Lei Sun's Publications

  1. Paterson A et al. (2009). A genome-wide association study identifies a novel major locus for glycemic control in type 1 diabetes, as measured by both HbA1c and glucose. (Accepted by Diabetes).

  2. Paterson A et al. (2009). Genome-wide association identifies the ABO blood group as a major locus associated with serum levels of soluble E-Selectin. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (Published Online).

  3. Dorfman R et al. (2009). Modifier gene study of Meconium Ileus in Cystic Fibrosis: statistical considerations and gene mapping results. Human Genetics (Published Online).

  4. Yoo YJ, Bull SB, Paterson AD, Waggott D, The DCCT/EDIC Research Group, Sun L (2009). Were genome-wide linkage studies a waste of time? Exploiting candidate regions within genome-wide association studies. Genetic Epidemiology (Early View).

  5. Yoo YJ, Pinnaduwage D, Waggott D, Bull SB, Sun L (2009). Association analyses of genome-wide SNP data of NARAC and FHS utilizing genome-wide linkage results. (Accepted by BMC Proceedings).

  6. Asimit J, Yoo YJ, Waggott D, Sun L, Bull SB (2009). Region-based analysis in GWA of FHS blood lipid phenotypes. (Accepted by BMC Proceedings).

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

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

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

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

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

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

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.