Education

  • PhD, Biostatistics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 2013

Research Interests

Develop statistical methodologies to address analytical issues in genomic, clinical, epidemiological and basic sciences research.

Selected Publications

  1. Yang, S. and Wu, J. (2018) DFseq: Distribution-free method to detect differential gene expression for RNA-sequencing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, (99):1-1. DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2018.2866994. PMID: 30176602.
  2. Shen CL., Yang S., Tomison MD., Romero AW., Felton CK., Mo H. (2018) Tocotrienols supplementation suppressed bone resorption and oxidative stress in postmenopausal osteopenic women: a 12-week randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial. Osteoporosis International, 29(4): 881-891. PMID: 29330573.
  3. Sivaprakasam, S., Bhutia, YD., Yang, S., Ganapathy, V. (2017) Short-chain fatty acid transporters: Role in colonic homeostasis. Comprehensive Physiology, 8(1):299-314. PMID: 29357130.
  4. Wu, J. and Yang, S. (2017) A simulation-based sample size calculation method for pre-clinical tumor xenograft experiments. J Biopharm Stat, 7:1-14. doi: 10.1080/10543406.2017.1315820. PMID: 28388315.
  5. Yang, S., Mercante, DE., Zhang, K., Fang, Z. (2016) An integrated approach for RNA-seq data normalization. Cancer Informatics, 15:129-141. DOI: 10.4137/CIN.S39781. PMID: 27385909.
  6. Wachtel, MS., Yang, S., Morris, BJ. (2015) Countries with high circumcision prevalence have lower prostate cancer mortality. Asian J Androl., 18:39-42. doi: 10.4103/1008-682X.159713. PMID: 27453072.
  7. Yang, S., Pounds, S., Zhang, K., Fang, Z. (2013) PAIR: Paired Allelic log-Intensity-Ratio based normalization method for SNP-CGH arrays. Bioinformatics, 29(3):299-307. PMID: 23196989.
  8. Rubnitz, JE., Crews, CR., Pounds, S., Yang, S., Campana, D., Gandhi, VV., Raimondi, SC., Downing, JR., Razzouk, BI., Pui, C., Ribeiro, RC. (2009) Combination of Cladribine and Cytarabine is effective for childhood acute myeloid leukemia: results of the St Jude AML97 trial. Leukemia, 23,1410–1416. PMID: 19242495.
  9. Malik, S., Cleves, MA., Honein, MA., Romitti, PA., Botto, LD., Yang, S., Hobbs, CA. (2008) Maternal smoking and congenital heart defects. Pediatrics, 121(4): e810-6. PMID: 18381510.