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Andrew Allen, PhD

Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

My research focuses on developing new statistical methods for identifying susceptibility loci involved in complex human disease. It involves a mix of genetics, statistics, and computer science and is motivated by the complexities of real data encountered in collaborative disease-gene mapping projects.

Andrew Allen received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2001. Dr. Allen is also a member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Recent Publications

Correcting signal biases and detecting regulatory elements in STARR-seq data.

Kim, Y-S; Johnson, GD; Seo, J; Barrera, A; Majoros, WH; Ochoa, A; Allen, AS; Reddy, TE; Cowart, TN

March 15, 2021

Casual Genetic Variants in Stillbirth

Stanley, KE; Giordano, J; Thorsten, V; Buchovecky, C; Thomas, A; Ganapathi, M; Liao, J; Dharmadhikari, AV; Revah-Politi, A; Ernst, M; Lippa, N; Holmes, H; Povysil, G; Hostyk, J; Parker, CB; Goldenberg, R; Saade, GR; Dudley, DJ; Pinar, H; Hogue, C; Reddy, UM; Silver, RM; Aggarwal, V; Allen, AS; Wapner, RJ; Goldstein, DB

February 1, 2021

Neurogranin, Encoded by the Schizophrenia Risk Gene NRGN, Bidirectionally Modulates Synaptic Plasticity via Calmodulin-Dependent Regulation of the Neuronal Phosphoproteome.

Hwang, H; Szucs, MJ; Ding, LJ; Allen, A; Ren, X; Haensgen, H; Gao, F; Rhim, H; Andrade, A; Pan, JQ; Carr, SA; Ahmad, R; Xu, W

February 1, 2021

Secondary analysis of case-control association studies: Insights on weighting-based inference motivate a new specification test.

Li, F; Allen, AS

September 30, 2020

Causal Genetic Variants in Stillbirth.

September 17, 2020

Incorporating external information to improve sparse signal detection in rare-variant gene-set-based analyses.

Zhang, M; Gelfman, S; McCarthy, J; Harms, MB; Moreno, CAM; Goldstein, DB; Allen, AS

June 1, 2020