Alan Hubbard

Estimating the Effects of Potential Public Health Interventions on Population Disease Burden: A Step-by-Step Illustration of Causal Inference Methods (2009)

Ahern, Jennifer, Hubbard, Alan, Galea, Sandro

Causal inference methods allow estimation of the effects of potential public health interventions on the population burden of disease. Motivated by calls for epidemiologic research to be presented in...

NEOPLASIA Polymorphisms in the thymidylate synthase and serine hydroxymethyltransferase genes and (2008)

Polymorphisms In The, Christine F. Skibola, Martyn T. Smith, Alan Hubbard, Barry Shane, Abby C. Roberts, ...

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Flow Cytometric Detection of Intracellular Th1/Th2 Cytokines (2008)

Using Whole Blood, Paurene Duramad, Christopher W. Mcmahon, Alan Hubbard, Brenda Eskenazi, Nina T. Holl

Few biological markers of immune function have been thoroughly validated for use in epidemiologic studies that involve delayed sample processing and analysis. Here, we report our validation results...

NEOPLASIA Polymorphisms and haplotypes in folate-metabolizing genes and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (2008)

Polymorphisms And Haplotypes, Christine F. Skibola, Matthew S. Forrest, Luz Agana, Alan Hubbard, Martyn T. Smith, ...

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Body Mass Index, Leptin and Leptin Receptor (2008)

Polymorphisms And Non-Hodgkin, Christine F. Skibola, Elizabeth A. Holly, Matthew S. Forrest, Alan Hubbard, Paige M. Bracci, ...

In a population-based case-control study, obesity was associated with elevated odds ratios (ORs) for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and the two major subtypes, diffuse large cell (DLCL) and follicular...

"Culture of Drinking" and Individual Problems with Alcohol Use (2008)

Ahern, Jennifer, Galea, Sandro, Hubbard, Alan, Midanik, Lorraine, Syme, S. Leonard

Binge drinking is a substantial and growing health problem. Community norms about drinking and drunkenness may influence individual drinking problems. Using data from the New York Social Environment...

Relating Diarrheal Disease to Social Networks and the Geographic Configuration of Communities in Rural Ecuador (2007)

Bates, Sarah J., Trostle, James, Cevallos, William T., Hubbard, Alan, Eisenberg, Joseph N. S.

Social networks and geographic structures of communities are important predictors of infectious disease transmission. To examine their joint effects on diarrheal disease and how these effects might...

Aging impacts transcriptomes but not genomes of hormone-dependent breast cancers (2007)

Yau, Christina, Fedele, Vita, Roydasgupta, Ritu, Fridlyand, Jane, Hubbard, Alan, Gray, Joe W, ...

Abstract Introduction Age is one of the most important risk factors for human malignancies, including breast cancer; in addition, age at diagnosis has been shown to be an independent indicator of...

Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2004)

Pai, Madhukar, Flores, Laura L, Hubbard, Alan, Riley, Lee W, Colford, John M

Abstract Background Conventional tests for tuberculous pleuritis have several limitations. A variety of new, rapid tests such as nucleic acid amplification tests – including polymerase chain...

Locally efficient estimation of the quality adjusted lifetime distribution with right-censored data and covariates (1999)

Alan Hubbard

Zhao and Tsiatis (1997) consider the problem of estimation of the distribution of the quality adjusted lifetime when the chronological survival time is subject to right-censoring. The quality...

Locally Efficient Estimation of the Quality Adjusted Lifetime Distribution with Right-Censored Data and Covariates. (1999)

Alan Hubbard

Zhao and Tsiatis (1997) consider the problem of estimation of the distribution of the quality adjusted lifetime U when the chronological survival time T is subject to rightcensoring. The quality...

Disease transmission models for public health decision making: toward an approach for designing intervention strategies for Schistosomiasis japonica.

Spear, Robert C, Hubbard, Alan, Liang, Song, Seto, Edmund

Mathematical models of disease transmission processes can serve as platforms for integration of diverse data, including site-specific information, for the purpose of designing strategies for...

Association of In Utero Organochlorine Pesticide Exposure and Fetal Growth and Length of Gestation in an Agricultural Population

Fenster, Laura, Eskenazi, Brenda, Anderson, Meredith, Bradman, Asa, Harley, Kim, Hernandez, Hedy, ...

From 1940 through the 1970s, organochlorine compounds were widely used as insecticides in the United States. Thereafter, their use was severely restricted after recognition of their persistence in...

Inferences Drawn from a Risk Assessment Compared Directly with a Randomized Trial of a Home Drinking Water Intervention

Eisenberg, Joseph N.S., Hubbard, Alan, Wade, Timothy J., Sylvester, Matthew D., LeChevallier, Mark W., Levy, Deborah A., ...

Risk assessments and intervention trials have been used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to estimate drinking water health risks. Seldom are both methods used concurrently. Between 2001...

Disease transmission models for public health decision making: toward an approach for designing intervention strategies for Schistosomiasis japonica.

Spear, Robert C, Hubbard, Alan, Liang, Song, Seto, Edmund

Mathematical models of disease transmission processes can serve as platforms for integration of diverse data, including site-specific information, for the purpose of designing strategies for...

Association of In Utero Organochlorine Pesticide Exposure and Fetal Growth and Length of Gestation in an Agricultural Population

Fenster, Laura, Eskenazi, Brenda, Anderson, Meredith, Bradman, Asa, Harley, Kim, Hernandez, Hedy, ...

From 1940 through the 1970s, organochlorine compounds were widely used as insecticides in the United States. Thereafter, their use was severely restricted after recognition of their persistence in...

Inferences Drawn from a Risk Assessment Compared Directly with a Randomized Trial of a Home Drinking Water Intervention

Eisenberg, Joseph N.S., Hubbard, Alan, Wade, Timothy J., Sylvester, Matthew D., LeChevallier, Mark W., Levy, Deborah A., ...

Risk assessments and intervention trials have been used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to estimate drinking water health risks. Seldom are both methods used concurrently. Between 2001...

Resistance Exercise Reverses Aging in Human Skeletal Muscle

Melov, Simon, Tarnopolsky, Mark A., Beckman, Kenneth, Felkey, Krysta, Hubbard, Alan

Human aging is associated with skeletal muscle atrophy and functional impairment (sarcopenia). Multiple lines of evidence suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction is a major contributor to sarcopenia....

Environmental change and infectious disease: How new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador

Eisenberg, Joseph N. S., Cevallos, William, Ponce, Karina, Levy, Karen, Bates, Sarah J., Scott, James C., ...

Environmental change plays a large role in the emergence of infectious disease. The construction of a new road in a previously roadless area of northern coastal Ecuador provides a valuable natural...

Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress Causes Hyperphosphorylation of Tau

Melov, Simon, Adlard, Paul A., Morten, Karl, Johnson, Felicity, Golden, Tamara R., Hinerfeld, Doug, ...

Age-related neurodegenerative disease has been mechanistically linked with mitochondrial dysfunction via damage from reactive oxygen species produced within the cell. We determined whether increased...

Environmental effects on parasitic disease transmission exemplified by schistosomiasis in western China

Liang, Song, Seto, Edmund Y. W., Remais, Justin V., Zhong, Bo, Yang, Changhong, Hubbard, Alan, ...

Environmental effects on the transmission of many parasitic diseases are well recognized, but the role of specific factors like climate and agricultural practices in modulating transmission is seldom...

Dramatic age-related changes in nuclear and genome copy number in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Golden, Tamara R, Beckman, Kenneth B, Lee, Andreia H J, Dudek, Nancy, Hubbard, Alan, Samper, Enrique, ...

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has become one of the most widely used model systems for the study of aging, yet very little is known about how C. elegans age. The development of the worm, from...

Impact of Transmission Intensity on the Accuracy of Genotyping To Distinguish Recrudescence from New Infection in Antimalarial Clinical Trials▿

Greenhouse, Bryan, Dokomajilar, Christian, Hubbard, Alan, Rosenthal, Philip J., Dorsey, Grant

Antimalarial clinical trials use genotyping techniques to distinguish new infection from recrudescence. In areas of high transmission, the accuracy of genotyping may be compromised due to the high...

Estimation of treatment effects in randomized trials with non-compliance and a dichotomous outcome

Alan Hubbard, Nicholas P. Jewell

We propose a class of estimators of the treatment effect on a dichotomous outcome among the treated subjects within covariate and treatment arm strata in randomized trials with non-compliance. Recent...

Estimation of Treatment Effects in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance and a Dichotomous Outcome

Alan Hubbard, Nicholas Jewell

We propose a class of estimators of a received treatment effect on a dichotomous outcome among the treated subjects within covariate and treatment arm strata in randomized trials with non-compliance....

A Comparison of Methods to Control Type I Errors in Microarray Studies

Jinsong Chen, Martyn Smith, Alan Hubbard

Microarray studies often need to simultaneously examine thousands of genes to determine which are differentially expressed. One main challenge in those studies is to find suitable multiple testing...

Super Learner

Eric Polley, Alan Hubbard

When trying to learn a model for the prediction of an outcome given a set of covariates, a statistician has many estimation procedures in their toolbox. A few examples of these candidate learners...

Quantile-Function Based Null Distribution in Resampling Based Multiple Testing

Alan Hubbard

Simultaneously testing a collection of null hypotheses about a data generating distribution based on a sample of independent and identically distributed observations is a fundamental and important...

Issues of Processing and Multiple Testing of SELDI-TOF MS Proteomic Data

Merrill Birkner, Alan Hubbard, Christine Skibola, Christine Hegedus, Martyn Smith

A new data filtering method for SELDI-TOF MS proteomic spectra data is described. We examined technical repeats (2 per subject) of intensity versus m/z (mass/charge) of bone marrow cell lysate for...

Empirical Bayes and Resampling Based Multiple Testing Procedure Controlling Tail Probability of the Proportion of False Positives.

Merrill Birkner, Alan Hubbard

Simultaneously testing a collection of null hypotheses about a data generating distribution based on a sample of independent and identically distributed observations is a fundamental and important...

A Human Protein Interaction Network Shows Conservation of Aging Processes between Human and Invertebrate Species

Bell, Russell, Hubbard, Alan, Chettier, Rakesh, Chen, Di, Miller, John P., Kapahi, Pankaj, ...

We have mapped a protein interaction network of human homologs of proteins that modify longevity in invertebrate species. This network is derived from a proteome-scale human protein interaction Core...

A functional TNFRSF5 gene variant is associated with risk of lymphoma

Skibola, Christine F., Nieters, Alexandra, Bracci, Paige M., Curry, John D., Agana, Luz, Skibola, Danica R., ...

CD40 and its ligand, CD154, are major costimulatory molecules whose interactions are important in humoral and cellular immunity. We hypothesized that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in TNFRSF5...

Limb Immobilization Induces a Coordinate Down-Regulation of Mitochondrial and Other Metabolic Pathways in Men and Women

Abadi, Arkan, Glover, Elisa I., Isfort, Robert J., Raha, Sandeep, Safdar, Adeel, Yasuda, Nobuo, ...

Advancements in animal models and cell culture techniques have been invaluable in the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that regulate muscle atrophy. However, few studies have examined muscle...

Quantile-Function Based Null Distribution in Resampling Based Multiple Testing

Alan Hubbard

Simultaneously testing a collection of null hypotheses about a data generating distribution based on a sample of independent and identically distributed observations is a fundamental and important...

Issues of Processing and Multiple Testing of SELDI-TOF MS Proteomic Data

Merrill Birkner, Alan Hubbard, Christine Skibola, Christine Hegedus, Martyn Smith

A new data filtering method for SELDI-TOF MS proteomic spectra data is described. We examined technical repeats (2 per subject) of intensity versus m/z (mass/charge) of bone marrow cell lysate for...

Super Learner

Eric Polley, Alan Hubbard

When trying to learn a model for the prediction of an outcome given a set of covariates, a statistician has many estimation procedures in their toolbox. A few examples of these candidate learners...

A Comparison of Methods to Control Type I Errors in Microarray Studies

Jinsong Chen, Martyn Smith, Alan Hubbard

Microarray studies often need to simultaneously examine thousands of genes to determine which are differentially expressed. One main challenge in those studies is to find suitable multiple testing...

Empirical Bayes and Resampling Based Multiple Testing Procedure Controlling Tail Probability of the Proportion of False Positives.

Merrill Birkner, Alan Hubbard

Simultaneously testing a collection of null hypotheses about a data generating distribution based on a sample of independent and identically distributed observations is a fundamental and important...