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Saonli Basu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics

Saonli Basu has research interests in the development of methods for inference from human genome data. Her primary focus is developing methods for linkage analysis using large complex pedigrees. Her areas of interest also include computational statistics and nonparametric inferences.

  • PhD in Statistical Genetics track, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • MS in Applied Statistics and Data Analysis, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
  • BS in Statistics, Presidency College, Calcutta, India

Courses

Fall 2012
PUBH  8432  Probability Models for Biostat (Section 001)

Research Interests:

Statistical genetics, Genetic epidemiology, Computational Statistics, Nonparametric inference

Research Projects (2)

Saonli Basu

Mailing Address:
Division of Biostatistics
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone (Work): 624-2135

Email:

Website: http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~saonli

Selected Publications:

He, H., Oetting, W. S., Brott, M. J., Basu, S. (2009), Pair-wise multifactor dimensionality reduction method to detect gene-gene interactions in a case-control study. Human Heredity 2010;69(1):60-70.


He, H., Oetting, W. S., Brott, M. J., Basu, S.. (2009), Power of multifactor dimensionality reduction and penalized logistic regression for detecting gene-gene interaction in a case-control study. BMC Med Genet. 2009 Dec 4;10(1):127.


Basu S, Stephens M, Pankow JS, Thompson EA (2009), A likelihood-based trait-model-free approach for linkage detection of binary trait. Biometrics, Vol 66(1):205-13.


Basu S (2007), Allele-sharing methods on extended pedigrees, Sankhya, Vol 69 (3): 405-424.


Basu S, Di Y and Thompson EA (2008), Exact Trait-Model-Free Tests for Linkage Detection in Pedigrees, Annals of Human Genetics, Vol 72(5): 676-682.


Thompson, E.A. and Basu, S. (2003), "Genome Sharing in large pedigrees: multiple imputation of ibd for linkage detection", Human Heredity,Vol 56, 119-125.



Technical Reports:

rr2008-005.pdf
Basu, S., Stephens, M. and Thompson, E.A.
A likelihood-based trait-model-free approach for linkage detection of binary trait
Research Report 2008-5, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 2008
Biometrics (to appear).

Professional Experience:

2005 (September) - Present, Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. 2000 - 2005 (August), PhD Student, University of Washington, Department of Statistics. 1999 - 2000, Research Associate, Department of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute. 1998 - 1999, Research Associate, Market Research, ORG MARG, India.

Honors:

2004, ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award Winner. 2003, Travel Award for Rockefeller Advanced Linkage Course.

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