Education
Academic and Research Interests
Selected Publications
Contact Information

Education

BS, Beijing Normal University, 1994
PhD, University of Michigan, 2001
MS, University of Pittsburgh, 2003
PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2007

Academic and Research Interests

Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, design and analysis of cancer clinical trials.

Selected Publications

O’Malley K, Dhir R, Nelson J, Bost J, Lin Y, Wang Z. The expression of androgen-responsive genes is upregulated in the epithelia of benign prostatic hyperplasia. The Prostates 2009; In press.

Lin Y, Tseng G, Cheong SY, Bean LJ, Sherman SL, Feingold E. Smarter clustering methods for high-throughput SNP genotype calling. Bioinformatics 2008; 24:2665-2671.

Hannon T, Bacha F, Lin Y, Arslanian S. Hyperinsulinemia in African American adolescents compared with their American white peers despite similar insulin sensitivity: a reflection of up-regulated ß-cell function? Diabetes Care 2008;31:1445-1447.

Simon M, Lee MM, Lin Y, Gish L, Schiefelbein J. Distinct and overlapping roles of single-repeat MYB genes in root epidermal patterning. Developmental Biology 2007;311:566-578.

Ahuja SP, Greenspan SL, Lin Y, Bowen A, Bartels D, Goyal RK. A pilot study of heel ultrasound to screen for low bone mass in children with leukemia. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2006 Jul;28(7):427-32

Esposito NN, Mohan D, Brufsky A, Lin Y, Kapali M, Dabbs DJ. Phyllodes tumor: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 30 cases. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2006;130:1516-1521.

Gerszten K, Gooding WE, Lin Y, Heron DE, Faul C. A single institutional experience with definitive radiotherapy for cervical cancer using both high- and low-dose-rate brachytherapy. Gynecologic Oncology 2006;102:500-507.

Maheshwari V, Tsung A, Lin Y, Zeh HJ, Finkelstein SD, Bartlett DL. Analysis of loss of heterozygosity for tumor-suppressor genes can accurately classify and predict the clinical behavior of mucinous tumors arising from the appendix. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2006;13:1610-1616.

Zhang X, Chen Z, Choe MS, Lin Y, Sun SY, Wieand HS, Shin HJ, Chen A, Khuri FR, Shin DM. Tumor growth inhibition by simultaneously blocking epidermal growth factor receptor and cyclooxygenase-2 in a xenograft model. Clinical Cancer Research 2005;11:6261-6269.

Mohamed MK, Ramalingam S, Lin Y, Gooding W, Belani CP. Skin rash and good performance status predict improved survival with gefitinib in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer. Annals of Oncology 2005;16:780-785.

Lin Y, Feingold E, Reynolds P. An empirical Bayesian method for differential expression studies using one-channel microarray data. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 2003;2 (1):article 8. http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol2/iss1/art8/.

Lin Y, Schiefelbein J. Embryonic control of epidermal cell patterning in the root and hypocotyl of Arabidopsis. Development 2001;128:3697-3705.

Hung CY, Lin Y, Zhang M, Pollock S, Marks MD, Schiefelbein J. A common position-dependent mechanism controls cell-type patterning and GLABRA2 regulation in the root and hypocotyl epidermis of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 1998;117:73-84.

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email: yal14@pitt.edu

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