Faculty Details for Dr. Derek Gordon
Associate Research Professor
Contact Information
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Office: LSB 128 Phone: (732) 445-3386 Fax: (732) 445-1147 Email: gordon@biology.rutgers.edu |
Life Sciences Building 145 Bevier Road Piscataway, N.J., 08854 |
Research
My research focuses on linkage and association methods. I perform both theoretical and applied studies of these methods. My theoretical work is mainly concerned with phenotype and genotype misclassification and their effects on tests of linkage and association. My applied work involves gene mapping studies of scoliosis, Alzheimer's Disease, and hair and skin phenotypes. People interested in working with me must have a good background in computer programming and statistics.
Selected Publications
View Dr. Gordon's publication list in PubMed
Kang SJ, Gordon D, Finch SJ (2004) What SNP genotyping errors are most costly for genetic association studies? Genet Epidemiol 26:132-41.Brown AM, Gordon D, Lee H, Caudy M, Haroutunian V, Blass JP (2004) Substantial linkage disequilibrium across the dihydrolipoyl succinyltransferase gene region but no association with Alzheimer’s disease. Neurochem Res 29:629-635.
Gordon D, Haynes C, Johnnidis C, Bowcock AM, Ott J (2004) A transmission disequilibrium test for general pedigrees that is robust to the presence of random genotyping errors and any number of untyped parents. Eur J Hum Genet 12:752-61.
Yuferov V, Fussell D, LaForge KS, Nielsen DA, Gordon D, Ho A, Leal SM, Ott J, Kreek MJ (2004) Redefinition of the human kappa opioid receptor gene (OPRK1) structure and association of haplotypes with opiate addiction. Pharmacogenetics 14:793-804.
Gordon D, Yang Y, Haynes C, Finch SJ, Mendell NR, Brown AM, Haroutunian V (2004) Increasing power for tests of genetic association in the presence of phenotype and/or genotype error by use of double-sampling. Stat Appl Genet and Mol Biol 3:Article 26.
Edwards BJ, Haynes C, Levenstien MA, Finch SJ, Gordon D (2005) Power and sample size calculations in the presence of phenotype errors for case/control genetic association studies. BMC Genet 8:18.
Gordon D, Finch SJ (2005) Factors affecting statistical power in the detection of genetic association. J Clin Invest 115:1408-18.
Miranda A, Garcia J, Lopez C, Gordon D, Palacio C, Restrepo G, Ortiz J, Montoya G, Cardeno C, Calle J, Lopez M, Campo O, Bedoya G, Ruiz-Linares A, Ospina-Duque J (2005) Putative association of the carboxy-terminal PDZ ligand of neuronal nitric oxide synthase gene (CAPON) with schizophrenia in a Colombian population. Schizophr Res 82(2-3):283-5.
Gordon D, Haynes C, Finch SJ, Brown AM (2006) Increase in linkage information by stratification of pedigree data into gold-standard and standard diagnoses: Application to The NIMH Alzheimer Disease Genetics Initiative dataset. Hum Hered 61(2):97-103.
Gordon D, Finch SJ (2006) Consequences of Errors. In: Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics (Eds. Jorde, Little, Dunn, Subramaniam). J Wiley and Sons: New York.
Gordon D, Haynes C, Yang Y, Kramer PL, Finch SJ (2007) Linear trend tests for case-control genetic association that incorporate random phenotype and genotype misclassification error. Genet Epidemiol 31(8):853-70.