Information for External Reviewers of Katy Simonsen’s Promotion Document

Purdue Promotion Document

Research Statement (section III of Promotion Document)

Curriculum Vitae

Katy L. Simonsen’s Papers

1. Refereed

[1] K. L. Simonsen, G. A. Churchill, and C. F. Aquadro, “Properties of statistical tests of neutrality for DNA polymorphism data," Genetics, vol. 141, pp. 413–429, 1995. (Times cited: 195, Journal Impact Factor: 4.138)

 

[2] K. L. Simonsen and G. A. Churchill, “A Markov Chain model of coalescence with recombination," Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 43–59, 1997. (Times cited: 7, Journal Impact Factor: 2.481)

 

[3] K. L. Simonsen, N. L. Kaplan, and E. R. Martin, “A Monte-Carlo permutation approach to choosing an affection status model for bipolar affective disorder," Genetic Epidemiology, vol. 14, pp. 681–686, 1997. (Journal Impact Factor: 3.038)

 

[4] M. L. Wayne and K. L. Simonsen, “Statistical tests of neutrality in the age of weak selection," Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 13, pp. 213–253, 1998. (Times cited: 36, Journal Impact Factor: 12.938)

 

[5] L. M. McIntyre, E. R. Martin, N. L. Kaplan, and K. L. Simonsen, “Circumventing multiple testing: A multilocus Monte Carlo approach to testing for association," Genetic Epidemiology, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 18–29, 2000. (Times cited: 31, Journal Impact Factor: 3.038)

 

[6] K. L. Simonsen and L. M. McIntyre, “Using alpha wisely: Improving power to detect multiple QTL," Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, vol. 3, no. 1, article 1, 2004. http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol3/iss1/1 (Times downloaded: 221)

 

[7] K. Verhoeven, K. L. Simonsen, and L. M. McIntyre, 2005. “Implementing false discovery rate control:  increasing your power". Oikos, A Journal of Ecology, vol. 108, no, 3, pp. 643 – 647. (Times cited:  2, Journal Impact Factor: 2.901)

 

[8] K. Verhoeven and K. L. Simonsen, 2005. “Genomic haplotype blocks may not accurately reflect spatial variation in historic recombination intensity". Molecular Biology and Evolution vol. 22, pp. 735 – 740. (Times cited:  1, Journal Impact Factor: 6.355)

 

[9] C. J. Coffman, R. W. Doerge, K. L. Simonsen, K. Nichols, C. Duarte, R. Wolfinger, and L. M. McIntyre. “Model Selection in Binary Trait Locus Mapping". Genetics, vol. 170, pp. 1281 – 1297, 2005. (Journal Impact Factor: 4.138)

 

(times cited as of 8/05)

2. In-press

 

[10] B. Munneke, K. Sclauch, K. L. Simonsen, B. Beavis and R. W. Doerge, 2005.``Adding Confidence to Gene Expression Clustering''  Genetics, to appear August 2005.

 

[11] J. Irizarry, K. L. Simonsen, and D. M. Abraham, 2005. “Effect of Safety and Environmental Variables on Task Durations in Steel Erection". Accepted to Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2005. (Journal Impact Factor: 0.284)

 

[12] J. Irizarry, K. L. Simonsen, and D. M. Abraham, 2005.  “Safety and environmental variables: effect on steel erection task durations”  Referreed conference paper, to be presented at the 3rd International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference to be held in Shunan, Japan in September 2005.

 

3. Submitted

 

[13] P. Sutinen, A. J. Brammer, K. L. Simonsen, K. Koskimies, J. Starck, and I. Pyykko. “Vibration white finger hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS)".

4. Software

[14] SIMCORE: Software for SImulating COalescence with REcombination, sequence generation, trait generation, and data analysis. (http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~simonsen/simcore/) In the process of being adopted by SAS Institute for incorporation into SAS/Genetics software, as PROC SIMCORE.

 

[15] AlphaWisely. Software for analyzing genetic data to detect Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) using multiple False Discovery Rate (FDR) controlling procedures.

 

5. Technical Reports

[16] K. L. Simonsen, 2003. “A general probability model for the inheritance of binary traits". Technical Report #TR-03-04, Purdue University Statistics Department, 2003.