VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Brandon L. Pierce
dblp:301/5023
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · unresolved
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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
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| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 50% Computational science and engineering · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › functional genomics
eQTL mapping |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | CCmed: cross-condition mediation analysis for identifying replicable trans-associations mediated by cis-gene expression · Bioinform. 2021 |
Computational science and engineering
mediation analysis |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | CCmed: cross-condition mediation analysis for identifying replicable trans-associations mediated by cis-gene expression · Bioinform. 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
cross-condition mediation analysis · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | CCmed: cross-condition mediation analysis for identifying replicable trans-associations mediated by cis-gene expressionabstractMOTIVATION: Trans-acting expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) collectively explain a substantial proportion of expression variation, yet are challenging to detect and replicate since their effects are often individually weak. A large proportion of genetic effects on distal genes are mediated through cis-gene expression. Cis-association (between SNP and cis-gene) and gene-gene correlation conditional on SNP genotype could establish trans-association (between SNP and trans-gene). Both cis-association and gene-gene conditional correlation have effects shared across relevant tissues and conditions, and trans-associations mediated by cis-gene expression also have effects shared across relevant conditions. RESULTS: We proposed a Cross-Condition Mediation analysis method (CCmed) for detecting cis-mediated trans-associations with replicable effects in relevant conditions/studies. CCmed integrates cis-association and gene-gene conditional correlation statistics from multiple tissues/studies. Motivated by the bimodal effect-sharing patterns of eQTLs, we proposed two variations of CCmed, CCmedmost and CCmedspec for detecting cross-tissue and tissue-specific trans-associations, respectively. We analyzed data of 13 brain tissues from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, and identified trios with cis-mediated trans-associations across brain tissues, many of which showed evidence of trans-association in two replication studies. We also identified trans-genes associated with schizophrenia loci in at least two brain tissues. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: CCmed software is available at http://github.com/kjgleason/CCmed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. Kevin J. Gleason, Jiebiao Wang, Jubao Duan, Brandon L. Pierce, Lin S. Chen |
Bioinform. | 6 |