Xihong Lin

Dr. Lin is Professor of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program of Quantitative Genomics (PQG) at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lin’s research interests lie in statistical genetics and genomics, especially development and application of statistical and computational methods for analysis of high-throughput genomic and 'omics data in population and clinical sciences, and for analysis of correlated data such as longitudinal, clustered and family data. Her statistical methodological research is currently supported by an NCI MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award entitled “Statistical Methods for Correlated and High-Dimensional Biomedical Data”. Dr. Lin’s current areas of research include analysis of sequencing association studies, rare variant effects, genome-wide association studies, genes and environment, genome-wide DNA methylation studies, risk prediction and personalized medicine.