Min Jin Ha, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Sciences
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2013 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, PHD, Biostatistics |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Regular Member, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - UT Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 2019 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2013 | ASA Student Paper Award, American Statistical Association |
| 2012 | David P. Byar Young Investigator Travel Award, American Statistical Association |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Kim J, Do KA, Ha MJ, Peterson CB. Bayesian inference of hub nodes across multiple networks. Biometrics 75(1):172-182, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30051914.
- Ha MJ, Banerjee S, Akbani R, Liang H, Mills GB, Do KA, Baladandayuthapani V. Personalized Integrated Network Modeling of the Cancer Proteome Atlas. Sci Rep 8(1):14924, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30297783.
- Yang Ni, Francesco C. Stingo, Min Jin Ha, Rehan Akbani, and Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani. Bayesian Hierarchical Varying-sparsity Regression Models with Application to Cancer Proteogenomics. Journal of the American Statistical Association(10):1-13, 2018.
- Class CA, Ha MJ, Baladandayuthapani V, Do KA. iDINGO - Integrative Differential Network Analysis in Genomics with Shiny Application. Bioinformatics 34(7):1243-1245, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29194470.
- Yang Q, Chen LS, Ha MJ, Do KA, Neelapu SS, Gandhi V. Idelalisib impacts cell growth through inhibiting translation regulatory mechanisms in mantle cell lymphoma. Clin Cancer Res 23(1):181-192, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27342398.
- Hunt K, Karakas C, Ha MJ, Biernacka A, Yi M, Sahin A, Adjapong O, Hortobagyi GN, Bondy M, Thompson P, Cheung KL, Ellis IO, Bacus S, Symmans WF, Do KA, Keyomarsi K. Cytoplasmic Cylin E predicts recurrence in Patients with breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 16(2217), 2016.
- Do HJ, Lee YS, Ha MJ, Cho Y, Yi H, Hwang YJ, Hwang GS, Shin MJ. Beneficial effects of voglibose administration on body weight and lipid metabolism via gastrointestinal bile acid modification. Endocr J 63(8):691-702, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27349182.
- Ha MJ, Sun W, Xie J. PenPC: A two-step approach to estimate the skeletons of high-dimensional directed acyclic graphs. Biometrics 72(1):146-55, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26406114.
- Ha MJ, Baladandayuthapani V, Do KA. DINGO: differential network analysis in genomics. Bioinformatics 31(21):3413-20, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26148744.
- Ha MJ, Baladandayuthapani V, Do KA. Prognostic gene signature identification using causal structure learning: applications in kidney cancer. Cancer Inform 14(Suppl 1):23-35, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25861215.
- Costello JC, Heiser LM, Georgii E, Gönen M, Menden MP, Wang NJ, Bansal M, Ammad-ud-din M, Hintsanen P, Khan SA, Mpindi JP, Kallioniemi O, Honkela A, Aittokallio T, Wennerberg K, NCI DREAM Community, Collins JJ, Gallahan D, Singer D, Saez-Rodriguez J, Kaski S, Gray JW, Stolovitzky G. A community effort to assess and improve drug sensitivity prediction algorithms. Nat Biotechnol 32(12):1202-12, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24880487.
- Ha MJ, Sun W. Partial correlation matrix estimation using ridge penalty followed by thresholding and re-estimation. Biometrics 70(3):765-73, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24845967.
- Wright FA, Sullivan PF, Brooks AI, Zou F, Sun W, Xia K, Madar V, Jansen R, Chung W, Zhou YH, Abdellaoui A, Batista S, Butler C, Chen G, Chen TH, D'Ambrosio D, Gallins P, Ha MJ, Hottenga JJ, Huang S, Kattenberg M, Kochar J, Middeldorp CM, Qu A, Shabalin A, Tischfield J, Todd L, Tzeng JY, van Grootheest G, Vink JM, Wang Q, Wang W, Wang W, Willemsen G, Smit JH, de Geus EJ, Yin Z, Penninx BW, Boomsma DI. Heritability and genomics of gene expression in peripheral blood. Nat Genet 46(5):430-7, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24728292.
- O'Shea SH, Schwarz J, Kosyk O, Ross PK, Ha MJ, Wright FA, Rusyn I. In vitro screening for population variability in chemical toxicity. Toxicol Sci 119(2):398-407, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20952501.
- Kettner NM, Vijayaraghavan S, Durak MG, Bui T, Kohansal M, Ha MJ, Liu B, Rao X, Wang J, Yi M, Carey JP, Chen X, Eckols TK, Raghavendra AS, Ibrahim NK, Karuturi MS, Watowich SS, Sahin A, Tweardy DJ, Hunt KK, Tripathy D, Keyomarsi K. Combined inhibition of STAT3 and DNA repair in palbociclib-resistant ER-positive breast cancer. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30867218.
- Ha MJ, Sun W. Estimation of high-dimensional directed acyclic graphs with surrogate intervention. Biostatistics. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30596892.
Book Chapters
- George Tseng. eQTL and Directed Graphical Model. In: Integrating omics data: statistical and computational methods, 2015.
Grant & Contract Support
| Title: | Graph-based Bayesian analysis of Genomics and Proteomics Data |
| Funding Source: | NIH The Texas A&M University System |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Risk Prediction for ER Negative Breast Cancer Recurrence |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | SPORE: Developing New Rationale, Personalized Medicine for Lung Cancer |
| Funding Source: | NIH Subaward The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Cancer Center Support Grant - Biostatistics Resource Group (BRG) |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Biostatistician |
| Title: | MD Anderson Cancer Center Prostate Cancer SPORE. Core 1: Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Core |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Proteomic-based integrated subject-specific networks in cancer |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Principal Investigator |
| Title: | Acute Myeloid Leukemia in the Immunosuppressed Microenvironment - CPRIT MIRA Core 3 - Biostatistics/Bioinformatics |
| Funding Source: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) |
| Role: | Collaborator |
| Title: | Risk prediction for ER negative breast cancer recurrence |
| Funding Source: | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Start Up and Retention Funds |
| Funding Source: | MDACC Internal Funding |
| Role: | Biostatistician |