Qianqian Zhu

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
United States of America

Academician Molecular Biology
Biography

Dr. Zhu joined the faculty of RPCI in 2012 as Assistant Professor of Oncology at the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She has an interdisciplinary training in biostatistics, bioinformatics, and human genetics, and has accumulated extensive collaboration experience with biologists and clinicians in genetic epidemiology studies utilizing approaches of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and next-generation sequencing (NGS). Dr. Zhu completed her postdoctoral training in statistical genetics at Center for Human Genetic Variation at Duke University from 2010 to 2012. Prior to that, she received her PhD in Bioinformatics and MA in Biostatistics from SUNY at Buffalo (UB).

Research Intrest

Statistical Genetics,Pharmacogenomics

List of Publications
Zhu Q, Ge D, Heinzen EL, Dickson SP, Urban TJ, et al. (2013) Prioritizing genetic variants for causality based on preferential linkage disequilibrium. American Journal of Human Genetics 91: 422-434
Long N, Dickson SP, Maia JM, Kim HS, Zhu Q, et al. (2013) Leveraging prior information to detect causal variants via multi-variant regression. PLoS Computational Biology 9: e1003093
Zhu Q, Cirulli ET, Han Y, Yao S, Liu S, et al. (2015) Systematic assessment of imputation performance using the 1000 Genomes reference panels. Briefings in Bioinformatics 16: 549-562