Lei Fang

Biographical Information

His research interests focus on developing causal inference methods in statistics genetics to unveil the etiology of complex diseases, like Alzheimer's disease, from the gene or protein level by integrating large-scale GWAS and eQTL or pQTL data.

Education

Research Interests

• causal inference
• TWAS
• Alzheimer's disease
• High-dimensional inference

Courses Taught

• STA 401

Publications

• Fang, L., Xue, H., Lin, Z., & Pan, W. (2025). Multivariate proteome-wide association study to identify causal proteins for Alzheimer disease. American journal of human genetics, 112(2), 291–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.12.010