Ani's Resume

Ani Manichaikul

Instructor of Research
Center for Public Health Genomics
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Virginia

Mail: P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VA 22908
Office: West Complex, Room 6115, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Phone: TBA, Fax: (434) 982-1815
Email: amanicha [at] virginia [dot] edu

Education and Training

2008-2009	Postdoctoral Research Associate	University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
		Computational Systems Biology Laboratory
		Advisor: Jason Papin


2003-2008	Ph.D. Biostatistics	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
		Thesis: Statistical methods for mapping quantitative trait loci in experimental crosses
		Advisor: Karl W. Broman


2001-2003	M.S. Statistics	Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1999-2003	B.S. Mathematics	Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Research Experience

Summer 2004	Summer Intern	Non-Clinical Statistics
		Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor, MI


Summer 2003	Programmer Analyst	Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study
		George Washington University Biostatistics Center, Rockville, MD


2001-2002	Research Assistant	Laboratory of David Botstein
		Stanford University Department of Genetics, Stanford, CA


Summer 2001	Research Assistant	Diabetes Prevention Program
		George Washington University Biostatistics Center, Rockville, MD


Summer 2000	Summer Intern	Computational Chemistry Group
		National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD


1998-1999	Research Trainee	Laboratory of Molecular Biology
		National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders
		National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD

Graduate Funding

2004-2007	National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2003-2004	The Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging Training Program

Selected Publications

Chen WM, Manichaikul A, Rich SS (2009) A generalized family-based association test for dichotomized traits. Am J Hum Genet 85:364-76 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]
Manichaikul A, Ghamsari L, Hom EFY, Lin C, Murray RR, Chang RL, Balaji S, Hao T, Shen Y, Chavail AK, Thiele I, Yang X, Fan C, Mello E, Hill DE, Vidal M, Salehi-Ashtiani K, Papin JA (2009) Metabolic network analysis integrated with transcript verification for sequenced genomes. Nat Methods 6:589-92 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]
Fushan AA, Simons CT, Slack JP, Manichaikul A, Drayna D (2009) Allelic polymorphism within the TAS1R3 promoter is associated with human taste sensitivity to sucrose. Current Biology 19:1288-93 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]
Manichaikul A, Moon JY, Sen Ś, Yandell BS, Broman KW (2009) A model selection approach for the identification of quantitative trait loci in experimental crosses, allowing epistasis. Genetics 181: 1077-86 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]
Manichaikul A, Palmer AA, Sen Ś, Broman KW (2007) Significance thresholds for quantitative trait locus mapping under selective genotyping. Genetics 177: 1963-1966 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]
Broman KW, Sen Ś, Owens SE, Manichaikul A, Southard-Smith EM, Churchill GA (2006) The X chromosome in quantitative trait locus mapping. Genetics 174: 2151-2158 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]
Manichaikul A, Dupuis J, Sen Ś, Broman KW (2006) Poor performance of bootstrap confidence intervals for the location of a quantitative trait locus. Genetics 174: 481-489 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]
Drayna D, Manichaikul A, de Lange M, Snieder H, Spector T (2001) Genetic correlates of musical pitch recognition in humans. Science 291: 1969-1972 [Pubmed | Full Text | PDF]

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Computing Skills

Programming Languages: C++, Perl, HTML, PHP, MySQL, Lisp, Pascal
Statistical Packages: R/Splus, WinBUGS, SAS, Stata
Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

Additional Information

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese
Citizenship: United States