Christine B. Peterson, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Sciences
About Dr. Peterson
For more information, including links to papers and software, please see Dr. Peterson's website .
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Regular Member, MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, Rice University, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2013 | Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, PHD, Statistics |
| 2005 | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, AB, Applied mathematics |
Postgraduate Training
| 2014-2016 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Galloway-Pena JR, Peterson CB, Malik F, Sahasrabhojane PV, Shah DP, Brumlow CE, et al.. Fecal microbiome, metabolites, and stem cell transplant outcomes: a single-center pilot study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019.
- Kim J, Do KA, Ha MJ, Peterson CB. Bayesian inference of hub nodes across multiple networks. Biometrics 75(1):172-182, 2019. PMID: 30051914.
- Cremaschi A, Argiento R, Shoemaker K, Peterson CB, Vannucci, M. Hierarchical normalized completely random measures for robust graphical modeling. Bayesian Analysis, 2019.
- Rayes N, Bowen DJ, Coffin T, Nebgen D, Peterson CB, Munsell MF, et al.. MAGENTA (Making Genetic testing accessible): a prospective randomized controlled trial comparing online genetic education and telephone genetic counseling for hereditary cancer genetic testing. BMC Cancer, 2019.
- McCulloch M, Anderson B, Cazoulat G, Peterson CB, Mohamed A, Volpe S, et al.. Biomechanical modeling of neck flexion for deformable alignment of the salivary glands in head and neck cancer images. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2019.
- Kisling KD, Ger RB, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Owens CA, Anderson BM, ..., Peterson CB, Court LE, Dube S. A snapshot of medical physics practice patterns. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 19(6):306-315, 2018.
- Kry S, Peterson CB, Howell R, Izewska J, Lye J, Clark C, et al. Remote beam output audits: a global assessment of results out of tolerance. Physics & Imaging in Radiation Oncology 7:39-44, 2018.
- Thompson PA, Peterson CB, Strati P, Jorgensen J, Keating MJ, O’Brien SM, et al.. Serial minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring during first-line FCR treatment for CLL may direct individualized therapeutic strategies. Leukemia, 2018.
- Shaddox E, Stingo F, Peterson CB, Jacobson S, Cruickshank-Quinn C, Kechris K, Bowler R, Vannucci M. A Bayesian approach for learning gene networks underlying disease severity in COPD. Statistics in Biosciences 10(1):59-85, 2018.
- Court LE, Kisling K, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Simonds H, …, Peterson CB, Beadle B. Radiation planning assistant – A streamlined, fully automated radiotherapy treatment planning system. The Journal of Visualized Experiments 134:e57411, 2018.
- Shaddox E, Peterson CB, Stingo FC, Hanania N, Cruickshank-Quinn C, Kechris K, Bowler R, Vannucci M. Bayesian inference of networks across multiple sample groups and data types. Biostatistics, 2018.
- Rubinstein A, Gay S, Peterson CB, Kingsley CV, Tailor RC, Pollard-Larkin JM, Melancon AD, Followill DS, Court LE. Radiation-induced lung toxicity in mice irradiated in a strong magnetic field. PLoS ONE, 2018.
- Jiang Z, Jenq RR, Ajami NJ, Petrosino JF, Alexander AA, Ke S, Iqbal T, DuPont AW, Muldrew K, Shi Y, Peterson CB, Do K, DuPont HL. Preliminary safety and efficacy of orally administered lyophilized fecal microbiota product compared with frozen product given by enema for recurrent clostridium difficile infection: a randomized clinical trial. PLoS ONE 13(11):e0205064, 2018.
- Owens CA, Peterson CB, Tang C, Koay EJ, Yu W, Mackin DS, Li J, Salehpour MR, Fuentes DT, Court LE, and Yang J. Lung tumor segmentation methods: impact on the uncertainty of radiomics features for non-small cell lung cancer. PLoS ONE 13(10), 2018.
- Jasinska AJ, Zelaya I, Service SK, Peterson CB, Cantor RM, et al.. Genetic variation and gene expression across multiple tissues and developmental stages in a non-human primate. Nature Genetics 49(12):1714-1721, 2017. PMID: 29083405.
- GTEx Consortium. Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues. Nature 550(7675):204-213, 2017. PMID: 29022597.
- Brzyski D, Peterson CB, Sobczyk P, Candes E, Bogdan M, Sabatti C. Controlling the rate of GWAS false discoveries. Genetics 205(1):61-75, 2017. PMID: 27784720.
- Peterson CB, Bogomolov M, Benjamini Y, Sabatti C. TreeQTL: hierarchical error control for eQTL findings. Bioinformatics 32(16):2556-8, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27153635.
- Peterson CB, Service SK, Jasinska AJ, Gao F, Zelaya I, Teshiba TM, Bearden CE, Cantor RM, Reus VI, Macaya G, López-Jaramillo C, Bogomolov M, Benjamini Y, Eskin E, Coppola G, Freimer NB, Sabatti C. Characterization of expression quantitative trait loci in pedigrees from Colombia and Costa Rica ascertained for bipolar disorder. PLoS Genet 12(5):e1006046, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27176483.
- Peterson CB, Stingo FC, Vannucci M. Joint Bayesian variable and graph selection for regression models with network-structured predictors. Statistics in Medicine 35(7):1017-31, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26514925.
- Peterson CB, Bogomolov M, Benjamini Y, Sabatti C. Many phenotypes without many false discoveries: error controlling strategies for multitrait association studies. Genetic Epidemiology 40(1):45-56, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26626037.
- Peterson CB, Stingo FC, Vannucci M. Bayesian inference of multiple Gaussian graphical models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 110(509):159-174, 2015. PMID: 26078481.
- Rembach A, Stingo FC, Peterson CB, Vannucci M, Do K, Wilson WJ, Macaulay SL, Ryan TM, Martins RN, Ames D, Masters CL, Doecke JD, the AIBL Research Group. Bayesian graphical network analyses reveal complex biological interactions specific to Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 10(4):P796-P797, 2015. PMID: 25613103.
- Cowley AW, Moreno C, Jacob HJ, Peterson CB, Stingo FC, Ahn KW, Liu P, Vannucci M, Laud PW, Reddy P, Lazar J, Evans L, Yang C, Kurth T, Liang M. Characterization of biological pathways associated with a 1.37 Mbp genomic region protective of hypertension in Dahl S rats. Physiological Genomics 46(11):398-410, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24714719.
- Allen GI, Peterson CB, Vannucci M, Maletic-Savatic M. Regularized partial least squares with an application to NMR spectroscopy. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 6(4):302-314, 2013.
- Peterson CB, Vannucci M, Karakas C, Choi W, Ma L, and Maletic-Savatic M. Inferring metabolic networks using the Bayesian adaptive graphical lasso with informative priors. Statistics and Its Interface 6(4):547-558, 2013.
- Swartz MD, Peterson CB, Lupo PJ, Wu X, Forman MR, Spitz MR, Hernandez LM, Vannucci M, Shete S. Investigating multiple candidate genes and nutrients in the folate metabolism pathway to detect genetic and nutritional risk factors for lung cancer. PLoS One 8(1):e53475, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23372658.
- Vassiliev ON, Kry SF, Wang HC, Peterson CB, Chang JY, Mohan R. Radiotherapy of lung cancers: FFF beams improve dose coverage at tumor periphery compromised by electronic disequilibrium. Phys Med Biol. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30189421.
- Chari NS, Ivan C, Le X, Li J, Mijiti A, Patel AA, Osman AA, Peterson CB, et al.. Disruption of TP63-miR-27a* feedback loop by mutant TP53 promotes head and neck cancer progression. Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
- Riquelme E, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Maria M, Michelle Z, Dong W, Quesada P, Sahin I, Chandra V, San Lucas A, Scheet P, Xu H, Hanash SM, Feng L, Ajami N, Petrosino J, Peterson CB, White JR, Wood LD, Maitra A, Katz M, Jenq R, Wargo J, McAllister F. Tumor microbiome diversity and composition determine pancreatic cancer outcomes. Cell.
- Kry S, Glenn M, Peterson CB, Branco D, Mehrens H, Steinmann A, Followill D. Independent recalculation outperforms traditional measurement-based IMRT QA methods in detecting unacceptable plans. Medical Physics.
- Strati P, Takahashi K, Peterson CB, Keating MJ, Thompson PA, Daver NG, et al.. Efficacy and predictors of response of lenalidomide and rituximab in patients with treatment-naive and relapsed CLL. Blood Advances.
Invited Articles
- Peterson CB, Stingo FC. Invited discussion of “On the prior and posterior distributions used in graphical modelling” by Marco Scutari. Bayesian Analysis 8(3):539-542, 2013.
Book Chapters
- Peterson CB, Swartz MD, Shete S, Vannucci M. Bayesian model averaging for genetic association studies. In: Advances in Statistical Bioinformatics: Models and Integrative Inference for High-Throughput Data,. Cambridge University Press, 208-223, 2013.
Grant & Contract Support
| Title: | Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) - Biostatistics Resource Group (BRG) |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Biostatistician |
| Title: | Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) - Immunotherapy |
| Funding Source: | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Moon Shot |
| Role: | Statistician |
| Title: | Lipidomics-based biomarkers for risk of progression in early prostate cancer |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Correcting Dose Calculation Errors in Radiation Oncology |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Collaborator |
| Title: | Circulating Exosomes as Biomarkers for Lung Cancer Early Detection |
| Funding Source: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Circulating Exosomes as Biomarkers for Lung Cancer Early Detection |
| Funding Source: | American Cancer Society (ACS) |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |