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CURRICULUM VITAE
A. Personal Information
Name
Duncan Campbell Thomas, Ph.D.
Business Address
Department of Preventive Medicine
1540 Alcazar Street, CHP-220
Los Angeles, California 90033-9987
Business Telephone
FAX
E-mail
(323) 442-1218
(323) 442-2349
dthomas @ rcf.usc.edu
B. Education
High School
Lower Merion High School
Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1963
College
Haverford College, Haverford Pennsylvania,
BA, Mathematics and Astronomy, l967
Graduate
Stanford University, Stanford, California
MS, Mathematics, l969
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Ph.D., Epidemiology and Health, l976
C. Professional Background
Current Appointment
Professor and Director of Biostatistics Division, Department of Preventive
Medicine, University of Southern California
Verna R. Richter Chair in Cancer Research, Norris Cancer Center
Academic Appointments
Lecturer, Epidemiology and Health, McGill University, l972-76
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Health, McGill University, l976-82
Visiting Fellow, Community Health Science, Western Australian Institute of
Technology, l978-79
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Health, McGill University, l982-83
Associate Professor and Director of the Biostatistics Unit, Preventive Medicine,
University of Southern California, l984-88.
Professor, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, 1988Visiting Fellow, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, England, 1988-89
(sabbatical)
Visiting Fellow, INSERM Unit 170, Villejuif, France, 1995-96 (sabbatical)
Specific Teaching Responsibilities
Graduate courses developed and taught:
Applications of statistics in the health sciences (McGill) l976-77
Health research methods (W.A.I.T.) l978-79
Epidemiology of the major diseases (W.A.I.T.) l979.
Descriptive epidemiology (McGill) l979-8l.
Assessment of risk in epidemiologic studies (McGill) l979-82.
Advanced epidemiology: cancer (McGill) l982-83.
Epidemiologic models (McGill) l983.
Statistical methods for epidemiological studies (USC PM518) l984-.
Seminar in Statistical Research (USC PM610) 1986-.
Genetic epidemiology (USC PM533), 1995-.
Supervision of graduate thesis research
Christina Wolfson, Ph.D., McGill, 1985.
Mohammed Hoseyni, Ph.D., USC, 1988.
Wendy Mack, Ph.D., USC, 1988.
James Gauderman, Ph.D, USC, 1992.
Cheryl Faucett, Ph.D., USC, 1992.
Feng Jiang, M.Sc, USC, 1992
Liangzhong Jiang, M.Sc. USC, 1992.
Sue-Jane Wang, Ph.D., USC 1993.
Member of supervisory committee for l6 other M.Sc. and Ph.D. students
Participant in medical undergraduate teaching:
Biology of disease (McGill)
Basic science options: epidemiology (McGill)
Participant in community medicine resident teaching program (McGill)
Instructor in short courses:
Statistical methods in genetic epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994
Short Course in Epidemiology for Clinicians, Jakarta, Indonesia:
Statistical Methods, 1995
Genetic Epidemiology, 1996
Specific Administrative Responsibilities
McGill University
Data processing officer, Department of Epidemiology and Health, l972-76
Member, Departmental Graduate Studies Committee, l976-83
Member, Computer Users Committee, l976-83
Chairman, Subcommittee on Text Processing, l982
University of Southern California
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Member, Cancer Center Small Grants Review Committee
Member, Biometry Program Oversight Committee
Member, Joint Cancer Center/Norris Hospital Computer Committee
Director, Biostatistics Service Core, Norris Cancer Center 1984-88
Co-director, NIEHS Environmental Health Research Center and Director of
Study Design and Statistical Methods of Research Core, 1995-present
Military Service
None
Honors and Awards
Departmental honors, Haverford College, 1967
Studentship, Medical Research Council of Canada, l974-76
Fellowship, Conseil de la recherche en sauté du Québec, l976-78
Fellow, American College of Epidemiology, 1982Leadership Award, International Genetic Epidemiology Society, 2000
D. Society Memberships
National
Biometric Society
American Statistical Association
Society for Epidemiological Research
Society for Risk Analysis
American College of Epidemiology
American Society for Human Genetics
International Society for Genetic Epidemiology.
President, 1999
E. Consultantships
Consultant, Advisory Committee on Radiological Protection, Atomic Energy Control
Board (Canada), l980-82
Scientific Secretary, New Brunswick Task Force on Cancer and the Environment,
l982-83.
Chairman, Working Group on Time Factors in Occupational Epidemiology
(Permanent Commission and International Association on Occupational Health),
l982-85.
Member, Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section, National Institutes of
Health, l984-1986.
Consultant, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Executive
Scientific Panel on Health Aspects of Disposal of Selected Waste Chemicals,
l984.
Guest editor, Journal of Chronic Diseases special issue on Time Related Factors in
Cancer Epidemiology, 1985-86.
Consultant, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, 1985-86.
Member, Science Advisory Board, Radiation
Environmental Protection Agency, 1986.
Advisory
Committee,
US
Consultant, Syntex Inc., 1986.
Member, Committee of Radon and Natural Gamma Radiation, New Jersey
Department of Health, 1986.
Consultant, University of Utah, NCI contract "Assessment of leukemia and thyroid
disease in relation to fallout in Utah", 1986-92.
Consultant, General Electric Corporation, 1986-88.
Consultant, Smith, Kline and French Corporation, 1987.
Member, Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR V), National
Academy of Sciences, 1986-89.
Member, Expert Panel on the Epidemiology of Health Effects Attributable to
Formaldehyde Exposure, Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology, 1987.
Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic
Enforcement Act (Proposition 65), 1989-92.
Consultant, Centers for Disease Control, Hanford Thyroid Disease Study, 1989-.
Member, Malathion Public Health Effects Advisory Committee, California
Department of Health Services, 1990.
Member, Working Group on Methodologic Research Needs in Environmental
Epidemiology, Health Effects Institute, 1990-91.
Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, Johns Hopkins University, Contract on Health
Study of Pulp and Paper Workers, American Forest Products Inc. 1992-.
Expert Witness, Berry and Berry: Van Balen v. Abex Corp.; Ritchie v. RaybestosManhattan, 1991 (cases involving apportionment of risk between asbestos and
smoking)
Member, Research Planning Committee on Electromagnetic Fields, Health Effects
Institute, 1992.
Consultant, Epicenter Software, SBIR grant on Pedigree Analysis Using Gibbs
Sampling, 1992Expert Witness, Leigh, Day and Co: V. Hope and D. Reay v. British Nuclear Fuels,
Ltd. (Cancer cases around Sellafield nuclear site), 1993-94.
Member, President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, The
White House, 1994-96.
Reviewer, Air quality criteria for particulate matter. US Environmental Protection
Agency, 1994-95.
Member, Oversight Committee, Particle Epidemiology Evaluation Project, Health
Effects Institute, 1994Reviewer, UAW/Chrysler National Joint Committee on Health and Safety, 1996Consultant, Genealogy Project, University of Utah,1996Consultant, International Nuclear Workers Study, International Agency for Research
on Cancer, Lyon 1996
F. Research Activities
General Areas of Research Interest
Statistical methods in epidemiology
Radiation carcinogenesis
Cancer epidemiology
Occupational and environmental health
Genetic epidemiology
Research in Progress
Principal Investigator:
Time-related factors in cancer epidemiology
Survival methods in genetic epidemiology
Coinvestigator:
Methods for adjusting for exposure measurement error
Radiation and cancer
Family studies of breast, colon, and prostate cancer.
Health effects of air pollution in school children
.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Principal investigator
Risk estimates for the health effects of alpha radiation, Atomic Energy Control
Board (Canada), l980-82
$32,757
Modeling the natural history of multiple sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis Society of
Canada, l98l-83
$26,550
Implications of carcinogenic models for methods of analyzing epidemiologic
studies involving chronic exposures to carcinogens, National Cancer Institute of
Canada, 1982-84 (Co-PI with J. Siemiatycki)
$38,296
Analysis of Kaiser Permanente study of reproductive outcomes in relation to
Malathion exposure, State of California Department of Health Services,
l984-85.
NCI Symposium on Time Related Factors in Cancer Epidemiology,
National Cancer Institute and Department of Energy, 1985-86
$42,000
USC Comprehensive Cancer Center, National Cancer Institute (CA14059)
(PI of Biostatistics Core Resource; BE Henderson, overall PI)
$141,000 / yr
Cancer Causes and Prevention, American Cancer Society, 1986-90
(PI of substudy on cancer incidence in relation to hazardous waste disposal sites;
B.E. Henderson, overall PI).
Development of methodology to study cancer incidence in communities near
toxic waste disposal sites in Los Angeles County, State of California Department
of Health Services, 1986-87
Time Related Factors in Cancer Epidemiology, National Cancer Institute (CA
42949) 1986-99 (PI 1986-95; co-PI with B Langholz 1996-99).
$248,254 / yr
Modifiers of susceptibility to smoking for lung cancer, California Tobacco
Related Diseases Research Program, 1990-93 (PI 1990-91; coinvestigator with B
Langholz and W Mack 1991-93)
Survival methods for genetic epidemiology, National Cancer Institute
(CA52862) 1991-2001.
$230,376/yr
Computational methods for genetic epidemiology, Institute of General Medical
Studies (GM-58897) 1998-2003.
$462,583/yr requested
NIEHS Center for Environmental Exposures, Host Factors, and Human Disease.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1996-2001 (co-Director,
with J Peters)
$750,000/yr
Co-investigator:
Determinants of cancer within disease-discordant twins / National Cancer
Institute / 1982-87 / D. Deapen, principal investigator
$1,651,055
Case-control study of colon cancer / National Cancer Institute / 1984-87 / R.
Peters, principal investigator
$156,708
Epidemiology of cancers of epidermal tumors the anogenital region / National
Cancer Institute / 1983-87 / R. Peters, prncipal investigator
$308,988
USC Cancer Center Epidemiology Biostatistics Core Resource / National Cancer
Institute / 1984-95 / B. Henderson, principal investigator; D. Thomas, Director
of Biostatistics Core Resource
$219,800 per year
Iatrogenic causes of cancer / National Cancer Institute / 1987-92 / R. Ross,
principal investigator
$4,974,507
Case-control study of electromagnetic fields and childhood leukemia / Electric
Power Research Institute / 1986-93 / J. Peters, principal investigator $1,648,000
Assessment of electromagnetic field exposure by occupational job title/ Electric
Power Research Institute / / 1987-91 / J. Peters, principal investigator $373,337
Modifiers of susceptibility to smoking for lung cancer / California Tobacco
Related Diseases Research Program / 1991-93 / W. Mack and B. Langholz, coprincipal investigators.
$104,256 per year
Health effects of air pollution in southern California school children / 1991-1994
/ J. Peters, principal investigator
$4,849,168
Statistical methods for epidemiologic studies of the health effects of air pollution
/ California Air Resources Board / 1992-1994 / W. Navidi, principal
investigator.
$37,390 per year
Statistical methods for epidemiologic studies of the health effects of air pollution
/ Health Effects Institute / 1993-1995 / W. Navidi, principal investigator.
$90,296 per year
G. Bibliography
1.
Liddell FDK, McDonald JC, Thomas DC. Methods of cohort analysis: appraisal by
application to asbestos mining (with discussion and addendum by DC Thomas).
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 1977; 140: 469-491.
2.
Sniderman A, Thomas DC, Marpole O, Teng B. Low-density lipoprotein — a
metabolic pathway for return of cholesterol to the splanchnic bed. Journal of
Clinical Investigation, 1978; 6l: 867-873.
3.
Fletcher SW, Fletcher RH, Thomas DC, Hamann C. Patient's understanding of
prescribed drugs. Journal of Community Health, l979; 4: l83-l89.
4.
Thomas DC. Statistical considerations in determining environmental safety
standards from epidemiological data. Community Health Studies, 1979; 3: l87-l95.
5.
Thomas DC. General relative risk models for failure time and matched case-control
studies. Biometrics, l98l; 37: 673-686.
6.
Thomas DC, Spitzer WO, MacFarlane JK. Inter-observer error among surgeons
and nurses in presymptomatic detection of breast disease. Journal of Chronic
Diseases, l98l; 34: 6l7-626.
7.
Siemiatycki J, Thomas DC. Biological models and statistical interactions: an
example from multistage carcinogenesis. International Journal of Epidemiology,
1981; 10: 383-387.
8.
Greenland S, Morgenstern H, Thomas DC. Considerations in determining
matching criteria and stratum sizes for case-control studies. International Journal of
Epidemiology, 1981; 10: 389-392.
9.
Hoey J, Eisenberg JM, Spitzer WO, Thomas DC. Physician sensitivity to the price
of diagnostic tests: a US-Canadian analysis. Medical Care, 1982; 20: 302-307.
10. Hutchinston T, Thomas DC, MacGibbon B. Predicting survival in adults with end
stage renal disease: an age-equivalent index. Archives of Internal Medicine, 1982;
96: 417-423.
11. Greenland S, Thomas DC. On the need for the rare disease assumption in casecontrol studies. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1982; 116: 547-553.
12. Becklake MR, Thomas DC, Liddell FDK, McDonald JC. Follow-up respiratory
measurements in Quebec chrysotile asbestos miners and millers. Scandinavian
Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 1982; 8, suppl 1: 105-1l0.
13. Werner E, Saheb N, Thomas DC. Variability of static visual threshold responses in
patients with elevated intraocular pressures. Archives of Ophthamology, 1982; 100:
l627-l631.
14. Richler M, Werner EB, Thomas DC. Risk factors for progression of visual field
defects in medically treated patients with glaucoma. Canadian Journal of
Ophthalmology, 1982; 17: 245-248.
15. Thomas DC. Nonparametric estimation and tests of fit for dose-response relations.
Biometrics, 1983; 39: 263-268.
16. Thomas DC. Measuring the impact of an intervention on equipment lives: case
analysis using Cox's regression model. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 1983; 11:
248-253.
17. Thomas DC, Greenland S. The relative efficiency of matched and independent
sample designs for case-control studies. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1983; 36:
685-697.
18. Thomas DC. Statistical methods for analyzing effects of temporal patterns of
exposure on cancer risks. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health,
1983; 9: 353-366.
19. Mathews MLV, Dougan LE, Thomas DC, Armstrong BK. Interpersonal linkage
among Hodgkin's disease patients and controls in Western Australia. Cancer 1984;
54: 253-261.
20. Hutchinson TA, Thomas DC, Lemieux JC, Harvey CE. A controlled comparison of
survival with dialysis and renal transplantation in adults with end-stage renal
disease. Kidney International, 1984; 26: 44-51.
21. Liddell FDK, Thomas DC, Gibbs GW, McDonald JC. Fibre exposure and
mortality from pneumoconiosis, respiratory and abdominal malignancies in
chrysotile production in Quebec, l926-75. Annals of the Academy of Medicine,
Singapore, 1984; 13: 340-344.
22. McKeown-Eyssen G, Thomas DC. Sample size determination for case- control
studies: the influence of the distribution of exposure. Journal of Chronic Diseases,
1985; 38: 559-568.
23. Thomas DC, Greenland S. The efficiency of matching in case-control studies of
risk-factor interactions. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1985; 38: 569-574.
24. Thomas DC, Siemiatycki J, Dewar R, Robins J, Goldberg M, Armstrong BG. The
problem of multiple inference in studies designed to generate hypotheses. American
Journal of Epidemiology, 1985; 122: 1080-1095.
25. Hutchinson T, Michaud L, Thomas DC. Comparing survival of patients on dialysis
and after renal transplantations: the effect of the method of statistical analysis on
results. American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1985; 8: 18-20.
26. Thomas DC, McNeill KG, Dougherty C. Estimates of lifetime lung cancer risk
resulting from Rn progeny exposure. Health Physics, 1985; 49: 825-846.
27. Thomas DC. The problem of multiple inference in identifying point source
environmental hazards. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1985;62:407-414.
28. Copes R, Becklake MR, Thomas DC. Effects of temporal pattern of exposure on
respiratory measurements in asbestos workers. Archives of Environmental Health,
1985; 40: 80-87.
29. Thomas DC, Siemiatycki J, Goldberg M, Dewar R. Methods for relating several
exposure factors to several diseases in case-heterogeneity studies. Statistics in
Medicine, 1986; 5: 49-60.
30. Peters RK, Chao A, Mack TM, Thomas D, Bernstein L, Henderson BE. Increased
frequency of adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix in young women in Los Angeles
County. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1986; 76: 423-428.
31. Ernst P, Thomas DC, Becklake MR. Respiratory survey of teen-agers living in
proximity to an aluminum smelter. American Review of Respiratory Disease, 1986;
133: 307-312.
32. Wu A, Henderson BE, Thomas DC, Mack TM. Secular trends in histologic types
of lung cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1986; 77: 53-56.
33. Greenland S, Thomas DC, Morgenstern H. The rare-disease assumption revisited:
a critique of "Estimators of relative risk for case-control studies." American Journal
of Epidemiology, 1986; 124: 869-876.
34. Peters RK, Thomas DC, Hagan DG, Mack TM, Henderson BE. Risk factors for
invasive cervical cancer among Latinas and non-Latinas in Los Angeles County.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1986; 77: 1063-1077.
35. Peters JM, Thomas DC, Falk H, Oberdorster G, Smith T. Contribution of metals to
respiratory cancers. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1986; 70: 71-83.
36. Harley N, Samet JM, Cross FT, Hess T, Muller J, Thomas DC. Contribution of
radon to respiratory cancers. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1986; 70: 17-21.
37. Thomas DC. Simulation of models of carcinogenesis to explore analytical issues in
epidemiologic studies of cancer involving extended exposures. Journal of Chronic
Disease, 1987; 40 suppl 2: 201-208.
38. Krailo M, Thomas DC, Pike MC. Fitting models of carcinogenesis to case-control
data on breast cancer. Journal of Chronic Disease, 1987; 40 suppl 2: 181-189.
39. Thomas DC. Pitfalls in the analysis of exposure-time-response relationships.
Journal of Chronic Disease, 1987; 40 suppl 2: 71-78.
40. Niland J, Thomas DC, Azen SP. Hypothesis testing of time-dependent recurrent
events. Statistics in Medicine 1987; 6: 689- 699.
41. Thomas DA, Mines JS, Thomas DC, Mack TM, Rea TH. Armadillo exposure
among Mexican-born patients with lepromatous leprosy. Journal of Infectious
Diseases, 1987; 156: 990-992.
42. Spitzer WO, Baxter DW, Barrows HS, Thomas DC, Tamblyn R, Wolfson CM,
Dinsdale HB, Dauphinee WD, Anderson DP, Roberts RS, Palmer WH, Hollomby
D, Reiher J, Alleyne BC, Helliwell BE. Methyl mercury and the health of
autochthons in northwest Quebec. Clinical and Investigative Medicine 1988; 11:
71-98.
43. Thomas DC, Whittemore AS. Methods for testing interactions, with applications to
occupational exposures, smoking, and lung cancer. American Journal of Industrial
Medicine 1988; 13: 131-147.
44. Peters RK, Thomas DC, Skultin G, Henderson BE Invasive cervical cancer among
women with recent negative cytology - a distinct subgroup? American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology 1988; 158: 926-935.
45. Thomas DC. Exposure-time-response relationships with applications to cancer
epidemiology. Annual Review of Public Health 1988: 9: 451-482.
46. Wu AH, Yu MC, Thomas DC, Pike MC, Henderson BE. Personal and family
history of lung disease as risk factors for adenocarinoma of the lung. Cancer
Research 1988; 48: 7279-7284.
47. Preston-Martin S, Thomas DC, White SC, Cohen D. Prior exposure to medical and
dental x-rays related to tumors of the parotid gland. Journal of the National Cancer
Institute 1988; 4: 77-90.
48. Higginson J, Jensen OM, Kinlen L, Kirsten WH, MacMahon B, Matanoski GM,
Smith TJ, Thomas DC. Epidemiology of chronic occupational exposure to
formaldehyde: report of the ad hoc panel on health aspects of formaldehyde.
Toxicology and Industrial Health 1988; 4: 77-90.
49. Preston-Marton S, Thomas DC, Henderson BE, Wright WE. Noise trauma in the
etiology of acoustic neuromas in men in Los Angeles county, 1978-1985. British
Journal of Cancer 1989; 59: 783-786.
50. Preston-Martin S, Thomas DC, Yu MC, Henderson BE. Diagnostic radiography as
a risk factor for chronic myeloid leukemia. British Journal of Cancer 1989; 59:
639-644.
51. Peters RK, Bear M, Thomas DC, Henderson BE. Barriers to screening for cancer
of the cervix. Preventive Medicine 1989; 18: 133-146.
52. Langholz B, Thomas DC. Nested case-control and case-cohort sampling: a critical
comparison. American Journal of Epidemiology 1990; 131: 169-176.
53. Thomas DC, Langholz B, Mack W, Floderus-Myrrhed B. Bivariate survival
models for analysis of genetic and environment effects intwins.
Genetic
Epidemiology 1990; 7: 121-135.
54. Stevens W, Thomas DC, Lyon JL, Till J, Kerber R, Simon S, Lloyd RD, Elghany
NA, Preston-Martin S. Leukemia in Utah and radioactive fallout from the Nevada
Test Site: a case-control study. Journal of the Americal Medical Association 1990;
264: 585-591.
55. Mack W, Langholz B, Thomas DC. Survival models for familial aggregation of
cancer. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1990; 87: 27-36.
56. Thomas DC. A model for dose rate and duration of exposure effects in radiation
carcinogenesis. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1990; 87: 163-172.
57. Langholz B, Thomas DC, Rhodes P. Tests for effect in 1:J matched case-control
studies using a modified likelihood appproach. Biometrika 1990; 77: 897-900.
58. London SJ, Thomas DC, Bowman JD, Sobel E, Peters JM. Exposure to residential
electric and magnetic fields and risk of childhood leukemia. American Journal of
Epidemiology 1991; 134: 923-937.
59. Langholz B, Thomas DC. Efficiency of cohort sampling designs: Some surprising
results. Biometrics 1991; 47: 1563-1571.
60. Thomas DC, Petitti D, Goldhaber M, Swan S, Rappaport E, Hertz-Picciotto I.
Reproductive outcomes in relation to malathion spraying in the San Francisco Bay
Area, 1981-82. Epidemiology 1992; 3: 32-40.
61. Thomas DC. Fitting genetic data using Gibbs sampling: An application to nevus
counts in 38 Utah kindreds. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 1992; 59: 228-230.
62. Thomas DC, Cortessis V. A Monte Carlo Bayesian method for genetic linkage
analysis. Human Heredity 1992; 42: 63-76.
63. Thomas DC, Blettner M, Day NE. Use of external rates in nested case-control
studies with application to the International Radiation Study of Cervical Cancer
Patients. Biometrics 1992; 48: 781-794.
64. Thomas DC, Darby S, Fagnani F, Hubert P, Vaeth M, Weiss K. Measures of
lifetime detriment from radiation exposures: principles and methods. Health
Physics 1992; 63: 259-272.
65. Thomas DC, Preston-Martin S. Risk of cancer causation by diagnostic X-rays.
Health Physics 1992; 63: 576-578.
66. Wu-Williams A, Zeise L, Thomas DC. Risk assessment for aflatoxin B1: a
modeling approach. Risk Analysis 1992; 12: 559-567.
67. Thomas DC, Langholz B, Clayton D, Pitkaniemi J, Tuomilehto-Wolf E,
Tuomilehto J. Empirical Bayes methods for testing associations with large numbers
of candidate genes in the presence of environmental risk factors, with applications to
HLA associations in IDDM. Annals of Medicine 1992; 24: 387-392.
68. Lee H, Stram D, Thomas DC. A generalized estimating equations approach to
fitting major gene models in segregation analysis of continuous phenotypes.
Genetic Epidemiology 1992; 10: 61-74.
69. Kerber R, Simon SL, Till JE, Lyon JL, Thomas DC, Preston-Martin S, Rallison
ML, Lloyd RD, Stevens W. A cohort study of thyroid disease in relation to fallout
from nuclear weapons testing. Journal of the American Medical Association 1993;
270: 2076-2082.
70. Thomas DC, Stram D, Dwyer J. Exposure measurement error: Influence on
exposure-disease relationships and methods of correction. Annual Reviews of
Public Health 1993; 14: 69-93.
71. Stram DO, Lee H, Thomas DC. Use of generalized estimating equations in
segregation analysis of continuous outcomes. Genetic Epidemiology 1993; 10: 575579.
72. Mack WJ, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. A bivariate genetic analysis of HDL- and
LDL-cholesterol levels incorporating environmental covariates: a Gibbs sampling
approach. Genetic Epidemiology 1993; 10: 623-628.
73. Faucett C, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC, Zyogas A, Sobel ES. Linkage analysis of
Alzheimer's disease in Duke families using Gibbs sampling. Genetic Epidemiology,
1993; 10: 489-494.
74. Morgenstern H, Thomas DC. Principles of study design in environmental
epidemiology. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1993; 101 (suppl 4): 23-38.
75. Prentice RL, Thomas DC. Methodologic research needs in environmental
epidemiology: Data analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1993; 101 (suppl
4): 39-48.
76. Hatch M, Thomas DC. Measurement of exposure, dose, covariates and outcomes
in environmental epidemiology. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1993; 101
(suppl 4): 49-57.
77. Thomas DC, Pogoda J, Langholz B, Mack W. Temporal factors modifying the
radon-smoking interaction. Health Physics, 1994; 66: 257-262.
78. Peters JM, Preston-Martin S, London SJ, Bowman JD, Buckley JD, Thomas DC.
Processed meats and risk of childhood leukemia (California, USA). Cancer Causes
and Control 1994; 5: 195-202.
79. Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. Censored survival models for genetic epidemiology:
A Gibbs sampling approach. Genetic Epidemiology, 1994; 11: 171-188.
80. London SJ, Bowman JD, Sobel E, Thomas DC, Garabrant DH, Pearce N, Bernstein
L, Peters JM. Exposure to magnetic fields among electrical workers in relation to
leukemia risk in Los Angeles County. American Journal of Industrial Medicine,
1994: 26: 47-60.
81. Navidi W, Thomas DC, Stram D, Peters J. Design and analysis of multigroup
analytic studies, with applications to air pollution.
Environmental Health
Perspectives 1994; 102 (suppl 8):25-32.
82. Bowman J, Thomas DC, Peters J. Cancer risk from resonances with powerfrequency magnetic fields: an hypothesis from calcium efflux and cyclotron
resonance studies. Bioelectromagnetics 1995; 16: 48-59.
83. Simon SL, Till JE, Lloyd RD, Kerber RL, Thomas DC, Preston-Martin S, Lyon JL,
Stevens W. The Utah leukemia case-control study: dosimetry methodology and
results. Health Physics, 1995; 68: 460-471.
84. Till JE, Simon SL, Kerber R, Lloyd RD, Stevens W, Thomas DC, Lyon JL PrestonMartin S. The Utah thyroid cohort study: analysis of the dosimetry results. Health
Physics, 1995; 68: 472-483.
85. Gauderman WJ, Witte JS, Faucett CL, Morrison J, Thomas DC. Genetic
epidemiologic analysis of quantitative phenotypes using Gibbs sampling. Genetic
Epidemiology 1995; 12:753-758.
86. Faucett CL, Thomas DC. Simultaneously modeling censored survival data and
repeadetly measured covariates using Gibbs sampling. Statistics in Medicine. 1995;
15: 1663-1685.
87. Langholz B, Tuomilehto-Wolf E, Thomas DC, Pitkaniemi J, Tuomilehto J, The
DiMe Study Group. Variation in HLA-associated risks of childhood insulin
dependent diabetes in the Finnish population: I. Main effects at A, B and DR loci.
Genetic Epidemiology 1995; 12: 441-453.
88. Thomas DC, Pitkaniemi J, Langholz B, Tuomilehto-Wolf, E, Tuomilehto J, The
DiMe Study Group. Variation in HLA-associated risks of childhood insulin
dependent diabetes in the Finnish population: II. Haplotype effects. Genetic
Epidemiology 1995; 12: 455-466.
89. Preston-Martin S, Navidi W, Bowman J, Thomas DC. Los Angeles study of
residential electromagnetic fields and childhood brain tumors. American Journal of
Epidemiology 1996; 143:105-119.
90. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. Research ethics and the
medical profession: Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Experiments. Journal of the American Medical Association 1996; 276:403-409.
91. Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. Analysis of gene-smoking interaction in lung cancer.
Genetic Epidemiology 1997: 14: 199-214.
92. Thomas DC, Richardson S, Gauderman J, Pitkaniemi J. A Bayesian approach to
multipoint mapping in nuclear families. Genetic Epidemiology 1997; 14:903-908.
93. Petersen G, Parmigianni G, Thomas D. Missense mutations in disease genes: A
Bayesian approach to evaluate causality. American Journal of Human Genetics
1998; 62: 1516-1524.
94. Kjos SL, Peters RK, Xiang Z, Thomas D, Schaefer U, Buchanan TA.
Contraception and the risk of type 2 diabetes in Latina women with prior gestational
diabetes. Journal of the American Medical Association 1998; 280:533-538.
95. Thomas DC. New approaches to the analysis of cohort studies. Epidemiologic
Reviews 1998; 14:122-134.
96. Langholz B, Thomas D, Xiang A, Stram DO. Latency analysis in epidemiologic
studies of occupational exposures: application to the Colorado plateau uranium
miners cohort. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 1999; 35: 246-256.
97. Peters JM, Avol E, Navidi W, London SJ, Gauderman WJ, Lurman F, Linn WE,
Margolis H, Rappaport E, Gong H, Thomas DC. A study of twelve southern
California communities with differing levels and types of air pollution. I.
Prevalence of respiratory morbidity. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical
Care Medicine 1999; 159: 760-767.
98. Peters JM, Avol E, Gauderman WJ, Linn WE, Navidi W, London SJ, Margolis H,
Rappaport E, Vora H, Gong H, Thomas DC. A study of twelve southern California
communities with differing levels and types of air pollution. I. Effects on
pulmonary function. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
1999; 159: 768-775.
99. Witte J, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. Asymptotic bias and efficiency in casecontrol studies of candidate genes and gene-environment interactions: Basic family
designs. American Journal of Epidemiology1999; 149: 693-705.
100. Stram DO, Langholz B, Huberman M, Thomas DC. Correcting for exposure
measurement error in a reanalysis of lung cancer mortality for the Colorado plateau
uranium miners cohort. Health Physics 1999; 77: 265-275.
101. Bowman J, Thomas DC, Liangzhong J, Jiang F, Peters J. Residential magnetic
fields predicted from wiring configurations: I. Exposure model.
Bioelectromagnetics 1999: 399-413.
102. Thomas DC, Bowman J, Liangzhong J, Jiang F, Peters J. Residential magnetic
fields predicted from wiring configurations: II. Relationships to childhood leukemia.
Bioelectromagnetics 1999: 414-420
103. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, London SJ, Vora H, Avol E, Gauderman WJ,
Margolis, HG, Lurman F, Thomas DC, Peters JM. Air pollution and bronchitic
symptoms in Southern California children with asthma. Environmental Health
Perspectives 1999; 107: 757-760.
104. Gauderman WJ, Morrison JL, Siegmund K, Thomas DC. A joint test of linkage
and GxE interaction using affected sib-pairs. Genetic Epidemiology 1999, 17
(Suppl 1): S563-S568.
105. Siegmund KD, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. Association test using unaffected
sibling versus pseudo-sibling controls. Genetic Epidemiology 1999, 17 (Suppl 1):
S731-S736.
106. Thomas DC, Qian D, Gauderman WJ, Siegmund K, Morrison JL. A GEE approach
to modeling disease concordance within sibships in relation to multiple markers and
exposure factors. Genetic Epidemiology 1999, 17 (Suppl 1): S737-S742.
107. Langholz B, Zyogas A, Thomas DC, Faucett C, Huberman M, Goldstein L.
Ascertainment bias in rate ratio estimation from case-sibling control studies of
variable age-at-onset disease. Biometrics 1999; 55: 1129-1136.
108. Thomas DC. Design of gene characterization studies: an overview. Monogr Natl
Cancer Inst 1999: 26: 17-23.
109. Gauderman WJ, Witte JS, Thomas DC. Family-based association studies. Monogr
Natl Cancer Inst 1999: 26: 31-37.
110. Langholz B, Thomas DC, Rothman N, Wacholder S. Cohort study designs for
characterizing measured genes. Monogr Natl Cancer Inst 1999: 26: 39-42.
111. Siegmund KD, Whittemore AS, Thomas DC. Multi-stage sampling for disease
family registries. Monogr Natl Cancer Inst 1999: 26: 43-48.
112. Haile R, Siegmund KD, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. Study design issues in the
development of the University of Southern California consortium’s colorectal cancer
family registry. Monogr Natl Cancer Inst 1999: 26: 89-93.
113. Ziogas A, Gildea M, Cohen P, Bringman D, Taylor TH, Seminara D, Barker D,
Casey G, Haile R, Liao S-Y, Thomas D, Noble B, Kurosaki T, Anton-Culver H.
Cancer risk estimates for family members of a population-based family registry for
breast and ovarian cancer. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2000;
9: 103-111.
114. Thomas DC. Some contributions of statistics to environmental epidemiology.
Journal of the American Statistical Association 2000; 95: 315-319.
115. Zeger SL, Thomas DC, Dominici F, Samet JM, Schwartz J, Dockery DW, Cohen
AJ.
Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution.
Environmental Health Perspectives 2000: 108: 419-426.
116. Kraft P, Thomas DC. Bias and efficiency in family-matched gene-characterization
studies: Conditional, prospective, retrospective, and joint likelihoods. American
Journal of Human Genetics 2000; 66:1119-1131.
117. Siegmund KD, Langholz B, Kraft P, Thomas DC. Testing linkage disequilibrium
in sibships. American Journal of Human Genetics 2000; 67: 244-248.
118. Lee J, Thomas DC. Performance of Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches for
mapping genes in oligogenic models with an unknown number of loci. American
Journal of Human Genetics 2000; 67: 1232-1250.
119. Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Gilliland F, London S, Thomas D, Avol E, Berhane
K, Rappaport E, Lurman F, Margolis H, Peters J. Association between air pollution
and lung function growth in Southern-California school-aged children. American
Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2000;
In press
120. Andrieu N, Goldstein AM, Langholz B, Thomas DC. Counter-matching in geneenvironment interaction studies: efficiency and feasibility. American Journal of
Epidemiology 2000;:.
121. Thomas DC. Genetic epidemiology with a capital “E.” (Presidential address to the
International Genetic Epidemiology Society, 1999). Genetic Epidemiology 2000;:.
122. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Rappaport E, Thomas DC, Avol E, Gauderman J, London
SJ, Margolis HG, McConnell R, Islam KT, Peters JM. The effects of ambient air
pollution on school absenteeism due to respiratory illness. Epidemiology 2001;:.
Articles Submitted
123. Thomas DC, Witte J, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. Design and analysis of familybased studies of gene associations and GxE interactions: II. Multiple case family
designs. American Journal of Epidemiology
124. Thomas DC, Gauderman J, Kerber R. A nonparametric Monte Carlo approach to
adjustment for covariate measurement errors in regression. Biometrics.
125. Siegmund KD, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. Association tests in nuclear families.
American Journal of Human Genetics.
126. Thomas DC, Richardson S. A nonparametric individual frailty model for family
data. Biostatistics.
127. Berhane K, Thomas DC. A two-stage model for multiple time series data of counts.
Biostatistics.
128. Berhane K, McConnell R, Gilliland FD, Islam T, Avol E, London SJ, Gauderman
WJ, Margolis HG, Thomas DC, Peters JM. Gender-specific effects of asthma on
lung function growth.
Articles in Preparation
129. Thomas DC. Linkage disequilibrium in admixed populations: what disease relative
risks can we expect?
130. Thomas DC, Gauderman J.
approaches to pedigree analysis.
Ascertainment correction in Gibbs sampling
131. Thomas DC, Gauderman J, Haile R. A genetic epidemiologic analysis of breast
cancer segregation using Gibbs sampling.
132. Thomas DC. A Metropolis algorithm to overcome reducibility in Gibbs sampling
genotypes with multiple alleles.
133. Thomas DC. Validity of tests and estimators of gene associations using sibships
and pseudosibships.
134. Thomas DC, Gauderman J, Berhane K. Statistical issues in studies of the long term
effects of air pollution: The Southern California Children Health Study.
135. Thomas DC. Sequential designs for genotyping in family-based association studies.
136. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland FD, Islam T, Avol E, London SJ, Gauderman
WJ, Margolis HG, Thomas DC, Peters JM. Indoor risk factors for asthma in a
cohort of adolescents.
137. Thomas DC, Stram DO. The probability of causation can be used in an equitable
manner to design compensation schemes and resolve tort litigation.
Non-Peer Review Journals
138. National Surveillance Working Party. Canadian influenza surveillance: first report
of the National Recording System: Methods. Canadian Family Physician, 1977; 23:
1054-1062.
139. Spitzer WO, DesRosiers G, Thomas DC. Surveillance de l'influenza au Quebec.
Le Medecin du Quebec, 1978; 13: 80-89.
140. Thomas DC. A critical look at screening for disease. Scientific Australian, 1979;
3: 18-20, 37.
Letters to the Editor
141. Thomas DC. Re: "Alternative data sources and discrepant results in case-control
studies of estrogens and endometrial cancer." American Journal of Epidemiology,
1981; 113: 482-483.
142. Thomas DC. CMA statement on radiation protection.
Association Journal, 1983; 128: 774.
Canadian Medical
143. Thomas DC. Re: "Conditions for confounding of the risk ratio and the odds ratio."
American Journal of Epidemiology, 1986; 123: 200-201.
144. Thomas DC. Comments on "Assessing the risks of Rn exposure: the influence of
cigarette smoking". Health Physics, 1987; 53: 547-8.
145. Thomas DC. Contribution to the discussion of a paper by Muirhead and Darby.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series B, 1987, 150: 113.
146. Thomas DC. Contribution to the discussion of the issue on "Cancer near nuclear
installations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A, 1989; 152: 375.
147. Thomas DC, Blettner M, Day NE. Case-control study of acute and nonlymphocytic
leukemia. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1992; 84: 1600-1.
148. London SJ, Daly AK, Thomas DC, Caporaso NE, Idle JR. Methodological issues
in the interpretation of studies of the CYP 2D6 genotype in relation to lung cancer
risk. Pharmacogenetics 1994, 4: 107-8.
149. Thomas DC. Re: "When will nondifferential misclassification of an exposure
preserve the direction of a trend." American Journal of Epidemiology, 1995; 142:
782-783.
150. Witte JS, Thomas DC, Langholz B. Re: "Statistical significance testing in the
American Journal of Epidemiology, 1970-1990." American Journal of Epidemiology
1995; 142: 101-103.
151. Langholz B, Thomas DC, Witte J, Peters RK. Re: "A population-based case-cohort
evaluation of the efficacy of mammographic screening for breast cancer. American
Journal of Epidemiology, 1995; 142: 448-450.
152. Thomas DC. Re: “Case-parents design for gene-environment interaction” by
Schaid. Genetic Epidemiology 1999; under review.
Abstracts and Presentations at National Scientific Meetings
(excluding full length papers listed elsewhere - presenter indicated by an asterisk)
153. West R*, Colle E, Belmonte M, Tingle A, Guttman R, Wilkins J, Poirier R, Hymie
I, Thomas DC. A prospective study of juvenile onset diabetes. Diabetes, l978; 27
suppl. 2: 465.
154. Thomas DC*. Matched analysis of case-control studies with multivariate exposure
factors and multiple controls. Fourth Australian Statistical Conference, Canberra,
July, l978.
155. Thomas DC*. Multivariate methods for risk identification: relating several
exposures to the risks of several diseases. Society for Epidemiologic Research,
Minneapolis, June, l980.
156. Thomas DC*. Relative-risk models for case-control studies. Canadian Journal of
Statistics, 1981; 7:247.
157. Thomas DC*. Are dose-response, synergy, and latency confounded? American
Statistical Association, Detroit, August, 1981.
158. Thomas DC*. Issues in modelling risk in epidemiologic studies. American Public
Health Association, Montreal, November, l982.
159. Thomas DC*. Temporal aspects of interacting factors.
Epidemiology, l982; ll6:586-587.
American Journal of
160. Thomas DC*. Analytical issues in radon daughter studies. American Statistical
Association Conference on Radiation and Health, Coolfont WV, July, l984.
161. Thomas DC*. Some application of Bayesian methods in cancer epidemiology.
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach; Tagungsbericht 8/1989.
162. Thomas DC*. Uncertainty in health risk assessment. Health Physics Society,
Professional Enrichment Program. Anaheim, CA, June 1990.
163. Thomas DC*. Epidemiology for health physicists. Health Physics Society,
Professional Enrichment Program. Anaheim, CA, June 1990.
164. Thomas DC*. The Utah fallout study. Radiation Research 1990; 124: 356-7.
165. Thomas DC*. Radiation dose risk modelling. Radiation Research 1990; 124: 3467.
166. Thomas DC*. Fitting marginal distributions using the Gibbs sampler.
Statistical Meetings, Anaheim, CA, August 1990.
Joint
167. Thomas DC, Kerber R*. Use of exposure error estimates to correct dose-response
relationships. American Journal of Epidemiology 1990; 132: 781.
168. Thomas DC*, Blettner M, Day NE. Use of cohort rates in the analysis of nested
case-control studies: an analysis of leukemia following cervical irradiation.
American Journal of Epidemiology 1990; 132: 777.
169. Thomas DC, Goldhaber M, Petitti D*, Swan S, Rappaport E, Hertz-Piccioto I.
Reproductive outcomes in women exposed to malathion. American Journal of
Epidemiology 1990, 132: 794-795.
170. Stevens W, Thomas DC, Lyon JL*, Till JE, Kerber RA, Simon SL, Lloyd RD,
Preston-Martin S. A case-control study of leukemia and fallout from the Nevada
Test Site. American Journal of Epidemiology 1990, 132: 776-777.
171. Thomas DC*. Fitting genetic data using Gibbs sampling: an application to
dysplastic nevus syndrome in 38 Utah kindreds. Genetic Analysis Workshop 7,
Dayton OH, October 1990.
172. Thomas DC*. Statistical methods for point sources. In: Stern RM, Terracini B,
Zapponi GA (eds.) WHO consultation on “Data requirements and methods for
analysing spatial patterns of disease in small areas”, pp 113-114. Rome, October
1990. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
173. Thomas DC*. Frailty models and Gibbs sampling in genetic epidemiology. In:
Current contributions by statisticians to cancer research, Accomplishments in
Cancer Research, 1991. Proceedings of a workshop in honor of Sir David Cox,
Nuffield College, Oxford UK, April 1991.
174. Thomas DC*. Survival models for genetic epidemiology. American Journal of
Epidemiology, 1991;134: 793.
175. London SL, Thomas DC*. Childhood leukemia in relation to residential magnetic
and electric fields. American Journal of Epidemiology 1991:134:767-768.
176. Thomas DC*. Frailty models for correlated age-at-onset data: applications to twin
studies. And: Gibbs sampling methods for fitting genetic models. Short course on:
Advanced statistical methods in cancer epidemiology - some current topics.
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, July 15-19, 1991.
177. Thomas DC*. Application of Gibbs sampling to genetic analysis. 8th International
Congress of Human Genetics. Washington DC, October 1991.
178. Thomas DC*. Research priorities in environmental radiation Energy-Related
Epidemiologic Research Workshop.
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta,
December 1991.
179. Bowman JD*, Thomas DC, Peters JM. The risk of childhood leukemia from home
exposure to resonances from static and power-frequency magnetic fields.
Department of Energy, October 1991.
180. Thomas DC*.
Recent directions in statistical methodology for genetic
epidemiology. In: Genetic epidemiology of cancer: A multidisciplinary approach.
National Cancer Institute. April 1992.
181. Thomas DC*, Langholz B, Clayton D. Empirical Bayes approaches to testing
associations with candidate genes and GxE interactions, with applications to HLA
haplotypes in diabetes. In: Molecular genetics and genetic epidemiology of
cardiovascular disease and diabetes, Helsinki June 1992.
182. Thomas DC*. Gibbs sampling methods in genetic epidemiology. In: New
developments in statistical modelling for complex biomedical problems. INSERM,
Paris, June 1992.
183. Thomas DC*. Temporal modifiers of the radon-smoking interaction Workshop on
epidemiologic methods. Ninth international symposium on epidemiology in
occupational health. Cincinati, September 1992.
184. Spiegelman D, Thomas DC*. Methods for correct point and interval estimates of
symptom prevalence ratios in cross-sectional studies Workshop on epidemiologic
methods. Ninth international symposium on epidemiology in occupational health.
Cincinati, September 1992.
185. Thomas DC*, Robins J. Bayesian adjustments for multiple comparisons Workshop
on epidemiologic methods. Ninth international symposium on epidemiology in
occupational health. Cincinati, September 1992.
186. Stram DO*, Lee H, Thomas DC. Use of generalized estimating equations in
segregation analysis of continuous outcomes. Genetic Analysis Workshop 8,
Monterrey, November 1992.
187. Mack WJ*, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. A bivariate genetic analysis of HDL- and
LDL-cholesterol levels incorporating environmental covariates: a Gibbs sampling
approach. Genetic Analysis Workshop 8, Monterrey, November 1992.
188. Faucett C*, Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC, Zyogas A, Sobel ES. Linkage analysis of
Alzheimer's disease in Duke families using Gibbs sampling. Genetic Analysis
Workshop 8, Monterrey, November 1992.
189. Thomas DC*, Navidi W. Design and analysis of multigroup analytic studies, with
applications to a study of air pollution health effects. Fourth US/Japan biostatistics
conference. Tokyo, November 1992.
190. Peters JM*, Thomas DC, London SJ, Bowman JD. Exposure to residential electric
and magnetic fields and risk of childhood leukemia Radiation Research 1993; 133:
131-132.
191. Bowman JD*, Sobel ES, London SJ, Thomas DC, Garabrant DH, Pearce N, Peters
J. Exposures to ELF magnetic fields, electric fields and chemicals in "electrical"
occupations and the risk of leukemia Bioelectromagnetics Society, Los Angeles,
June 1993.
192. Thomas DC*. Statistical issues in residential studies of electromagnetic field
exposures. Bioelectromagnetics Society, Los Angeles, June 1993.
193. Thomas DC*. Uses and limitations of epidemiology in radiation risk assessment.
Keynote address. Canadian Radiation Protection Association. Toronto, June 1993
194. Thomas DC*. Evaluation of complex genetic likelihoods using Gibbs sampling.
Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, August 1993.
195. Thomas DC*. Fundamentals of epidemiology: the basis of risk factors for
chemicals and radionuclides. Short course on: Pathway Analysis and Risk
Assessment for Environmental Compliance and Dose Reconstruction. Kiawah
Island, SC, February 1994.
196. Thomas DC*, Jiang F, Jiang L, Peters J, Bowman J. A new model of residential
magnetic fields and wire codes in Los Angeles: relationships to childhood leukemia.
EPRI Research Workshop, Santa Clara, CA, March 1994.
197. Thomas DC*, Howe G*. Statistical issues in the Sellafield litigation.
Conference on Radiation and Health, Nantucket Island, June 1994.
ASA
198. Thomas DC*, Lurman F*, Navidi W, Avol E, London S, Roberts P, Peters J.
Assessment of air pollution exposures and health effects using a multiple
community, individual level approach. International Society for Environmental
Epidemiology, September 1994.
199. Thomas DC. An epidemiologic perspective on low level radiation effects. Hanford
Health Information Network, Spokane, September 1994.
200. Thomas DC. Temporal variability in magnetic field exposures and risk of
childhood leukemia. And: Epidemiologic design options in EMF research.
NIOSH/DOE Workshop on Research Directions on Electromagnetic Fields.
Cincinnati, September 1994.
201. Thomas DC. A nonparametric MCMC approach to fitting frailty models. Second
Symposium on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, Rebild, Denmark, 1996.
202. Thomas DC. Unscrambling genetic and environmental influences in breast cancer.
Keynote address: San Diego Epidemiology Forum, 1997.
203. Thomas DC. Design of gene characterization studies: an overview. NCI Workshop
on Innovative Study Designs and Analytical Approaches in the Genetic
Epidemiology of Cancer. Seattle, 1998.
204. Gauderman WJ, Witte JS, Thomas DC. Family-based association studies. NCI
Workshop on Innovative Study Designs and Analytical Approaches in the Genetic
Epidemiology of Cancer. Seattle, 1998.
205. Siegmund KD, Whittemore AS, Thomas DC. Multi-stage sampling for disease
family registries. NCI Workshop on Innovative Study Designs and Analytical
Approaches in the Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer. Seattle, 1998.
206. Haile R, Siegmund KD, Thomas DC. Selected study design issues addressed in the
development of the USC consortium’s colorectal cancer family registry. NCI
Workshop on Innovative Study Designs and Analytical Approaches in the Genetic
Epidemiology of Cancer. Seattle, 1998.
207. Thomas DC. Genetic epidemiology with a capital “E”. Presidential Address,
International Genetic Epidemiology Society. St. Louis, 1999.
208. Thomas DC. Resolved: The probability of causation can be used in an equitable
manner to design compensation schemes and resolve tort litigations: Pro. Radiation
Research, in press.
Chapters
209. Liddell D, Eyssen G, Thomas DC, McDonald C. Radiographic changes over 20
years in relation to chrysotile exposure in Quebec. In: Walton WH (ed), Inhaled
Particles, Vol 4. Oxford: Pergamon, l977: 799-8l2
210. Thomas DC. Statistical methods for measuring risk: the relevance of epidemiology
to environmental standards, compensation and individual behavior. In: Chiazze L
and Lundin FE (eds), Epidemiologic Methods for Occupational and Environmental
Health Studies, Chapter l6. Ann Arbor MI: Ann Arbor Science Publishers, l982:
l49-l64
211. Thomas DC. Temporal effects and interactions in cancer: implications of
carcinogenic models. In: Prentice R and Whittemore AS (eds), Environmental
Epidemiology: Risk Assessment. Philadelphia: SIAM, l982: l07-l2l
212. Thomas DC. Use of auxiliary information in fitting non-proportional hazards
models. In: Moolgavkar SH, Prentice RL (eds), Modern Statistical Methods in
Chronic Disease Epidemiology. New York: Wiley, 1985:197-210.
213. Thomas DC. Calculation of power estimates for a study of Atomic veterans. In:
Gough M (ed), An evaluation of the feasibility of studying long-term health effects
in atomic veterans. Washington DC: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology
Assessment, 1985.
214. Thomas DC. Models for predicting radiation risks in the BEIR V report. In:
Baverstock KF, Stather JW (eds), Low dose radiation: biological bases of risk
assessment. London: Taylor and Francis, 1989, 143-154.
215. Thomas DC. Use of biological models to analyze epidemiologic data. In: Dwyer J
(ed), Statistical methods for longitudinal studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1992, 351-366.
216. Curtis SB, Thomas DC. Dose-time-response models for radiation carcinogenesis.
In: Nygaard OF, Sinclair W, Lett J (eds), Low Level Radiation Effects, Advances in
Radiation Biology, vol. 15, 45-76. New York, Academic Press, 1992.
217. Thomas DC, Gauderman J. Gibbs sampling methods in genetics. In: Gilks W,
Richardson S, Spiegelhalter D (eds.), Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice.
Chapman and Hall, 1995: 419-440.
218. Thomas DC. Relative risk modeling. In: Armitage P, Colton T (eds.),
Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. Chichester: Wiley, 1998: 3763-3771
219. Thomas DC. The Utah fallout study: How uncertainty has affected estimates of
dose-response. In: Ron E, Hoffman FO (eds.): Uncertainties in radiation dosimetry
and their impact on dose-response analyses. NCI Monograph 99-4541: 217-224.
220. Deltour I, Richardson S, Thomas D. A Bayesian approach to measurement error in
dose response analysis: application to the atomic bomb survivors cohort. In: Ron E,
Hoffman FO (eds.): Uncertainties in radiation dosimetry and their impact on doseresponse analyses. NCI Monograph 99-4541: 100-109.
221. Stram DO, Langholz B, Huberman M, Thomas D. Measurement error correction
for the analysis of lung cancer mortality in the Colorado Plateau uranium miner
cohort. In: Ron E, Hoffman FO (eds.): Uncertainties in radiation dosimetry and
their impact on dose-response analyses. NCI Monograph 99-4541: 192-195
222. Gauderman WJ, Thomas DC. The role of interacting determinants in the
localization of genes. In D.C. Rao (Ed.) “Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits”,
Advances in Genetics, Academic Press; 2000, pp 393-412.
Books and Monographs
223. Thomas DC, McNeill KG. Risk estimates for the health effects of alpha radiation.
Ottawa: Atomic Energy Control Board, l982, (323 pp.).
224. Thomas DC, Brown CC, Chu KC, Goldsmith DF, Saracci R (eds.) Time-related
factors in cancer epidemiology. Special Issue, Journal of Chronic Diseases, 40
suppl 2., 1987.
225. Schaid D, Thomas DC, Whittemore AS (eds.). Innovative Study Designs for the
Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer. JNCI Monograph, 1999.
Miscellany
226. Thomas DC. The analysis of longitudinal studies with interval-censored response
times. Doctoral dissertation, McGill University, 1976.
227. Inter-University Research Group (W. O. Spitzer, principal investigator). Northwest
Quebec health study report: the relationship between mercury and health
phenomena. Confidential final report to Domtar Inc., February, l979. (2002 pp
plus annexes and supplements, ll84 pp).
228. Thomas DC. Program "RISK" Release 4 User's Manual. Technical Report, McGill
University, March, 1980.
229. Thomas DC. A note on life table quantities derived from Cox's regression model.
Technical Report, McGill University, March, 1982.
230. Spitzer WO et al. Final report of the New Brunswick Task Force on Cancer and the
Environment. Fredericton: Ministry of Health, November, 1983.
231. Mack TM, Thomas DC. Methodology for evaluating cancer risk in small
communities. Evaluation of cancer risk in the residential neighborhood near BKK
landfill. Final report to the State of California Department of Health Services.
June 1985
232. Thomas DC. Analysis of outcomes of pregnancy in relation to malathion spraying
in a cohort of Bay Area pregnancies, May 1981 to September 1982, identified
through Kaiser-Permanente records. Final report to the State of California
Department of Health Services October 1987.
233. Thomas DC. Development of a methodology to investigate cancer incidence in
communities near toxic waste disposal sites. Final report to the State of California
Department of Health Services June, 1988.