Laura Lazzeroni, PhD

Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Biostatistics)

Stanford University School of Medicine

 

401 Quarry Rd, Room 3100

Stanford, CA 94305-5723

650-723-0947

mailto:lazzeroni@stanford.edu

 

SELECTED METHODOLOGICAL PAPERS

Genetics & Genomics

Allele sharing and allelic association I:  Sib pair tests with increased power.  Lazzeroni LC  Genetic Epidemiology 22:328-344

Linkage disequilibrium and gene mapping: An empirical least-squares approach.  Lazzeroni LC. American Journal of Human Genetics 62:159-170

A chronology of fine-scale gene mapping by linkage disequilibrium.  Lazzeroni LC  Statistical Methods in Medical Research 10:57-76

A conditional inference framework for extending the transmission / disequilibrium test.  Lazzeroni LC, Lange K  Human Heredity 48:67-81

Markov chains for Monte Carlo tests of genetic equilibrium in multidimensional contingency tables.  Lazzeroni LC, Lange K  Annals of Statistics 25:138-168

Plaid models for gene expression data.  Lazzeroni LC, Owen A  Statistica Sinica 12:61-86

Multipoint mapping calculations for sperm-typing data.  Lazzeroni LC, Arnheim N, Schmitt K, Lange K  American Journal of Human Genetics 55:431-436

The global pairwise approach to radiation hybrid mapping.  Postscript File  Tibshirani R, Lazzeroni L, Hastie T, Olshen A, Cox D  Technical Report No. 201 in the Stanford Biostatistics Series

Survey Data

Random-effects models for smoothing post-stratification weights.  Lazzeroni LC, Little RJA  Journal of Official Statistics 14:61-78

Robustness of multiple-imputation techniques to model misspecification.  Lazzeroni LC, Schenker N, Taylor JMG. American Statistical Association's 1990 Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, 260-265

SELECTED APPLIED PAPERS

Human Disease

Genome wide identification of genes conferring sensitivity to the anti-cancer agents cisplatin, oxaliplatin and mitomycin C.  Wu HI, Brown JA, Dorie MJ, Lazzeroni LC, Brown JM  Cancer Research 64:3940-3948

Cost effectiveness of screening for HIV in healthcare settings in the era aof highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).  Sanders GD, Bayoumi AM, Sundaram V, Bilir SP, Neukermans CP, Rydzak CE, Douglass LR, Lazzeroni LC, Holodniy M, Owens DK  New England Journal of Medicine 352:570-585

Cytomegalovirus retinitis after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients: Nature history and clinical predictors.  Lin DY, Warren J, Lazzeroni LC, Wolitz RA, Mansour S  Retina 22:268-277.

Accuracy, precision and consistency of expert HIV-1 genotype interpretation: an international comparison (The GUESS study).  Zolopa AZ, Lazzeroni LC, Rinehart A, Vezinet FB, Clavel F, Collier A, Conway B, Gulick RM, Holodniy M, Perno C-F, Shafer RW, Richman DD, Weinberg M, Kuritzkes D  Clinical Infectious Diseases 41:92-99

In vivo sequence diversity of the protease of the human immunodeficiency virus type I:  Presence of protease inhibitor resistant variants in untreated subjects.  Lech WJ, Wang G, Yang YL, Chee Y, Dorman K, McCrae D, Lazzeroni LC, Erickson JW, Sinsheimer J, Kaplan AH  Journal of Virology 70:2028-2043

Association of IL4R haplotypes with type I diabetes.  Mirel DB, Valdes AM, Lazzeroni LC, Reynolds RL, Erlich HA, Noble JA  Diabetes 51:3336-3341

A polymorphism in the TCF7 gene, C883A, influences type 1 diabetes risk.  Noble JA, White AM, Lazzeroni LC, Valdes AM, Mirel DB, Reynolds R, Grupe A, Aud D, Peltz G, Erlich HA  Diabetes

Gene expression patterns vary in clonal cell cultures from Rett syndrome females with eight different MECP2 mutations.  Traynor J, Agarwal P, Lazzeroni LC, Francke U  BMC Medical Genetics 3:12

The role of a common adenosine monophosphate deaminase (AMPD)-1 polymorphism in outcome of ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure.  Kolek MJ, Carlquist JF, Thaneemit-Chen S, Lazzeroni LC, Whiting BM, Horne BD, Muhlestein JB, Lavori P, Anderson JL  Journal of Cardiac Failure in press

 

Genomics

A high-resolution radiation hybrid map of the human genome draft sequence.  Olivier M. et al.  Science 292:1298-1302

Statistical refinement of primer design parameters.  Beasley EM, Myers RM, Cox DR, Lazzeroni LC  PCR Applications: Protocols for Functional Genomics  Innis M, Gelfand D, Sninsky J, editors, Academic Press

Individual variation in recombination in human males.  Yu J, Lazzeroni L, Qui J, Huang M, Navidi W, Erlich H, Arnheim N  American Journal of Human Genetics 59:1186-1192

A multipoint linkage map of the human pseudoautosomal region based on single sperm typing: Do double crossovers occur during male meiosis?  Schmitt K, Lazzeroni LC, Foote S, Vollrath D, Fisher EMC, Goradia TM, Lange K, Page DC, Arnheim N  American Journal of Human Genetics 55:423-430

 

SOFTWARE

ESP:  A set of MatLab functions for the elliptical sib pair test as described in “Allele sharing and allelic association I:  Sib pair tests with increased power.”

PLAID:  A Windows-based C program for finding plaid models from DNA microarray and other data as described in "Plaid models for gene expression data."

ELS:  A set of SPLUS functions for empirical least squares methods for fine-mapping of genetic loci as described in "Linkage Disequilibrium and Gene Mapping: An Empirical Least Squares Approach" in American Journal of Human Genetics, 62:159-170.

SPERM:  Available at http://www.biomath.medsch.ucla.edu/faculty/klange/software.html A FORTRAN 77 written with Ken Lange for likelihood linkage analysis of multipoint sperm typing data as described in "Multipoint Mapping Calculations for Sperm Typing Data" in American Journal of Human Genetics, 55:431-436.