Grup de Recerca en Anàlisi Estadística de la Supervivència. GRASS

Víctor Urrea Gales

Biostatistitian
Institut de Recerca de la SIDA (IrsiCaixa)


Research Areas
Survival Analysis
Statistical Genetics and Medical Statistics
Statistical methods in bioinformatics

Education:

Master in Statistics and Operatins Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, March 2009
Graduate in Statistics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 2006

Current Projects:


2009SGR-581: Bioinformàtica i Estadística Mèdica. Grup Singular.
AGAUR- Generalitat de Catalunya
2009-2013
MTM2008-06747-C02-02: STATISTICAL GENETICS: THE GENETIC BASES OF COMPLEX DISEASES Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Coordinated project: UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) – UVic (Universitat deVic)
2008-2011
FP7-HEALTH-2007A- PROJECT 201663-UROMOL: Prediction of bladder cancer disease course using risk scores that combine molecular and clinical risk factors
European Commission
Coordinated project between 8 European groups from Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Spain.
2008-2013

Selection of Publications:

  • Calle,ML, Urrea, V, Malats, N, Van Steen, K (2010). mbmdr: an R package for exploring gene-gene interactions associated with binary or quantitative traits. Bioinformatics. Vol. 26 (17), pp 2198–2199 (2010) doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq352
  • T. Cattaert, ML. Calle, S. Dudek, J.M. Mahachie John, F. Van Lishout, V. Urrea, M.D. Ritchie and K. Van Steen. (2010). A detailed view on Model-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction for detecting gene-gene interactions in case-control data in the absence and presence of noise. Annals of Human Genetics. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00604.x
  • Cattaert, T., Urrea, V., Naj, A.C., De Lobel, L., De Wit, V., Fu, M., Mahachie John, J.M., Shen, H., Calle, M.L., Ritchie, M.D., Edwards, T.L. & Van Steen, K. (2010). FAM-MDR: a flexible family-base multifactor dimensionality reduction technique to detect epistasis using related individuals. Public Library of Science ONE, vol 5 (4).
  • Calle,ML. and Urrea, V. (2010). Stability of Random Forest Importance Measures. Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi: 10.1093/bib/bbq011.
  • Calle, M.L., Urrea, V., Vellalta, G., Malats, N., Steen, K.V. (2008). Improving strategies for detecting genetic patterns of disease susceptibility in association studies. Statistics in Medicine 27 (30), 6532-6546.

Contact:

Universitat de Vic
Sagrada Familia, 7
08500 VIC, SPAIN
Phone: +34 938 861 222
Fax: +34 938 856 900
Email: victor.urreaARROBAuvic.cat