
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
Adjunct 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
- Shaddox E, Peterson CB, Stingo FC, Hanania NA, Cruickshank-Quinn C, Kechris K, Bowler R, Vannucci M. Bayesian inference of networks across multiple sample groups and data types. Biostatistics 21(3):561-576, 2020. PMID: 30590505.
- Zhang L, Shi Y, Jenq RR, Do K, Peterson CB. Bayesian compositional regression with structured priors for microbiome feature selection. Biometrics, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Fahrmann JF, Vykoukal J, Fleury A, Tripathi S, Dennison JB, Murage E, Wang P, Yu CY, Capello M, Creighton CJ, Do KA, Long JP, Irajizad E, Peterson C, Katayama H, Disis ML, Arun B, Hanash S. Association between plasma diacetylspermine and tumor spermine synthase with outcome in triple negative breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 112(6):607-616, 2020. PMID: 31503278.
- Liu XD, Kong W, Peterson CB, McGrail DJ, Hoang A, Zhang X, Lam T, Pilie PG, Zhu H, Beckermann KE, Haake SM, Isgandrova S, Martinez-Moczygemba M, Sahni N, Tannir NM, Lin SY, Rathmell WK, Jonasch E. PBRM1 loss defines a nonimmunogenic tumor phenotype associated with checkpoint inhibitor resistance in renal carcinoma. Nature Communications 11(1):1-14, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32358509.
- Robinson S, Peterson CB, Sahasrabhojane P, Ajami NJ, Shelburne SA, Kontoyiannis DP, Galloway-Pena JR. Observational cohort study of oral mycobiome and interkingdom interactions over the course of induction therapy for leukemia. mSphere 5(2):e00048-20, 2020.
- Chari NS, Ivan C, Le X, Li J, Mijiti A, Patel AA, Osman AA, Peterson CB, Williams MD, Pickering CR, Caulin C, Myers JN, Calin GA, Lai SY. Disruption of TP63-miR-27a* feedback loop by mutant TP53 in head and neck cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 112(3):266-277, 2020. PMID: 31124563.
- Das P, Peterson CB, Do KA, Akbani R, Baladandayuthapani V. NExUS: Bayesian simultaneous network estimation across unequal sample sizes. Bioinformatics 36(3):798-804, 2020. PMID: 31504175.
- Rigaud B, Cazoulat G, Vedam S, Venkatesan AM, Peterson CB, Taku N, Klopp AH, Brock KK. Modeling complex deformations of the sigmoid colon between external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy images of cervical cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics 106(5):1084-1094, 2020.
- Galloway-Peña JR, Shi Y, Peterson CB, Sahasrabhojane PV, Gopalakrishnan V, Brumlow CE, et al.. Gut microbiome signatures are predictive of infectious risk following induction therapy for acute myeloid leukemia. Clinical Infectious Diseases 71(1):63-71, 2020.
- Wu X, Park M, Sarbassova DA, Ying H, Lee MG, Bhattacharya R, Ellis L, Peterson CB, Hung MC, Lin HK, Bersimbaev RI, Song MS, Sarbassov, DD. A chirality-dependent action of vitamin C in suppressing KRAS mutant tumor growth by the oxidative combination: rationale for cancer therapeutics. International Journal of Cancer 146(10):2822-2828, 2020.
- Glenn MC, Peterson CB, Followill DS, Howell RM, Pollard-Larkin JM, Kry SF. Reference dataset of users' photon beam modeling parameters for the Eclipse, Pinnacle, and RayStation treatment planning systems. Medical Physics 47(1):282-288, 2020.
- Peterson CB, Osborne N, Stingo FC, Bourgeat P, Doecke JD, Vannucci M. Bayesian modeling of multiple structural connectivity networks during the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Biometrics 76(4):1120-1132, 2020. PMID: 32026459.
- Tinoco M, Waga E, Tran K, Vo H, Baker J, Hunter R, Peterson CB, Taku N, Court L. RapidPlan development of VMAT plans for cervical cancer patients in low- and middle-income countries. Medical Dosimetry 45(2):172-178, 2020.
- Edward SS, Alvarez PE, Taylor PA, Molineu HA, Peterson CB, Followill DS, Kry SF. Differences in the patterns of failure between IROC lung and spine phantom irradiations. Practical Radiation Oncology 10(5):372-381, 2020. PMID: 32413413.
- Bogomolov M*, Peterson CB*, Benjamini Y, Sabatti C. Hypotheses on a tree: new error rates and testing strategies. Biometrika, 2020.
- Glenn MC, Peterson CB, Howell RM, Followill DS, Pollard-Larkin JM, Kry SF. Sensitivity of IROC phantom performance to radiotherapy treatment planning system beam modeling parameters based on community‐driven data. Medical Physics 47(10):5250-5259, 2020.
- Meier JG, Erasmus JJ, Gladish GW, Peterson CB, Diab RH, Mawlawi OR. Character- ization of continuous bed motion effects on patient breathing and respiratory motion correction in PET/CT imaging. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2019.
- Vassiliev ON, Peterson CB, Cao W, Grosshans DR, Mohan R. Systematic microdosimetric data for protons of therapeutic energies calculated with Geant4-DNA. Physics in Medicine & Biology 64(21):215018, 2019.
- 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.
- 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 3(9):1533-1539, 2019.
- 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 46(8):3700-3708, 2019.
- 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 influence pancreatic cancer outcomes. Cell 178(4):795-806.e12, 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 64(17):175018, 2019.
- Rhee DJ, Cardenas CE, Elhalawani H, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Garden AS, Peterson CB, Beadle BM, Court LE. Automatic detection of contouring errors using convolutional neural networks. Medical Physics, 2019.
- Thompson PA, Srivastava J, Peterson CB, Strati P, Jorgensen JL, Hether T, et al.. Minimal residual disease undetectable by next-generation sequencing predicts improved outcome in CLL after chemoimmunotherapy. Blood 134(22):1951-1959, 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 32(11):2388-2398, 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.
- 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.
- 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. Safety and preliminary 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.
- 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.
- McCarroll RE, Beadle BM, Balter PA, Burger H, Cardenas CE, Dalvie S, ..., Peterson CB, Vorster K, Wetter J, Zhang L, Court LE, Yang J. Retrospective validation and clinical implementation of automated contouring of organs at risk in the head and neck: a step toward automated radiation treatment planning for low- and middle-income countries. Journal of Global Oncology, 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. Physics in Medicine & Biology. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30189421.
- Vassiliev ON, Peterson CB, Grosshans DR, Mohan R. A simple model for calculating relative biological effectiveness of X-rays and gamma radiation in cell survival. British Journal of Radiology 93:20190949. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32464080.
- Shi Y, Zhang L, Do KA, Peterson CB, Jenq R. aPCoA: covariate adjusted principal coordinates analysis. Bioinformatics 36(13):4099-4101. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32339223.
- Chen CC, Shen TY, Peterson CB, Hung GU, Pan T. Comparison of ejection fraction calculation between CT and SPECT at high heart rate - a dynamic cardiac phantom study. J Nucl Cardiol. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31907855.
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: | Targeting GD3 synthase (ST8SIA1) in GD2+ breast cancer stem-like cells to prevent tumor growth and metastases in triple negative breast cancer |
Funding Source: | Department of Defense (DOD) |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
Title: | Correcting Dose Calculation Errors in Radiation Oncology |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Collaborator |