Publications

  1. Lo SH, Zheng T (2002) Backward Haplotype Transmission Algorithm (BHTA): a Fast Multiple-Marker Screening Method. Human Heredity 53:197-215.
  2. Zheng T (2002) Multiple-marker screening approach towards the mapping of complex traits in human genetics. Columbia University Doctoral Dissertation.
  3. Lo SH, Zheng T (2004) A demonstration and findings of a statistical approach through reanalysis of inflammatory bowel disease data. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:10386-91.[Highlighted in Nature Genetics]
  4. Zheng T, Salganik MJ, Gelman A (2006) How many people do you know in prison?: Using overdispersion in count data to estimate social structure in networks. JASA 101(474): 409-423. [ms file].
  5. Zheng T, Wang H, Lo SH (2006) Backward genotype-trait Association (BGTA) - based dissection of complex traits in case-control design. Human Heredity 62:196-212.
  6. Rzhetsky A, Zheng T, Weinreb C (2006) Self-correcting maps of molecular pathways. PLoS One. 1(1): e61. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000061. (Joint first author.)
  7. Zheng T, Lo SH (2007) Evaluating the repeatability of two studies of a large number of objects: Modified Kendall Rank-Order Association Test. In Advances in Statistical Modeling and Inference--Essays in Honor of Kjell A. Doksum, Vijay Nair (ed), World Scientific. [ms file]
  8. Kerman J, Gelman A, Zheng T, Ding Y (2007) Visualization in Bayesian Data Analysis. In Handbook of Computational Statistics (Volume III) Data Visualization, Chun-houh Chen, Wolfgang Härdle, and Antony Unwin (eds) Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. [Link].
  9. Rosner E, Zheng T (2006) Helpfulness of the genders--a student project. STATS. Forthcoming. (This is a magazine style article on Teaching Statistics)
  10. Zheng T, Ichiba T, Morton BR (2007) Assessing Substitution Variation in Grass Chloroplast DNA. Journal of Molecular Evolution 64(6):605-13.
  11. Rzhetsky A, Wajngurt D, Park N, Zheng T (2007) Probing genetic overlap among complex human phenotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(28):11694–11699 [Open Access Article].
  12. Zheng T, Wang S, Cong L, Ding Y, Ionita-Laza I, Lo SH (2007) Joint study of genetic regulators for Expression Traits Related to Breast Cancer. In "Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: Gene Expression Analysis and Approaches to Detecting Multiple Functional Loci." BMC Proceedings 1 S1:S10. [Open Access Article].
  13. Li Z, Zheng T, Califano A, Floratos A (2007) Pattern-based Mining Strategy for Multi-Locus Association Analysis on GAW15 Problem 2 Chromosome 18 Dataset. In "Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: Gene Expression Analysis and Approaches to Detecting Multiple Functional Loci." BMC Proceedings 1 S1:S16. [Open Access Article].
  14. Wang S, Zheng T, Wang Y (2007) Transcription activity hotspot, is it real or an artifact? In "Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: Gene Expression Analysis and Approaches to Detecting Multiple Functional Loci." BMC Proceedings 1 S1:S94. [Open Access Article].
  15. Ding Y, Cong L, Ionita-Laza I, Lo SH Zheng T (2007) Constructing Gene Association Network for Rheumatoid Arthritis Using the Backward Genotype-Trait Association (BGTA) Algorithm. In "Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: Gene Expression Analysis and Approaches to Detecting Multiple Functional Loci." BMC Proceedings 1 S1:S13.(As correspondence author.) [Open Access Article].
  16. Ding Y, Zheng T (2007) Tree-Based Integration of One-versus-Some (OVS) Classifiers for Multiclass Classification, Proceedings of the joint statistical meeting 2006.
  17. Chen GK, Zheng T, Witte JS, Goode EL (2007) Genome-Wide Association Analyses of Expression Phenotypes. Genetic Epidemiology 31(S1):S7-S11.
  18. Yan X, Zheng T (2007) Discriminant Analysis using Multi-gene Profiles in Molecular Classification of Breast Cancer. Accepted. Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Bionformatics and Computational Biology. (Worldcomp’07 Honorary First Runner-Up for Best Paper Award in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.) [ms file]
  19. Woo JH, Zheng T, Kim JH (2007) Identifying Genomic Regulators of Set-Wise Co-Expression. Proceedings of IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and BioEngineering. (peer-reviewed, acceptance rate ~20%) [link] Under consideration for journal publication by BIBE07 program committee. (Joint first author)
  20. Iossifov I, Zheng T, Baron M, Gilliam TC, Rzhetsky A (2008) Genetic-linkage mapping of complex hereditary disorders to a whole-genome molecular-interaction network. Genome Research 18:1150-1162.
  21. Watkinson J, Wang X, Zheng T, Anastassiou D (2008) Identification of gene-gene interactions associated with disease from gene expression data. BMC System Biology 2:10. [highly accessed]
  22. Watkinson J, Liang KC, Wang X, Zheng T, Anastassiou D (2008) Inference of regulatory gene interactions from expression data using three-way mutual information. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 1158:302-313.
  23. Yan X, Zheng T (2008) Selecting informative genes for discriminant analysis using multigene expression profiles. BMC Genomics, 9(Suppl 2):S14. [Open Access Article].
  24. McCormick TH, Zheng T (2008) Adjusting for recall bias in \how many X's do you know?" surveys, Proceedings of the joint statistical meeting 2007.
  25. Zheng T, Lo SH (2008) Discussion on "Quantifying the Fraction of Missing Information for Hypothesis Testing in Statistical and Genetic Studies by Nicolae, Meng and Kong." Statistical Science 23(3):321-324
  26. Lo SH, Chernoff H, Cong L, Ding Y, Zheng T (2008) Discovering interactions among BRCA1 and other candidate genes involved in Sporadic Breast Cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(34):12387-12392. [Open Access Article].
  27. Chernoff C, Lo SH, Zheng T (2008) Discovering Influential Variables: a Method of Partitions. Revision submitted .
  28. Salicru, M., Vives, S., Zheng, T. (2008) Inferential clustering approach for two-color spotted microarray experiments. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. In press. (As co-correspondence author.)
  29. Zheng T, Gastwirth JL (2008) On Bootstrap Tests of Symmetry About an Unknown Median. Journal of Data Science. Accepted.
  30. McComick TH, Salganik MJ, Zheng T (2008) How many people do you know?: Efficiently estimating personal network size. Journal of the American Statistical Association. Accepted.(Joint first author)
  31. Kim S, Singh P, Park J, Park S, Friedman A, Zheng T, Sun Q, Lee YH and Lee K. (2008) Fungal photoreceptor MGWC-1--mediated disease suppression in rice. Submitted.
  32. Wang S, Zheng T, Chanock S, Jedrychowski W and Perera FP (2008) Methods for detecting interactions between genetic polymorphisms and prenatal environment exposure with a mother-child design. Submitted.
  33. DiPrete TA, McCormick TH, Gelman A, Teitler J, Zheng T (2008) Segregation in social networks based on acquaintanceship and trust. Submitted.

Theses advised:

  1. Hui Wang (2005) "A new approach of detecting influential markers for complex phenotypes with genotype data" Columbia University Doctoral Dissertation.

  2. Xin Yan (2005) "Discriminant analysis using multi-gene profiles in molecular classification of breast cancer" Columbia University Doctoral Dissertation. (there was a unfortunate omission in the advisor attribution on this website.)

  3. Yuejing Ding (2008) "On feature selection and classification in high dimensions"

Unpublished technical reports