2013 Publications

Babette Brumback, Ph.D.

Zheng HW*, Brumback BA, Lu X, Bouldin ED, Cannell MB, Andresen EM (2013). “Doubly Robust Testing and Estimation of Model-Adjusted Effect-Measure Modification with Complex Survey Data.” Statistics in Medicine, 32: 673-684.

Brumback BA, Cai  Z*,  He  Z*,  Zheng  HW*,  Dailey  AB  (2013).    “Conditional Pseudolikelihood Methods for Clustered Ordinal, Multinomial, or Count Outcomes with Complex Survey Data.” Statistics in Medicine, 32(8):1325-1335.

Brumback BA, Zheng  HW*,  Dailey  AB  (2013).  “Adjusting for Confounding by Neighborhood Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models and Complex Survey Data.”Statistics in Medicine, 32(8): 1313-1324.

Janicke DM, Lim CS, Mathews AE, Shellnut K, Boggs SR, Silverstein JH, Brumback BA (2013).     “The Community-based Healthy-lifestyle Intervention for Rural Preschools (CHIRP) Study: Design and Methods.” Contemporary Clinical Trials, 34(2):187-195.

Myron Chang, Ph.D.

O’Brien MM, X Cao, S Pounds, GV Dahl, SC Raimondi, NJ Lacayo, J Taub, MN Chang, HJ Weistein, Y Ravindranath, H Inaba, D Campana, CH Pui, and JE Rubnitz (2013). Prognostic features in acute megakaryoblastic leukemia in children without down syndrome: A report from the AML02 multicenter trial and the Children’s Oncology Group study POG 9421. Leukemia, 27(3): 731-734.

Yueh-Yun Chi, Ph.D.

Chi YY and Muller KE (2013) Two-Step Hypothesis Testing When the Number of Variables Exceeds the Sample Size. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 42, 1113-1125.

Gribbin MJ, Chi YY, Stewart PW, and Muller KE (2013) Confidence Regions for Repeated Measures ANOVA  Power  Curves  Based  on  Estimated  Covariance. BMC Medical Research Methodology , 13(1): 57. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-13-57. PMCID: PMC 3738257.

da Silva  VR,  Rios -Avila  L,  Lamers  Y,  Ralat  MA,  Midttun  Ø,  Quinlivan  EP, Garrett TJ, Coats B, Shankar MN, Percival SS, Chi YY, Muller KE, Ueland PM, Stacpoole  PW,  and  Gregory  JF  (2013)  Metabolite  Profile  Analysis  Reveals Functional Effects of Vitamin B -6 Restriction on One -Carbon Metabolism  and Tryptophan   Catabolic   Pathways   in   Healthy   Men   and   Women.   Journal   of Nutrition, 143, 1719-1727. PMCID: PMC 3796343.

Gregory JF, Park Y, Lamers Y, Bandyopadhyay N, Chi YY, Lee K, Kim S,  da Silva VR, Hove N, Ranka S, Kahveci T, Muller KE, Stevens RD, Newgard  CB, Stacpoole  PW,  and  Jones  DP  (2013)  Metabolomic  Analysis  Reveals  Extended Metabolic Consequences of Marginal Vita min B-6 Deficiency in Healthy Human Subjects. PLoS ONE, 8(6): e63544.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063544.  PMCID: PMC 3679127.

Mohandas R, Sautina L, Li S, Wen S, Huo T, Handberg E, Chi YY, Merz  NB, Pepine  CJ  (2013)  Number  and  Function  of  Bone -Marrow  Derived  Angiogenic Cells  and  Coronary  Flow  Reserve  in  Women  without  Obstructive   Coronary Artery   Disease:   A   Substudy   of   the   NHLBI -Sponsored   Women’s   Ischemia Syndrome   Evaluation   (WISE).   PLoS   ONE,   8(12):   e81595.    PMCID: PMC 3846855.

Meenakshi Devidas, PhD

Perez-Andreu V, Roberts KG, Harvey RC, Yang W, Cheng C, Pei D, Xu H, Gastier-Foster J, Shuyu E J, Yew-Suang L, Chen IM, Fan Y, Devidas M, Borowitz MJ, Smith C, Neale G, Burchard EG, Torgerson DG, Klussmann FA, Villagran CRN, Winick NJ, Camitta BM, Raetz E, Wood B, Yue F, Carroll WL, Larsen E, Bowman WP, Loh ML, Dean M, Bhojwani D, Pui CH, Evans WE, Relling MV, Hunger SP, Willman CL, Mulligan CG, Yang JJ, (2013). Interited GATA3 variants are associated with Ph-like childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and risk of relapse. Nature Genetics, 45(12):1494-1498; DOI:10.1038/ng.2803

Harrison CJ, Moorman AV, Schwab C, Carroll A, Raetz EA, Devidas M, Strehl S, Nebral K, Harbott J, Teigler-Schlegel A, Zimmerman M, Dastuge N, Barachel A, Soulier J, Auclerc M- F, Attarbaschi A, Mann G, Stark G, Cazzaniga G, Chilton L, Vandenberghe P, Forestier E, Haltrich I, Raimondi SC, Parihar M, Bourquin JP, Tchinda J, Haferlach C, Vora A, Hunger SP, Heerema N, Haas OA, (2013) “ An International study of Intrachromosomal Amplification of Chromosome 21 (iAMP21): Cytogenetic characterization and outcome. Leukemia, online publication 10/2013; DOI:10.1038/leu.2013.317.

De Lorenzo P, Moorman AV, Pieters R, Dreyer ZE, Heerema NA, Carroll AJ, Hunger SP, Harvey R, Willman CL,  Devidas M, Valsecchi MG, Harrison CJ (2013). “Cytogenetics and outcome of infants with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and absence of MLL rearrangements”. Leukemia, Published online 9/27/2013; DOI:10.1038/leu.2013.280.

Devidas M, Anderson JR. Considerations in the design of clinical trials for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Clinical Investigation 2013 3(9), 849–858.

Heerema NA, Carroll AJ, Devidas M, Loh ML, Borowitz MJ,  Gastier-Foster J, Larsen EC, Mattano LA, Maloney KW, Willman CL, Wood B, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Hunger SP, Raetz EA.  Intrachromosomal Amplification of Chromosome 21 is Associated with Inferior Outcomes in Children   with  Acute  Lymphoblastic  Leukemia  treated  in  Contemporary Standard-Risk Children’s Oncology Group  Studies: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Journal of Clinical Oncology, Epub August 12, 2013 as 10.1200/JCO.2013.49.1308.

Kelly ME, Lu X, Devidas M, Camitta BM, Abshire T, Bernstein ML, Billett A, Homans A, Mandell L, Ogden A, Sandler E, Buchanan G, (2013) “Treatment of Relapsed non-T, non-B Acute  Lymphoblastic Leukemia  with  Intensive  chemotherapy: POG  9411  (SIMAL  9)  a Pediatric  Oncology Group study,” Journal of Pediatric Hematology /Oncology, 2013 Epub 2013 August 7. doi: 10.1097 /MPH.0b013e31829f3235

Salzer WL, Asselin B, Supko JG, Devidas M, Kaiser NA, Plourde P, Winick NJ, Reaman GH, Raetz E, Carroll WL, Hunger SP. (2013) “Erwinia Asparaginase achieves Therapeutic activity after PEG-asparaginase Allergy: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group”, Blood; 122(4): 507-514. 2013 doi:10.1182/ Blood-2013-01-480822.

Hunger SP, Loh ML, Whitlock JA, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Devidas M, Raetz EA; COG Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Committee. Children’s Oncology Group’s 2013 blueprint for research: acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2013 Jun; 60(6):957-63.

Schmiegelow K, Levinsen MF, Attarbaschi A, Baruchel A, Devidas M, Escherich G, Gibson B, Heydrich C, Horibe K, Ishida Y, Liang DC, Locatelli F, Michel G, Pieters R, Piette C, Pui CH, Raimondi S, Silverman L, Stanulla M, Stark B, Winick N, Valsecchi MG. Second Malignant Neoplasms After Treatment of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Journal of Clinical Oncology; 31(19):2469-2476; [2013 May 20 Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1200/JCO.2012.47.0500

Xu H (f), Yang W, Perez-Andreu V, Devidas M, Fan Y, Cheng C, Pei D, Scheet P, Burchard EG, Eng C, Huntsman S, Torgerson DG, Dean M, Winick NJ, Martin PL, Camitta BM, Bowman WP, Willman CL, Carroll WL, Mullighan CG, Bhojwani D, Hunger SP, Pui CH, Evans WE, Relling MV, Loh ML, Yang JJ. Novel susceptibility variants at 10p12.31-12.2 for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in ethnically diverse populations. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2013 May 15; 105(10):733-42. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djt042. Epub 2013 Mar 19.

Urtishak KA (f), Edwards AY, Wang LS, Hudome A, Robinson BW, Barrett JS, Cao K, Cory L, Moore JS, Bantly AD, Yu QC, Chen IM, Atlas SR, Willman CL, Kundu M, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Devidas M, Hilden JM, Dreyer ZE, Hunger SP, Reaman GH, Felix CA. Potent obatoclax cytotoxicity and activation of triple death mode killing across infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood. 2013 Apr 4; 121(14):2689-703.

Holmfeldt  L, Wei  L,  Diaz-Flores  E,  Walsh  M,  Zhang  J,  Ding  L,  Payne-Turner  D, Churchman M, Andersson A, Chen SC, McCastlain K, Becksfort J, Ma J, Wu G, Patel SN, Heatley  SL, Phillips LA, Song G, Easton J,  Parker M,  Chen X,  Rusch M,  Boggs K, Vadodaria B, Hedlund E, Drenberg C, Baker S, Pei D, Cheng C, Huether R, Lu C,Fulton RS, Fulton LL, Tabib Y, Dooling DJ, Ochoa K, Minden M, Lewis ID, To LB, Marlton P, Roberts AW, Raca G, Stock W, Neale G, Drexler HG, Dickins RA, Ellison DW, Shurtleff SA, Pui CH,  Ribeiro RC, Devidas M, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Wood B, Borowitz MJ, Gastier-Foster JM,  Raimondi SC, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Downing JR, Hunger SP, Loh ML, Mullighan CG. The genomic landscape of hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nature Genetics. 2013 Mar; 45(3):242-52.

Ramsey LB, Panetta JC, Smith C, Yang W, Fan Y, Winick NJ, Martin PL, Cheng C, Devidas M, Pui CH, Evans WE, Hunger SP, Loh M, Relling MV. Genome-wide study of methotrexate clearance replicates SLCO1B1. Blood. 2013 Feb 7; 121(6):898-904. doi: 10.1182/ Blood-2012-08-452839. Epub 2012 Dec 11.

Joyce MJ, Pollock BH, Devidas M, Buchanan GR, Camitta B. Chemotherapy for initial induction failures in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a Children’s Oncology Group Study (POG 8764). Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2013 Jan; 35(1):32-5. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e318279afdd.

Loh ML, Zhang  J,  Harvey  RC,  Roberts  K,  Payne-Turner  D,  Kang  H,  Wu  G,  Chen X,Becksfort J, Edmonson M, Buetow KH, Carroll WL, Chen IM, Wood B, Borowitz MJ, Devidas M, Gerhard DS, Bowman P, Larsen E, Winick N, Raetz E, Smith M, Downing JR, Willman CL, Mullighan CG, Hunger SP. Tyrosine kinome sequencing of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group TARGET Project. Blood. 2013 Jan 17; 121(3):485-8. doi: 10.1182/ Blood-2012-04-422691. Epub 2012 Dec 4.

Matlawska-Wasowska K,  Harvey  RC,  Heerema  NA,  Carroll  AJ, Devidas M,  Loh  M, Hunger S, Raetz EA, Mulligan CG, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Larson RS, Dunsmore K, Aplan PD,  Winter  SS.  AF  10  Fusion  Transcripts  are identified  by  HOXA9/10  and  MEIS1 overexpression in T-ALL: A report from Children’s Oncology Group AALL0434. Blood; 11/15/2013; 122(21) 2601-2601, American Society of Hematology 2013.

Perez-Andreu V, Roberts KG, Harvey RC, Yang W, Cheng C, Pei D, Xu H, Gastier-Foster J, Shuyu E, Lim JY, Chen IML, Fan Y, Devidas M, Borowitz M, Colton-Smith S, Neale GA, Burchard EG, Torgerson DG, Antillon F, Rolando C, Winick NJ, Camitta B, Raetz E, Wood BL, Yue F, Carroll WL, Larsen E.C., Bowman WP, Loh ML, Dean M, Bhojwani D, Pui CH, Evans WE, Relling MV, Hunger SP, Willman CL, Mulligan CG, Yang JJ. Inherited GATA3 genetic variants are associated with childhood BCR-ABL1-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and increased risk of relapse. Blood; 11/15/2013; 122(21) 617- 617, ASH 2013.

Geng H, Loh ML, Harvey RC, Chen IM, Devidas M, Davidsen TM, Guidry Auvil JM, Gerhard  DS,  Smith  MA,  Carroll  AJ,  Heerema  NA,  Gastier-Foster  JM,  Willman  CL, Mulligan CG, Hunger SP, Melnick A. Genome-wide DNA Methylation analysis reveals biological and clinical insights in Relapsed Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A report  from the COG ALL Target Project. Blood; 11/15/2013; 122(21) 3736-3736. ASH 2013.

Zhang J, Loh ML, Ma X, Rusch M, Wu G, Harvey RC, Wheeler DA, Hampton OA, Carroll WL, Chen IM, Gerhard DS, Gastier-Foster J, Relling MV, Smith MA, Devidas M, Guidry Auxil JM, Downing JR, Willman CL, Mulligan CG, Hunger SP. Comparison of mutational profiles of  diagnosis and relapsed pediatric B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia – A report from the COG ALL Target project: Blood; 11/15/2013; 122(21) 824-824. ASH 2013.

Maloney KW, Devidas M, Mattano LA, Friedmann AM, Buckley P, Borowitz MJ, Carroll A, Gastier-Foster JM, Heerema NA, Kadan-Lottick N, Loh ML, Matloub Y, Marshall DT, Stork LC, Raetz EA, Wood BL, Winick NJ, Hunger SP, Carroll WL. Excellent event Free (EFS) and  overall survival (OS) for children with Standard Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (SR  ALL) despite the absence of  a  significant impact on outcome with the addition  of  an  intensified  consolidation:  Results  of  children’s  oncology group  (COG) AALL0331. Blood; 11/15/2013; 122(21) 837-837.

Advani AS, Sanford B, Luger S, Devidas M, Larsen EC, Liedtke M, Voorhees PM, Foster MC, Claxton DF, Geyer S, Parker E, Coffan K, Carroll WL, Winick NJ, Coutre SE, Tallman MS, Appelbaum FR, Erba HP, Stone RM, Hunger SP, Larson RA, Stock W. Frontline- treatment of  acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in older adolescents and young adults (AYA)  using  a  pediatric  regimen  is  feasible: Toxicity  results  of  the  prospective US intergroup trial C10403 (Alliance). Blood; 11/15/2013; 122(21) 3903-3903. ASH 2013.

Moorman AV, de Lorenzo P, Pieters R, Dreyer ZE, Heerema NA, Carroll AJ, Hunger SP, Harvey RC, Willman CL, Devidas M, Valsecchi MG. Cytogenetics and outcomes of infants with Acute  Lymphoblastic  Leukemia  and  absence  of  MLL  rearrangements.  Blood; 11/15/2013; 122(21) 1349-1349. ASH 2013

Payne-Turner D, Pei D, Becksfort J, Harvey RC, Li Y, Song G, Cheng J, Ma J, Zhang J, Cheng C, Chen S, Chen I, Devidas M, Larsen EC, Carroll WL, Winick NJ, Heerema NA, Carroll AJ, Gastier-Foster JM, Raetz EA, Pui CH, Jeha S, Downing JR, Paietta E, Kornblau SM, Marcucci G, Stock W, Bloomfield CD, Gerhard DS, Loh ML, Hunger SP, Willman CL, Mulligan CG. Integrated genomic and mutational profiling of adolescent and young adult ALL identifies a high frequency of BCR-ABL1-like ALL with very poor outcome. Blood; 10/21/2013; 122 (21) 825-825. ASH 2013.

Crews K, Lew G, Pei D, Cheng C, Bao J, Zheng J, Yang W, Fan Y, Paugh SW, McCorkle JR, Lu X, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Hunger SP, Devidas M, Pui CH, Relling MV,Evans WE. Genome-wide Association analyses identify susceptibility Loci for Vincristine- induced peripheral neuropathy in children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Blood; 10/21/2013; 122 (21) 618-618. ASH 2013.

Loh ML,  Devidas  M,  Carroll  AJ,  Heerema  NA,  Hunger  SP,  Amro  C,  Zamechek  L. Leukemia blasts with the PNH phenotype: Correlation with Cytogenetics in ALL. Blood; 10/21/2013; 122(21) 2628-2628. ASH 2013.

Relling MV, Smith C, Yang W, Larsen EC, Bowman WP, Liu C, Ramsey LB, Chang T, Turner V, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Winick NJ, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Chen W, Concannon P, Rich SS, Scheet P, Jeha S, Pui CH, Evans WE, Devidas M.  HLA- DRB1* 07:01 is Associated with asparaginase allergies in children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Blood; 10/21/2013; 122(21) 60-60. ASH 2013.

Pei D, Devidas M, Cheng C, Yang W, Howard SC, Loh ML, Martin PL, Winick NJ, Bowman WP, Larsen EC, Carroll WL, Raetz EA, Bhojwani D, Jeha S, Pui CH, Evans WE, Hunger  SP,  Relling  MV.  Risk  Factors  for  Acute  pancreatitis  in  patients  with  Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Blood; 10/21/2013; 122(21) 3868-3868. ASH 2013.

Li Y, Payne-Turner D, Harvey RC, Cheng J, Zhang J, Song G, Yang Y, Santiago-Morales N, Pei D, Cheng C, Ma J, Chen S, Rusch M, Gupta P, Devidas M, Chen I, Larsen EC, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Heerema NA, Carroll AJ, Gastier-Foster JM, Raetz EA, Pui CH, Jeha S, Downing J, Paietta E, Kornblau SM, Marcucci G, Bloomfield CD, Gerhard DS, Loh ML,  Willman CL, Hunger SP, Mulligan CG. Genomic characterization and experimental modeling of BCR-ABL1-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Blood; 10/21/2013; 122(21) 232-232. ASH 2013.

Makris AM, Alsina A, Huffer FW, Devidas M, Kemmer NM, Neff GW. Smoothing the Likelihood function  to estimate  distance  effect  on  Survival  of  post liver  transplant.Hepatology; 10/1/2013; 58: 1211A-1212A.

Lassaletta A, Figueredo D, Alcaraz E, Aponte S, Servin J, Mattio I, Zelada O, Devidas M, Perez-Martinez A, Ramirez M, Carceller F, Howard S, Caniza M, Ribeiro R, Masera G, Madero L,  Samudio A.  Improving Survival in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Paraguay: Twinning program works! Pediatric Blood & Cancer; 9/1/2013; 60:66-66. 45th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Hunger S, Devidas M, Raetz E, Loh M, Winick N, Carroll W, Lu X. Improvements in overall survival (OS) in children with newly diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)  enrolled  in  Children’s  Oncology  Group (COG)  trials  in  2000-05  vs.  2006-09. Pediatric blood & Cancer; 9/1/2013; 60:10-10. 45th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Devidas M, Raetz EA, Loh ML, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster J, Borowitz MJ, Wood B, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Hunger SP, Carroll WL. Outcome for children with Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) on contemporary Children’s Oncology Group (COG) clinical trials. Pediatric Blood & Cancer; 9/1/2013; 60:10-10. 45th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Barredo J, Caroline H, Lu X, Marcus R, Winick N, Devidas M, Whitlock J, Ritchey AK, Hunger SP, Carroll W. Successful treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) with first  isolated  testicular  relapse  with  limited  use  of  testicular  irradiation:  Report  from Children’s Oncology Group (COG) AALL02P2. Pediatric Blood & Cancer; 9/1/2013; 60:28-28. 45th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Devidas M, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Larsen EC, Maloney KWComparison of mutational, Carroll AJ, Friedman AM, Gastier-Foster JM, Heerema NA, Mattano LA. Assessment of end induction minimal residual disease (MRD) in childhood B precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) to eliminate the need for day 14 marrow examination: A Children’s Oncology Group Study. J Clin Oncol; 2013 May; 31(15 suppl): #10001. Oral presentation at ASCO 2013

Mattano LA, Devidas M, Friedman AM, Raetz EA, Hunger S, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Maloney KW.  Effect of dexamethasone (DEX) dose modification on osteonecrosis (ON) risk associated with intensified therapies for standard risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (SR-ALL): A report from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) study AALL0331. J Clin Oncol; 2013 May; 31(15 suppl): #10002. Oral presentation at ASCO 2013.

Horton TM, Lu X, O’Brien MM, Borowitz MJ, Devidas M, Raetz EA, Brown PA, Zeng H (g), Zheng HW (g), Hunger S, Whitlock J. Bortezomib reinduction therapy to improve response rates in pediatric ALL in first relapse: A Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Study (AALL07P1). J Clin Oncol; 2013 May; 31(15 suppl): #10003. Oral presentation at ASCO 2013.

Hitzler J, Devidas M, Whitlock J, Camitta B, Gaynon P, Rabin K, Maloney K, Winick N, Carroll W, Hunger S. Survival of Children with Down Syndrome (DS) after Relapse of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): A Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Study. Pediatric   Blood & Cancer, April 2013; 404: (Oral presentation at ASPHO 2013).

Myers RM (f), Balsamo L, Lu X, Devidas M, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Winick N, J, Maloney KW, Kadan-Lottick NS. Prospective Longitudinal assessment of quality of life in children on active treatment for standard risk (SR) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): A Report from Children’s Oncology Group (COG) AALL0331. Pediatric   Blood & Cancer, April 2013; 618: (Poster presentation at ASPHO 2013).

John Kairalla, Ph.D.

Kneipp S.M., Kairalla J.A., and Sheely A.L. (2013). A randomized controlled trial to improve health among women receiving welfare in the U.S.: the relationship between employment outcomes and the economic recession. Social Science & Medicine, 80, 130-140. PMC3577993 (free PMC article http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3577993/)

Eben Kenah, Ph.D.

Islam, E. Kenah, M. A. Bhuiyan, K. M. Rahman, B. Goodhew, C. M. Ghalib, M. M. Zahid, M. Ozaki, M. W. Rahman, R. Haque, S. P. Luby, J. H. Maguire, D. Martin, C. Bern (2013). Clinical and immunological aspects of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in Bangladesh. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 89(2): 345-353. PMCID: PMC3741258

E. Kenah (2013). Nonparametric survival analysis of infectious disease data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 75(2): 277-30 PMCID: PMC3681432

Rahman, M. H. Huque, E. Kenah, M. Agboatwalla, and S. P. Luby (2013). Effect of recent diarrhoeal episodes on risk of pneumonia in children under the age of 5 years in Karachi, Pakistan. International Journal of Epidemiology 42(1): 194-200. Free article: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/1/194.long

Ira Longini, Ph.D.

Abu-Raddad, LJ, Barnabas, RV, Janes, H, Kublin, JG, Longini, IM and Wasserheit, JN:  Have the explosive HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa been driven by higher community viral load? AIDS. 2013 March 27; 27(6): 981-989. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32835cb927  PMCID: PMC3725236.

Matrajt, L., Halloran, ME, Longini I.M:  Optimal vaccine allocation for the early mitigation of pandemic influenza. PLoS Comp Biol 9(3):e1002964. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002964 (2013). PMCID: PMC3605056.

Chao, D.L., Longini, I.M. and Morris, J.G.: “Modeling Cholera Outbreaks.” In Cholera Outbreaks (eds. Nair, G.B. and Takeda, Y.) 82 Springer, Berlin (2013).

Chao, D.L., Halloran, M.E., Longini, I.M.: The effects of vector movement and distribution in a dengue transmission model. PLoS One 8(10): e76044. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076044 (2013). PMCID: PMC3804532

Rashed SM, Azman AS, Alam M, Li S, Sack DA, Morris JG Jr., Longini IM, Siddique AK, Iqbal A, Huq A, Colwell RR, Sack RB, and Stine OC.  Genetic Variation of Vibrio cholerae during Outbreaks, Bangladesh, 2010-2011  Emerg. Infect. Dis [Internet] 20(1) 2014 Jan.

Xiaomin Lu, PhD

Ali, A. K. (g), Hartzema, A. G., Hendeles, L., Lu, X., Winterstein, A. G., Segal, R. (2013) Long-Acting Beta-Agonists and Asthma Exacerbations Requiring Short Courses of Oral  Corticosteroids: A Multi- Category Exposure Marginal Structural Models Analysis. Value in Health. 16(3), [Abstract No. PRS2].

Anton, S. D., Lu, X., Heekin, K., Saha, D., Dubyak, P. and hausenblas, H.(2013) Effect of a Novel Dietary Supplement on pH Levels of Healthy Volunteers. Journal of Integrative medicine. Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 384-8, doi: 10.3736/jintegrmed2013049.

Anton, S. D., Embry, C., Marsiske, M., Lu, X., Doss, H., Leeuwenburgh, C. and Manini, T. M. (2013) Safety and metabolic outcomes of resveratrol supplementation in older adults: results of a twelve- week, placebo-controlled pilot study. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2014.05.015.

Barredo J, Caroline H, Lu X, Marcus R, Winick N, Devidas M, Whitlock J, Ritchey AK, Hunger SP, Carroll W. Successful treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) with first  isolated  testicular  relapse  with  limited  use  of  testicular  irradiation:  Report  from Children’s Oncology Group (COG) AALL02P2. Pediatric Blood & Cancer; 9/1/2013; 60:28-28. 45th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Crews K, Lew G, Pei D, Cheng C, Bao J, Zheng J, Yang W, Fan Y, Paugh SW, McCorkle JR, Lu X, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Hunger SP, Devidas M, Pui CH, Relling MV, Evans WE. Genome-wide Association analyses identify susceptibility Loci for Vincristine- induced peripheral neuropathy in children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Blood; 10/21/2013; 122 (21) 618-618. ASH 2013.

Duckworth, L.V., Alkhasawneh, A. (f), Desai, N., Lu, X., Sommerfeld, A., George, T. and Toro, T. Z. (2013) Clinicopathologic Features of Ampullary Adenocarcinoma of Indeterminate Histologic Type (Non-Intestinal, Non-Biliary). Modern pathology. 26: 185a-186a.

Horton TM, Lu X, O’Brien MM, Borowitz MJ, Devidas M, Raetz EA, Brown PA, Zeng H (g), Zheng HW (g), Hunger S, Whitlock J. Bortezomib reinduction therapy to improve response rates in pediatric ALL in first relapse: A Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Study (AALL07P1). J Clin Oncol; 2013 May; 31(15 suppl): #10003. Oral presentation at ASCO 2013.

Hunger S, Devidas M, Raetz E, Loh M, Winick N, Carroll W, Lu X. Improvements in overall survival (OS) in children with newly diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)  enrolled  in  Children’s  Oncology  Group  (COG)  trials  in  2000-05  vs.  2006-09. Pediatric blood & Cancer; 9/1/2013; 60:10-10. 45th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Kelly, M.E., Lu, X., Devidas, M., Camitta1, B., Abshire, T., Bernstein, M.L., Billett, A., Homans, A., Mandell, L., Ogden, A., Sandler, E. and Buchanan, G. (2013) Treatment of Relapsed Precursor-B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia With Intensive Chemotherapy: POG (Pediatric Oncology Group) Study 9411 (SIMAL 9). Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Vol. 57, No. 7, pp. 509-513. Epub 2013 August 7. doi: 10.1097 /MPH.0b013e31829f3235

Lu, X., Sun, A. and Wu, S.S. (2013) On estimating the mean of the selected normal population under the LINEX loss function in two-stage adaptive designs. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. Vol. 143, No. 7, pp. 1215-1220.

Lu, X., Mehrotra, D. V. and Shepherd, B. E. (2013) Rank-based principal stratum sensitivity analyses. Statistics in Medicine. doi: 10.1002/sim.5849.

Myers, R. M. (g), Lu, X., Balsamo, L. M.,Carroll, W., Hunger, S., Winick, N., Devidas, M., Maloney, K. and Kadan-Lottick, N. (2013) Prospective, longitudinal assessment of quality of life in children on active treatment for standard risk (SR)  acute lymphoblastic leukemia  (ALL): A report from Children’s Oncology Group (COG) AALL0331. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, vol. 120, No. 9, pp. 1417-25. (Poster presentation at ASPHO 2013).

Polcz, M. E., Adamson, L. A., Lu, X., Chang, M. H., Fowler, L. J. and Hobbs, J. A. (2013) Increased IL-6 detection in adult and pediatric lymphoid tissue harboring Parvovirus B19. Journal of Clinical Virology. Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 233-8.

Rose, D., Behrman, A., Nadeau, S. E., Martin, A. D., Schofield, R., Tilson, J. K., Cen, S. Y., Lu, X., Wu, S. S., Azen, S., Duncan, P. (2013) Does Exercise Tolerance Testing at 60 days Post-Stroke Predict  Rehabilitation Performance? Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Vol. 94, No. 7, pp. 1223-9. (PMID: 23548545)

Zheng HW*, Brumback BA, Lu X, Bouldin ED, Cannell MB, Andresen EM (2013). “Doubly Robust Testing and Estimation of Model-Adjusted Effect-Measure Modification with Complex Survey Data.” Statistics in Medicine, 32: 673-684.

Susan McGorray, Ph.D.

Hu P, Thinschmidt JS, Yan Y, Hazra S, Bhatwadekar A, Caballero S, Salazar T, Miyan JA, Li W, Derbenev A, Zsombok A, Tikhonenko M, Dominguez JM 2nd, McGorray SP, Saban DR, Boulton ME, Busik JV, Raizada MK, Chan-Ling T, Grant MB (2013). CNS inflammation and bone marrow neuropathy in type 1 diabetes. American Journal of Pathology 183:1608-20.

Euliano TY, MT Nguyen, S Darmanjian, SP McGorray, N Euliano, A Onkala, AR Gregg (2013). Monitoring uterine activity during labor: a comparison of 3 methods. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 208:66e1-6.

Morey TE, M Booth, S Wasdo, J Wishin, B Quinn, D Gonzalez, H Derendorf, SP McGorray, J Simoni, RJ Melker, DM Dennis (2013). Oral adherene monitoring using a breath test to supplement highly active antiretroviral therapy. AIDS Behavior. 17:298-306.

Arlene Naranjo, Ph.D.

Gow, K.W., Barnhart, D.C., Hamilton, T.E., Kandel, J.J., Chen, M.K.S., Ferrer, F.A., Price, M.R., Mullen, E.A., Geller, J.I., Gratias, E.J., Rosen, N., Khanna, G., Naranjo, A., Ritchey, M.L., Grundy, P.E., Dome, J.S., and Ehrlich, P.F. (2013). Primary Nephrectomy and Intraoperative Tumor Spill: Report from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Renal Tumors Committee. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 48(1): 34-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2012.10.015.

Yanik, G.A., Parisi, M.T., Shulkin, B.L., Naranjo, A., Kreissman, S.G., London, W.B., Villablanca, J.G., Maris, J.M., Park, J.R., Cohn, S.L., McGrady, P., and Matthay, K.K. (2013). Semiquantitative MIBG Scoring as a Prognostic Indicator in Patients with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma. A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 54(4): 541-548. DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.112.112334.

Naranjo, A., Trindade, A.A., and Casella, G. (2013). Extending the State-Space Model to Accommodate Missing Values in Responses and Covariates. Journal of the American Statistical Association 108(501): 202-216. DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.746066.

Dome, J.S., Fernandez, C.V., Mullen, E.A., Kalapurakal, J.A., Geller, J.I., Huff, V., Gratias, E.J., Dix, D.B., Ehrlich, P.F., Khanna, G., Malogolowkin, M.H., Anderson, J.R., Naranjo, A., and Perlman, E.J., on behalf of the COG Renal Tumors Committee (2013). Children’s Oncology Group’s 2013 Blueprint for Research: Renal Tumors. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 60(6): 994-1000. DOI: 10.1002/pbc.24419.

Khanna, G., Naranjo, A., Hoffer, F., Mullen, E., Geller, J., Gratias, E.J., Ehrlich, P.F., Perlman, E.J., Rosen, N., Grundy, P., and Dome, J.S. (2013). Detection of Preoperative Wilms Tumor Rupture with CT: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Radiology 266(2): 610-7. DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12120670.

Suganuma, R.(*), Wang, L.L., Sano, H., Naranjo, A., London, W.B., Seeger, R.C., Hogarty, M.D., Gastier-Foster, J.M., Look, A.T., Park, J.R., Maris, J.M., Cohn, S.L., Amann, G., Beiske, K., Cullinane, C.J., d’Amore, E.S.G., Gambini, C., Jarzembowski, J.A., Joshi, V.V., Navarro, S., Peuchmaur, M., and Shimada, H. (2013). Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors with Genotype-Phenotype Discordance: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group and the International Neuroblastoma Pathology Committee. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 60(3): 363-70. DOI: 10.1002/pbc.24238.

Seif, A.E., Naranjo, A., Baker, D.L., Bunin, N.J., Kletzel, M., Kretschmar, C.S., London, W.B., Maris, J.M., Park, J.R., Diller, L.R., and Grupp, S.A. (2013). ANBL00P1, A Children’s Oncology Group Pilot Study of Tandem High Dose Chemotherapy with Stem Cell Rescue as Consolidation for High Risk Neuroblastoma. Bone Marrow Transplantation 48(7): 947–952. DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2012.276.

Levy, A.S., Pyke-Grimm, K.A., Lee, D.A., Palla, S.L., Naranjo, A., Sholler, G.S., Gratias, E., Maloney, K., Parshankar, F., Lee-Scott, M., Beierle, E.A., Gow, K., Kim, G.E., Hunger, S., Smith, F.O., and Horton, T. (2013). Mentoring in Pediatric Oncology: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group Young Investigator Committee. Journal of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology 35(6): 456–461. DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31829eec33.

Wang, L.L., Suganunma, R., Ikegaki, N., Tang, X., Naranjo, A., London, W.B., Hogarty, M.D., Gastier-Foster, J.M., Look, A.T., Park, J.R., Maris, J.M., Cohn, S.L., Seeger, R.C., and Shimada, H. (2013). Neuroblastoma – Undifferentiated Subtype, Prognostic Significance of Prominent Nucleolar Formation and MYC Gene (MYCN and MYC) Expression: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Cancer 119(20): 3718-26. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28251.

Peihua Qiu, Ph.D.

Qiu, P. (2013), Introduction to Statistical Process Control, London: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

He, J., Qiu, P., Park, K.Y., Xu, Q., and Potegal, M. (2013), “Anger and Distress Emotion Clusters in Young Chinese Childrens Responses to Toy Removal as Determined from Behavioral Time Course,” International Journal of Behavioral Development, vol. 37, 349-356.

Mukherjee, P.S., and Qiu, P. (2013), “Efficient Bias Correction For MRI Image Denoising,”Statistics in Medicine, 32, 2079–2096.

Qiu, P., and Xing, C. (2013), “Feature Based Image Registration Using Non-Degenerate Pixels,” Signal Processing, 93, 706–720.

Qiu, P., and Xing, C. (2013), “On Nonparametric Image Registration,” Technometrics, 55 174–188.

Xiang, D., Qiu, P., and Pu, X. (2013), “Local polynomial regression analysis of multivariate longitudinal data,” Statistica Sinica, 23, 769–789.

Li, Z., Qiu, P., Chatterjee, S., and Wang, Z. (2013), “Using P-Values To Design Statistical Process Control Charts,” Statistical Papers, 54, 523–539.

He, J., Qiu, P., Park, K.Y., Xu, Q., and Potegal, M. (2013), “Anger and Distress Emotion Clusters in Young Chinese Children’s Responses to Toy Removal as Determined from Behavioral Time Course,” International Journal of Behavioral Development, vol.37, 349-356.

Samuel Wu, Ph.D.

Bernal-Pacheco O, Oyama G, Foote K D, Dai Y, Wu SS, Jacobson CE, Limotai N, Zeilman PR, Romrell J, Hwynn N, Rodriguez RL, Malaty IA, Okun MS. (2013). Taking a Better History for Behavioral Issues Pre- and Post-DBS: Issues Missed by Standardized Scales. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. 16(1):35-9. (PMID: 22748071).

Dunning K, O’Dell M, Kluding P, Wu SS, Feld J, Ginosian J, McBride K. (2013). The Functional Ambulation: Standard Treatment vs. Electrical Stimulation Therapy (FASTEST) Trial for Stroke: Study Design and Protocol. Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials. 3(5): 39-49.

Hassan A,Wu SS, Schmidt P, Dai Y, Simuni T, Giladi N, Bloem BR, Malaty IA, Okun MS; NPF-QII Investigators. (2013). High rates and the risk factors for emergency room visits and hospitalization in Parkinsons disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 19(11):949-54. (PMID: 23835430)

Kluding P, Dunning K., O’Dell M, Wu SS, Ginosian J, Feld J, McBride K. (2013). Foot drop stimulation versus ankle foot orthosis following stroke: 30 week outcomes. Stroke. 44:1660-1669.

Lu X, Sun A, Wu SS. (2013). On estimating the mean of the selected normal population under the LINEX loss function in two-stage adaptive designs. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 143: 1215 – 1220

Nadeau SE, Wu SS, Dobkin BH, Azen SP, Rose DK, Tilson JK, Cen SY, Duncan PW, for The LEAPS Investigative Team. (2013). Effects of task-specific and impairmentbased training compared with usual care on functional walking ability after inpatient stroke rehabilitation: LEAPS Trial. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 27(4): 370 – 380. (PMID: 23504552).

Okun, MS, Foote KD,Wu SS, Ward HE, Bowers D, Rodriguez RL, Malaty IA, Goodman WK, Gilbert DM, Walker HC, Mink JW, Merritt S, Morishita T, Sanchez JC. (2013). A trial of scheduled deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome: moving away from continuous deep brain stimulation paradigms. JAMA Neurology. 70(1):85-94. (PMID: 23044532)

Rose DK, Behrman AL, Nadeau SE, Martin AD, Schofield RS, Tilson JK, Cen S, Lu X, Wu SS, Azen SP, Duncan PW, for The LEAPS Investigative Team. (2013). Does exercise tolerance testing at 60 days post-stroke predict rehabilitation performance? Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 94(7):1223-9. (PMID: 23548545)

Yang Yang, Ph.D.

Fang, L-Q., Li, X-L., Liu, K., Li, Y-J., Yao, H-W., Liang, S., Yang, Y., Feng, Z-J., Gray, G. C. and Cao, W-C. Mapping spread and risk of avian influenza A (H7N9) in China. Natrue Scientific Reports. 2013; 3: Article 2722.