Bin Zhu

Tenure-Track Investigator
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Biostatistics Br
National Cancer Institute
United States of America

Scientist Medical Sciences
Biography

Dr. Zhu received a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan in 2010 and then spent two years as a post-doctoral associate at the Department of Statistical Science and the Center for Human Genetics at Duke University. He joined the Biostatistics Branch of DCEG in 2012 as a tenure-track investigator.

Research Intrest

Functional data analysis for time series and longitudinal data, and its applications to oncology, proteomics and epidemiology; Statistical genetics in admixture mapping, copy number variation, recombination hotspot identification, genome-wide association study and next-generation sequencing data; Nonparametric Bayes and Bayesian variable selection for large-scale and high-dimensional complex data

List of Publications
Mirabello L, Khincha PP, Ellis SR, Giri N, Brodie S, Chandrasekharappa SC, Donovan FX, Zhou W, Hicks BD, Boland JF, Yeager M. Novel and known ribosomal causes of Diamond-Blackfan anaemia identified through comprehensive genomic characterisation. Journal of Medical Genetics. 2017 Apr 25:jmedgenet-2016.
Zhang M, Lykke-Andersen S, Zhu B, Xiao W, Hoskins JW, Zhang X, Rost LM, Collins I, van de Bunt M, Jia J, Parikh H. Characterising cis-regulatory variation in the transcriptome of histologically normal and tumour-derived pancreatic tissues. Gut. 2017 Jun 20:gutjnl-2016.
McKay JD, Hung RJ, Han Y, Zong X, Carreras-Torres R, Christiani DC, Caporaso NE, Johansson M, Xiao X, Li Y, Byun J. Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes. Nature genetics. 2017;49(7):1126-32.

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