Publications

Samorodnitsky S, Campbell K, Little A, Ling W, Zhao N, Chen Y-C, Wu MC.  2026.  Detecting clinically relevant topological structures in multiplexed spatial proteomics using TopKAT. Patterns. 7(1)

Lu J, Satten GA, Meyer KA, Launer LJ, Ling W, Zhao N.  2026.  Identifying unmeasured heterogeneity in microbiome data via quantile thresholding (QuanT). Microbiome. 14

Pareek E, Pershad Y, Zhao K, Uddin MMesbah, Xue L, Vlasschaert C, Mack TM, Haessler J, Collins JM, Glick E et al..  2026.  Metformin does not significantly alter longitudinal dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis. Clinical Cancer Research.

Fu C, Lu J, Zhao N, Ling W.  2026.  MOSAIC: A Pipeline for MicrobiOme Studies Analytical Integration and Correction. bioRxiv.

Little A, Ling W, Plantinga AM, Samorodnitsky S, Wu MC, Zhao N.  2026.  Statistical Analysis of-Omics Data. Handbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology.

Zhang A, Ling W, Little A, Williams-Nguyen JS, Moon J-Y, Burk RD, Knight R, Wang DD, Qi Q, Kaplan RC et al..  2026.  Weighted variance component test for the integrative multi-omics analysis of microbiome data. bioRxiv.

Desai P, Li Z, Li Y, Mencia-Trinchant N, Gorski K, Ling W, Ritchie E, Samuel M, Canaani J, Bar-Natan M et al..  2025.  Characterization of antecedent clonal hematopoiesis (CH) mutations in lymphoid and plasma cell neoplasms. Blood. 146

Han H, Li Y, Qi Y, Mangiola S, Ling W.  2025.  Deciphering gut microbiome in colorectal cancer via robust learning methods. Genes. 16(4)

Little A, Zhao N, Mikhaylova A, Zhang A, Ling W, Thibord F, Johnson AD, Raffield LM, Curran JE, Blangero J et al..  2025.  General kernel machine methods for multi-omics integration and genome-wide association testing with related individuals. Genetic Epidemiology. 49(1)

Guo B, Ling W, Kwon SH, Panwar P, Ghazanfar S, Martinowich K, Hicks SC.  2025.  Integrating spatially-resolved transcriptomics data across tissues and individuals: challenges and opportunities. Small Methods. 9(5)

Liu C, Han H, Qi Y, Ling W.  2025.  A knowledge-guided large language model framework for microbiome-based disease diagnosis. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM).

Selbach F, Li C, Dong H, Ling W, Dadhania DM, Lee JR.  2025.  Negative Impact of Antibiotics on Fecal Short Chain Fatty Acid Levels: Implications for Gut Health in Kidney Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 25(8)

Wang Z, Ling W, Wang T.  2025.  A semiparametric quantile regression rank score test for zero-inflated data. Biometrics. 81(2)

Li S, Li R, Lee JR, Zhao N, Ling W.  2025.  ZINQ-L: a zero-inflated quantile approach for differential abundance analysis of longitudinal microbiome data. Frontiers in Genetics. 15

Dong H, Li R, Zhao N, Dadhania DM, Suthanthiran M, Lee JR, Ling W.  2024.  Antibiotic subclasses differentially perturb the gut microbiota in kidney transplant recipients. Frontiers in Transplantation. 3

Little A, Deek RA, Zhang A, Zhao N, Ling W, Wu MC.  2024.  Enhanced visualization of microbiome data in repeated measures designs. Frontiers in Genetics. 15

Li Y, Lee T, Marin K, Hua X, Srinivasan S, Fredricks DN, Lee JR, Ling W.  2024.  SurvBal: compositional microbiome balances for survival outcomes. Bioinformatics. 40(10)

Song H, Ling W, Zhao N, Plantinga AM, Broedlow CA, Klatt NR, Hensley-McBain T, Wu MC.  2023.  Accommodating multiple potential normalizations in microbiome associations studies. BMC Bioinformatics. 24

Zhang Y, Luth EA, Phongtankuel V, Ling W, Zhang M, Shao H.  2023.  Factors associated with preventable hospitalizations after hospice live discharge among Medicare patients with ADRD. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71(11)

Liu H, Ling W, Hua X, Moon J-Y, Williams-Nguyen JS, Zhan X, Plantinga AM, Zhao N, Zhang A, Knight R et al..  2023.  Kernel-based genetic association analysis for microbiome phenotype identifies host genetic drivers of beta-diversity. Microbiome. 11

Ling W, Lu J, Zhao N, Lulla A, Plantinga AM, Fu W, Zhang A, Liu H, Song H, Li Z et al..  2022.  Batch effects removal for microbiome data via conditional quantile regression. Nature Communications. 13

Ling W, Cheng B, Wei Y, Willey JZ, Cheung YK.  2022.  Statistical inference in quantile regression for zero-inflated outcomes. Statistica Sinica. 32(3)

Wang T, Ling W, Plantinga AM, Wu MC, Zhan X.  2022.  Testing microbiome association using integrated quantile regression models. Bioinformatics. 38(2)

Hudson PL, Ling W, Wu MC, Hayward MR, Mitchell AJ, Larson J, Guthrie KA, Reed SD, Kwon DS, Mitchell CM.  2021.  Comparison of the vaginal microbiota in postmenopausal Black and White women. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 224(11)

Ling W, Qi Y, Hua X, Wu MC.  2021.  Deep ensemble learning over the microbial phylogenetic tree (DeepEn-Phy). 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM).