Research Thesis Topic:

An Improved Algorithm for Finding Linked Subsets in the Presence of Heterogeneity or Interactions

Mentor: Michael Province, Ph.D.

Faculty Advisor: Ingrid Boreck, Ph.D.

Ying "Peter" Liu

Research Thesis Topic:

Linkage and Association Studies of Alcoholism Phenotypes in the COGA Study

Mentor: Nancy Saccone, Ph.D.

Faculty Advisor: Treva Rice, Ph.D.

Matthew Markus

Research Thesis Topic:

Graphical Modeling of Genetic Associations and Viability in CEPH Cell Lines under Chemotheraputic Selection Pressure

Mentor: Aldi Kraja, Ph.D.

Faculty Advisor: Michael Province, Ph.D.

Jason Robarge

Research Thesis Topic:

Family-based Association Mapping for the Identification of PSORS4, a Psoriasis Susceptibility Gene Mapping to the Epidermal Differentiation Complex on Human Chromosome 1q21

Mentor: Anne Bowcock, Ph.D.

Faculty Advisor: Anne Bowcock, Ph.D.

Ryan Rochat

Research Thesis Topic:

A Novel Method Combining Linkage Disequilibrium Information and Imputed Functional Knowledge for tagSNP Selection

Mentors: C. Charles Gu, Ph.D. & Victor Davila-Roman, M.D.

Faculty Advisor: Phil Miller, A.B.

Jian "Jane" Wang

Research Thesis Topic:

Tree Linkage Analysis of Lipids in the HyperGEN Study: Covariate Interactions and Linkage Heterogeneity

Mentor: Ingrid Borecki, Ph.D.

Faculty Advisor: DC Rao, Ph.D.