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Peer-Reviewed Publications

(C: joint corresponding authors, U: undergraduate students supervised, G: graduate students supervised)

Leping Li, David M. Umbach, Yuanyuan Li, Pallav Halani, Min Shi, Mihye Ahn, Deryck Yeung, Bradley Vaughn, and Zheng Fan. (2023). "Sleep Apnoea and Hypoventilation in Patients with Five Major Types of Muscular Dystrophy", BMJ Open Respiratory Research, Accepted.

Sanghun Jeong, Mihye Ahn, and Hojin Yang. (2023). Transformed Function on Scalar Regression for Random Distribution, Under review.

Omar KamalU, Hanao LiU, Matthew A. OhemengG, Mihye AhnC, and So Young RyuC. (2023). TBI Mortality Prediction Model for Pediatric Patients (TMP3) with a Clinical Importance-Based Weighting Approach. In revision.

 - Earlier Version won 3rd place in the Undergraduate Statistics Research Project Competition (USRESP)

Sharla M. Birch, Michael W. Lawlor, Thomas J. Conlon, Lee-Jae Guo, Julie M. Crudele, Eleanor C. Hawkins, Peter P. Nghiem, Mihye Ahn, Hui Meng, Margaret J. Beatka, Brittany A. Fickau, Juan C. Prieto, Martin A. Styner, Michael J. Struharik, Courtney Shanks, Kristy J. Brown, Diane Golebiowski, Amanda K. Bettis, Cynthia J. Balog-Alvarez, Nathalie Clement, Kirsten E. Coleman, Manuela Corti, Xiufang Pan, Stephen D. Hauschka, J. Patrick Gonzalez, Carl A. Morris, Joel S. Schneider, Dongsheng Duan, Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, Barry J. Byrne, Joe. N. Kornegay. (2023). "Assessment of Systemic AAV-Microdystrophin Gene Therapy in the GRMD Model of Duchenne", Science Translational Medicine, 15(677), eabo1815.

Ryan WuG, Mihye Ahn, and Hojin Yang. (2022). "Spike-and-Slab Type Variable Selection in the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for High-Dimensional Features", Journal of Applied Statistics, 49(9), 2189-2207.

Hojin Yang, Hongtu Zhu, Mihye Ahn, and Joseph G. Ibrahim. (2021). "Weighted Functional Linear Cox Regression Model", Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 30(8), 1917-1931.

Jingwen Zhang, Kai Xia, Mihye Ahn, Shaili C. Jha, Reid Blanchett, James J. Crowley, Jin P. Szatkiewicz, Fei Zou, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, John H. Gilmore, and Rebecca C. Knickmeyer. (2021). "Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Neonatal White Matter Microstructure", Cerebral Cortex, 31(2), 933-948.

Brittany R. Howell, Mihye Ahn, Yundi Shi, Jodi R. Godfrey, Xiaoping Hu, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, and Mar M. Sanchez. (2019), "Disentangling the Effects of Early Caregiving Experience and Heritable Factors on Brain White Matter Development in Rhesus Monkeys", NeuroImage, 197, 625-642. 

Shaili C. Jha, Kai Xia, Mihye Ahn, Jessica B. Girault, Gang Li, Li Wang, Dinggang Shen, Fei Zou, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, John H. Gilmore, and Rebecca C. Knickmeyer. (2019), "Environmental Influences on Infant Cortical Thickness and Surface Area", Cerebral Cortex, 29(3), 1139-1149.

Shaili C. Jha, Kai Xia, James Eric Schmitt, Mihye Ahn, Jessica B. Girault, Veronica A. Murphy, Gang Li, Li Wang, Dinggang Shen, Fei Zou, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, Rebecca C. Knickmeyer, and John H. Gilmore. (2018), "Genetic Influences on Neonatal Cortical Thickness and Surface Area", Human Brain Mapping, 39(12), 4998-5013.

Alexander L. Carlson, Kai Xia, M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, Barbara D. Goldman, Mihye Ahn, Martin A. Styner, Amanda L. Thompson, Xiujuan Geng, John H. Gilmore, and Rebecca C. Knickmeyer. (2018), "Infant Gut Microbiome Associated with Cognitive Development", Biological Psychiatry, 83(2), 148-159.

Rebecca Knickmeyer, Kai Xia, Zhaohua Lu, Mihye Ahn, Shaili Jha, Fei Zou, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, and John Gilmore. (2017), "Impact of Demographic and Obstetric Factors on Infant Brain Volumes: A Population Neuroscience Study", Cerebral Cortex, 27(12), 5616-5625.

Zheng Fan, Mihye Ahn, Heidi L. Roth, Leping Li, and Bradley V. Vaughn. (2017), "Sleep Apnea and Hypoventilation in Patients with Down Syndrome: Analysis of 144 Polysomnogram Studies", Children, 4(7), 55.

Kai Xia, Jingwen Zhang, Mihye Ahn, Shaili Jha, James J. Crowley, Jin Szatkiewicz, Tengfei Li, Fei Zou, Hongtu Zhu, Derrek Hibar, Paul Thompson, ENIGMA Consortium, Patrick F. Sullivan, Martin Styner, John H. Gilmore, and Rebecca C. Knickmeyer. (2017), "Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Common Variants Influencing Infants Brain Volumes", Translational Psychiatry, 7, e1188.

Christopher Bryant, Hongtu Zhu, Mihye Ahn, and Joseph Ibrahim. (2017), "LCN: A Random Graph Mixture Model for Community Detection in Functional Brain Networks", Statistics and Its Interface, 10(3), 369-378.

Shaili C. Jha, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, Rachel J. Steiner, Emil Cornea, Sandra Woolson, Mihye Ahn, Audrey Verde, Robert M. Hamer, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, John H. Gilmore, and Rebecca C. Knickmeyer. (2016), "Antenatal Depression, Treatment with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, and Neonatal Brain Structure: A Propensity-Matched Cohort Study", Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 253, 43-53.

Joe N. Kornegay, Daniel J. Bogan, Janet R. Bogan, Jennifer L. Dow, Jiahui Wang, Zheng Fan, Naili Liu, Leigh C. Warsing, Robert W. Grange, Mihye Ahn, Cynthia J. Balog-Alvarez, Steven W. Cotton, Monte S. Willis, Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Hongtu Zhu, Joe Palandra, Carl A. Morris, Martin A. Styner, and Kathryn R. Wagner. (2016), "Dystrophin-Deficient Dogs with Reduced Myostatin Have Unequal Muscle Growth and Greater Joint Contractures", Skeletal Muscle, 6:14.

Gang Li, Li Wang, Feng Shi, Amanda E. Lyall, Mihye Ahn, Ziwen Peng, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin, John H. Gilmore, and Dinggang Shen. (2016), "Cortical Thickness and Surface Area in Neonates at High Risk for Schizophrenia", Brain Structure and Function, 221(1), 447-461. 

Qibing Gao, Mihye Ahn, and Hongtu Zhu. (2015), "Cook's Distance Measures for Varying Coefficient Models with Functional Responses", Technometrics, 57(2), 268-280.

Ruixin Guo, Mihye Ahn, and Hongtu Zhu for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2015), "Spatially Weighted Principal Component Analysis for Imaging Classification", Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 24(1), 274-296.

Mihye Ahn, Haipeng Shen, Weili Lin, and Hongtu Zhu. (2015), "A Sparse Reduced Rank Framework for Group Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Data", Statistica Sinica, 25, 295-312.

Ja-An Lin, Hongtu Zhu, Mihye Ahn, Wei Sun, and Joseph G. Ibrahim for the Alzheimer's Neuroimaging Initiative. (2014), "Functional Mixed Effects Models for Candidate Genetic Mapping in Imaging Genetic Studies", Genetic Epidemiology, 38(8), 680-691.

Lucile Bompard, Shun Xu, Martin Styner, Beatriz Paniagua, Mihye Ahn, Ying Yuan, Valerie Jewells, Wei Gao, Dinggang Shen, Hongtu Zhu, and Weili Lin. (2014), "Multivariate Longitudinal Shape Analysis of Human Lateral Ventricles during the First Twenty-Four Months of Life", PLoS ONE, 9(9), e108306. 

Kai Xia, Yang Yu, Mihye Ahn, Hongtu Zhu, Fei Zou, John H. Gilmore, Rebecca C. Knickmeyer. (2014), "Environmental and Genetic Contributors to Salivary Testosterone Levels in Infants", Frontiers in Endocrinology, 30, 5:187. 

Joe N. Kornegay, Jennifer M. Peterson, Daniel J. Bogan, William Kline, Janet R. Bogan, Jennifer L. Dow, Zheng Fan, Jiahui Wang, Mihye Ahn, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, and Denis C. Guttridge. (2014), "NBD Delivery Improves the Disease Phenotype of the Golden Retriever Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy", Skeletal Muscle, 4:18. 

Zheng Fan, Jiahui Wang, Mihye Ahn, Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, Nizar Chahin, Sandra Elmore, Robert Bagnell, Kathy Wilber, Hongyu An, Weili Lin, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, and Joe Kornegay. (2014), "Characteristics of Magnetics Resonance Imaging Biomarkers in a Natural History Study of Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy", Neuromuscular Disorders, 24, 178-191.

Audrey R. Verde, Francois Budin, Jean-Baptiste Berger, Aditya Gupta, Mahshid Farzinfar, Adrien Kaiser, Mihye Ahn, Hans Johnson, Joy Matsui, Heather C. Hazlett, Anuja Sharma, Casey Goodlett, Yundi Shi, Sylvain Gouttard, Clement Vachet, Joseph Piven, Hongtu Zhu, Guido Gerig, and Martin Styner. (2014), "UNC-Utah NA-MIC Framework for DTI Fiber Tract Analysis", Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 7:51. 

Xin Zhang, Yazhong Tao, Manisha Chopra, Mihye Ahn, Karen L. Marcus, Neelima Choudhary, Hongtu Zhu, and Silva Markovic-Plese. (2013), "Differential Reconstitution of T Cell Subsets Following Immunodepleting Treatment with Alemtuzumab (Anti-CD52 Monoclonal Antibody) in Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis", Journal of Immunology, 191, 5867-5874.

Mihye Ahn, Hao Helen Zhang, and Wenbin Lu. (2012), "Moment-based Method for Random Effects Selection in Linear Mixed Models", Statistica Sinica, 22, 1539-1562.

Jae June Lee and Mihye Ahn. (2004), "Influence of Special Causes on Stochastic Process Adjustment", Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 33, 219-231.

Proceedings

Pallav Halani, Mihye Ahn, Bradley Vaughn, Travis Ewing, and Zheng Fan. (2021), "Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypoventilation in Patients with Muscular Dystrophies: Analysis of 42 Polysomnogram Studies", SLEEP, 44 (Suppl_2), A309. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab072.790

Franklin FuchsU, Omar KamalU, Hanao LiU, Mihye Ahn, and So Young Ryu. (2020), "Pediatric Patient Traumatic Brain Injury Prediction", 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 2955 - 2957.  https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM49941.2020.9313568

Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, Mihye Ahn, Michael Nahouraii, Sandy Elmore, Zheng Fan, Nizar Chahin, and Joe N. Kornegay. (2018), "Longitudinal Quantitative Muscle Histopathology and its Correlation with MRI Biomarkers and Functional Tests in a National History Study of Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy", Muscle and Nerve, 58, S18. 

Travis Ewing, Mihye  Ahn, Kunal Kumar, Bradley V. Vaughn, Heidi L. Roth, and Zheng Fan. (2017), "Sleep Parameters of Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy", SLEEP, 40 (Suppl_1), A321. 

Zheng Fan, Mihye  Ahn, Heidi Roth, and Bradley V. Vaughn. (2015), "Evolution of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Patients with Down Syndrome: Polysomnographic Findings", SLEEP 2015, the 29th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC (APSS).

Sarah Short, Barbara Goldman, Rachel Steiner, Mihye  Ahn, Martin Styner, and John Gilmore. (2015), "Can Infants' White Matter Integrity at Birth Predict Their Working Memory Performance at 1 and 2 Years of Age?", 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).

Kaela Kelly, Shaili Jha, Rachel Steiner, Jessica Bullins, Kai Xia, Fei Zou, Mihye Ahn, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, John Gilmore, and Rebecca Knickmeyer. (2014), "Impact of Birth Outcomes and Genetic Variation on White Matter Microstructure in Neonates", Neuropsychopharmacology, 39(S1), S233. 

Audrey Verde, Vicki Chanon, Mihye Ahn, Emily Cerciello, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner, and Charlotte Boettiger. (2014), "White Matter Microstructure Abnormalities in the Fornix and Cingulum of Cigarette Smokers", 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), 1005.

Yaping Wang, Gang Li, Mihye Ahn, Jingxin Nie, Hongtu Zhu, and Lei Guo. (2013), "Mapping Longitudinal Cerebral Cortex Development Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging", Proceeding of SPIE 8669, Medical Imaging 2013: Image Processing, 86692E. 

Jae June Lee, Sinsup Cho, Jong Seon Lee, and Mihye Ahn. (2004), "Problems of Special Causes in Feedback Adjustment", Conference of the Korean Society for Quality Management, Chongju University, South Korea.

Jong Seon Lee, Mihye Ahn, and Jae June Lee. (2003), "Detection Power when Outliers are Present at or near the End of Time Series", Autumn Conference of the Korean Statistical Society, Seoul National University, South Korea.