Hao Mei
assistant professor

Department(s):
Epidemiology

Email:
hmei@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Statistical analysis, development of statistic methods for mapping
complex disease, linkage and association studies, and computational algorithm development of statistical genetics and computational biology

Educational Background:
PhD, North Carolina State University, May 2007
MS, University of Washington, June 2003
Bachelor of Medicine, China Medical University, July 1997

Publications:
H. Mei, M.L. Cuccaro and E.R. Martin (2007) MDR-Phenomics: A novel method to capture genetic heterogeneity using phenotypic variables. (2007) American Journal of Human Genetics.

Ashley-Koch AE, Jaworski J, Ma de Q, Mei H, Ritchie MD, Skaar DA, Robert Delong G, Worley G, Abramson RK,Wright HH, Cuccaro ML, Gilbert JR, Martin ER, Pericak-Vance MA. (2007) Investigation of potential gene-gene interactions between APOE and RELN contributing to autism risk. Psychiatr Genet. 2007 Aug;17(4):221-6.

Allison E. Ashley-Koch, Hao Mei, James Jaworski and Deqiong Ma et. al. (2006) An analysis paradigm for investigating multilocus effects in complex disease: Examination of three GABAA receptor subunit genes on 15Q11-Q13 as risk factors for autistic disorder. Ann Hum Genet 70(Pt 3):281-92

Ma DQ, Whitehead PL, Menold MM, Martin ER, Ashley-Koch AE, Mei H, Ritchie MD, Delong GR, Abramson RK, Wright HH, Cuccaro ML, Hussman JP, Gilbert JR, Pericak-Vance MA. (2005) Identification of significant association and gene-gene interaction of GABA receptor
subunit genes in autism. Am J Hum Genet. 2005 Sep;77(3):377-88.

Mei, H, Ma, D., Ashley-Koch, A., Martin, E. R (2005) Extension of multifactor dimensionality reduction for identifying multilocus effects in the GAW14 simulated data. BMC Genet 6 (Suppl 1, S145)

Shah, S. H, Schmidt, M. A., Mei, H., Scott, W. K., Hauser, E. R., Schmidt, S (2005) Searching for epistatic interactions in nuclear families using conditional linkage analysis. BMC Genet 6 (Suppl 1,S148).

Mei H, Tarczy-Hornoch P, Mork P, Rossini AJ, Shaker R, Donelson L (2003) Expression array annotation using the BioMediator biological data integration system and the BioConductor analytic platform. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 445-9

Donelson, L., Tarczy-Hornoch, P., Mork, P., Dolan, C., Mitchell, J. A., Barrier, M., Mei, H (2004). The BioMediator system as a data integration tool to answer diverse biologic queries. Medinfo 11 768-72

Contact Information:
Department of Epidemiology
1440 Canal Street, Suite 1829
New Orleans, LA 70112
Telephone: 504.988.6580
Fax: 504.988.1568

Level of Instruction:
graduate