Lei Sun's Publications


  1. Craiu RV, Sun L (2008). Choosing the lesser evil: trade-off between false discovery rate and non-discovery rate. Statistica Sinica 18:861-879.

  2. Lee SSF, Sun L, Kustra R, Bull SB (2008). EM-random forest and new measures of variable importance for multi-Locus quantitative trait linkage analysis. Bioinformatics 24:1603-1610.

  3. Dorfman R et al. (2008). Complex two-gene modulation of lung disease severity in children with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Clinical Investigation 118:1040-1049.

  4. Al-Kateb H et al. (2008). Multiple SOD1 / SFRS15 variants are associated with the development and progression of diabetic nephropathy: The DCCT/EDIC Genetics study. Diabetes 57:218-228.

  5. Al-Kateb H et al. (2007). Multiple variants in Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) are risk factors for time to severe retinopathy in type 1 diabetes: The DCCT/EDIC genetics study. Diabetes 56:2161-2168.

  6. Huang B, Rangreg J, Paterson AD, Sun L (2007). The multiplicity problem in linkage analysis of gene expression data - the power of differentiating cis- and trans-acting regulators. BMC Proceedings 1:S142. Supplementary material: Figures 1 and 2.

  7. Greenwood C, Rangreg J, Sun L (2007). Optimal selection of markers for validation from genome-wide association studies. Genetic Epidemiology 31:396-407.

  8. Wu LY, Sun L, Bull SB (2006). Locus-specific heritability estimation via the bootstrap in linkage scans for quantitative trait loci. Human Heredity 62:84-96.

  9. Sun L, Craiu RV, Paterson AD and Bull SB (2006). Stratified false discovery control for large-scale hypothesis testing with application to genome-wide association studies. Genetic Epidemiology 30:519-530.

  10. Wu LY, Lee SSF, Shi HS, Sun L, Bull SB (2005). Resampling methods to reduce the selection bias in genetic effect estimation in genome-wide scans. Genetic Analysis Workshop 14: Microsatellite and single-nucleotide polymorphism. BMC Genetics 6:S24.

  11. Biernacka J, Sun L, Bull SB (2005). Tests for the presence of two linked disease susceptibility genes. Genetic Epidemiology 29:389-401.

  12. Sun L, Bull SB (2005). Reduction of selection bias in genomewide genetic studies by resampling. Genetic Epidemiology 28:352-367.

  13. Biernacka J, Sun L, Bull SB (2005). Simultaneous localization of two linked disease susceptibility genes. Genetic Epidemiology 28:33-47.

  14. Paterson A, Sun L, Liu XQ (2003). Transmission ratio distortion in families from the Framingham Heart Study. Genetic Analysis Workshop 13: Analysis of longitudinal family data for complex diseases and related risk factors. BMC Genetics 4:S48.

  15. Strug L, Sun L, Corey M (2003). The Genetics of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal BMI. Genetic Analysis Workshop 13: Analysis of longitudinal family data for complex diseases and related risk factors. BMC Genetics 4:S14.

  16. Sun L, Wilder K, McPeek MS (2002). Enhanced pedigree error detection. Human Heredity 54:99-110.

  17. Sun L, Cox NJ, McPeek MS (2002). A statistical method for identification of polymorphisms that explain a linkage result. American Journal of Human Genetics 70:399-411.

  18. Sun L, Abney M, McPeek MS (2001). Detection of misspecified relationships in inbred and outbred pedigrees. Genetic Analysis Workshop 12: Analysis of complex genetic traits: Applications to asthma and simulated data.

  19. McPeek MS, Sun L (2000). Statistical tests for detection of misspecified relationships by use of genome-screen data. American Journal of Human Genetics 66:1076-1094.