Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

* xingjie666@hust.edu.cn

Academic Areas

Bioinformatics, statistical genomics, complex traits study

Research Interests

Fine-mapping the susceptibility loci of the complex traits, such as IgAN, CAD.

Causal inference by integrative study.

Development of methods and software for statistical genomics

Courses Taught

Medical statistics

Education

2012-2018         Ph.D., Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

2008-2012        B.S., Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Professional/working Experience

2018-present    Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Select Publications

Journal Article

1.       Hao, X., Zeng, P., Zhang, S., Zhou, X*., (2018). Identifying and exploiting trait-relevant tissues with multiple functional annotations in genome-wide association studies, PLoS genetics, 14(1):e1007186.

2.      Hao, X., Plastow, G., Zhang, C., Xu, S., Hu, Z., Yang, T., ... & Wang, Z*. (2017). Genome-wide association study identifies candidate genes for piglet splay leg syndrome in different populations. BMC genetics, 18(1), 64.

3.   Zeng, P., Hao, X., & Zhou, X. (2018). Pleiotropic Mapping and Annotation Selection in Genome-wide Association Studies with Penalized Gaussian Mixture Models. Bioinformatics, 1, 11.

4.     Colli L, Milanesi M, Vajana E, Iamartino D, Bomba L…Hao, X.... Herrera JRV. (2018). New insights on water buffalo genomic diversity and post-domestication migration routes from medium density SNP chip data. Frontiers in Genetics, 9, 53.