Tianhua Niu, ScD
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Contact information:
Office address:
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-278-0860
FAX: 617-731-3843
E-mail: tniu@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Primary research interests:
Genetic dissection of complex traits; functional genomics; development of novel statistical methodologies; and development of bioinformatics databases
Selected publications:
Hao K, Liu S, Niu T. A sparse marker extension tree algorithm for selecting the best set of haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms. Genet Epidemiol. 2005;29:336-52.
Niu T, Rosen CJ. The insulin-like growth factor-I gene and osteoporosis: a critical appraisal. Gene. 2005 Nov 21;361:38-56.
Wang L, Liu S, Niu T, Xu X. SNPHunter: a bioinformatic software for single nucleotide polymorphism data acquisition and management. BMC Bioinformatics. 2005 Mar 18;6(1):60.
Niu T, Ding AA, Kreutz R, Lindpaintner K. An expectation-maximization-likelihood-ratio test for handling missing data: application in experimental crosses. Genetics. 2005;169:1021-31.
Niu T. Algorithms for inferring haplotypes. Genet Epidemiol. 2004;27:334-47.
Niu T, Qin ZS, Xu X, Liu JS. Bayesian haplotype inference for multiple linked single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Am J Hum Genet. 2002;70:157-69.
Niu T, Chen C, Cordell H, Yang J, Wang B, Wang Z, Fang Z, Schork NJ, Rosen CJ, Xu X. A genome-wide scan for loci linked to forearm bone mineral density. Hum Genet. 1999;104:226-33.
Related links:
Harvard School of Public Health Bioinformatics Core
Harvard Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology
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