studies. Genetic Epidemiology 33: 453-462, 2009.
Scott, L.J., Mohlke, K.L., Bonnycastle, L.L., Willer, C.J., Li, Y., Duren, W.L., Erdos, M.R., Stringham, H.M., Chines, P.S., Jackson, A.U., Prokunina-Olsson, L., Ding, C.J., Swift, A.J., Narisu, N., Hu, T., Pruim, R., Xiao, R., Li, X.Y., Conneely, K.N., Riebow, N.L., Sprau, A.G., Tong, M., White, P.P., Hetrick, K.N., Barnhart, M.W., Bark, C.W., Goldstein, J.L., Watkins, L., Xiang, F., Saramies, J., Buchanan, T.A., Watanabe, R.M., Valle, T.T., Kinnunen, L., Abesasis, G.R., Pugh, E.W., Doheny, K.F., Bergman, R.N., Tuomilehto, J., Collins, F.S. and Boehnke, M.: A genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Finn detects multiple susceptibility variants. Science 316: 1341-1345, 2007.
Skol, A.D., Xiao, R., Boehnke, M. and Veteran Affairs Cooperative Study Investigators: An algorithm to construct genetically similar subsets of families with the use of self reported ethnicity information. American Journal of Human Genetics 77: 346-354, 2005.
