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2. Utilizing co-abundances of antimicrobial resistance genes to identify potential co-selection in the resistome
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Martiny, Hannah-Marie, primary, Munk, Patrick, additional, Brinch, Christian, additional, Aarestrup, Frank M., additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, and Petersen, Thomas N., additional
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- 2024
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3. Challenges in the integration of omics and non-omics data
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López de Maturana, Evangelina, Alonso, Lola, Alarcón, Pablo, Martín-Antoniano, Isabel Adoración, Pineda Sanjuan, Silvia, Piorno, Lucas, Calle, M. Luz, Malats, Núria, López de Maturana, Evangelina, Alonso, Lola, Alarcón, Pablo, Martín-Antoniano, Isabel Adoración, Pineda Sanjuan, Silvia, Piorno, Lucas, Calle, M. Luz, and Malats, Núria
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Omics data integration is already a reality. However, few omics-based algorithms show enough predictive ability to be implemented into clinics or public health domains. Clinical/epidemiological data tend to explain most of the variation of health-related traits, and its joint modeling with omics data is crucial to increase the algorithm’s predictive ability. Only a small number of published studies performed a “real” integration of omics and non-omics (OnO) data, mainly to predict cancer outcomes. Challenges in OnO data integration regard the nature and heterogeneity of non-omics data, the possibility of integrating large-scale non-omics data with high-throughput omics data, the relationship between OnO data (i.e., ascertainment bias), the presence of interactions, the fairness of the models, and the presence of subphenotypes. These challenges demand the development and application of new analysis strategies to integrate OnO data. In this contribution we discuss different attempts of OnO data integration in clinical and epidemiological studies. Most of the reviewed papers considered only one type of omics data set, mainly RNA expression data. All selected papers incorporated non-omics data in a low-dimensionality fashion. The integrative strategies used in the identified papers adopted three modeling methods: Independent, conditional, and joint modeling. This review presents, discusses, and proposes integrative analytical strategies towards OnO data integration, Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS), España, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, España, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, World Cancer Research, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, España, Depto. de Estadística y Ciencia de los Datos, Fac. de Estudios Estadísticos, TRUE, pub
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- 2024
4. Genetic variation in the TP53 pathway and bladder cancer risk. a comprehensive analysis
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Chenette, Emily, Pineda Sanjuan, Silvia, Milne, Roger L, Calle, M Luz, Rothman, Nathaniel, López de Maturana, Evangelina, Herranz, Jesús, Kogevinas, Manolis, J Chanock, Stephen, Tardón, Adonina, Márquez, Mirari, Guey, Lin T, García-Closas, Montserrat, Lloreta, Josep, Baum, Erin, González-Neira, Anna, Carrato, Alfredo, Navarro, Arcadi, T Silverman, Debra, X Real, Francisco, Maltas, Núria, Chenette, Emily, Pineda Sanjuan, Silvia, Milne, Roger L, Calle, M Luz, Rothman, Nathaniel, López de Maturana, Evangelina, Herranz, Jesús, Kogevinas, Manolis, J Chanock, Stephen, Tardón, Adonina, Márquez, Mirari, Guey, Lin T, García-Closas, Montserrat, Lloreta, Josep, Baum, Erin, González-Neira, Anna, Carrato, Alfredo, Navarro, Arcadi, T Silverman, Debra, X Real, Francisco, and Maltas, Núria
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Introduction: Germline variants in TP63 have been consistently associated with several tumors, including bladder cancer, indicating the importance of TP53 pathway in cancer genetic susceptibility. However, variants in other related genes, including TP53 rs1042522 (Arg72Pro), still present controversial results. We carried out an in depth assessment of associations between common germline variants in the TP53 pathway and bladder cancer risk. Material and Methods: We investigated 184 tagSNPs from 18 genes in 1,058 cases and 1,138 controls from the Spanish Bladder Cancer/EPICURO Study. Cases were newly-diagnosed bladder cancer patients during 1998–2001. Hospital controls were age-gender, and area matched to cases. SNPs were genotyped in blood DNA using Illumina Golden Gate and TaqMan assays. Cases were subphenotyped according to stage/grade and tumor p53 expression. We applied classical tests to assess individual SNP associations and the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO)-penalized logistic regression analysis to assess multiple SNPs simultaneously. Results: Based on classical analyses, SNPs in BAK1 (1), IGF1R (5), P53AIP1 (1), PMAIP1 (2), SERINPB5 (3), TP63 (3), and TP73 (1) showed significant associations at p-value#0.05. However, no evidence of association, either with overall risk or with specific disease subtypes, was observed after correction for multiple testing (p-value$0.8). LASSO selected the SNP rs6567355 in SERPINB5 with 83% of reproducibility. This SNP provided an OR = 1.21, 95%CI 1.05–1.38, p-value = 0.006, and a corrected p-value = 0.5 when controlling for over-estimation. Discussion: We found no strong evidence that common variants in the TP53 pathway are associated with bladder cancer susceptibility. Our study suggests that it is unlikely that TP53 Arg72Pro is implicated in the UCB in white Europeans. SERPINB5 and TP63 variation deserve further exploration in extended studies., Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, Spain, Red Temática de Investigación Cooperativa en Cáncer. Spain, Marató TV3, European Commission, US National Institutes of Health, The Intramural Research Program of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, USA, Consolíder ONCOBIO. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Madrid, Spain, Depto. de Estadística y Ciencia de los Datos, Fac. de Estudios Estadísticos, TRUE, pub
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- 2024
5. Microbiome compositional data analysis for survival studies.
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Pujolassos, Meritxell, Susín, Antoni, and Calle, M. Luz
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- 2024
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6. A toolbox of machine learning software to support microbiome analysis
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Marcos-Zambrano, Laura Judith, primary, López-Molina, Víctor Manuel, additional, Bakir-Gungor, Burcu, additional, Frohme, Marcus, additional, Karaduzovic-Hadziabdic, Kanita, additional, Klammsteiner, Thomas, additional, Ibrahimi, Eliana, additional, Lahti, Leo, additional, Loncar-Turukalo, Tatjana, additional, Dhamo, Xhilda, additional, Simeon, Andrea, additional, Nechyporenko, Alina, additional, Pio, Gianvito, additional, Przymus, Piotr, additional, Sampri, Alexia, additional, Trajkovik, Vladimir, additional, Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, Blanca, additional, Aasmets, Oliver, additional, Araujo, Ricardo, additional, Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis, additional, Aydemir, Önder, additional, Berland, Magali, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Ceci, Michelangelo, additional, Duman, Hatice, additional, Gündoğdu, Aycan, additional, Havulinna, Aki S., additional, Kaka Bra, Kardokh Hama Najib, additional, Kalluci, Eglantina, additional, Karav, Sercan, additional, Lode, Daniel, additional, Lopes, Marta B., additional, May, Patrick, additional, Nap, Bram, additional, Nedyalkova, Miroslava, additional, Paciência, Inês, additional, Pasic, Lejla, additional, Pujolassos, Meritxell, additional, Shigdel, Rajesh, additional, Susín, Antonio, additional, Thiele, Ines, additional, Truică, Ciprian-Octavian, additional, Wilmes, Paul, additional, Yilmaz, Ercument, additional, Yousef, Malik, additional, Claesson, Marcus Joakim, additional, Truu, Jaak, additional, and Carrillo de Santa Pau, Enrique, additional
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- 2023
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7. Interval Censoring: Model Characterizations for the Validity of the Simplified Likelihood
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Oller, Ramon, Gómez, Guadalupe, and Calle, M. Luz
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- 2004
8. Predictive signature of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer integrating mRNA expression, taxonomic subtypes, and clinicopathological features
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Font, Albert, primary, Domenech, Montserrat, additional, Ramirez, Jose Luis, additional, Marqués, Miriam, additional, Benítez, Raquel, additional, Ruiz de Porras, Vicenç, additional, Gago, José L., additional, Carrato, Cristina, additional, Sant, Francesc, additional, Lopez, Hector, additional, Castellano, Daniel, additional, Malats, Nuria, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, and Real, Francisco X., additional
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- 2023
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9. AUC-RF : A New Strategy for Genomic Profiling with Random Forest
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Calle, M. Luz, Urrea, Victor, Boulesteix, Anne-Laure, and Malats, Nuria
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- 2011
10. Interval Censoring: Identifiability and the Constant-Sum Property
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Oller, Ramon, Gómez, Guadalupe, and Calle, M. Luz
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- 2007
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11. Obesity status and obesity-associated gut dysbiosis effects on hypothalamic structural covariance
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Contreras-Rodriguez, O., Arnoriaga-Rodríguez, M., Miranda-Olivos, R., Blasco, G., Biarnés, C., Puig, J., Rivera-Pinto, J., Calle, M. Luz, Pérez-Brocal, V., Moya, Andrés, Coll, C., Ramió-Torrentà, L., Soriano-Mas, Carles, Fernández Real, Jose Manuel, Contreras-Rodriguez, O., Arnoriaga-Rodríguez, M., Miranda-Olivos, R., Blasco, G., Biarnés, C., Puig, J., Rivera-Pinto, J., Calle, M. Luz, Pérez-Brocal, V., Moya, Andrés, Coll, C., Ramió-Torrentà, L., Soriano-Mas, Carles, and Fernández Real, Jose Manuel
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Functional connectivity alterations in the lateral and medial hypothalamic networks have been associated with the development and maintenance of obesity, but the possible impact on the structural properties of these networks remains largely unexplored. Also, obesity-related gut dysbiosis may delineate specific hypothalamic alterations within obese conditions. We aim to assess the effects of obesity, and obesity and gut-dysbiosis on the structural covariance differences in hypothalamic networks, executive functioning, and depressive symptoms. Medial (MH) and lateral (LH) hypothalamic structural covariance alterations were identified in 57 subjects with obesity compared to 47 subjects without obesity. Gut dysbiosis in the subjects with obesity was defined by the presence of high (n = 28) and low (n = 29) values in a BMI-associated microbial signature, and posthoc comparisons between these groups were used as a proxy to explore the role of obesity-related gut dysbiosis on the hypothalamic measurements, executive function, and depressive symptoms. Structural covariance alterations between the MH and the striatum, lateral prefrontal, cingulate, insula, and temporal cortices are congruent with previously functional connectivity disruptions in obesity conditions. MH structural covariance decreases encompassed postcentral parietal cortices in the subjects with obesity and gut-dysbiosis, but increases with subcortical nuclei involved in the coding food-related hedonic information in the subjects with obesity without gut-dysbiosis. Alterations for the structural covariance of the LH in the subjects with obesity and gut-dysbiosis encompassed increases with frontolimbic networks, but decreases with the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in the subjects with obesity without gut-dysbiosis. Subjects with obesity and gut dysbiosis showed higher executive dysfunction and depressive symptoms. Obesity-related gut dysbiosis is linked to specific structural covariance alterations in hypothala
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- 2021
12. Dynamic prediction methods in the BC2001 clinical trial
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Porta, Nuria, Calle, M Luz, Lewis, Rebecca, Snape, Michelle, Hendron, Carey, James, Nicholas, Huddart, Robert, and Hall, Emma
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- 2015
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13. Frequentist and Bayesian approaches for interval-censored data
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Gómez, Guadalupe, Calle, M. Luz, and Oller, Ramon
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- 2004
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14. Letter to the Editor: Stability of Random Forest importance measures
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Calle, M. Luz and Urrea, Víctor
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- 2011
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15. Variable selection in microbiome compositional data analysis
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Susin, Antoni, primary, Wang, Yiwen, additional, Lê Cao, Kim-Anh, additional, and Calle, M Luz, additional
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- 2020
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16. Analysis of the winning probability and the scoring actions in the American professional soccer championship. [Análisis de la probabilidad de ganar y de las acciones que conducen al gol en la liga americana de fútbol profesional].
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Altarriba-Bartés, Albert, primary, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Susín, Antonio, additional, Gonçalves, Bruno, additional, Vives, Marc, additional, Sampaio, Jaime, additional, and Peña, Javier, additional
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- 2020
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17. mbmdr: an R package for exploring gene–gene interactions associated with binary or quantitative traits
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Calle, M. Luz, Urrea, Víctor, Malats, Núria, and Van Steen, Kristel
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- 2010
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18. Statistical Analysis of Metagenomics Data
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Calle, M. Luz, primary
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- 2019
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19. Challenges in the Integration of Omics and Non-Omics Data
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López de Maturana, Evangelina, primary, Alonso, Lola, additional, Alarcón, Pablo, additional, Martín-Antoniano, Isabel Adoración, additional, Pineda, Silvia, additional, Piorno, Lucas, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, and Malats, Núria, additional
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- 2019
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20. Risk Prediction Scores for Recurrence and Progression of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer : An International Validation in Primary Tumours
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Vedder, Moniek M., Márquez, Mirari, de Bekker-Grob, Esther W., Calle, M. Luz, Dyrskjøt, Lars, Kogevinas, Manoils, Segersten, Ulrika, Malmström, Per-Uno, Algaba, Ferran, Beukers, Willemien, Ørntoft, Torben F., Zwarthoff, Ellen, Real, Francisco X., Malats, Núria, Steyerberg, Ewout W., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, European Union (EU), Danish Cancer Society, Unión Europea, Universitat de Vic. Escola Politècnica Superior, Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica, Public Health, and Pathology
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Oncology ,Male ,Cohort Studies ,Recurrence ,Urologi och njurmedicin ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Genitourinary Cancers ,Medicine ,10. No inequality ,Càncer ,Multidisciplinary ,Cancer Risk Factors ,Middle Aged ,Bladder Cancer ,3. Good health ,Europe ,Neoplasm Invasiveness ,Research Design ,Disease Progression ,Bufeta -- Càncer ,Female ,Non muscle invasive ,Research Article ,Risk ,Validation study ,medicine.medical_specialty ,European community ,Clinical Research Design ,Urology ,Science ,MEDLINE ,Research and Analysis Methods ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,Internal medicine ,Carcinoma ,Humans ,Urology and Nephrology ,Tumors ,Aged ,Gynecology ,Cancer och onkologi ,Bladder cancer ,Health Care Policy ,business.industry ,Disease progression ,Health Risk Analysis ,Cancers and Neoplasms ,medicine.disease ,Health Care ,Genitourinary Tract Tumors ,Urinary Bladder Neoplasms ,Cancer and Oncology ,Neoplasm Grading ,business - Abstract
Objective: We aimed to determine the validity of two risk scores for patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in different European settings, in patients with primary tumours. Methods: We included 1,892 patients with primary stage Ta or T1 non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who underwent a transurethral resection in Spain (n = 973), the Netherlands (n = 639), or Denmark (n = 280). We evaluated recurrence-free survival and progression-free survival according to the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the Spanish Urological Club for Oncological Treatment (CUETO) risk scores for each patient and used the concordance index (c-index) to indicate discriminative ability. Results: The 3 cohorts were comparable according to age and sex, but patients from Denmark had a larger proportion of patients with the high stage and grade at diagnosis (p,0.01). At least one recurrence occurred in 839 (44%) patients and 258 (14%) patients had a progression during a median follow-up of 74 months. Patients from Denmark had the highest 10- year recurrence and progression rates (75% and 24%, respectively), whereas patients from Spain had the lowest rates (34% and 10%, respectively). The EORTC and CUETO risk scores both predicted progression better than recurrence with c-indices ranging from 0.72 to 0.82 while for recurrence, those ranged from 0.55 to 0.61. Conclusion: The EORTC and CUETO risk scores can reasonably predict progression, while prediction of recurrence is more difficult. New prognostic markers are needed to better predict recurrence of tumours in primary non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients., This research received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework program FP7/2007-2011 under grant agreement 201663 (Uromol project, http://www.uromol.eu/)
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- 2014
21. Global adaptive rank truncated product method for gene-set analysis in association studies
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Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988, Calle, M. Luz, Universitat de Vic. Escola Politècnica Superior, and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica
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Alzheimer, Malaltia d' ,Genètica - Abstract
Gene set analysis (GSA) aims to assess the overall association of a set of genetic variants with a phenotype and has the potential to detect subtle effects of variants in a gene or a pathway that might be missed when assessed individually. We present a new implementation of the Adaptive Rank Truncated Product method (ARTP) for analyzing the association of a set of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in a gene or pathway. The new implementation, referred to as globalARTP, improves the original one by allowing the different SNPs in the set to have different modes of inheritance. We perform a simulation study for exploring the power of the proposed methodology in a set of scenarios with different numbers of causal SNPs with different effect sizes. Moreover, we show the advantage of using the gene set approach in the context of an Alzheimer’s disease case-control study where we explore the endocytosis pathway. The new method is implemented in the R function globalARTP of the globalGSA package available at http://cran.r-project.org. This research was partially supported by grant MTM2012-38067-C02-02 from the Ministerio de Economia e Innovacion (Spain), grant 2009SGR-581 from Generalitat de Catalunya and Beca UNNIM en Ciencies de la Salut 2011.
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- 2014
22. Efficient and Powerful Method for Combining P-Values in Genome-Wide Association Studies
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Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia, primary, Gonzalez, Juan R., additional, and Calle, M. Luz, additional
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- 2016
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23. Comprehensive Transcriptional Analysis of Early-Stage Urothelial Carcinoma
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Hedegaard, Jakob, primary, Lamy, Philippe, additional, Nordentoft, Iver, additional, Algaba, Ferran, additional, Høyer, Søren, additional, Ulhøi, Benedicte Parm, additional, Vang, Søren, additional, Reinert, Thomas, additional, Hermann, Gregers G., additional, Mogensen, Karin, additional, Thomsen, Mathilde Borg Houlberg, additional, Nielsen, Morten Muhlig, additional, Marquez, Mirari, additional, Segersten, Ulrika, additional, Aine, Mattias, additional, Höglund, Mattias, additional, Birkenkamp-Demtröder, Karin, additional, Fristrup, Niels, additional, Borre, Michael, additional, Hartmann, Arndt, additional, Stöhr, Robert, additional, Wach, Sven, additional, Keck, Bastian, additional, Seitz, Anna Katharina, additional, Nawroth, Roman, additional, Maurer, Tobias, additional, Tulic, Cane, additional, Simic, Tatjana, additional, Junker, Kerstin, additional, Horstmann, Marcus, additional, Harving, Niels, additional, Petersen, Astrid Christine, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Steyerberg, Ewout W., additional, Beukers, Willemien, additional, van Kessel, Kim E.M., additional, Jensen, Jørgen Bjerggaard, additional, Pedersen, Jakob Skou, additional, Malmström, Per-Uno, additional, Malats, Núria, additional, Real, Francisco X., additional, Zwarthoff, Ellen C., additional, Ørntoft, Torben Falck, additional, and Dyrskjøt, Lars, additional
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- 2016
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24. Model-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction for detecting epistasis in case–control data in the presence of noise
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Cattaert, Tom, Calle, M. Luz, Dudek, Scott M., Mahachie John, Jestinah M., Van Lishout, François, Urrea Gales, Víctor, Ritchie, Marylyn D., Van Steen, Kristel, Universitat de Vic. Escola Politècnica Superior, and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica
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Epidemiologia genètica ,Bioinformàtica ,Mineria de dades - Abstract
Analyzing the combined effects of genes and/or environmental factors on the development of complex diseases is a great challenge from both the statistical and computational perspective, even using a relatively small number of genetic and nongenetic exposures. Several data-mining methods have been proposed for interaction analysis, among them, the Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Method (MDR) has proven its utility in a variety of theoretical and practical settings. Model-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MB-MDR), a relatively new MDR-based technique that is able to unify the best of both nonparametric and parametric worlds, was developed to address some of the remaining concerns that go along with an MDR analysis. These include the restriction to univariate, dichotomous traits, the absence of flexible ways to adjust for lower order effects and important confounders, and the difficulty in highlighting epistatic effects when too many multilocus genotype cells are pooled into two new genotype groups. We investigate the empirical power of MB-MDR to detect gene–gene interactions in the absence of any noise and in the presence of genotyping error, missing data, phenocopy, and genetic heterogeneity. Power is generally higher for MB-MDR than for MDR, in particular in the presence of genetic heterogeneity, phenocopy, or low minor allele frequencies. T. Cattaert, F. Van Lishout, J. M. Mahachie John and K. Van Steen acknowledge research opportunities offered by the Belgian Network BioMAGNet (Bioinformatics and Modelling: from Genomes to Networks), funded by the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme (Phase VI/4), initiated by the Belgian State, Science Policy Office. Their work was also supported in part by the IST Programme of the European Community, under the PASCAL2 Network of Excellence (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning), IST-2007-216886. In addition, F. Van Lishout acknowledges support by Alma in Silico, funded by the European Commission and Walloon Region through the Interreg IV Program. The work of M. L. Calle and V. Urrea has been supported by Grant MTM2008-06747-C02-02 from the Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Grant 050831 from La Marato de TV3 Foundation, and Grant 2009SGR-581 from AGAUR-Generalitat de Catalunya. S. Dudek and M. D. Ritchie are supported by NIH grants LM010040 and HL065962.
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- 2011
25. MB-MDR: Model-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction for detecting interactions in high-dimensional genomic data
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Calle, M. Luz, Urrea Gales, Víctor, Malats i Riera, Núria, Van Steen, Kristel, and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica
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Biometria ,Epidemiologia genètica ,Bioinformàtica ,Mineria de dades - Abstract
L’anàlisi de l’efecte dels gens i els factors ambientals en el desenvolupament de malalties complexes és un gran repte estadístic i computacional. Entre les diverses metodologies de mineria de dades que s’han proposat per a l’anàlisi d’interaccions una de les més populars és el mètode Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction, MDR, (Ritchie i al. 2001). L’estratègia d’aquest mètode és reduir la dimensió multifactorial a u mitjançant l’agrupació dels diferents genotips en dos grups de risc: alt i baix. Tot i la seva utilitat demostrada, el mètode MDR té alguns inconvenients entre els quals l’agrupació excessiva de genotips pot fer que algunes interaccions importants no siguin detectades i que no permet ajustar per efectes principals ni per variables confusores. En aquest article il•lustrem les limitacions de l’estratègia MDR i d’altres aproximacions no paramètriques i demostrem la conveniència d’utilitzar metodologies parametriques per analitzar interaccions en estudis cas-control on es requereix l’ajust per variables confusores i per efectes principals. Proposem una nova metodologia, una versió paramètrica del mètode MDR, que anomenem Model-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MB-MDR). La metodologia proposada té com a objectiu la identificació de genotips específics que estiguin associats a la malaltia i permet ajustar per efectes marginals i variables confusores. La nova metodologia s’il•lustra amb dades de l’Estudi Espanyol de Cancer de Bufeta.
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- 2008
26. Árboles de clasificación y regresión en la investigación biomédica
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Calle, M. Luz, Sánchez Espigares, Josep A., Universitat de Vic. Escola Politècnica Superior, and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica
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Medicina -- Investigació - Published
- 2007
27. A Semiparametric hierarchical method for a regression model with an interval-censored covariate
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Calle, M. Luz, Gómez, Guadalupe, Universitat de Vic. Escola Politècnica Superior, and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica
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Estadística matemàtica - Abstract
A Bayesian framework is proposed for analysing regression models in which one of the covariates is interval-censored. Such a situation was encountered in an AIDS clinical trial in which the goal was to examine the association between delays in initiating a new treatment after Indinavir failure and the subsequent viral load level of patients at the time of enrolment into the new treatment. The new method uses a mixture of Dirichlet processes allowing all the components in the model to be specified parametrically, except for the distribution of the interval-censored covariate, which is treated non-parametrically. The paper explains the proposed method for the linear regression model in detail. The performance of the method is assessed by simulations and illustrated using the AIDS clinical trial.
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- 2005
28. A Multi-state model for the analysis of functional decline and mortality of frail elderly patients
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Calle, M. Luz, Roura, Pere, Arnau, Anna, Yáñez, Aina, Leiva, Alfonso, and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Modelització de Sistemes Biològics
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Vells -- Salut i higiene ,Anàlisi de supervivència (Estadística) - Abstract
L’objectiu d’aquest estudi, que correspon a un projecte de recerca sobre la pèrdua funcional i la mortalitat de persones grans fràgils, és construir un procés de supervivència predictiu que tingui en compte l’evolució funcional i nutricional dels pacients al llarg del temps. En aquest estudi ens enfrontem a l’anàlisi de dades de supervivència i mesures repetides però els mètodes estadístics habituals per al tractament conjunt d’aquest tipus de dades no són apropiats en aquest cas. Com a alternativa utilitzem els models de supervivència multi-estats per avaluar l’associació entre mortalitat i recuperació, o no, dels nivells funcionals i nutricionals considerats normals. Després d’estimar el model i d’identificar els factors pronòstics de mortalitat és possible obtenir un procés predictiu que permet fer prediccions de la supervivència dels pacients en funció de la seva història concreta fins a un determinat moment. Això permet realitzar un pronòstic més precís de cada grup de pacients, la qual cosa pot ser molt útil per als professionals sanitaris a l’hora de prendre decisions clíniques. The aim of this study, corresponding to a research project on functional decline and mortality of frail elderly patients, is to build a predictive survival process which takes into account the functional and nutritional evolution of the patients over time. We deal with both survival data and repeated measures but the usual statistical methods for the joint analysis of longitudinal and survival data are not appropriate in this case. As an alternative we use the multi-state survival model approach to evaluate the association between mortality and the recovery, or not, of normal functional and nutritional levels. Once the model is estimated and the prognostic factors of mortality identified, a predictive process is computed which allows predictions to be made of a patient’s survival based on their history at a given time. This provides a more exact estimate of the prognosis for each group of patients which may be very helpful to clinicians in the making of decisions El objetivo de este estudio, correspondiente a un proyecto de investigación sobre la pérdida funcional y la mortalidad de ancianos frágiles, es construir un proceso de supervivencia predictivo que tenga en cuenta la evolución funcional y nutricional de los pacientes a lo largo del tiempo. En este estudio nos enfrentamos al análisis de datos de supervivencia y medidas repetidas pero los métodos estadísticos habituales para el tratamiento conjunto de este tipo de datos no son apropiados en este caso. Como alternativa utilizamos los modelos de supervivencia multi-estados para evaluar la asociación entre mortalidad y recuperación, o no, de los niveles funcionales y nutricionales considerados normales. Despuésde estimar el modelo y de identificar los factores pron ́osticos de mortalidad es posible obtener un proceso predictivo que permite hacer predicciones de la supervivencia de los pacientes en función de su historia concreta hasta un determinado momento. Esto permite realizar un pronóstico más preciso de cada grupo de pacientes, lo cual puede ser muy útil para los profesionales sanitarios en la toma de decisiones clínicas.
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29. Global adaptive rank truncated product method for gene-set analysis in association studies
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Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia, primary and Calle, M. Luz, additional
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30. Genetic Variation in the TP53 Pathway and Bladder Cancer Risk. A Comprehensive Analysis
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Pineda, Silvia, primary, Milne, Roger L., additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Rothman, Nathaniel, additional, López de Maturana, Evangelina, additional, Herranz, Jesús, additional, Kogevinas, Manolis, additional, Chanock, Stephen J., additional, Tardón, Adonina, additional, Márquez, Mirari, additional, Guey, Lin T., additional, García-Closas, Montserrat, additional, Lloreta, Josep, additional, Baum, Erin, additional, González-Neira, Anna, additional, Carrato, Alfredo, additional, Navarro, Arcadi, additional, Silverman, Debra T., additional, Real, Francisco X., additional, and Malats, Núria, additional
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31. Whole Genome Prediction of Bladder Cancer Risk With the Bayesian LASSO
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de Maturana, Evangelina López, primary, Chanok, Stephen J., additional, Picornell, Antoni C., additional, Rothman, Nathaniel, additional, Herranz, Jesús, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, García-Closas, Montserrat, additional, Marenne, Gaëlle, additional, Brand, Angela, additional, Tardón, Adonina, additional, Carrato, Alfredo, additional, Silverman, Debra T., additional, Kogevinas, Manolis, additional, Gianola, Daniel, additional, Real, Francisco X., additional, and Malats, Núria, additional
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32. Likelihood inferences with interval-censored data
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Oller, Ramon, Gómez, Guadalupe, Calle, M. Luz, and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Modelització de Sistemes Biològics
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En l’anàlisi de la supervivència el problema de les dades censurades en un interval es tracta, usualment,via l’estimació per màxima versemblança. Amb l’objectiu d’utilitzar una expressió simplificada de la funció de versemblança, els mètodes estàndards suposen que les condicions que produeixen la censura no afecten el temps de fallada. En aquest article formalitzem les condicions que asseguren la validesa d’aquesta versemblança simplificada. Així, precisem diferents condicions de censura no informativa i definim una condició de suma constant anàloga a la derivada en el context de censura per la dreta. També demostrem que les inferències obtingudes amb la versemblançaa simplificada són correctes quan aquestes condicions són certes. Finalment, tractem la identificabilitat de la funció distribució del temps de fallada a partir de la informació observada i estudiem la possibilitat de contrastar el compliment de la condició de suma constant. In survival data analysis the interval censoring problem has been usually treated via maximum likelihood inferences. In order to make use of a simpler expression of the likelihood function, standard methods suppose that conditions producing censoring do not affect the survival process. This paper is about formal conditions that ensure the validity of such a simplified likelihood. We state different notions of noninformative censoring appeared in the literature and we define the analogous constant–sum condition derived in the context of right censoring. We prove that the simplified likelihood produces correct inferences when these conditions hold. We discuss the identifiability of the distribution function of the failure time based on interval–censored data and we study the testability of the constant–sum condition. En análisis de la supervivencia el problema de los datos censurados en un intervalo se trata, habitualmente, mediante la estimación por máxima verosimilitud. Con el objetivo de utilizar una expresión simplificada de la función de verosimilitud, los métodos estándar suponen que las condiciones que producen la censura no afectan el tiempo de fallo. En este artículo formalizamos las condiciones que aseguran la validez de esta verosimilitud simplificada. Así, precisamos diferentes condiciones de censura no informativa i definimos una condición de suma constante análoga a la derivada en el contexto de censura por la derecha. También demostramos que las inferencias obtenidas con la verosimilitud simplificada son correctas cuando estas condiciones son ciertas. Finalmente, tratamos la identificabilidad de la función de distribución del tiempo de fallo a partir de la información observada y estudiamos la posibilidad de contrastar el cumplimiento de la condición de suma constante
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33. Application of Multi-SNP Approaches Bayesian LASSO and AUC-RF to Detect Main Effects of Inflammatory-Gene Variants Associated with Bladder Cancer Risk
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de Maturana, Evangelina López, primary, Ye, Yuanqing, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Rothman, Nathaniel, additional, Urrea, Víctor, additional, Kogevinas, Manolis, additional, Petrus, Sandra, additional, Chanock, Stephen J., additional, Tardón, Adonina, additional, García-Closas, Montserrat, additional, González-Neira, Anna, additional, Vellalta, Gemma, additional, Carrato, Alfredo, additional, Navarro, Arcadi, additional, Lorente-Galdós, Belén, additional, Silverman, Debra T., additional, Real, Francisco X., additional, Wu, Xifeng, additional, and Malats, Núria, additional
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34. The Analysis of interval censoring and double censoring via Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
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Calle, M. Luz and Universitat de Vic. Grup de Recerca en Modelització de Sistemes Biològics
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L'Anàlisi de la supervivència s'utilitza en diferents camps per analitzar el temps transcorregut entre dos esdeveniments. El que distingeix l'anàlisi de la supervivència d'altres àrees de l'estadística és que les dades normalment estan censurades. La censura en un interval apareix quan l'esdeveniment final d'interès no és directament observable i només se sap que el temps de fallada està en un interval concret. Un esquema de censura més complex encara apareix quan tant el temps inicial com el temps final estan censurats en un interval. Aquesta situació s'anomena doble censura. En aquest article donem una descripció formal d'un mètode bayesà paramètric per a l'anàlisi de dades censurades en un interval i dades doblement censurades així com unes indicacions clares de la seva utilització o pràctica. La metodologia proposada s'ilustra amb dades d'una cohort de pacients hemofílics que es varen infectar amb el virus VIH a principis dels anys 1980's. Survival analysis is used in different fields to analyse the elapsed time between two events. What distinguishes survival analysis from other areas in statistics is that data are usually censored. Interval censoring arises when the occurrence of the final event of interest cannot be exactly observed and the failure time is only known to lie in an interval. A more complex censoring scheme is found when both initial and final times are interval–censored. This situation is referred as double censoring. In this paper we provide a formal description of a parametric Bayesian method for the analysis of interval–censored and doubly–censored data and clear guide lines for its practical use. The proposed methodology is illustrated with data from a cohort of haemophilia patients who were infected with HIV in the early1980’s. El análisis de la supervivencia se utiliza en diferentes campos para analizar el tiempo transcurrido entre dos sucesos. Lo que distingue el análisis de la supervivencia de otras áreas de la estadística es que los datos normalmente están censurados. La censura en un intervalo aparece cuando el suceso final de interés no es directamente observable y sólo se sabe que el tiempo de fallo está en un intervalo concreto. Un esquema de censura más complejo todavía aparece cuando tanto el tiempo inicial como el tiempo final están censurados en un intervalo. Esta situación se denomina doble censura. En este artículo damos una descripción formal de un método bayesiano paramétrico para el análisis de datos censurados en un intervalo y datos doblemente censurados, así como unas indicaciones claras de su utilización práctica. La metodología propuesta se ilustra con datos de una cohorte de pacientes hemofílicos que se infectaron con el virus VIH a principios de los años 1980.
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35. Interval-censored semi-competing risks data: a novel approach for modelling bladder cancer
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Gómez Melis, Guadalupe, Calle, M. Luz, Porta Bleda, Núria, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Gómez Melis, Guadalupe, Calle, M. Luz, and Porta Bleda, Núria
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Aquesta tesi tracta sobre tècniques d'anàlisi de supervivència en situacions amb múltiples esdeveniments i patrons complexes de censura. Proposem una nova metodologia per tractar la situació de riscos semi-competitius quan les dades estan censurades en un interval. La motivació del treball neix de la nostra col·laboració amb l'Estudi Espanyol del Càncer de Bufeta (SBC/EPICURO), el més gran estudi sobre càncer de bufeta realitzat fins ara a l'Estat Espanyol. La nostra contribució en el projecte es centra en la modelització i identificació de factors pronòstics de l'evolució de la malaltia. L'evolució de malalties complexes, com el càncer o la infecció VIH, es caracteritza per la ocurrència de múltiples esdeveniments en el mateix pacient: per exemple, la recaiguda de la malaltia o la mort. Aquests esdeveniments poden ser finals, quan el seguiment del pacient s'atura després de l'esdeveniment, o bé intermedis, quan l'individu continua sota observació. La presència d'esdeveniments finals complica l'anàlisi dels intermedis ja que n'impedeix la seva completa observació, induint una possible censura depenent. En aquest context, es requereixen metodologies apropiades. Els següents mètodes són emprats: riscos competitius, models multiestat i riscos semi-competitius. A resultes de l'aplicació de mètodes per riscos competitius i models multi-estat, proposem dues aportacions rellevants al coneixement de la malaltia: (1) la caracterització dels pacients amb un alt risc de progressió com a primer esdeveniment després de la diagnosi, i (2) la construcció d'un model pronòstic dinàmic per al risc de progressió. La situació de riscos competitius es dóna quan volem descriure el temps fins al primer entre K possibles esdeveniments, juntament amb un indicador del tipus d'esdeveniment observat. En l'estudi EPICURO, és rellevant estudiar el temps fins al primer entre recidiva, progressió o mort. La caracterització d'aquest primer esdeveniment permetria seleccionar el millor tr, La presente tesis trata sobre técnicas de análisis de supervivencia en situaciones con múltiples eventos y patrones complejos de censura. Proponemos una nueva metodología para tratar el problema de riesgos semi-competitivos cuando los datos están censurados en un intervalo. La motivación de este trabajo nace de nuestra colaboración con el estudio Español de Cáncer de Vejiga (SBC/EPICURO), el más grande estudio sobre cáncer de vejiga realizado en España hasta el momento. Nuestra participación en el mismo se centra en la modelización e identificación de factores pronósticos en el curso de la enfermedad. El curso de enfermedades complejas tales como el cáncer o la infección por VIH, se caracteriza por la ocurrencia de múltiples eventos en el mismo paciente, como por ejemplo la recaída o la muerte. Estos eventos pueden ser finales, cuando el seguimiento del paciente termina con el evento, o bien intermedios, cuando el individuo sigue bajo observación. La presencia de eventos finales complica el análisis de los eventos intermedios, ya que impiden su completa observación, induciendo una posible censura dependiente. En este contexto, se requieren metodologías apropiadas. Se utilizan los siguientes métodos: riesgos competitivos, modelos multiestado y riesgos semi-competitivos. De la aplicación de métodos para riesgos competitivos y modelos multi-estado resultan dos aportaciones relevantes sobre el conocimiento de la enfermedad: (1) la caracterización de los pacientes con un alto riesgo de progresión como primer evento después del diagnóstico, y (2) la construcción de un modelo pronóstico y dinámico para el riesgo de progresión. El problema de riesgos competitivos aparece cuando queremos describir el tiempo hasta el primero de K posibles eventos, junto con un indicador del tipo de evento observado. En el estudio SBC/EPICURO es relevante estudiar el tiempo hasta el primero entre recidiva, progresión o muerte. La caracterización de este primer evento permitiría sel, Postprint (published version)
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36. The analysis of interval-censored survival data. From a Nonparametric perspective to a nonparametric Bayesian approach
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Calle, M. Luz, Gómez Melis, Guadalupe, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa
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estadística ,Anàlisi de supervivència (Biometria) ,Matemàtiques i estadística [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,matemàtiques - Abstract
This work concerns some problems in the area of survival analysis that arise in real clinical or epidemiological studies. In particular, we approach the problem of estimating the survival function based on interval-censored data or doubly-censored data. We will start defining these concepts and presenting a brief review of different methodologies to deal with this kind of censoring patterns.Survival analysis is the term used to describe the analysis of data that correspond to the time from a well defined origin time until the occurrence of some particular event of interest. This event need not necessarily be death, but could, for example, be the response to a treatment, remission from a disease, or the occurrence of a symptom
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37. A dynamic model for the risk of bladder cancer progression
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Porta, Núria, primary, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Malats, Núria, additional, and Gómez, Guadalupe, additional
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38. Model-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction for detecting epistasis in case-control data in the presence of noise
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Cattaert, Tom, primary, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Dudek, Scott M., additional, Mahachie John, Jestinah M., additional, Van Lishout, François, additional, Urrea, Victor, additional, Ritchie, Marylyn D., additional, and Van Steen, Kristel, additional
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39. FAM-MDR: A Flexible Family-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Technique to Detect Epistasis Using Related Individuals
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Cattaert, Tom, primary, Urrea, Víctor, additional, Naj, Adam C., additional, De Lobel, Lizzy, additional, De Wit, Vanessa, additional, Fu, Mao, additional, Mahachie John, Jestinah M., additional, Shen, Haiqing, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Ritchie, Marylyn D., additional, Edwards, Todd L., additional, and Van Steen, Kristel, additional
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40. Genetic Susceptibility to Distinct Bladder Cancer Subphenotypes
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Guey, Lin T., primary, García-Closas, Montserrat, additional, Murta-Nascimento, Cristiane, additional, Lloreta, Josep, additional, Palencia, Laia, additional, Kogevinas, Manolis, additional, Rothman, Nathaniel, additional, Vellalta, Gemma, additional, Calle, M. Luz, additional, Marenne, Gaëlle, additional, Tardón, Adonina, additional, Carrato, Alfredo, additional, García-Closas, Reina, additional, Serra, Consol, additional, Silverman, Debra T., additional, Chanock, Stephen, additional, Real, Francisco X., additional, and Malats, Núria, additional
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41. Tutorial on methods for interval-censored data and their implementation in R
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Gómez, Guadalupe, primary, Calle, M Luz, additional, Oller, Ramon, additional, and Langohr, Klaus, additional
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42. Skewed expression and up-regulation of the IL-12 and IL-18 receptors in resting and activated CD4 T cells from HIV-1-infected patients
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de Arquer, Guillermo Robert, primary, Peña, Ruth, additional, Cabrera, Cecilia, additional, Coma, Gemma, additional, Ruiz-Hernandez, Raul, additional, Guerola, Rosa, additional, Clotet, Bonaventuta, additional, Ruiz, Lidia, additional, Esté, José A, additional, Calle, M Luz, additional, and Bofill, Margarita, additional
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43. Bayesian survival analysis modeling applied to sensory shelf life of foods
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Calle, M. Luz, primary, Hough, Guillermo, additional, Curia, Ana, additional, and Gómez, Guadalupe, additional
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44. A SEMIPARAMETRIC HIERARCHICAL METHOD FOR A REGRESSION MODEL WITH AN INTERVAL-CENSORED COVARIATE
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Calle, M. Luz, primary and Gomez, Guadalupe, additional
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45. The analysis of interval-censored survival data. From a Nonparametric perspective to a nonparametric Bayesian approach
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Gómez Melis, Guadalupe, Calle, M. Luz, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Gómez Melis, Guadalupe, and Calle, M. Luz
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This work concerns some problems in the area of survival analysis that arise in real clinical or epidemiological studies. In particular, we approach the problem of estimating the survival function based on interval-censored data or doubly-censored data. We will start defining these concepts and presenting a brief review of different methodologies to deal with this kind of censoring patterns. Survival analysis is the term used to describe the analysis of data that correspond to the time from a well defined origin time until the occurrence of some particular event of interest. This event need not necessarily be death, but could, for example, be the response to a treatment, remission from a disease, or the occurrence of a symptom, Postprint (published version)
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46. Whole Genome Prediction of Bladder Cancer Risk With the Bayesian LASSO.
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Maturana, Evangelina López, Chanok, Stephen J., Picornell, Antoni C., Rothman, Nathaniel, Herranz, Jesús, Calle, M. Luz, García‐Closas, Montserrat, Marenne, Gaëlle, Brand, Angela, Tardón, Adonina, Carrato, Alfredo, Silverman, Debra T., Kogevinas, Manolis, Gianola, Daniel, Real, Francisco X., and Malats, Núria
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47. Genetic Variation in the TP53 Pathway and Bladder Cancer Risk. A Comprehensive Analysis.
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Pineda, Silvia, Milne, Roger L., Calle, M. Luz, Rothman, Nathaniel, López de Maturana, Evangelina, Herranz, Jesús, Kogevinas, Manolis, Chanock, Stephen J., Tardón, Adonina, Márquez, Mirari, Guey, Lin T., García-Closas, Montserrat, Lloreta, Josep, Baum, Erin, González-Neira, Anna, Carrato, Alfredo, Navarro, Arcadi, Silverman, Debra T., Real, Francisco X., and Malats, Núria
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Introduction: Germline variants in TP63 have been consistently associated with several tumors, including bladder cancer, indicating the importance of TP53 pathway in cancer genetic susceptibility. However, variants in other related genes, including TP53 rs1042522 (Arg72Pro), still present controversial results. We carried out an in depth assessment of associations between common germline variants in the TP53 pathway and bladder cancer risk. Material and Methods: We investigated 184 tagSNPs from 18 genes in 1,058 cases and 1,138 controls from the Spanish Bladder Cancer/EPICURO Study. Cases were newly-diagnosed bladder cancer patients during 1998–2001. Hospital controls were age-gender, and area matched to cases. SNPs were genotyped in blood DNA using Illumina Golden Gate and TaqMan assays. Cases were subphenotyped according to stage/grade and tumor p53 expression. We applied classical tests to assess individual SNP associations and the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO)-penalized logistic regression analysis to assess multiple SNPs simultaneously. Results: Based on classical analyses, SNPs in BAK1 (1), IGF1R (5), P53AIP1 (1), PMAIP1 (2), SERINPB5 (3), TP63 (3), and TP73 (1) showed significant associations at p-value≤0.05. However, no evidence of association, either with overall risk or with specific disease subtypes, was observed after correction for multiple testing (p-value≥0.8). LASSO selected the SNP rs6567355 in SERPINB5 with 83% of reproducibility. This SNP provided an OR = 1.21, 95%CI 1.05–1.38, p-value = 0.006, and a corrected p-value = 0.5 when controlling for over-estimation. Discussion: We found no strong evidence that common variants in the TP53 pathway are associated with bladder cancer susceptibility. Our study suggests that it is unlikely that TP53 Arg72Pro is implicated in the UCB in white Europeans. SERPINB5 and TP63 variation deserve further exploration in extended studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. Non-parametric estimation with doubly censored data
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Gomez, Guadalupe, primary and Calle, M. Luz, additional
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49. A dynamic model for the risk of bladder cancer progression.
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Porta, Núria, Calle, M. Luz, Malats, Núria, and Gómez, Guadalupe
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We propose a multistate modeling approach to describe the observed evolution of patients diagnosed with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. On the basis of data from the Spanish Bladder Cancer/EPICURO study, we adjust a multistate model taking into account the disease-related events of interest (recurrence, progression, and disease-related deaths) as well as competing deaths due to other causes. We then develop a dynamic predictive process for bladder cancer progression, which allows the risk of a patient to be updated whenever new information of his or her evolution is available. By using specific measures of prospective accuracy in the presence of competing risks, the proposed dynamic model has shown to improve prediction accuracy and provides a more personalized management of bladder patients. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Skewed expression and up‐regulation of the IL‐12 and IL‐18 receptors in resting and activated CD4 T cells from HIV‐1‐infected patients
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Arquer, Guillermo Robert, Peña, Ruth, Cabrera, Cecilia, Coma, Gemma, Ruiz‐Hernandez, Raul, Guerola, Rosa, Clotet, Bonaventuta, Ruiz, Lidia, Esté, José A., Calle, M. Luz, and Bofill, Margarita
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IL‐12 and IL‐18 synergistically induce the production of IFN‐γ by resting and activated T cells. To evaluate whether this induction was affected in HIV‐1‐infected patients, PBMC or isolated CD4 T cells were cultured with IL‐12 plus IL‐18, anti‐CD3 plus anti‐CD28, or PHA for 72 h. Cell samples were labeled daily to assess the levels of IL‐12 receptor β1 (IL‐12Rβ1), IL‐12Rβ2, and IL‐18Rα. Culture supernatants were analyzed for the presence of Th1‐ and Th2‐related cytokines by ELISA or cytometric bead array and analyzed by flow cytometry. A twofold increase in the percentage of CD4‐resting T cells expressing IL‐12Rβ1 and IL‐18Rα from HIV‐1‐infected patients was observed when compared with cells from HIV‐1‐negative donors. Higher IL‐12Rβ1 and IL‐18Rα expression correlated (r=0.87; P<0.007) to increased production of IFN‐γ by isolated CD4 T cells in the presence of IL‐12 and IL‐18. Moreover, exogenous IL‐12 and IL‐18 induced the up‐regulation of IL‐12Rβ2 to twice higher in CD4 T cells from HIV‐1‐positive individuals compared with controls. Conversely, upon activation with anti‐CD3 and anti‐CD28 antibodies, only 25% of the CD4+ T cells from HIV‐1 patients showed an increase in the IL‐12β2 when compared with 50% in healthy controls. Furthermore, the percentage of IL‐12Rβ1‐positive cells correlated inversely with the CD4 nadir of patients, suggesting that deregulation of the IL‐12 and IL‐18 pathways may play a role in the immunopathogenesis of HIV‐1 infection.
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