Duo Jiang

The paper shows pollen fitness alleles in maize affect spatial inheritance patterns across ears, with non-Mendelian transmission trends observed in specific mutants.

The paper derives an analytical formula showing test-statistic correlations are generally weaker than data-row correlations, challenging common approximations in statistical analysis.

The paper introduces a greedy trend test to detect monotonic group mean trends under a broader null hypothesis, demonstrating improved type I error control and power compared to existing methods.

MEACA improves gene-set analysis by using mixed models to better handle gene correlations and reduce false positives while increasing statistical power.