OTHER METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Tiwari, H. K., Barnholtz-Sloan, J., Wineinger, N., Padilla, M. A., Vaughan, L. K., & Allison, D. B. (accepted). Review and evaluation of methods correcting for population stratification with a focus on underlying statistical principles.

Hughes, L. B., Morrison, D., Kelley, J. M., Padilla, M. A., Vaughan, L. K., Westfall, A. O., et al. (in press). The HLA-DRB1 Shared Epitope is Associated with Susceptibility to Rheumatoid Arthritis in African-Americans Through European Genetic Admixture. Arthritis and Rheumatism.

Shriner, D., Vaughan, L. K., Padilla, M. A., & Tiwari, H. K. (2007). Problems with Genome-Wide Association Studies. Science, 316, 1840-1842.

Divers, J., Vaughan, L. K., Padilla, M. A., Fernandez, J. R., Allison, D. B., & Redden, D. T. (2007). Correcting for measurement error in individual ancestry estimates in structured association tests. Genetics, 176, 1823 1833.

Redden, D. T., Divers, J., Vaughan, L. K., Tiwari, H. K., Beasley, T. M., Fernandez, J. R., Kimberly, R. P., Feng, R., Padilla, M., Liu, N., Miller, M. B., Allison, D. B. (in press). Regional Admixture Mapping and Structured Association Testing: Conceptual Unification and an Extensible General Linear Model. Plos Genetics, 2, 1254-1264.

Yang, R., N. Yi and S. Xu. Box-Cox transformation for QTL mapping. Genetica, 128, 1-3, 133-143

Zhang, K., Wiener, H., Beasley, T. M., George, V., Amos, C. I., & Allison, D. B. (in press). An Empirical Bayes Method for Updating Inferences in Analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci Using Information from Related Genome Scans. Genetics, 173, 2283-2296.

Gao G, Hoeschele I. (2005) Approximating identity-by-descent matrices using multiple haplotype configurations on pedigrees. Genetics. 2005 Sep;171(1):365-76. Epub 2005 Jun 18.

Coffey, C. S., Gadbury, G. L., Fontaine, K. R., Wang, C., Weindruch, R., & Allison, D. B. (2005). The Effects of Intentional Weight Loss as a Latent Variable Problem. Statistics in Medicine, 24, 941-954.

Tiwari, H. K., Holt, J., George, V., Beasley, T. M., Amos, C.I., & Allison, D.B. (2005). New joint covariance- and marginal-based tests for association and linkage for quantitative traits for random and non-random sampling. Genetic Epidemiology, 28, 48-57.

Beasley, T. M., Wiener, H., Zhang, K., Bartolucci, A. A., Amos, C. I., & Allison, D. B. (2005). Empirical Bayes Method for Incorporating Data from Multiple Genome Scans. Human Heredity;60: 36-42.

Headrick TC, Beasley TM (2005). A Method for Simulating Correlated Non-Normal Systems of Linear Statistical Equations. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 33, 19-33.

Feng R, Leckman JF, Zhang H (2004). Linkage analysis of ordinal traits for pedigree data. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Nov 30;101(48):16739-44. Epub 2004 Nov 17.

Gadbury, G. L., Page, G. P., Edwards, J., Kayo, T., Prolla, T. A., Weindruch, R., Permana, P. A., Mountz, J., & Allison, D. B. (2004). Power and Sample Size Estimation in High Dimensional Biology. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 13: 325-338.

Mehta, T., Tanik, M. & Allison, D. B. (2004). Toward Sound Epistemological Foundations of Statistical Methods for High Dimensional Biology. Nature Genetics, 36, 943-947.

Churchill GA . . . Page GP, Zhou F. (2004). The collaborative cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits. Nature Genetics, 36, 1133-1137.

Lei X, Holt J, Beasley TM (2004). Aligned Rank Tests as Robust Alternatives for Testing Interactions in Multiple Group Repeated Measures Designs with Heterogeneous Covariances. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 3(2), 462-475.

Redden DT, Fernández JR, Allison DB. (2004). A Simple Significance Test for Quantile Regression. Statistics in Medicine, 23, 2587-2597.

Shete S, Beasley M, Etzel C, Fernandez JR, Chen J, Allison DB, Amos CI. (2004). Effect of Winsorization on Power and Type 1 Error of Variance Components and Related Methods of QTL Detection. Behavior Genetics, 34, 153-159.

Siruglio G, Odunsi K, Ashenbrenner J, Morakinyo O, Page GP. (2004). The No evidence of association between the genetic predisposition for dizygotic twinning and schizophrenia in West Africa. Schizophrenia Research, 70(2-3), 343-344.

Tiwari HK, Holt J, George V, Beasley TM, Amos CI, Allison DB. (2004). Power and cost consideration in joint tests of association & linkage for quantitative traits. The 2004 JSM proceedings.

Wang C, Li Q, Redden DT, Weindruch R, Allison DB. (2004). Statistical Methods for Testing Effects on “Maximum Lifespan”.Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 125, 629-632.

Yang, D., Fontaine, K. R., Wang, C., Allison, D. B. (2003). Weight Loss Causes Increased Mortality: Cons. Obesity Review, 4(1), 9-16.

Etzel, C. J., Shete, S., Beasley, T. M., Fernández, J. R., Allison, D. B., Amos, C. I. (2003). Effect of Box-Cox transformation on power of Haseman-Elston and maximum-likelihood variance components tests to detect quantitative trait loci. Human Heredity, 55, 108-116.

Brand, J. P. L., Buuren van S., Oudshoorn K. (2003). A toolkit in SAS for the evaluation of multiple imputation methods. Statistica Neerlandica, 57, 1-10.

Beasley, T. M., Zumbo, B. D.  Comparison of Aligned Friedman Rank and Parametric Methods for Testing Interactions in Split-Plot Designs. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 42(4), 569-593.

Fernandez, J. R., Etzel, C., Beasley, M., Shete, S., Amos, C. I., Allison, D. B. (2002). Improving the power of sib-pair quantitative trait loci (QTL) detection by phenotype winsorization. Human Heredity, 53(2), 59-67.

Allison, D. B., Fernández, J., Heo, M., Zhu, S., Etzel, C., Beasley, T. M., Amos, C. I. (2002). Bias in QTL effect estimates in genome scans: demonstration of the phenomenon and a Method-of-Moments (MOM) procedure for reducing bias. American Journal of Human Genetics, 70(3):575-85.

Beasley, T. M. (2002). Multivariate aligned rank test for interactions in multiple group repeated measures designs. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 37, 197-226.

Holden K. R., Collins J. S., Greene J. F., Hinkle S., Nave A. F., Portillo J. M., Page G. P., Stevenson R. E. (2002). Dietary intake and blood folate levels in Honduran women of childbearing age. Journal of Child Neurology, 17(5), 341-346.

Page GP, Wilcox MA, Occhiuto J, Adak S, Neuberg D, Bajorunaite R, George V. (2001) Comparison of the QTDT analyses of IGE by different tests and between datasets. Genetic Epidemiology 21 (supp 1) S312-S316

Beasley, T. M. (2000). Nonparametric tests for analyzing interactions among intra-block ranks in multiple group repeated measures designs. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 25, 20-59.

Tiwari, H. K., Elston, R. C. (1999). The Approximate Variance of a Function of Random Variables. Biometrical Journal, 41, 351-357.

Page GP, Amos CI, Boerwinkle E. (1998) The Quantitative LOD score: Test statistic and sample size for exclusion and linkage of quantitative traits in human sibships. American Journal of Human Genetics 62: 962-968.

George, V., Johnson, W. D., Shahane, A., Nick, T. G. (1997). Testing for treatment effect in the presence of regression toward the mean. Biometrics, 53, 49.