Qihua Tan is a Professor of genetic epidemiology at the Department of Public Health. His research focuses on statistical analysis of (epi)genomic data especially on twins and its application to understand diseases, aging and development.
Qihua Tan's research focuses on genetics and genomics of human aging and aging-related diseases using biostatistics and bioinformatics approaches applied to genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics and proteomics data.
In recent years, his research on epigenomics includes exciting studies on homocygoteous twins discordant for diseases and other phenotypes, as well as on aging elderly cohorts reporting important findings on genomic variations and biological pathways implicated in human complex diseases and aging phenotypes.