Alexander F. Wilson, Ph.D.

Co-Chief & Senior Investigator, Inherited Disease Research Branch
Head, Genometrics Section

Selected Publications

Wilson A.F., Elston R.C., Sellers T.A., Bailey-Wilson J.E., Gersting J.M., Deen D.K., Sorant A.J.M., Tran L.D., Amos C.I., Siervogel R.M.. Stepwise oligogenic segregation and linkage analysis illustrated with dopamine-beta-hydroxylase activity. Am J Med Genet, 35:425-432. 1990. [PubMed]

Wilson A.F., Elston R.C., Tran L.D, Siervogel R.M. Use of the robust sib-pair method to screen for single-locus, multiple-locus, and pleiotropic effects: application to traits related to hypertension. Am J Hum Genet, 48:862-872. 1991. [PubMed]

Pugh, E.W., Mandal, D.M., Wilson, A.F. A graphical approach for presenting linkage results from a genomic screen. Genet Epidemiol, 12(6):807-812. 1995. [PubMed]

Wilson A.F., Sorant A.J. Equivalence of single- and multilocus markers: power to detect linkage with composite markers derived from biallelic loci. Am J Hum Genet, 66:1610-1615. 2000. [PubMed]

Pugh E.W., Papanicolaou G.J., Justice C.M., Roy-Gagnon M.H., Sorant A.J., Kingman A., Wilson A.F. Comparison of variance components, ANOVA and regression of offspring on midparent (ROMP) methods for SNP markers. Genet Epidemiol, 21 (Suppl 1):S794-S799. 2001. [PubMed]

Miller, N.H., Justice, C.M., Marosy, B., Doheny, K.F., Pugh, E., Zhang, J., Wilson, A.F. Identification of candidate regions in familial idiopathic scoliosis. Spine 30(10):1181-1187. 2005. [PubMed]

McMahon, F.J., Buervenich, S., Charney, D., Lipsky, R., Rush, A.J., Wilson, A.F., Sorant AJM, Papanicolaou GJ, Laje G, Fava M, Trivedi M, Wisniewski S, Manji H. Variation in the gene encoding the serotonin 2A receptor is associated with outcome of citalopram treatment: Results from the STAR*D trial. Am J Hum Genet, 78(5):804-814. 2006. [PubMed]

Miller, N.H., Marosy, B., Justice, C.M., Novak, S.M., Tang, E.Y., Boyce, P., Pettengil, J., Doheny, K.F., Pugh, E.W., Wilson, A.F. Linkage analysis of genetic loci for kyphoscoliosis on chromosomes 5p13, 13q13.3 and 13q32. Am J Med Genet, 140A(10):1059-1068. 2006. [PubMed]

Mathias, R.A., Gao, P., Goldstein, J.L., Wilson, A.F., Pugh, E.W., Furbert-Harris, P., Dunston, G.M., Malveaux, F.J., Togias, A., Barnes, K.C., Beaty, T.H., Huang, S-K. A graphical assessment of p-values from sliding window haplotype tests of association to identify asthma susceptibility loci on chromosome 11q. BMC Genetics, 7(1):38. 2006. [PubMed]

Faraday, N., Yanek, L.R., Mathias, R., Herrera-Galeano, J.E., Vaidya, D., Moy, T.F., Fallin, M.D., Wilson, A.F., Bray, P.F., Becker, L.C., Becker, D.M.. Heritability of platelet responsiveness to aspirin in activation pathways directly and indirectly related to cyclooxygenase-1. Circulation, 115(19):2490-2496. 2007. [PubMed]

Roy-Gagnon, M-H., Mathias, R.A., Fallin, M.D., Jee, S.H., Broman, K.W., Wilson, A.F. An extension of the regression of Offspring on Mid-Parent method to test for association and estimate locus-specific heritability: The revised ROMP method. Ann Hum Genet, 72:115-25. 2008. [PubMed]

Herrera-Galeano JE, Becker DM, Wilson AF, Yanek LR, Bray P, Vaidya D, Faraday N, Becker LC. A novel variant in the platelet endothelial aggregation receptor-1 gene is associated with increased platelet aggregability. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 28:1484-90. 2008. [PubMed]

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