Publications

  1. Guerra, R, MS McPeek, TP Speed, and PM Stewart (1992). A Bayesian analysis for mapping from radiation hybrid data. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 59:104‑106.
  2. Barre, DE, R Guerra, R Verstraete, Z Wang, SM Grundy, and JC Cohen (1994). Genetic analysis of a polymorphism in the human apolipoprotein A‑I promoter: Effects of plasma HDL‑cholesterol levels. Journal of Lipid Research, 35:1292‑1296
  3. Cohen, J.C., Z. Wang, S.M. Grundy, M. Stoesz, and R. Guerra (1994). Variation at the hepatic lipase and apolipoprotein AI/CIII/AIV loci is a major cause of genetically determined variation in plasma HDL cholesterol levels. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 94:2377‑2384.
  4. Mooser, V., F.P. Mancini, S. Bopp, A. Petho‑Schramm, R. Guerra, H‑J Mueller, and H.H. Hobbs (1995). Sequence polymorphisms in the apo(a) gene associated with specific levels of Lp(a) in plasma. Human Molecular Genetics, 4:173‑181.
  5. Mancini, F. P., Mooser, V., Guerra, R., Hobbs, H. (1995). Sequence microheterogeneity in apolipoprotein(a) gene repeats and the relationship to plasma Lp(a) levels. Human Molecular Genetics, 4:1535‑1542.
  6. Guerra, R. and Speed, T.P. (1996).  Statistical issues arising in the analysis of DNA‑DNA hybridization experiments. Systematic Biology, 45: 586-595.
  7. Ernst, M., Guerra, R., and Schucany, W. (1996). Scatterplots for unordered pairs. The American Statistician, 50:260-265.
  8. Basu, S., Guerra, R., and Read, R., (1996) Bootstrap confidence intervals for concentration parameters in dilution assays,  Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 1:454-466.
  9. McPherson, R., Guerra, R., Grundy, S., and Cohen, J. (1996). Polymorphism in the CETP gene influences plasma CETP but not HDL concentrations, Journal of Lipid Research, 37:1743-1748
  10. Wan, Y., Cohen, J., and Guerra, R. (1997). A permutation test for the robust sib pair linkage method, Annals of Human Genetics, 61:79-87
  11. Guerra, R. , Polansky, A., and Schucany, W. (1997). Bootstrap with kernel smoothing for discrete data, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 26: 163-176.
  12. Guerra, R., Wang, J., Grundy, S.M., Cohen, J.C. (1997). A hepatic lipase (LIPC) allele associated with high plasma concentrations of high-density lipoprotein lipase cholesterol, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94:4532-4537.
  13. Stoesz, M., Cohen, J.C., Mooser, V., Marcovina, S., Guerra, R. (1997). Extension of the Haseman‑Elston method to multiple alleles and multiple loci: Theory and practice for candidate genes, Annals of Human Genetics, 61: 263-274.
  14. Mooser, V., Sheer, D., Marcovina, S. Wang, J., Guerra, R., Cohen, J.C., Hobbs, H. (1997) The Apo(a) gene is the major determinant of plasma Lp(a) levels in African-Americans, American Journal of Human Genetics, 61: 402-417.
  15. Guerra, R., Zhao, B., Mooser, V., Stafforini, D., Johnston, J.M., Cohen, J.C. (1997). Determinants of plasma platelet activating factor acetylhydrolase: Heritability and relationship to plasma lipoproteins, Journal of Lipid Research, 38: 2281-2288.
  16. Wang, J., Freeman, D., Grundy, S., Levine, D., Guerra, R., Cohen, J. (1998).  Linkage between cholesterol a-hydroxylase and high plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 101:1283-1291.
  17. Amos, C. I. and Guerra, R. (1998).  Statistics in Human Genetics (Update), in Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, Kotz, S., Banks. D., and Read, C., eds. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
  18. Wang, J., Guerra, R., and Cohen, J.C. (1998). Statistically robust approaches for sib-pair linkage analysis, Annals of Human Genetics, 62:349-359.
  19. Zinn, A.,R., Tonk, V.S., Chen, Z., Flejter, W.L., Gardner, H.A., Guerra, R., Kushner, H.,  Schwartz, S.L., Sybert, V.P., Van Dyke, D.L., Ross, J.L. (1998). ‘Evidence for a Turner  syndrome locus or loci at Xp11.2-p.22.1, American Journal of Human Genetics, 63:1757-1766.
  20. Guerra, R., Wan, Y., Jia, A., Amos, C., Cohen, J. (1999). Testing for linkage under robust genetic models, Human Heredity, 49:146-153.
  21. Goldstein, D.R., Sain, S.R., Guerra, R., Etzel, C.J. (1999). Meta-analysis by combining parameter estimates: simulated linkage, Genetic Epidemiology, (Suppl. 1):S581-585.
  22. Guerra, R., Etzel, C.J., Goldstein, D.R., Sain, S.R. (1999). Meta-analysis by combining P-values: simulated linkage studies, Genetic Epidemiology, (Suppl. 1):S605-S609.
  23. Wang, J., Guerra, R., and Cohen, J.C. (1999). A statistically robust variance components approach for quantitative trait linkage analysis, Annals of Human Genetics, 63:249-262.
  24. Fine, K.D., Do, K. Schulte, K., Ogunji, F., Guerra, R., Osowski, L., McCormak, J. (2000). High prevalence of celiac sprue-like HLA-DQ genes and enteropathy in patients with the microscopic colitis syndrome, American Journal of Gastroenterology, 95:1974-82.
  25. Guerra, R., Sain, S.R., and Carney, G. (2000). Statistical issues arising in environmental equity: A case study in Louisiana, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section.
  26. Guerra, R. (2001). Comments on Some Advice to Advisors: A Word to the Advisees, STATS, Winter.
  27. Guerra, R. (2001). The statistics of baseball rankings: Hitters, STATS, Fall.
  28. Guerra, R. (2002). Meta-analysis in human genetics studies. In Biostatistcal Genetics  and  Genetic  Epidemiology, R. Elston, J. Olson, & L. Palmer (eds), Wiley Reference in Biostatistics.
  29. Berge, K., von Bergmann, K., Lutjohann, D., Guerra, R., Grundy, S., Hobbs, H., and Cohen, J. (2002). Heritability of plasma noncholesterol sterols and relationship to DNA sequence polymorphism in ABCG5 and ABCG8, Journal of Lipid Research, 43:486-494.
  30. Etzel, C. and Guerra, R. (2002) Meta-analysis of genetic linkage analysis of quantitative trait loci. American Journal of Human Genetics, 71:56-65.
  31. Shohet, R.V., Vega, G.L., Bersot, T.P., Mahley, R.W., Grundy, S.M., Guerra, R., Cohen, J.C. (2002). Sources of variability in genetic association studies: Insights from the analysis of hepatic lipase (LIPC), Human Mutation, 19:536-542.
  32. Han, J. and Guerra, R. (2003) Cost efficiency of genetic linkage studies using mixtures of selected sib-pairs. Science and Statistics: Festschtrift  for Terence Speed, D. Goldstein (ed.).Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, Volume 40.
  33. Valentine, R.J., Guerra, R., Stephan, P., Scoggins, E., Clagett, G.P. and Cohen, J. (2004). Family history is a major determinant of subclinical peripheral arterial disease in young adults, Journal of Vascular Surgery, 39(2):351-356.
  34. Jain, T., Peshock, R., McGuire, D.K., Willett, D., Yu, Z., Vega, G., Guerra, R., Hobbs, H.H., Grundy, S.M. and The Dallas Heart Study Investigators (2004). African-Americans and Caucasians have a similar prevalence of coronary calcium in the Dallas Heart Study, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 44(5):1011-1017.
  35. Guerra, R., Yu, Z., Marcovina, S., Peshock, R., Cohen, J., Hobbs, H. and The Dallas Heart Study (2005). Lipoprotein(a) and apolipoprotein(a) isoforms: no association with coronary artery calcification in the Dallas Heart Study. Circulation, 111(12):1471-9.
  36. Frye, S.R., Eskin, S.G., Guerra, R., Cong, X., McIntire, L.V. (2005). cDNA microarray analysis of human umbilical vein endothelial cells subjected to cyclic mechanical strain. Physiological Genomics, 21:124-130.
  37. Christian, J.B., Shaw, C., Noyola-Martinez, J., Gustin, M.C., Scott, D.W, Guerra, R. (2005). Chromosomal spatial correlation of gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum, in Methods of Microarray Data Analysis V, P. McConnell, S.M. Lin, P. Hurban (Eds), Springer.
  38. Guerrero, T., Sanders, K., Noyola-Martinez, J., Castillo, E., Zhang, Y., Tapia, R., Guerra, R., Borghero, Y., Komaki,    R (2005). Quantification of regional ventilation from treatment planning CT. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 62(3): 630-4.
  39. J. Noyola-Martinez, T. Guerrero , Y. Borghero, K. Sanders, C. Stevens, M. Guerrero, R. Guerra,  Mapping gross tumor volumes from exhale to inhale breath-hold computed tomography images. Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, & Image Processing, VIIP 2005, Benidorm, Spain, 480-276.
  40. Noyola-Martinez, J., Shaw, C., Christian, B., Fox, G., Stevens, M., Garg, N., Gustin, M., Guerra, R. (2007). Oxidative stress genes in Plasmodium falciparum as indicated by temporal gene expression, in Methods of Microarray Data Analysis V, P. McConnell, S.M. Lin, P. Hurban (Eds), Springer.
  41. Guerra, R. and Yu, Z. (2006). Single nucleotide polymorphisms and their applications, in W. Zhang and I. Shmulevich (eds), Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics, Second edition, Spinger Science+Business Media, New York, N.Y.
  42. Neeley, S., Scott, C., Zhang, W. Shmulevich, I., Cogdell, D., Guerra, R. Sources of variation in protein lysate array slides, Bioinformatics, to appear.
  43. Assmann, G., Guerra, R., Fox, G. Cullen, P. Schulte, H., Willett, D. and Grundy, S.M. (2006).  Harmonizing the definition of the metabolic syndrome: Comparison of the criteria of the Adult Treatment Panel III and the International Diabetes Federation of the US American and European populations. American Journal of Cardiology, 99:541-548.
  44. Guerrero, T., Castillo, R., Noyola-Martinez, J., Torres, M., Zhou, X., Guerra, R., Cody, D., Komaki, R., Travis, E. (2007). Reduction of pulmonary compliance found with high-resolution computed tomography in irradiated mice, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 67(3):879-887.
  45. Yaremko, B.P., Guerrero, T.M., Komaki, R., Dupre, Noyola-Martinez, J., Nguyen, L.T., Balter, P.A., Guerra, R., Cox, J., Lege, D. (2007). Reduction of normal lung irradiation in locally advanced non small cell lung cancer patients using ventilation images for functional avoidance, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics,68:562-71.
  46. Bush CR, Havens JM, Necela BM, Su WD, Chen L,Yanagisawa M, Anastasiadis PZ, Guerra, R., Luxon BA, Thompson EA (2007).  Functional genomic analysis reveals cross-talk between peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma and calcium signaling in human colorectal cancer cells, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(32): 23387-23401.
  47. Rossell, D., Guerra, R., Scott, C. (2008). Semi-parametric differential expression analysis via partial mixture estimation, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Vol. 7:Iss. 1, Article 15.
  48. Cruz-Marcelo, A., Guerra, R., Vannucci, M., Li, Y., Lau, C.C., Man, T-K. (2008). Comparison of algorithms for pre-processing of SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry data,Bioinformatics, 24(19):2129-2136.
  49. Yaremko BP, Guerrero TM, McAleer MF, Bucci MK, Noyola-Martinez J, Nguyen LT, Balter PA, Guerra, R., Komaki R., Liao ZX. (2008). Determination of respiratory motion for distal esophagus cancer using four-dimensional computed tomography, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics,70(1):145-53.
  50.  Mendes KN, Nicorici D, Cogdell D., Tabus I., Yli-Harja O., Guerra, R., Hamilton SR, Zhang W. (2007). Analysis of signaling pathways in 90 cancer cell lines by protein lysate array, Journal of Proteome Research, 6(7):2753-2767.
  51. Guerra, R. and Goldstein, D. (2009). Meta-analysis and Combining Information in Genetics and Genomics, CRC/Chapman-Hall.
  52. Christian, J.B. and Guerra, R. (2009). Incorporating gene ontology in gene expression trait loci mapping, in Guerra, R. and Goldstein, D. (Eds.), Meta-analysis and Combining Information in Genetics and Genomics, CRC/Chapman-Hall.
  53. Wang, J, Man TK, Wong KK, Rao, P, Leung, HCE, Guerra, R, Lau CC (2009). Genome-wide analysis of copy number variations in normal population identified by SNP arrays.  The Open Biology Journal, 2:54-65
  54. Castillo, R., Castillo, E., Guerra, R., Johnson, V. E., McPhail, T., Garg, A. K., Guerrero, T. (2009). A framework for evaluation of deformable image registration spatial accuracy using large landmark point sets. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 54(7):1849-70.
  55. Battula, V.L., Evans, K., Hollier, B.G., Shi, Y., Marini, F.C., Ayyanan, A., Brisken, C., Guerra, R., Andreeff, M., Mani, S.A. (2010). Epithelial-mesenchymal transition-derived cells exhibit multi-lineage differentiation potential similar to mesenchymalstem cells, Stem Cells, 28:1435-1445.
  56. Guo, B., Villagran, A., Vannucci, M., Wang, J., Davis, C., Man, T.K., Lau, C. and Guerra, R. (2010). Bayesian Estimation of Genomic Copy Number with Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping Arrays, BMC Research Notes, 3:350.
  57. Killian, J.M., Smyth, S., Guerra, R., Adhikari, I., Harati, Y. (2011). Comparison of Sudomotor and Sensory Nerve Testing in Painful Sensory Neuropathies, Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease, 12(3):138-142.
  58. Shete, S., et al. (2011). Genome-wide high-density SNP linkage search for glioma susceptibility loci: results from the Gliogene Consortium. Cancer Research, 71(24): 7568-7575.
  59. Battula, V.L., Shi, Y., Jacamo, R., Evans, K., Guerra, R., Sahin, A., Marini, F., Hortobagyi, G.N., Mani, S., Andreeff, M. (2012). Ganglioside GD2 identifies Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Targeting GD3 Synthase Inhibits GD2 Expression and Tumor Growth, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 22(6):2066-78.
  60. Hollier , B.G., Tinnirello, A.A., Werden, S.J., Evans, K.W., Taube, J.H., Sphyris, N., Shariati, M., Kumar, S.V., Battula, V.L., Herschkowitz, J.I., Guerra, R., Chang, J.T., Miura, N., Rosen, J.M., Mani, S. (2013). FOXC2 expression links epithelial-mesenchymal transition and stem cell properties in breast cancer, Cancer Research, 73(6):1981-92.

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