Prakash Gorroochurn
- Associate Professor in Biostatistics at CUMC

Overview
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor in Biostatistics at CUMC
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- PhD, 1999 Monash University, Faculty of Science
Editorial Boards
Associate Editor, The American Statistician
Associate Editor, BMC Genetics
Honors & Awards
Calderone Research Prize for Junior Faculty (2005-2006)
2012 PROSE Award
Research
Selected Publications
Int.J Oncol. 29 (5) 1065-1073 2006
Gorroochurn P, Hodge SE, Heiman GA and Greenberg DA. A unified approach for quantifying, testing and correcting population stratification in case-control association studies Hum Hered 64 149-159 2007
Gorroochurn P, Hodge SE, Heiman GA, Greenberg DA Effect of population stratification on case-control association studies. II: False-positive rates and their limiting behavior as number of subpopulations increases Human Heredity 58 40-49 2004
Gorroochurn P, Hodge SE, Heiman GA, Greenberg DA Effect of population stratification on case-control association studies. II: False-positive rates and their limiting behavior as number of subpopulations increases Hum Hered 58 40-48 2004
Gorroochurn P Post-data inference of coalescence times and segregating-site distribution in a two-island model with symmetric migration Advances in Applied Probability 33 600-616 2001
Heiman GA, Hodge SE, Gorroochurn P, Greenberg DA Effect of population stratification on case-control association studies. I: Elevation in false positive rates and comparison to confounding risk ratios (a simulation study) Human Heredity 58 30-39 2004
Heiman GA, Gorroochurn P, Hodge SE, Greenberg DA Robustness of case-control studies to population stratification Cancer Epi. Biom. Prev. 14(6) 2005
Komenaka IK, Ditkoff BA, Joseph KA, Russo D, Gorroochurn P, Ward M, Horowitz E, El-Tamer MB, Schnabel FR The development of interval breast malignancies in patients with BRCA mutations Cancer 100 (10) 2079-2083 2004
Gorroochurn P, Hodge SE, Heiman GA, Durner M, Greenberg DA Non-replication of association studies: 'pseudo-failures' to replicate? Genetics in Medicine 9(6) 325-331 2007
Heiman GA, Hodge SE, Gorroochurn P, J Zhang, Greenberg DA Effect of population stratification on case-control association studies. I: Elevation in the false positive rates and comparisons to confounding risk ratios (a simulation study) Hum Hered 58 30-39 2004
Gorroochurn, P Post-Data Inference of Coalescence Times and Segregating-Site Distribution in a Two-Island Model with Symmetric Migration Advances in Applied Probability 33(3) 600-616 2001
Gorroochurn P Perils in the Use of Linkage Disequilibrium for Fine Gene Mapping: Simple Insights from Population Genetics Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17(12) 3292–7 2008