M. Luz Calle Rosingana

Titular Professor, Systems Biology Department, University of Vic
Chair of the Master's degree in Omics Data Analysis, University of Vic

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

Education:

PhD in Mathematics, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, February 1997
Postgraduate Course in Applied Statistics, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, June 1991
Graduate in Mathematics, Barcelona University, June 1986

Current Projects:

Selection of Publications:

• Porta N, Calle ML, Malat N, Gómez G. (2012). A dynamic model for the risk of bladder cancer progression. Statistics in Medicine. Vol. 31, pp 287-300. DOI: 10.1002/sim.4433

• Calle ML, Urrea V, Boulesteix AL, Malats N. (2011). AUC-RF: A new strategy for genomic profiling with Random Forest. Hum Hered; 72:121-132 (DOI: 10.1159/000330778)

• 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.
• L.T. Guey, M. García-Closas, C. Murta-Nascimento, J. Lloreta, L. Palencia, M. Kogevinas, N. Rothman,
  G.Vellalta, M.L. Calle, G. Marenne, A. Tardón, A. Carrato, R. García-Closas, C. Serram, D.T. Silverman, S. Chanock, F.X. Real, N. Malats. (2010). Genetic Susceptibility to Distinct Bladder Cancer Subphenotypes. European Urology, vol 57(2) pp 283-92 .
• Gómez, G., Calle, ML., Oller, R., Langhor, K. (2009). Tutorial on methods for interval-censored data and their implementation in R. Statistical Modelling, vol 9(4), pp 259–297.
• 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.
• Oller, R., Gómez, G., Calle, M.L. (2007).  Interval censoring: identifiability and the constant-sum property. Biometrika 94 (1), 61-70.
• Hough, G., Calle, M.L., Serrat, C., Curia, A. (2007).   Number of consumers necessary for shelf life estimations based on survival analysis statistics. Food Quality and Preference 18 (5), 771–775.

Contact:

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