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Duncan C. Thomas's Degrees
- PhD Biostatistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Biostatistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
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- Exposure to residential electric and magnetic fields and risk of childhood leukemia. (1991) (479)
- On the need for the rare disease assumption in case-control studies. (1982) (412)
- Simultaneously modelling censored survival data and repeatedly measured covariates: a Gibbs sampling approach. (1996) (397)
- Exposure measurement error: influence on exposure-disease. Relationships and methods of correction. (1993) (352)
- Asymptotic bias and efficiency in case-control studies of candidate genes and gene-environment interactions: basic family designs. (1999) (214)
- The problem of multiple inference in studies designed to generate hypotheses. (1985) (194)
- Biological models and statistical interactions: an example from multistage carcinogenesis. (1981) (171)
- Nested case-control and case-cohort methods of sampling from a cohort: a critical comparison. (1990) (160)
- Optimal two‐stage genotyping designs for genome‐wide association scans (2006) (117)
- Bias and efficiency in family-based gene-characterization studies: conditional, prospective, retrospective, and joint likelihoods. (2000) (116)
- Los Angeles study of residential magnetic fields and childhood brain tumors. (1996) (100)
- Sample size requirements to detect gene‐environment interactions in genome‐wide association studies (2011) (96)
- Definition and estimation of lifetime detriment from radiation exposures: principles and methods. (1992) (94)
- Models for exposure-time-response relationships with applications to cancer epidemiology. (1988) (92)
- A Gibbs sampling approach to linkage analysis. (1992) (85)
- Hierarchical Bayes prioritization of marker associations from a genome‐wide association scan for further investigation (2007) (82)
- Testing linkage disequilibrium in sibships. (2000) (73)
- The rare-disease assumption revisited. A critique of "estimators of relative risk for case-control studies". (1986) (66)
- Exposure to magnetic fields among electrical workers in relation to leukemia risk in Los Angeles County. (1994) (61)
- Censored survival models for genetic epidemiology: A gibbs sampling approach (1994) (60)
- Gene‐Trait Similarity Regression for Multimarker‐Based Association Analysis (2009) (56)
- Reproductive Outcomes in Relation to Malathion Spraying in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1981–1982 (1992) (55)
- Efficiency of cohort sampling designs: some surprising results. (1991) (54)
- Systems biological and mechanistic modelling of radiation-induced cancer (2007) (51)
- The relative efficiencies of matched and independent sample designs for case-control studies. (1983) (50)
- Incorporating model uncertainty in detecting rare variants: the Bayesian risk index (2011) (44)
- Temporal modifiers of the radon-smoking interaction. (1994) (44)
- Analysis of gene‐smoking interaction in lung cancer (1997) (43)
- Risk for contralateral breast cancer among carriers of the CHEK2*1100delC mutation in the WECARE Study (2008) (42)
- Missense mutations in disease genes: a Bayesian approach to evaluate causality. (1998) (41)
- Counter-matching in studies of gene-environment interaction: efficiency and feasibility. (2001) (37)
- The efficiency of matching in case-control studies of risk-factor interactions. (1985) (36)
- Performance of Markov chain-Monte Carlo approaches for mapping genes in oligogenic models with an unknown number of loci. (2000) (36)
- Sample size determination in case-control studies: the influence of the distribution of exposure. (1985) (34)
- A three‐level model for binary time‐series data: the effects of air pollution on school absences in the Southern California Children's Health Study (2005) (26)
- Genome Scan of Complex Traits by Haplotype Sharing Correlation (2001) (26)
- Statistical methods for relating several exposure factors to several diseases in case-heterogeneity studies. (1986) (25)
- Bayes Estimates of Haplotype Effects (2001) (24)
- Use of external rates in nested case-control studies with application to the international radiation study of cervical cancer patients. (1992) (22)
- Design of gene characterization studies: an overview. (1999) (22)
- Methods for testing interactions, with applications to occupational exposures, smoking, and lung cancer. (1988) (21)
- Case‐sibling gene‐association studies for diseases with variable age at onset (2004) (21)
- Fitting genetic data using Gibbs sampling: an application to nevus counts in 38 Utah kindreds. (1992) (21)
- A Bayesian approach to multipoint mapping in nuclear families (1997) (20)
- Re: "When will nondifferential misclassification of an exposure preserve the direction of a trend?". (1995) (20)
- Empirical Bayes methods for testing associations with large numbers of candidate genes in the presence of environmental risk factors, with applications to HLA associations in IDDM. (1992) (20)
- Using biological knowledge to discover higher order interactions in genetic association studies (2010) (19)
- Nonparametric estimation and tests of fit for dose-response relations. (1983) (17)
- Considerations in determining matching criteria and stratum sizes for case-control studies. (1981) (17)
- New techniques for the analysis of cohort studies. (1998) (16)
- Methodological issues in the interpretation of studies of the CYP2D6 genotype in relation to lung cancer risk. (1994) (15)
- Fitting models of carcinogenesis to a case-control study of breast cancer. (1987) (15)
- The role of interacting determinants in the localization of genes. (2001) (15)
- Pitfalls in the analysis of exposure-time-response relationships. (1987) (15)
- Ascertainment Bias in Rate Ratio Estimation from Case‐Sibling Control Studies of Variable Age‐At‐Onset Diseases (1999) (15)
- A generalized estimating equations approach to linkage analysis in sibships in relation to multiple markers and exposure factors (1999) (14)
- A generalized estimating equations approach to fitting major gene models in segregation analysis of continuous phenotypes (1993) (14)
- Case‐parents design for gene‐environment interaction by Schaid (2000) (13)
- Statistical Methods for Analysis of Radiation Effects with Tumor and Dose Location‐Specific Information with Application to the WECARE Study of Asynchronous Contralateral Breast Cancer (2009) (11)
- A joint test of linkage and gene×environment interaction, with affected sib pairs (1999) (11)
- Combined segregation and linkage analysis of late‐onset Alzheimer's disease in Duke families using Gibbs sampling (1993) (11)
- Discussion on "Statistical Issues Arising in the Women's Health Initiative" (2005) (8)
- Genetic epidemiologic analysis of quantitative phenotypes using gibbs sampling (1995) (7)
- Inclusion of biological knowledge in a Bayesian shrinkage model for joint estimation of SNP effects (2017) (6)
- Analysis and Optimal Design for Association Studies Using Next‐Generation Sequencing With Case‐Control Pools (2012) (6)
- Re: "Are children living near high-voltage power lines at increased risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia?". (2001) (5)
- Summary report: Missing data and pedigree and genotyping errors (2003) (5)
- A bivariate genetic analysis of HDL‐ and LDL‐cholesterol incorporating measured covariates: A gibbs sampling application (1993) (5)
- Use of computer simulation to explore analytical issues in nested case-control studies of cancer involving extended exposures: methods and preliminary findings. (1987) (4)
- Genome‐wide association studies for discrete traits (2009) (4)
- Introduction: Bayesian Models and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods (2001) (3)
- Re: "Statistical significance testing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, 1970-1990". (1995) (3)
- Re: "A population-based case-cohort evaluation of the efficacy of mammographic screening for breast cancer". (1995) (3)
- Resolved: the probability of causation can be used in an equitable manner to resolve radiation tort claims and design compensation schemes. Pro. (2000) (3)
- Complex Pedigrees in the Sequencing Era: To Track Transmissions or Decorrelate? (2014) (2)
- Measurement error in spatial exposure models: study design implications (2013) (2)
- Re: "alternative data sources and discrepant results in case-control studies of estrogens and endometrial cancer". (1981) (0)
- Contributors and Participants (1982) (0)
- Re: "Conditions for confounding of the risk ratio and of the odds ratio". (1986) (0)
- SAMPLE SIZE DETERMINATION IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES. AUTHOR'S REPLIES (1991) (0)
- Estimating the Effect of Targeted Screening Strategies An Application to Colonoscopy and Colorectal Cancer (2017) (0)
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