Dr. Sanjay S. Shete
Regular Member
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Biostatistics
Research Interests:
- Head and neck cancer epidemiology
- Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in population studies
- Genomic imprinting
- Genetic epidemiology of familial glioma
- Haplotype reconstruction and analysis methods
- Epidemiological methods
- Genetic segregation and linkage analysis
- Genome-wide Association Studies
Sanjay Shete, Ph.D. is a Genetic Epidemiologist with interests in developing statistical methods for genetic data. The determinants of many traits of human disease include genetic components. His research focuses on development and implementation of statistical methods for analyzing family and pedigree data to identify genes that cause disease. He is principal investigator to perform genomewide association study of head and neck cancer. He is also the principal investigator (with Dr. Chang) for NIDA funded R25 training grant on innovative multidisciplinary education: the statistical genetics of addiction. One clear focus of his current research is to develop methods for gene-gene and gene-environmental interactions and applying them to cancer data from molecular epidemiologic studies. He has developed methods to identify imprinted genes. Statistical methods applied to genetic and molecular data play a key role in uncovering the often-complex relationship between important traits in humans and their genetic basis.
Program Affiliation:
Program in Biomathematics and Biostatistics
Program in Human and Molecular Genetics
Contact Information
Phone: 713.745.2483
Email: sshete@mdanderson.org
Office: MDA FCT4.6002 (Unit 1411)
Title: Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - University of Georgia - 1998
