Min Zhang

Active Mentor - currently hosting PULSe students for laboratory rotations and recruiting PULSe students into the laboratory; serves on preliminary exam committees

Current Research Interests:

My research interest is to develop new statistical approaches for high dimensional data involved in biological research. Currently I am focusing on developing methods for genome-wide association study and quantitative trait loci mapping.

Selected Publications:

Zhang M, Zhang D, and Wells MT. (2009). Generalized thresholding estimators for high-dimensional location parameters. Statistica Sinica, to appear.

Zhang M, Lin Y, Wang L, Pungpapong V, Fleet JC, and Zhang D. (2009). Case-control genome-wide association studies of rheumatoid arthritis from GAW16 using POCRE-LDA. BMC Proceedings, to appear.

Lin Y, Zhang M, Wang L, Pungpapong V, Fleet JC, and Zhang D. (2009). Simultaneous genome-wide association studies of anti-CCP in rheumatoid arthritis using penalized orthogonal-components regression. BMC Proceedings, to appear.

Jedicka SS, Dadarlat M, Hassell T, Lin Y, Zhang M, Irazoqui P, Rickus J. (2009). Calibration of neurotransmitter release from neural cells for therapeutic implants. International Journal of Neural Systems, to appear.

Zhang D, Lin Y, and Zhang M. (2009). Penalized orthogonal-components regression for large p small n data. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 3: 781-796.

Zeng L, Salvendy G, and Zhang M. (2009). Factor structure of web site creativity. Computers in Human Behavior, 25: 568-577.

Mechref Y, Hussein A., Bekesova S, Punpapong V, Zhang M, Dobrolecki LE, Hickey RJ, Hammoud ZT, Novotny MV. (2009). Quantitative serum glycomics of esophageal adenocarcinoma and other esophageal disease onsets. Journal of Proteome Research, 8: 2656-2666.

Zhang M, Zhang D, and Wells MT. (2008). Variable selection with large p small n regression models: mapping QTL with epistasis. BMC Bioinformatics, 9:251.

Zhang D, Huang X, Regnier F, and Zhang M. (2008). Two-dimensional correlation optimized warping algorithm for aligning GC´GC-MS data. Analytical Chemistry, 80(8): 2664-2671.

Zhang D, and Zhang M. (2007). Bayesian profiling of molecular signatures to predict event times. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 4:3.

Zhang, M, Strawderman, R., Cowen, M., and Wells, M.T. (2006). Bayesian Inference for a two-part hierarchical model: an application to profiling providers in managed health care. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101: 934-945.

Zhang D, Zhang M, and Wells MT. (2006). Multiplicative background correction for spotted microarrays to improve reproducibility. Genetical Research, 87: 195-206.

Zhang M, Montooth KL, Wells MT, Clark AG, and Zhang D. (2005). Mapping multiple quantitative trait loci by Bayesian classification. Genetics, 169: 2305-2318.