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Fang-Chi Hsu, Ph.D.

Fang-Chi Hsu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
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Education & Training
  MSNatl Taiwan Univ College of Medicine-Taiwan1995
  PhDJohns Hopkins University School of Public Health2002
FellowshipJohns Hopkins University School of Public Health2002
Memberships
American Statistical Association
American Society of Human Genetics
Biometric Society
International Chinese Statistical Association
Fang-Chi Hsu, Ph.D.

Fang-Chi Hsu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Contact Information
Office:
336-716-2011
Research Interests
aging , fitness/physical
Recent Publications
Sun J, Kader AK, Hsu F-C, Kim S-T, Zhu Y, Turner AR, Jin T, Zhang Z, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Inherited genetic markers discovered to date are able to identify a significant number of men at considerably elevated risk for prostate cancer. Prostate. 2011; 71(4):421-430.


Matthews MM, Hsu F-C, Walkup MP, Barry LC, Patel KV, Blair SN. Depressive symptoms and physical performance in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011; 59(3):495-500.


Brinkely TE, Hsu F-C, Carr JJ, Hundley WG, Bluemke DA, Polak JF, Ding J. Pericardial fat is associated with carotid stiffness in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2011; 21(5):332-338.


Shea MK, Houston DK, Nicklas BJ, Davis CC, Hsu F-C, Tooze JA, Church TS, Kritchevsky SB. Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin-D [25(OH)D] and inflammation in older community-dwelling adults [abstract]. FASEB J. 2011; 25(Meeting Abstracts):595.2.


Elkhatib SD, Hsu F-C, Pemberton BL, Sale MM, Worrall BB. Sex differences in genetic associations with homocysteine in the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) trial [abstract]. Stroke. 2011; 42(3):e187.


Liu C, Leng I, Kritchevsky S, Ding J, Earnest C, Ferrucci L, Goodpaster B, Guralnik J, Hsu F, Lenchik L, et al. The impact of sarcopenia on the response to a physical activity intervention in older adults [abstract]. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011; 59(Suppl 1):S63.


Solorzano G, Chen F, Mychaleckyj JC, Chen W-M, Hsu F-C, Sale M, Worrall BB. Antihypertensive class and stroke recurrence: an analysis of the VISP trial [abstract]. Stroke. 2011; 42(3):e348.


McAuley PA, Hsu F-C, Loman KK [sic] [Lohman KK], Carr JJ, Budoff MJ, Szklo M, Sharrett AR, Ding J. Liver attenuation, pericardial adipose tissue, obesity, and insulin resistance: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011; 19(9):1855-1860.


Tzeng J-Y, Zhang D, Pongpanich M, Smith C, McCarthy MI, Sale MM, Worrall BB, Hsu F-C, Thomas DC, Sullivan PF. Studying gene and gene-environment effects of uncommon and common variants on continuous traits: a marker-set approach using gene-trait similarity regression. Am J Hum Genet. 2011; 89(2):277-288.


Hsu F-C, Sides EG, Mychaleckyj JC, Worrall BB, Elias GA, Liu Y, Chen W-M, Coull BM, Toole JF, Rich SS, et al. Transcobalamin 2 variant associated with poststroke homocysteine modifies recurrent stroke risk. Neurology. 2011; 77(16):1543-1550.


Soliman EZ, Ding J, Hsu F-C, Carr JJ, Polak JF, Goff DC Jr. Association between carotid-intima-media thickness and pericardial fat in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2010; 19(1):58-65.


Palmer ND, Langefeld CD, Ziegler JT, Hsu F, Haffner SM, Fingerlin T, Norris JM, Chen YI, Rich SS, Bowden DW, et al. Candidate loci for insulin sensitivity and disposition index from a genome-wide association analysis of Hispanic participants in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis (IRAS) Family Study. Diabetologia. 2010; 53(2):281-289.


Xu J, Zheng SL, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Sun J, Kader AK, Li G, Purcell LD, Kim S-T, Hsu F-C, et al. Inherited genetic variant predisposes to aggressive but not indolent prostate cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010; 107(5):2136-2140.


Hsu F-C, Sun J, Zhu Y, Kim S-T, Jin T, Zhang Z, Wiklund F, Kader AK, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Comparison of two methods for estimating absolute risk of prostate cancer based on single nucleotide polymorphisms and family history. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010; 19(4):1083-1088.


Manini TM, Newman AB, Fielding R, Blair SN, Perri MG, Anton SD, Katula JA, Rejeski WJ, Kritchevsky SB, Hsu F-C, et al. Effects of exercise on mobility in obese and nonobese older adults. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010; 18(6):1168-1175.


Patel RK, Elias GA, Hsu F-C, Mychaleckyj JC, Chen W-M, Worrall BB, Sale MM. Investigation of recurrent stroke risk in the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) Trial suggests different genetic influences on prevalent and incident stroke [abstract]. Stroke. 2010; 41(4):E335.


Sale MM, Hsu F-C, Mychaleckyj JC, Rich SS, Furie KL, Worrall BB. A variant in the adenosine 2B receptor gene is associated with homocysteine levels and stroke severity in African American subjects from the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) Trial [abstract]. Stroke. 2010; 41(4):E334.


Howard TD, Hsu F-C, Grzywacz JG, Chen H, Quandt SA, Vallejos QM, Whalley LE, Cui W, Padilla S, Arcury TA. Evaluation of candidate genes for cholinesterase activity in farmworkers exposed to organophosphorus pesticides: association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in BCHE. Environ Health Perspect. 2010; 118(10):1395-1399.


Beavers KM, Hsu F-C, Isom S, Kritchevsky SB, Church T, Goodpaster B, Pahor M, Nicklas BJ. Long-term physical activity and inflammatory biomarkers in older adults. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2010; 42(12):2189-2196.


Kim S-T, Cheng Y, Hsu F-C, Jin T, Kader AK, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Sun J. Prostate cancer risk-associated variants reported from genome-wide association studies: meta-analysis and their contribution to genetic variation. Prostate. 2010; 70(16):1729-1738.


Bowden DW, Cox AJ, Freedman BI, Hugenschimdt CE [sic] [Hugenschmidt CE], Wagenknecht LE, Herrington D, Agarwal S, Register TC, Maldjian JA, Ng MC-Y, Hsu F-C, Langefeld CD, Williamson JD, Carr JJ. Review of the Diabetes Heart Study (DHS) family of studies: a comprehensively examined sample for genetic and epidemiological studies of type 2 diabetes and its complications. Rev Diabet Stud. 2010; 7(3):188-201.


Alley D, Hsu F, Walkup MP, Shardell M, Pahor M, Studenski S, Guralnik J, Harris T. Effect of physical activity on hospitalization-associated functional decline: the Life Pilot Study [abstract]. Gerontologist. 2010; 50(Suppl 1):439.


Hsu F-C, Rejeski WJ, Ip EH, Katula JA, Fielding R, Jette AM, Studenski SA, Blair SN, Miller ME. Evaluation of the late life disability instrument in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) study. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2010; 8():115.


Robbins ME, Payne V, Tommasi E, Diz DI, Hsu F-C, Brown WR, Wheeler KT, Olson J, Zhao W. The AT1 receptor antagonist, L-158,809, prevents or ameliorates fractionated whole-brain irradiation-induced cognitive impairment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009; 73(2):499-505.


Sun J, Zheng SL, Li G, Kim S-T, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Xu J, Chang B-L, et al. Sequence variants at 22q13 are associated with prostate cancer risk. Cancer Res. 2009; 69(1):10-15.


Zheng SL, Sun J, Gao Z, Purcell LD, Hsu F-C, Zhu Y, Turner AR, Adams TS, Liu W, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Genetic variants and family history predict prostate cancer similar to prostate-specific antigen. Clin Cancer Res. 2009; 15(3):1105-1111.


Hsu F-C, Kritchevsky SB, Liu Y, Kanaya A, Newman AB, Perry SE, Visser M, Pahor M, Harris TB, Nicklas BJ. Association between inflammatory components and physical function in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study: a principal component analysis approach. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2009; 64(5):581-589.


Wiklund F, Zheng SL, Sun J, Adami H-O, Lilja H, Hsu F-C, Stattin P, Cramer SD, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Association of reported prostate cancer risk alleles with PSA levels among men without a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Prostate. 2009; 69(4):419-427.


Chang B-L, Cramer SD, Sun J, Smith S, Pruett K, Romero LM, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Zheng SL, Xu J, et al. Fine mapping association study and functional analysis implicate a SNP in MSMB at 10q11 as a causal variant for prostate cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet. 2009; 18(7):1368-1375.


Hsu F-C, Sun J, Purcell LD, Gao Z, Zhu Y, Kim S-T, Zhang Z, Liu W, Chang B-L, Xu J, Zheng SL, et al. A novel prostate cancer susceptibility locus at 19q13. Cancer Res. 2009; 69(7):2720-2723.


Brinkley TE, Hsu F, Hawkins GA, Kritchevsky SB, Pahor M, Nicklas BJ. The ACE I/D genotype and improvement in 400-meter walk performance with exercise training in the Lifestyle Intervention and Independence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) [abstract]. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009; 57(Suppl 1):S123.


Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Pankow JS, Wassel CL, Goodarzi MO, Guo X, Shea SJ, Hsu F-C, Bowden DW. Association of ADIPOQ, TNFA, and TNFRSF1A single-nucleotide polymorphisms with insulin resistance; the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) [abstract]. Circulation. 2009; 119(10):e328.


Zheng SL, Sun J, Smith S, Pruett K, Kim S-T, Zhu Y, Zhang Z, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Two independent prostate cancer risk-associated Loci at 11q13. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009; 18(6):1815-1820.


Xu J, Sun J, Kader AK, Lindstrom S, Wiklund F, Hsu F-C, Kim S-T, Johansson J-E, Zheng SL, Platz EA, et al. Estimation of absolute risk for prostate cancer from blood DNA [abstract]. J Urol. 2009; 181(4 Suppl):643.


Xu J, Kibel AS, Turner AR, Pruett K, Zheng SL, Sun J, Kim S-T, Hsu F-C, Torti FM, Chang B-L, et al. Prostate cancer risk associated loci in African Americans. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009; 18(7):2145-2149.


Ding J, Hsu F-C, Harris TB, Liu Y, Kritchevsky SB, Szklo M, Ouyang P, Espeland MA, Lohman KK, Carr JJ, et al. The association of pericardial fat with incident coronary heart disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Am J Clin Nutr. 2009; 90(3):499-504.


Xu J, Sun J, Kader AK, Lindstrom S, Wiklund F, Hsu F-C, Johansson J-E, Zheng SL, Thomas G, Hayes RB, et al. Estimation of absolute risk for prostate cancer using genetic markers and family history. Prostate. 2009; 69(14):1565-1572.


Ramanan S, Kooshki M, Zhao W, Hsu F-C, Riddle DR, Robbins ME. The PPARalpha agonist fenofibrate preserves hippocampal neurogenesis and inhibits microglial activation after whole-brain irradiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009; 75(3):870-877.


Carr JJ, Register TC, Hsu F-C, Lohman K, Lenchik L, Bowden DW, Langefeld CD, Xu J, Wagenknecht LE, Freedman BI, et al. Calcified atherosclerotic plaque and bone mineral density in type 2 diabetes: the Diabetes Heart Study. Bone. 2008; 42(1):43-52.


Zheng SL, Sun J, Smith S, Li G, Hsu F-C, Zhu Y, Kader AK, Turner AR, Liu W, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Cumulative association of five genetic variants with prostate cancer. N Engl J Med. 2008; 358(9):910-919.


Sale MM, Furie KL, Hsu F-C, Mychaleckyj JC, Sides EG, Howard TD, Worrall BB, Liu Y, Coull BM, Toole JF, et al. Multiple variants in the transcobalamin 2 and cystathionine beta-synthase genes are associated with homocysteine levels in subjects from the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) trial [abstract]. Stroke. 2008; 39(2):630.


Chen S-H, Sun J, Dimitrov L, Turner AR, Adams TS, Meyers DA, Chang B-L, Zheng SL, Xu J, Hsu F-C, et al. A support vector machine approach for detecting gene-gene interaction. Genet Epidemiol. 2008; 32(2):152-167.


Sun J, Purcell L, Gao Z, Isaacs SD, Wiley KE, Hsu F-C, Liu W, Xu J, Chang B-L, Zheng SL, et al. Association between sequence variants at 17q12 and 17q24.3 and prostate cancer risk in European and African Americans. Prostate. 2008; 68(7):691-697.


Hsu F-C, Lindstrom S, Sun J, Wiklund F, Turner AR, Liu W, Kim JW, Chang B-l, Xu J, Zheng SL, et al. A multigenic approach to evaluating prostate cancer risk in a systematic replication study. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2008; 183(2):94-98.


Nestadt G, Costa PT Jr, Hsu F-C, Samuels J, Bienvenu OJ, Eaton WW. The relationship between the five-factor model and latent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition personality disorder dimensions. Compr Psychiatry. 2008; 49(1):98-105.


Ding J, Kritchevsky S, Hsu F-C, Harris T, Burke G, Szklo M, Criqui M, Allison M, Schreiner P, Carr J, et al. Nonsubcutaneous adiposity and relation to metabolic abnormalities: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [abstract]. Circulation. 2008; 117(11):e238.


Foy CG, Hsu F-C, Haffner SM, Norris JM, Rotter JI, Henkin LF, Bryer-Ash M, Chen Y-DI, Wagenknecht LE. Visceral fat and prevalence of hypertension among African Americans and Hispanic Americans: findings from the IRAS family study. Am J Hypertens. 2008; 21(8):910-916.


Ding J, Kritchevsky SB, Hsu F-C, Harris TB, Burke GL, Detrano RC, Szklo M, Criqui MH, Allison M, Carr JJ, et al. Association between non-subcutaneous adiposity and calcified coronary plaque: a substudy of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008; 88(3):645-650.


Sun J, Zheng SL, Purcell LD, Gao Z, Hsu F-C, Kim S-T, Liu W, Zhu Y, Dimitrov L, Sun J, Li T, Turner AR, Adams TS, Chang B-L, Xu J, et al. Evidence for two independent prostate cancer risk-associated loci in the HNF1B gene at 17q12. Nat Genet. 2008; 40(10):1153-1155.


Xu J, Sun J, Li G, Zhu Y, Hsu F-C, Turner AR, Adams TS, Liu W, Chang B, Zheng S, et al. Association of prostate cancer risk variants with clinicopathologic characteristics of the disease. Clin Cancer Res. 2008; 14(18):5819-5824.


Ramanan S, Kooshki M, Zhao W, Hsu F-C, Robbins ME. PPARalpha ligands inhibit radiation-induced microglial inflammatory responses by negatively regulating NF-kappaB and AP-1 pathways. Free Radic Biol Med. 2008; 45(12):1695-1704.


Nicklas BJ, Hsu F-C, Brinkley TJ, Church T, Goodpaster BH, Kritchevsky SB, Pahor M. Exercise training and plasma C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 in elderly people. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008; 56(11):2045-2052.


Robbins M, Payne V, Diz D, Hsu FC, Zhao WL. Chronic inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system prevents radiation-induced cognitive impairment in the adult male rat [abstract]. Neuro Oncol. 2008; 10(5):851.


Bielinski SJ, Pankow JS, Hsu F-C, Adar SD, Jenny NS, Bowden DW, Wasserman BA, Arnett D. ICAM1 and VCAM1 polymorphisms, coronary artery calcium, and circulating levels of soluble ICAM-1: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Atherosclerosis. 2008; 201(2):339-344.


Brinkley TE, Carr JJ, Hundley WG, Hsu FC, Bluemke DA, Polak JF, Ding JZ. Increased pericardial fat is associated with carotid artery stiffness: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) [abstract]. Circulation. 2008; 118(18 Suppl 2):S1153.


Nicklas B, Hsu F, Church T, Kritchevsky S, Pahor M. Association between changes in inflammation and risk for mobility disability [abstract]. Gerontologist. 2008; 48(Special Issue 3):198.




Yeboah J, Crouse JR, Hsu F-C, Burke GL, Herrington DM. Brachial flow-mediated dilation predicts incident cardiovascular events in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Circulation. 2007; 115(18):2390-2398.


Sale MM, Hsu F-C, Palmer ND, Gordon CJ, Keene KL, Borgerink HM, Sharma AJ, Bergman RN, Taylor KD, Saad MF, Norris JM. The uncoupling protein 1 gene, UCP1, is expressed in mammalian islet cells and associated with acute insulin response to glucose in African American families from the IRAS Family Study. BMC Endocr Disord. 2007; 7():article 1.


Kritchevsky SB, Lenchik L, Leng X, Ding J, Guralnik J, Ferrucci L, Pahor M, Earnest C, Hsu F, Goodpaster G. Body composition and physical function in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) study [abstract]. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007; 55(4 Suppl):S67.


Zheng SL, Sun J, Cheng Y, Li G, Hsu F-C, Zhu Y, Chang B-L, Liu W, Kim JW, Turner AR, Xu J, et al. Association between two unlinked loci at 8q24 and prostate cancer risk among European Americans. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007; 99(20):1525-1533.


Groessl EJ, Kaplan RM, Rejeski WJ, Katula JA, King AC, Frierson G, Glynn NW, Hsu F-C, Walkup M, Pahor M. Health-related quality of life in older adults at risk for disability. Am J Prev Med. 2007; 33(3):214-218.


Saran AM, Hsu F-C, Lohman KK, Carr JJ, Bowden DW, Wagenknecht LE, Freedman BI. Kidney volume associations with subclinical renal and cardiovascular disease: the Diabetes Heart Study. Am J Nephrol. 2007; 28(3):366-371.


Chen Y-S, Chiu Y-F, Kao H-Y, Hsu F-C. Assessing genotype x environment interaction in linkage mapping using affected sib pairs. BMC Proc. 2007; 1(Suppl 1):S71.


Chiu Y-F, Chiou J-M, Chen Y-S, Kao H-Y, Hsu F-C. Incorporating quantitative variables into linkage analysis using affected sib pairs. BMC Proc. 2007; 1(Suppl 1):S98.


Ding J, Kritchevsky S, Hsu F-C, Harris T, Burke G, Detrano R, Szklo M, Criqui M, Brown E, Carr JJ, et al. Non-subcutaneous adiposity and relation to calcified coronary plaque: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [abstract]. Obesity. 2007; 15(9 Suppl):A11.


Groessl EJ, Kaplan RM, Rejeski WJ, Katula JA, King AC, Frierson G, Hsu FC, Walkup M, Pahor M. Quality of life in sedentary older adults participating in a physical activity intervention [abstract]. Ann Behav Med. 2007; 33(Suppl 1):S36.


Register TC Lenchik L, Hsu FC, Lohman KK, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Carr JJ. Type 2 diabetes is not independently associated with spinal trabecular volumetric bone mineral density measured by QCT in the Diabetes Heart Study. Bone. 2006; 39(3):628-633.


Bowden DW, Lohman K, Hsu F-C, Langefeld CD, Carr JJ, Lenchik L, Wagenknecht LE, Freedman BI, Herrington DM. Hormone replacement therapy is associated with increased C-reactive protein in women with type 2 diabetes in the Diabetes Heart Study. Diabet Med. 2006; 23(7):763-767.


Sale MM, Hsu F-C, Palmer ND, Gordon CJ, Keene KL, Borgerink HM, Sharma AJ, Bergman RN, Taylor KD, Saad MF, et al. The uncoupling protein 1 gene is expressed in human islets and associated with acute insulin response in African American families from the IRAS Family Study [abstract]. Diabetes. 2006; 55(Suppl 1):A264.


Freedman BI, Hsu FC, Lohman K, Bowden DW, Leonchik L [sic] [Lenchik L], Langefeld CD, Xu J, Register Tc, Rich SS, Wagenknecht LE. The relationship between calcified atherosclerotic plaque and bone mineral density: the Diabetes Heart Study [abstract]. Atheroscler Suppl. 2006; 7(3):14.


Saran A, Carr JJ, Lohman KK, Hsu F-C, Bowden DW, Freedman BI. Renal volume (RV) is associated with sub-clinical atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes: the Diabetes Heart Study (DHS) [abstract]. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2006; 17(Abstr Issue):584A.


Foy CG, Hsu F-C, Haffner S, Norris JM, Rotter JI, Chen YI, Wagenknecht LE. Visceral fat deposition and prevalence of hypertension among United States adults: findings from the IRAS Family Study [abstract]. Hypertension. 2006; 48(4):e76.
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