Research

Research Interest

  • Non-parametric tests

  • Categorical data analysis

  • High-dimensional inference

Application area: genomic data (especially sequencing data) and image data.

Publications and Preprints

  • Fan R and Lo SH (2013). A robust model-free approach for rare variants association studies incorporating gene-gene and gene-environmental interactions. PLOS ONE 8(12):e83057 [online]

  • Fan R, Huang CH, Hu I, Wang H, Zheng T, Lo SH (2013). A partition-based approach to identify gene-environment interactions in genome-wide association studies. BMC Proc. [to appear]

  • Fan R, Huang CH, Lo SH, Zheng T, Ionita-Laza I (2011). Identifying rare disease varints in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 simulated data: a comparison of several statistical approaches. BMC Proc. 5(S9):S17 [online]

Presentations

  • “A Novel Statistical Approach for Rare Variants Association Analysis Incorporating Both Marginal and Interaction Effects.” Columbia Minghui Yu Memorial Conference, New York, NY 2013

  • “Gene-Environment Interactions.” Genetic Analysis Workshop 18, Stevenson WA, October 2012

  • “A Partition-based Approach to Identify the Effect of Gene-Environmental Interactions.” Genetic Analysis Workshop 18, Stevenson WA, October 2012

  • “On Identifying Rare Disease Variants in the GAW17 Simulated Data.” Genetic Analysis Workshop 17, Boston, MA, October 2011