Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Hervé Perdry – National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Villejuif, France

Managing Editor

Anthony Herzig– Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

Associate Editor

Mohamad Saad – Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

Pak-C. Sham – The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Pak Chung Sham is Professor of Psychiatric Genomics at The University of Hong Kong. After my clinical training in Psychiatry, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust fellowship, which enabled me to formally train in statistics (MSc at Birkbeck College London), and to study human genetics under Prof. Newton Morton at Southampton University, and Prof. Kenneth Kendler, Charles MacLean and Lindon Eaves at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2000, I was appointed Professor of Psychiatric and Statistical Genetics at the MRC SGDP Research Centre in KCL. In 2004, I moved to the University of Hong Kong, where I served as Head of the Department of Psychiatry (2007–2011) and Director of the Centre for Genomic Sciences (2011 until present). My work on human statistical genetics: extension of the transmission/disequilibrium test using the Bradley-Terry model (ETDT); variance components model combining linkage and association (between- and within-sibships); analytic power calculation for linkage and association analysis of quantitative traits (leading to GPC); regression-based quantitative trait linkage analysis applicable to non-random samples of general pedigrees (MERLIN-REGRESS); analytic tools for genome-wide association studies (PLINK); individual risk prediction in complex diseases; gene-based association tests; polygenic risk scores for complex diseases; and analytic tools for association studies using next-generation sequencing (KGGSeq). My current research interests focus on the dissection of the genetic components of complex diseases (liability, prognosis and treatment response), and the elucidation of the causal relationships between genetic variants, environmental factors, endo-phenotypes, and diseases.

Editorial Board

Guido Barbujani – Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Mariza de Andrade – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Mariza de Andrade is Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. I am also a Fellow of the American Statistician Association. I hold an undergraduate in Mathematics, an MS in Statistics from the Institute of Applied and Pure Mathematics both in Brazil. I had a DAAD fellowship from 1979 to 1982 at University of Dortmund, Department of Statistics, Germany. I worked in Brazil at Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa from 1976 to 1979, at Federal University of Londrina, Parana from 1982 to 1983 and at Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, in the field of Statistics. I received a MS in Biostatistics in 1988 and a PhD at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, in 1990 (advisor Dr. Elizabeth A. Thompson). I held a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas, Houston with Dr. Ranajit Chakraborty (1 year) and Dr. Eric Boerwinkle (1 year). I was a member of the Department of Epidemiology at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center until November 1999 when I moved to my current position. I wrote a program for family study for multiple phenotypes (MULTIC) using variance components available in R. I work mostly in statistical genetics in several diseases such as Parkinson, Cardiovascular, Lung Cancer, and Venous Thromboembolism, among others. My current research focus is on the analysis of Familial VTE and unrelated VTE to determine the causal genetic variants in secondary VTE cases as well as in women health.

Frank Dudbridge – University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Frank Dudbridge is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Leicester. He graduated in Mathematics and Computing from King’s College London and obtained his PhD from Imperial College London on the topic of fractal image compression. After postdoctoral positions at the University of California San Diego, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge he was a senior statistician at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, then Reader and Professor of Statistical Genetics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before joining the University of Leicester in 2016. His interests are in statistical methods for genetic epidemiology, in which he has made highly cited contributions to family-based association analysis, genome-wide association studies, genetic risk prediction and genetically informed causal inference. These are the fruits of collaborations with many outstanding colleagues in fields including cardiology, oncology, psychiatry and diabetes.

Derek Gordon– Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA

Mulin Jun Li – Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Dr. Mulin Jun Li is a Professor at the Basic Medical Research Center of Tianjin Medical University. He received MS in software engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China and PhD in bioinformatics from the University of Hong Kong. He had exchange and postdoctoral training at Harvard University and the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the development of bioinformatics tools and resources for interpreting variant effects on different types of molecular traits and human complex diseases, and the dissection of biological mechanism of disease-causal regulatory variants using high-throughput functional genomics methods.

Michael Nothnagel– University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Hon-Cheong So – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Hemant K. Tiwari – University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

Kai Wang – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dr. Kai Wang is an Associate Professor at the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Perelman School of Medicine. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Peking University in China, a master’s degree from Mayo Clinic, and a PhD from the University of Washington, then had postdoctoral training at Penn and CHOP. His research focuses on the development and application of genomic approaches to study the genetic basis of human diseases and facilitate the implementation of genomic medicine.

Zhongming Zhao – The University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA

Dr. Zhongming Zhao is Chair Professor for Precision Health, Dr. Doris L. Ross Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and the founding director of the Center for Precision Health, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Before he joined UTHealth in 2016, he was Ingram Endowed Professor of Cancer Research, Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Psychiatry, and Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Chief Bioinformatics Officer of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Director of the VICC Bioinformatics Resource Center, and the Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences. Dr. Zhao has unique, interdisciplinary training: he received his master’s degrees in Genetics (1996), Biomathematics (1998), Computer Science (2002), Ph.D. degree in Human and Molecular Genetics (2000), and Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics (2001-2003). Dr. Zhao has more than 20 years of bioinformatics and systems biology research experience and has co-authored more than 285 papers in these areas. His broad interests cover the application of integrative genomics and systems biology approaches to complex disease studies and the application of next generation sequencing technologies in precision medicine. Dr. Zhao has served as the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, or editorial board member of many journals and served as the General Chair, Steering Committee Chair, Program Committee Chair, Session Chair, or has been on the steering, program, and award committees of numerous bioinformatics- and biomedical informatics-related international conferences. Dr. Zhao has received several awards, including the Keck Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship (twice: 2002, 2003), the NARSAD Young Investigator Award (twice: 2005, 2008), a NIH-funded VPSD Career Development Award in GI Cancer (2009).