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Kelly Vaughan, Ph.D.

Kelly Vaughan, Ph.D. Department of Biostatistics
Ryals Public Health Bldg, 327
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294
Phone: (205) 975-9272
Fax: (205) 975-2540
E-mail: LVaughan@ms.soph.uab.edu
Full CV


Dr. Vaughan received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University in the spring of 2005. Her main focus was rice population genetics and herbicide resistance using a wide range of molecular genetic and biochemical techniques. Kelly joined the SSG in the spring of 2005 as a post-doctoral fellow. Her work focused on the development and evaluation of population stratification and structured association testing methods.

In 2008 Kelly was awarded a Mentored Career Development Award by the NIDDK entitled Cluster Based Selection of Candidate Genes in Genome Wide Association Studies to gain further training in bioinformatics and computational biology. This project was designed to bridge her training in biochemistry, genetics and statistical genetics while strengthening her skills to actively facilitate cross disciplinary research. She started her faculty position with the SSG in the fall of 2008 and has active collaborations within the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Mechanical Engineering, Preventative Medicine and Cancer Center. Her main areas of interest include pathway & network analysis, functional annotation analysis, integrative data analysis and translational research.

Publications
 

  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • Pre 2007
  1. Arnett DK, Meyers KJ, Devereux RB, Tiwari HK, Gu CC, Vaughan LK, Perry RT, Patki A, Claas SA, Sun YV, Broeckel U, Kardia SL. Genetic Variation in NCAM1 Contributes to Left Ventricular Wall Thickness in Hypertensive Families. Circ Res. 2011 Jan 6. [Epub ahead of print] [PMID: 21212386] [DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.239210]
  1. Shikany JM, Vaughan LK, Baskin ML, Cope MB, Hill JO, Allison DB. Is dietary fat "fattening"? A comprehensive research synthesis. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2010 Sep;50(8):699-715. [PMID: 20830632]
  1. Vaughan, LK, J Divers, M Padilla, DT Redden, HK Tiwari, D Pomp & DB Allison. 2009. The use of plasmodes as a supplement to simulations: A simple example evaluating individual admixture estimation methodologies. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 53(5) 1755-1766 [DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.02.032]
     
  2. Casazza, K, N Natour, J Divers, LK Vaughan, AW Bigham, B A Gower, G Hunter & JR Fernández. 2009. Triglyceride concentration is independently associated with variation in the LPL gene in African American and European American women. The Open Obesity Journal. In Press. [DOI: 10.2174/1876823700901010023]
     
  3. Padilla, MA, J Divers, LK Vaughan, DB Allison, & HK Tiwari. 2009. Multiple Imputation to Correct for Measurement Error in Genetic Structured Association Testing. Human Heredity. 68(1):65-72. [PMID: 19339787]
  1. Kelley, JM, LB Hughes, R Feng, N Liu, MA Padilla, LK Vaughan, SL Bridges. 2008. Evaluating linkage disequilibrium and recombination provides a haplotype-tagging SNP panel of the major histocompatibility complex in African Americans. Genes and Immunity. 9: 271 – 273. [PMID: 8305489]
     
  2. Shriner, D, T Mersha, MPadilla, S Zhang, LK Vaughan, & AE Loraine. 2008. Gene Ontology-Based Prioritization of Candidate Genes from Genome-Wide Linkage Studies. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(4):e26. [PMID: 18263617].
     
  3. Tiwari, HK, J Barnholtz-Sloan, N Wineinger, MA Padilla, LK Vaughan & DB Allison. 2008. Review and evaluation of methods correcting for population stratification with a focus on underlying statistical principles. Human Heredity. 66(2):67-86. [PMID: 18382087]
     
  4. Hughes, LB, D Morrison, JM Kelley, MA Padilla, LK Vaughan, AO Westfall, TR Mikuls, VM Holers, L Parrish, GS Alarcón, DL Conn, B Jonas, LF Callahan, EA Smith, G Gilkeson, G Howard, LW. Moreland, DB Allison, N Patterson, D Reich & SL Bridges, Jr. 2008. The HLA-DRB1 Shared Epitope is Associated with Susceptibility to Rheumatoid Arthritis in African-Americans and Correlates with Degree of Genetic Admixture from Caucasians. Arthritis Research. 58(2):349-58. [PMID: 18240241]
  1. Shriner, D, LK Vaughan, M. Padilla, HK Tiwari. 2007. Letters: Problems with Genome Wide Association Studies. Science. 316(5833):1840 – 1842 [PMID: 17600199]
     
  2. Divers, J, LK Vaughan, M Padilla, DT Redden, JR Fernández & DB Allison. 2007. Correcting for measurement error in individual ancestry estimates in structured association tests. Genetics. 176 (3): 1823. [PMID: 17507670]
     
  3. Redden, DT, J Divers, LK Vaughan, M Padilla, S Musani, HK Tiwari & DB Allison. 2007. Methodologic Challenges in Genetic Studies of Obesity. In Obesity Genomics & Postgenomics. Clément & Sørensen, eds. Informa Healthcare, NY. Pgs 229-246.
  1. Redden D, J Divers, LK Vaughan, HK Tiwari, TM Beasley, J Fernández, RP Kimberly, R Feng, M Padilla, N Lui, M Miller & DB Allison. 2006. Regional admixture mapping and structured association testing: conceptual unification and an extensible general linear model. PLoS Genetics 2: 1254-1264. [PMID: 16934005]
     
  2. Vaughan, LK, BV Ottis, AM Prazak-Havey, CA Bormans, C Sneller, JM Chandler & WD Park. 2001. Is all red rice found in commercial rice fields really Oryza sativa? Weed Science. 49:468-476. [DOI: 10.1614/0043-1745(2001)049[0468:IARRFI]2.0.CO;2]
     

 

Years: 2005 - 2008 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Mentor(s):  David T. Redden, PhD & David B Allison PhD
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Section on Statistical Genetics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham