Hongyan Xu
Professor
Academic Appointment(s)
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Population Health Science: Biostats & Data Science
College of Nursing
Department of Biobehavioral Nursing
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Population Health Science
The Graduate School
Bio
Dr. Xu received his PhD in Human Population Genetics from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston. He joined the Augusta University after finishing his postdoctoral training at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Education
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Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, General
University of Texas Health Sci, 2003
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MS, Genetics, General
Fudan Univ / Inst of Genetics, 1999
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BS, Biophysics
Fudan Univ / Inst of Genetics, 1996
Awards & Honors
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Leader of PRIDE Statistical Genetics Group
National Institute of Health, 2017
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NIH Study Section
National Institute of Health, 2017
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Faculty at the The Curriculum in Iron Metabolism & Related Disorders
Hosted by the European School of Hematology, 2014
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
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STAT 7850
Omics Data Analysis
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STAT 8890
Readings and Research
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DATS 7510
Programming for Data Analysis
Teaching Interests
Biological Sequencing Analysis, Statistical Genetics, Genomics, Computation Biology, Bioinformatics, Big Data
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- Benserazide racemate and enantiomers induce fetal globin gene expression in vivo: Studies to guide clinical development for beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease., 2021
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Maturation of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Enables Modeling of Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy., 2021
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Characteristics of sickle cell patients with frequent emergency department visits and hospitalizations., 2021
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Incorporation of rare genetic variants improved the prediction performance of polygenic risk score, 2020
Conference Proceeding
- Suppression of canonical TGF-β signaling enables GATA4 to interact with H3K27me3 demethylase JMJD3 to promote cardiomyogenesis., 2020
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Research Interests
Big data analysis, statistical genetics, genomics, Bayesian statistics, genetic epidemiology, cancer genetics, epigenetics
Department Service
College Service
University Service
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2021 - Present
Role: Other
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2021 - Present
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2021 - Present
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2020 - Present
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2020 - Present
Role: Other
Professional Service
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Georgia Chapter of ASA
2015 - Present
Role: Member
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American Society of Human Genetics
2012 - Present
Role: Reviewer
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Associate Editor
2009 - Present
Role: Other
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Referee
2006 - Present
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American Statistical Society
2005 - Present
Role: Member
