Selected PUBLICATIONs

Bingxin Zhao et al., Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images (2023). Science. LINK [Perspective article in Science]

Bingxin Zhao et al., Common variants contribute to intrinsic functional architecture of human brain (2022). Nature Genetics. LINK

Bingxin Zhao et al., Common genetic variation influencing human white matter microstructure (2021). Science. LINK [Perspective article in Science]

Bingxin Zhao et al., Genome-wide association analysis of 19,629 individuals identifies variants influencing regional brain volumes and refines their genetic co-architecture with cognitive and mental health traits (2019). Nature Genetics. LINK

Bingxin Zhao et al., Transcriptome-wide association analysis of brain structures yields insights into pleiotropy with complex neuropsychiatric traits (2021). Nature Communications. LINK

Bingxin Zhao and Hongtu Zhu, On genetic correlation estimation with summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (2022). Journal of the American Statistical Association. LINK

Bingxin Zhao and Fei Zou, On polygenic risk scores for complex polygenic trait prediction (2022). Biometrics. LINK

Bingxin Zhao, Fei Zou, and Hongtu Zhu, Cross-trait prediction accuracy of summary statistics in genome-wide association studies (2022). Biometrics. LINK


The list of all my research papers can be found on Google Scholar. 

Selected Projects

Multi-organ imaging and genetic analyses across human body systems

Bingxin Zhao et al., Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images (2023). Science. LINK.

Juan Shu et al., and Bingxin Zhao, Multi-organ genetic causal connections inferred from imaging and clinical data through Mendelian randomization (2023). medRxiv. LINK.

Genetic architecture of human brain white matter

Bingxin Zhao et al., Common genetic variation influencing human white matter microstructure (2021). Science. LINK  

Bingxin Zhao et al., Transcriptome-wide association analysis of brain structures yields insights into pleiotropy with complex neuropsychiatric traits (2021). Nature Communications. LINK

Bingxin Zhao et al., Large-scale GWAS reveals genetic architecture of brain white matter microstructure and genetic overlap with cognitive and mental health traits (n= 17,706) (2021). Molecular Psychiatry. LINK

High-dimensional statistical problems in GWAS

Bingxin Zhao and Hongtu Zhu, On genetic correlation estimation with summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (2022). Journal of the American Statistical Association. LINK

Bingxin Zhao and Fei Zou, On polygenic risk scores for complex polygenic trait prediction (2022). Biometrics. LINK

Bingxin Zhao, Fei Zou, and Hongtu Zhu, Cross-trait prediction accuracy of summary statistics in genome-wide association studies (2022). Biometrics. LINK

Genetic architecture of human brain structures 

Bingxin Zhao et al., Genetic influences on the shape of brain ventricular and subcortical structures (2022).  medRxiv. LINK

Bingxin Zhao et al., Genome-wide association analysis of 19,629 individuals identifies variants influencing regional brain volumes and refines their genetic co-architecture with cognitive and mental health traits (2019). Nature Genetics. LINK

Bingxin Zhao et al., Heritability of regional brain volumes in large-scale neuroimaging and genetic studies (2019). Cerebral Cortex. LINK

Genetic influences on human brain functional organizations

Bingxin Zhao et al., Common variants contribute to intrinsic functional architecture of human brain (2022). Nature Genetics. LINK

Bingxin Zhao et al., Genetic influences on the intrinsic and extrinsic functional organizations of the cerebral cortex (2021). medRxiv. LINK

Trans-ancestry analyses in human genetics and genomics

Bingxin Zhao, Xiaochen Yang, and Hongtu Zhu, Estimating trans-ancestry genetic correlation with unbalanced data resources (2022). arXiv. LINK.





Source: Bycroft et al. (2018), Figure 1

Biobank-scale analyses of human health, behavior, and socioeconomics

Xiaochen Yang et al., and Bingxin Zhao, Developing and sharing polygenic risk scores for 4,206 brain imaging-derived phenotypes for 400,000 UK Biobank subjects not participating in the imaging study (2023). medRxiv. LINK

Zirui Fan et al., and Bingxin Zhao, Mapping sleep's phenotypic and genetic links to the brain and heart: a systematic analysis of multimodal brain and cardiac images in the UK Biobank (2022). medRxiv. LINK

Bingxin Zhao et al., An atlas of trait associations with resting-state and task-evoked human brain functional architectures in the UK Biobank (2022). medRxiv. LINK

Jinjie Lin and Bingxin Zhao, Born to be managers? Genetic links between risk-taking and the likelihood of holding managerial positions (2021). SSRN. LINK

Analysis of block-wise high-dimensional matrices using random matrix theory 

Bingxin Zhao, Shurong Zheng, and Hongtu Zhu, On block-wise and reference panel-based estimators for genetic data prediction in high dimensions (2022). arXiv. LINK.




Retinal imaging genetics with transfer learning

Bingxin Zhao et al., Eye-brain connections revealed by multimodal retinal and brain imaging genetics in the UK Biobank (2023).  medRxiv. LINK.





Cloud computing-based platforms for biomedical data science

Yujue Li et al., and Bingxin Zhao, Analyzing bivariate cross-trait genetic architecture in GWAS summary statistics with the BIGA cloud computing platform (2023). bioRxiv. LINK Website