Chun Li

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Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi GWAsimulator: a rapid whole-genome simulation program
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Bioinformatics 24:140-2. 2008
  2. ncbi Link-based quantitative methods to identify differentially coexpressed genes and gene pairs
    Hui Yu
    Bioinformatics Center, Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yueyang Road, Shanghai 200031, P R China
    BMC Bioinformatics 12:315. 2011
  3. ncbi Evaluating cost efficiency of SNP chips in genome-wide association studies
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Genet Epidemiol 32:387-95. 2008
  4. ncbi Prioritized subset analysis: improving power in genome-wide association studies
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Hum Hered 65:129-41. 2008
  5. ncbi Assessing whether an allele can account in part for a linkage signal: the Genotype-IBD Sharing Test (GIST)
    Chun Li
    Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232 0700, USA
    Am J Hum Genet 74:418-31. 2004
  6. ncbi Haplotype association analysis for late onset diseases using nuclear family data
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 0700, USA
    Genet Epidemiol 30:220-30. 2006
  7. ncbi Genetic and clinical predictors for breast cancer risk assessment and stratification among Chinese women
    Wei Zheng
    Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203 1738, USA
    J Natl Cancer Inst 102:972-81. 2010
  8. ncbi GRK5 Gln41Leu polymorphism is not associated with sensitivity to beta(1)-adrenergic blockade in humans
    Daniel Kurnik
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
    Pharmacogenomics 10:1581-7. 2009
  9. ncbi Genetic polymorphisms in the MMP-7 gene and breast cancer survival
    Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203 1738, USA
    Int J Cancer 124:208-14. 2009
  10. ncbi Genetic variations in the ?(2A)-adrenoreceptor are associated with blood pressure response to the agonist dexmedetomidine
    Daniel Kurnik
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Circ Cardiovasc Genet 4:179-87. 2011

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Publications68

  1. ncbi GWAsimulator: a rapid whole-genome simulation program
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Bioinformatics 24:140-2. 2008
    ..AVAILABILITY: The C++ source code, executables for Linux, Windows and MacOS, manual, example data sets and analysis program are available at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/GWAsimulator..
  2. ncbi Link-based quantitative methods to identify differentially coexpressed genes and gene pairs
    Hui Yu
    Bioinformatics Center, Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yueyang Road, Shanghai 200031, P R China
    BMC Bioinformatics 12:315. 2011
    ..Especially, the correlation-reversal is easily missed although it probably indicates remarkable biological significance...
  3. ncbi Evaluating cost efficiency of SNP chips in genome-wide association studies
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Genet Epidemiol 32:387-95. 2008
    ..We illustrate these approaches using five currently available whole genome SNP chips...
  4. ncbi Prioritized subset analysis: improving power in genome-wide association studies
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Hum Hered 65:129-41. 2008
    ..Traditional approaches for assessing the overall statistical significance of GWAS results ignore such information by inherently treating all markers equally...
  5. ncbi Assessing whether an allele can account in part for a linkage signal: the Genotype-IBD Sharing Test (GIST)
    Chun Li
    Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232 0700, USA
    Am J Hum Genet 74:418-31. 2004
    ..This makes our method a new tool for detecting linkage as well as association, especially in regions harboring a candidate gene. We have implemented these methods in the software package GIST (Genotype-IBD Sharing Test)...
  6. ncbi Haplotype association analysis for late onset diseases using nuclear family data
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 0700, USA
    Genet Epidemiol 30:220-30. 2006
    ..We describe likelihood ratio and permutation tests to test for disease-haplotype association, and describe three test statistics that are potentially useful for detecting such an association...
  7. ncbi Genetic and clinical predictors for breast cancer risk assessment and stratification among Chinese women
    Wei Zheng
    Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203 1738, USA
    J Natl Cancer Inst 102:972-81. 2010
    ..No risk assessment model that incorporates both genetic and clinical predictors is currently available to predict breast cancer risk in this population...
  8. ncbi GRK5 Gln41Leu polymorphism is not associated with sensitivity to beta(1)-adrenergic blockade in humans
    Daniel Kurnik
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
    Pharmacogenomics 10:1581-7. 2009
    ..We hypothesized that the GRK5 Gln41Leu variant contributes to interindividual variability in response to beta-blockade and to the ethnic difference in sensitivity between black and Caucasian individuals...
  9. ncbi Genetic polymorphisms in the MMP-7 gene and breast cancer survival
    Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203 1738, USA
    Int J Cancer 124:208-14. 2009
    ..9) and TT (OS HR: 0.3, 95% CI: 0.1-0.8) fared better than patients with AA (p-value for trend: 0.001). Thus, common MMP-7 genetic polymorphisms were found to be significant determinants of survival among Chinese women with breast cancer...
  10. ncbi Genetic variations in the ?(2A)-adrenoreceptor are associated with blood pressure response to the agonist dexmedetomidine
    Daniel Kurnik
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Circ Cardiovasc Genet 4:179-87. 2011
    ..We examined whether ADRA2A variants are also associated with cardiovascular responses to the selective ?(2)-AR-agonist dexmedetomidine...
  11. ncbi A prevalence-based association test for case-control studies
    Kelli K Ryckman
    Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
    Genet Epidemiol 32:600-5. 2008
    ..Therefore, we propose PRAT as a powerful alternative method of testing for association...
  12. ncbi Relative contribution of CYP2C9 and VKORC1 genotypes and early INR response to the prediction of warfarin sensitivity during initiation of therapy
    Chun Li
    Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
    Blood 113:3925-30. 2009
    ..08) and VKORC1 (P = .30) were not associated with stable warfarin dose. Thus, much of the information provided by CYP2C9 and VKORC1 genotypes during warfarin initiation is captured by the early INR response...
  13. ncbi Common MMP-7 polymorphisms and breast cancer susceptibility: a multistage study of association and functionality
    Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 1738, USA
    Cancer Res 68:6453-9. 2008
    ..Results from our study suggest that common MMP-7 genetic polymorphisms may contribute to breast cancer susceptibility...
  14. ncbi Allelic heterogeneity at the serotonin transporter locus (SLC6A4) confers susceptibility to autism and rigid-compulsive behaviors
    James S Sutcliffe
    Center for Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232 0615, USA
    Am J Hum Genet 77:265-79. 2005
    ..In the aggregate, these variants show significant linkage to and association with autism. Our data provide strong support for a collection of multiple, often rare, alleles at SLC6A4 as imposing risk of autism...
  15. ncbi Beta-1-adrenoceptor genetic variants and ethnicity independently affect response to beta-blockade
    Daniel Kurnik
    Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 6602, USA
    Pharmacogenet Genomics 18:895-902. 2008
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine whether ethnic differences in response to beta-blockade can be explained by differing distributions of functional genetic variants in the beta1-AR...
  16. ncbi Genome-wide association study identifies breast cancer risk variant at 10q21.2: results from the Asia Breast Cancer Consortium
    Qiuyin Cai
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203 1738, USA
    Hum Mol Genet 20:4991-9. 2011
    ..In vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrated the potential functional significance of rs10822013. Our results strongly implicate rs10822013 at 10q21.2 as a genetic risk variant for breast cancer among East-Asian women...
  17. ncbi Genetic variation in the presynaptic norepinephrine transporter is associated with blood pressure responses to exercise in healthy humans
    Utkarsh Kohli
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Pharmacogenet Genomics 21:171-8. 2011
    ..NET-deficient transgenic mice have elevated blood pressure (BP), heart rate, and catecholamine concentrations. However, the in-vivo effects of common NET variants on cardiovascular regulation at rest and during exercise are unknown...
  18. ncbi Evaluation of breast cancer susceptibility loci in Chinese women
    Jirong Long
    Division of Epidemiology, Department ofMedicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN 37203 1738, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:2357-65. 2010
    ..Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS), mostly conducted among women of European ancestry, have identified 16 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) associated with breast cancer...
  19. ncbi Haplotype analyses of CYP19A1 gene variants and breast cancer risk: results from the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study
    Qiuyin Cai
    Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, B 2104 Medical Center North, 1161 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232 2400, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:27-32. 2008
    ..Further studies are needed to explore CYP19A1 gene-environment interactions in relation to breast cancer risk...
  20. ncbi Identification of a functional genetic variant at 16q12.1 for breast cancer risk: results from the Asia Breast Cancer Consortium
    Jirong Long
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
    PLoS Genet 6:e1001002. 2010
    ..1 and demonstrate the utility of conducting genetic association studies in populations with different genetic architectures...
  21. ncbi Replication and functional genomic analyses of the breast cancer susceptibility locus at 6q25.1 generalize its importance in women of chinese, Japanese, and European ancestry
    Qiuyin Cai
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Cancer Res 71:1344-55. 2011
    ..This association may be explained in part by a putatively functional variant (rs6913578) identified in the region...
  22. ncbi Genome-wide association study identifies a new breast cancer susceptibility locus at 6q25.1
    Wei Zheng
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
    Nat Genet 41:324-8. 2009
    ..01). These results strongly implicate 6q25.1 as a susceptibility locus for breast cancer...
  23. ncbi Evaluation of 11 breast cancer susceptibility loci in African-American women
    Wei Zheng
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN 37203 1738, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2761-4. 2009
    ..The results from this study extend some of the recent GWAS findings to African-Americans and may guide future efforts to identify the causal variants for breast cancer...
  24. ncbi Enriching targeted sequencing experiments for rare disease alleles
    Todd L Edwards
    Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
    Bioinformatics 27:2112-8. 2011
    ..SampleSeq also can be used to calculate the sample size needed for the resequencing to increase the chance of successful capture of rare alleles of desired frequencies. SOFTWARE: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SampleSeq..
  25. ncbi Catecholamine pathway gene variation is associated with norepinephrine and epinephrine concentrations at rest and after exercise
    Laxmi V Ghimire
    Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Pharmacogenet Genomics 22:254-60. 2012
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  26. ncbi Novel genetic markers of breast cancer survival identified by a genome-wide association study
    Xiao Ou Shu
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
    Cancer Res 72:1182-9. 2012
    ..39 × 10(-7)). Similar associations were observed for these two SNPs with breast cancer-specific mortality. This study provides strong evidence suggesting that the RAD51L1 gene and a chromosome 16 locus influence breast cancer prognosis...
  27. ncbi Longitudinal follow-up of hypermetropic children identified during preschool vision screening
    Jeffrey D Colburn
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
    J AAPOS 14:211-5. 2010
    ..Early childhood hypermetropia is an important risk factor for the development of amblyopia and esotropia. Understanding the natural history of these complications aids in management decisions...
  28. ncbi Genetic evidence implicating multiple genes in the MET receptor tyrosine kinase pathway in autism spectrum disorder
    Daniel B Campbell
    Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
    Autism Res 1:159-68. 2008
    ..These data further support our hypothesis that genetic susceptibility impacting multiple components of the MET signaling pathway contributes to ASD risk...
  29. ncbi Joint modeling of linkage and association: identifying SNPs responsible for a linkage signal
    Mingyao Li
    Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
    Am J Hum Genet 76:934-49. 2005
    ..Our method provides a new tool for detecting linkage and association and can be extended to study designs that include unaffected family members...
  30. ncbi Genome-wide association study in east Asians identifies novel susceptibility loci for breast cancer
    Jirong Long
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
    PLoS Genet 8:e1002532. 2012
    ..This study provides strong evidence for a novel breast cancer susceptibility locus represented by rs9485372, near the TAB2 gene (6q25.1), and identifies two possible susceptibility loci located in the ESR1 gene and 11q24.3, respectively...
  31. ncbi Variations in the alpha2A-adrenergic receptor gene and their functional effects
    Daniel Kurnik
    Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232 6606, USA
    Clin Pharmacol Ther 79:173-85. 2006
    ..The objectives of this study were to systematically search for variants in the ADRA2A gene, to define the gene's haplotype structure, and to examine potential functional effects of these variants...
  32. ncbi Effects of environment, genetics and data analysis pitfalls in an esophageal cancer genome-wide association study
    Alexander Statnikov
    Discovery Systems Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    PLoS ONE 2:e958. 2007
    ..Several recent genome-wide association studies employing these technologies suggest that panels of SNPs can be a useful tool for predicting cancer susceptibility and discovery of potentially important new disease loci...
  33. ncbi Genetic determinants of response to warfarin during initial anticoagulation
    Ute I Schwarz
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA
    N Engl J Med 358:999-1008. 2008
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  34. ncbi Morphometric changes in the rat optic nerve following short-term intermittent elevations in intraocular pressure
    Karen M Joos
    Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
    Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 51:6431-40. 2010
    ..This study developed a rat model to evaluate the effect of intermittent controlled elevations in IOP on the morphology of the rat optic nerve...
  35. ncbi First-time failure rates of candidates for board certification: an educational outcome measure
    Denis M O'Day
    Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Arch Ophthalmol 126:548-53. 2008
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  36. ncbi The failure rate of candidates for board certification: an educational outcome measure
    Chun Li
    Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 104:129-42. 2006
    ..Although the eventual certification rate was high, graduates from a substantial minority of programs appeared inadequately prepared to sit the Board's examinations...
  37. ncbi The age-dependent effect of anisometropia magnitude on anisometropic amblyopia severity
    Alejandro Leon
    Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 8808, USA
    J AAPOS 12:150-6. 2008
    ..We analyzed results from anisometropic patients identified with photoscreening to eliminate this selection bias...
  38. ncbi Genetic polymorphisms in the IGFBP3 gene: association with breast cancer risk and blood IGFBP-3 protein levels among Chinese women
    Zefang Ren
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1290-5. 2004
    ..05). These results indicated that IGFBP3 polymorphisms may be associated with the level of blood IGFBP-3 protein and an increased risk of breast cancer...
  39. ncbi Meta-analysis identifies common variants associated with body mass index in east Asians
    Wanqing Wen
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Nat Genet 44:307-11. 2012
    ..0 × 10(-7). Findings from this study may shed light on new pathways involved in obesity and demonstrate the value of conducting genetic studies in non-European populations...
  40. ncbi Genome-wide and Ordered-Subset linkage analyses provide support for autism loci on 17q and 19p with evidence of phenotypic and interlocus genetic correlates
    Jacob L McCauley
    Center for Human Genetics Research, Department of Molecular Physiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
    BMC Med Genet 6:1. 2005
    ..Twin and family studies point to a significant genetic etiology, and several groups have performed genomic linkage screens to identify susceptibility loci...
  41. ncbi Racial disparity in amniotic fluid concentrations of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and soluble TNF receptors in spontaneous preterm birth
    Ramkumar Menon
    Perinatal Research Center, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
    Am J Obstet Gynecol 198:533.e1-10. 2008
    ..The objective of this study is to examine the inflammatory cytokine, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and soluble TNF receptor concentrations (sTNFR1 and sTNFR2) in the amniotic fluid of black and white women at delivery...
  42. ncbi Plasma biomarkers of oxidative stress and genetic variants in age-related macular degeneration
    Milam A Brantley
    Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 8808, USA
    Am J Ophthalmol 153:460-467.e1. 2012
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  43. ncbi Strategy for encoding and comparison of gene expression signatures
    Yajun Yi
    Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 0275, USA
    Genome Biol 8:R133. 2007
    ..This novel approach to performing global comparisons of shared microarray data may have enormous value when coupled directly with a shared data repository...
  44. ncbi Detecting gene-gene interaction in linkage analysis
    Chun Li
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Curr Protoc Hum Genet . 2005
    ..Three methods of interaction analysis are also reviewed: conditional linkage analysis, ordered subset analysis, and generalized estimating equations...
  45. ncbi Use of cox-2 inhibitors in patients with retinal venous occlusive disease
    Franco M Recchia
    Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Retina 28:134-7. 2008
    ..To determine the prevalence of prior or current usage of COX-2 inhibitors among patients with retinal venous occlusion (RVO)...
  46. ncbi CFH haplotypes without the Y402H coding variant show strong association with susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration
    Mingyao Li
    Department of Biostatistics, 1420 Washington Heights, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
    Nat Genet 38:1049-54. 2006
    ..Our results suggest that there are multiple disease susceptibility alleles in the region and that noncoding CFH variants play a role in disease susceptibility...
  47. ncbi Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids
    Tanya M Teslovich
    Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
    Nature 466:707-13. 2010
    ..Taken together, our findings provide the foundation to develop a broader biological understanding of lipoprotein metabolism and to identify new therapeutic opportunities for the prevention of CAD...
  48. ncbi Evaluation of coverage variation of SNP chips for genome-wide association studies
    Mingyao Li
    Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Eur J Hum Genet 16:635-43. 2008
    ..These evaluations can reveal the degree of variation of each SNP chip in covering the genome and can facilitate SNP chip comparisons at a finer scale...
  49. ncbi Genetic association analysis using data from triads and unrelated subjects
    Michael P Epstein
    Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    Am J Hum Genet 76:592-608. 2005
    ..Our approach also allows for flexible modeling and estimation of allele effects, as well as for missing parental data. We illustrate the usefulness of our approach using SNP data from a candidate-gene study of psoriasis...
  50. ncbi Genetic variation near the hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 alpha gene predicts susceptibility to type 2 diabetes
    Kaisa Silander
    Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Diabetes 53:1141-9. 2004
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  51. ncbi Generation of two distinct functional isoforms of dosage-sensitive sex reversal-adrenal hypoplasia congenita-critical region on the X chromosome gene 1 (DAX-1) by alternative splicing
    Anwar Hossain
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030 4009, USA
    Mol Endocrinol 18:1428-37. 2004
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  52. ncbi A large set of Finnish affected sibling pair families with type 2 diabetes suggests susceptibility loci on chromosomes 6, 11, and 14
    Kaisa Silander
    Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Diabetes 53:821-9. 2004
    ....
  53. ncbi A statistical reappraisal of the findings of an esophageal cancer genome-wide association study
    Alexander Statnikov
    Cancer Res 68:3074-5; author reply 3075. 2008
  54. ncbi TNF gene polymorphisms and Helicobacter Pylori infection in gastric carcinogenesis in Chinese population
    Chun Li
    Department of Internal Medicine, Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital, Donghu Road 169, Wuhan 430 071, People s Republic of China
    Am J Gastroenterol 100:290-4. 2005
    ..pylori-induced gastric inflammation. The present study aimed to determine the di-allelic polymorphisms of TNF gene and their association with H. pylori infection and gastroduodenal diseases in Chinese population of Han nationality...
  55. ncbi Near-infrared fluorescence optical imaging and tomography
    Michael Gurfinkel
    Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843-3122, USA
    Dis Markers 19:107-21. 2003
    ..Finally, a critical evaluation of the limitations and the opportunities for future translation of fluorescence-enhanced optical imaging of deep tissues is presented...
  56. ncbi A Triassic aquatic protorosaur with an extremely long neck
    Chun Li
    Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Post Office Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
    Science 305:1931. 2004
    ..This taxon represents unambiguous evidence for a fully aquatic protorosaur. Its extremely elongated neck is explained as an adaptation for aquatic life, perhaps for an increase in feeding efficiency...
  57. ncbi Imaging taxane-induced tumor apoptosis using PEGylated, 111In-labeled annexin V
    Shi Ke
    Division of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    J Nucl Med 45:108-15. 2004
    ..111)In-Labeled, PEGylated annexin V may be used to assess tumor response to chemotherapy...
  58. ncbi New invariant of DNA sequences
    Chun Li
    Department of Mathematics, Bohai University, Jinzhou 121000, PR China
    J Chem Inf Model 45:115-20. 2005
    ..The utility of the new parameter is illustrated on the DNA sequences of five species: human, chimpanzee, mouse, rat, and gallus...
  59. ncbi A structured kinetic model for suspension cultures of Taxus chinensis var. mairei induced by an oligosaccharide from Fusarium oxysporum
    Chun Li
    Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, P.R. China
    Biotechnol Lett 25:1335-43. 2003
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  60. ncbi Recognition of protein coding genes in the yeast genome based on the relative-entropy of DNA
    Chun Li
    Department of Mathematics, Bohai University, Jinzhou 121000, P R China
    Comb Chem High Throughput Screen 9:49-54. 2006
    ..It is found that the number of protein coding genes in the 16 yeast chromosomes is less than or equal to 5,873, significantly coincident with the widely accepted range 5,800-6,000...
  61. ncbi An unusual archosaurian from the marine Triassic of China
    Chun Li
    Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 643, Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China
    Naturwissenschaften 93:200-6. 2006
    ..Its mosaic anatomy represents a previously unknown ecomorph within primitive archosaurians...
  62. ncbi Comparison between two classes of selective EP(3) antagonists and their biological activities
    Michel Belley
    Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research, PO Box 1005, Pointe Claire Dorval, Que, Canada H9R 4P8
    Bioorg Med Chem Lett 16:5639-42. 2006
    ..Some of those compounds, including hybrids containing the best structural features of both series, possess K(i) as low as 0.6 nM on the EP(3) receptor...
  63. ncbi Similarity of RNA secondary structures
    Chun Li
    Department of Mathematics, Bohai University, Jinzhou 121000, People s Republic of China
    J Comput Chem 28:508-12. 2007
    ..The examination of similarities/dissimilarities of a set of RNA secondary structures at the 3'-terminus of different viruses illustrates the utility of the approach...
  64. ncbi Association between interleukin-1 gene polymorphisms and Helicobacter pylori infection in gastric carcinogenesis in a Chinese population
    Chun Li
    Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan, China
    J Gastroenterol Hepatol 22:234-9. 2007
    ..pylori-induced gastric inflammation. The present study aimed to determine polymorphisms of IL-1B and IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RN) genes and their association with H. pylori infection and gastroduodenal diseases in Chinese patients...
  65. ncbi A naturally logical representation for DNA primary sequences
    Chun Li
    Department of Mathematics, Bohai University, Jinzhou, PR China
    Comb Chem High Throughput Screen 10:277-81. 2007
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  66. ncbi Targeting phosphatidylserine on apoptotic cells with phages and peptides selected from a bacteriophage display library
    Ruping Shao
    Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imageing, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Mol Imaging 6:417-26. 2007
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  67. ncbi 2-D graphical representation of protein sequences and its application to coronavirus phylogeny
    Chun Li
    Department of Mathematics, Bohai University, Jinzhou, PR China
    BMB Rep 41:217-22. 2008
    ..As an application, we construct the phylogenetic tree of 56 coronavirus spike proteins. The resulting tree agrees well with the established taxonomic groups...
  68. ncbi Near-infrared optical imaging of epidermal growth factor receptor in breast cancer xenografts
    Shi Ke
    Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Cancer Res 63:7870-5. 2003
    ..In MDA-MB-468 tumors, our data suggest that EGF-Cy5.5 may be used as a specific NIR contrast agent for noninvasive imaging of EGFr expression and monitoring of responses to molecularly targeted therapy...

Research Grants3

  1. Developing Statistical Methods for Disease Gene Discovery
    Mingyao Li; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..This application proposes developing new statistical methodologies that address a set of unresolved issues. ..