Tianhua Niu

Publication List Details

Period

1998 - 2009

Number

33

Co-Authors

Common genetic variants of the ion channel transient receptor potential membrane melastatin 6 and 7 (TRPM6and TRPM7), magnesium intake, and risk of type 2 diabetes in women (2009)

Song, Yiqing, Hsu, Yi-Hsiang, Niu, Tianhua, Manson, JoAnn E, Buring, Julie E, Liu, Simin

Abstract Background Ion channel transient receptor potential membrane melastatin 6 and 7 (TRPM6 and TRPM7) play a central role in magnesium homeostasis, which is critical for maintaining glucose and...

SNPHunter: a bioinformatic software for single nucleotide polymorphism data acquisition and management (2005)

Wang, Lin, Liu, Simin, Niu, Tianhua, Xu, Xin

Abstract Background Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) provide an important tool in pinpointing susceptibility genes for complex diseases and in unveiling human molecular evolution. Selection and...

Running Title: SNPicker: A Graphical Tool for Primer Picking (2004)

Tianhua Niu, Zhenjun Hu, Address For Correspondence

Summary: Simple, low-cost, and accurate genotyping methods for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are in high demand in the post-genome-sequencing era. We present a graphical tool called...

A Large-Scale Candidate Gene Association Study on Preterm Delivery: Application of High-Throughput Genotyping Technology and Advanced Statistical Methods (2004)

Hao, Ke, Wang, Xiaobin, Niu, Tianhua, Xu, Xin, Li, Ang, Chang, Weili, ...

Preterm delivery (PTD) is the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The etiology of PTD is largely unknown but is believed to be complex, encompassing multiple genetic and...

SNPicker: a graphical tool for primer picking in designing mutagenic endonuclease restriction assays (2004)

Niu, Tianhua, Hu, Zhenjun

Summary: Simple, low-cost, and accurate genotyping methods for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are in high demand in the post-genome-sequencing era. We present a graphical tool called...

A candidate gene association study on preterm delivery: application of high-throughput genotyping technology and advanced statistical methods (2004)

Hao, Ke, Wang, Xiaobin, Niu, Tianhua, Xu, Xin, Li, Ang, Chang, Weili, ...

Preterm delivery (PTD) is the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The etiology of PTD is largely unknown but is believed to be complex, encompassing multiple genetic and...

SNPicker: a graphical tool for primer picking in designing mutagenic endonuclease restriction assays (2004)

Niu, Tianhua, Hu, Zhenjun

Summary: Simple, low-cost and accurate genotyping methods for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are in high demand in the post-genome-sequencing era. We present a graphical tool called SNPicker,...

A Large-Scale Candidate Gene Association Study on Preterm Delivery: Application of High-Throughput Genotyping Technology and Advanced Statistical Methods (2004)

Hao, Ke, Wang, Xiaobin, Niu, Tianhua, Xu, Xin, Li, Ang, Chang, Weili, ...

Preterm delivery (PTD) is the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The etiology of PTD is largely unknown but is believed to be complex, encompassing multiple genetic and...

SNPicker: a graphical tool for primer picking in designing mutagenic endonuclease restriction assays (2004)

Niu, Tianhua, Hu, Zhenjun

Summary: Simple, low-cost, and accurate genotyping methods for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are in high demand in the post-genome-sequencing era. We present a graphical tool called...

SeqVISTA: a graphical tool for sequence feature visualization and comparison (2003)

Hu, Zhenjun, Frith, Martin, Niu, Tianhua, Weng, Zhiping

Abstract Background Many readers will sympathize with the following story. You are viewing a gene sequence in Entrez, and you want to find whether it contains a particular sequence motif. You reach...

Haplotype Information and Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (2003)

Lu, Xin, Niu, Tianhua, Liu, Jun S.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome have become an increasingly popular topic in that their analyses promise to be a key step toward personalized medicine. We investigate two related...

Nicotine dependence and its familial aggregation in Chinese (2000)

Niu, Tianhua, Chen, Changzhong, Ni, Jiatong, Wang, Binyan, Fang, Zhian, Shao, Hong, ...

Background Nicotine dependence is a significant public health problem. This study attempted to characterize the prevalence and familial aggregation of nicotine dependence in China. Methods In 1998,...

Genetic Susceptibility to Benzene and Shortened Gestation: Evidence of Gene-Environment Interaction (2000)

Wang, Xiaobin, Chen, Dafang, Niu, Tianhua, Wang, Zhaoxi, Wang, Lihua, Ryan, Louise, ...

This study investigated whether the association between low level benzene exposure and shortened gestation is modified by two susceptibility genes, CYP1A1 and GSTT1. This report includes 542 (302...

Genetic epidemiology of hypertension in Chinese / (1998)

Niu, Tianhua.

Thesis (Doctor of Science)--Harvard School of Public Health, 1998.

Pin1 is overexpressed in breast cancer and cooperates with Ras signaling in increasing the transcriptional activity of c-Jun towards cyclin D1

Wulf, Gerburg M., Ryo, Akihide, Wulf, Gerald G., Lee, Sam W., Niu, Tianhua, Petkova, Victoria, ...

Phosphorylation on serines or threonines preceding proline (Ser/Thr-Pro) is a major signaling mechanism. The conformation of a subset of phosphorylated Ser/Thr-Pro motifs is regulated by the prolyl...

Haplotype Information and Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Lu, Xin, Niu, Tianhua, Liu, Jun S.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome have become an increasingly popular topic in that their analyses promise to be a key step toward personalized medicine. We investigate two related...

An Expectation-Maximization–Likelihood-Ratio Test for Handling Missing Data: Application in Experimental Crosses

Niu, Tianhua, Ding, Adam A., Kreutz, Reinhold, Lindpaintner, Klaus

The mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) is an important research question in animal and human studies. Missing data are common in such study settings, and ignoring such missing data may result...

Pin1 is overexpressed in breast cancer and cooperates with Ras signaling in increasing the transcriptional activity of c-Jun towards cyclin D1

Wulf, Gerburg M., Ryo, Akihide, Wulf, Gerald G., Lee, Sam W., Niu, Tianhua, Petkova, Victoria, ...

Phosphorylation on serines or threonines preceding proline (Ser/Thr-Pro) is a major signaling mechanism. The conformation of a subset of phosphorylated Ser/Thr-Pro motifs is regulated by the prolyl...

Haplotype Information and Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Lu, Xin, Niu, Tianhua, Liu, Jun S.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome have become an increasingly popular topic in that their analyses promise to be a key step toward personalized medicine. We investigate two related...

Bayesian Haplotype Inference for Multiple Linked Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Niu, Tianhua, Qin, Zhaohui S., Xu, Xiping, Liu, Jun S.

Haplotypes have gained increasing attention in the mapping of complex-disease genes, because of the abundance of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the limited power of conventional...

Are Variants in the CAPN10 Gene Related to Risk of Type 2 Diabetes? A Quantitative Assessment of Population and Family-Based Association Studies

Song, Yiqing, Niu, Tianhua, Manson, JoAnn E., Kwiatkowski, David J., Liu, Simin

The calpain-10 gene (CAPN10) on chromosome 2q37.3 was the first candidate gene for type 2 diabetes (T2D) identified through a genomewide screen and positional cloning. One polymorphism (UCSNP-43:...

A Common Haplotype of the Nicotine Acetylcholine Receptor α4 Subunit Gene Is Associated with Vulnerability to Nicotine Addiction in Men

Feng, Yan, Niu, Tianhua, Xing, Houxun, Xu, Xin, Chen, Changzhong, Peng, Shaojie, ...

Nicotine is the major addictive substance in cigarettes, and genes involved in sensing nicotine are logical candidates for vulnerability to nicotine addiction. We studied six single-nucleotide...

Incorporating Genotyping Uncertainty in Haplotype Inference for Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Kang, Hosung, Qin, Zhaohui S., Niu, Tianhua, Liu, Jun S.

The accuracy of the vast amount of genotypic information generated by high-throughput genotyping technologies is crucial in haplotype analyses and linkage-disequilibrium mapping for complex diseases....

An Expectation-Maximization–Likelihood-Ratio Test for Handling Missing Data: Application in Experimental Crosses

Niu, Tianhua, Ding, Adam A., Kreutz, Reinhold, Lindpaintner, Klaus

The mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) is an important research question in animal and human studies. Missing data are common in such study settings, and ignoring such missing data may result...

A Coalescence-Guided Hierarchical Bayesian Method for Haplotype Inference

Zhang, Yu, Niu, Tianhua, Liu, Jun S.

Haplotype inference from phase-ambiguous multilocus genotype data is an important task for both disease-gene mapping and studies of human evolution. We report a novel haplotype-inference method based...