Epidemiology

Research Interests:

genetic epidemiology 

Educational Background:

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

Honors:

• 2003-2007 Award of Duke University Industry Scholarship
• 2003-2004 Award of North Carolina State University Teaching Scholarship
• 2001-2003 Award of University of Washington Fellowship

Selected Publications:

Hao. Mei, Wei Chen, Andrew Dellinger, Jiang He etc. Principal Component Based Multivariate Regression for Genetic Association Studies of Metabolic Syndrome Components. (BMC Genetics 2010)

Hao Mei, Wei Chen, Sathanur R. Srinivasan etc. Association Study of FTO Gene with Longitudinal Body Mass Index over Childhood and Adulthood and its Interaction with Birth Weight. (Human Genetics 2010)

Hao Mei, Treva K. Rice, Dongfeng Gu etc. Genetic Correlation of Blood Pressure Responses to Dietary Sodium and Potassium Intervention and Cold Pressor Test in Chinese Population. (Journal of Human Hypertension, 2010).

Tanika N. Kelly, James E. Hixson, Dabeeru C. Rao, Hao Mei etc.  Genome-wide Linkage and Positional Candidate Gene Study of Blood Pressure Response to Dietary Potassium Intervention.  (Circulation:  Cardiovascular Genetics, 2010)

Wei Chen, Sathanur R. Srinivasan, Litao Ruan, Hao Mei and Gerald S. Berenson. Adult Hypertension Is Associated With Blood Pressure Variability in Childhood in Blacks and Whites: The Bogalusa Heart Study. American Journal of Hypertension (2010)

Mei H, Gu D, and Rice etc. (2009) Heritability of blood pressure responses to cold cressor test in a Chinese population. Am J Hypertens. 2009 Oct; 22(10); 1096-100.

H. Mei, M.L. Cuccaro and E.R. Martin (2007) MDR-Phenomics: A novel method to capture genetic heterogeneity using phenotypic variables. Am J Hum Genet. 2007 Dec;81(6):1251-61..

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 eepistatic 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. 

Level of Instruction:

graduate

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