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Shelley Bull  Ph.D.
Professor
Division
Biostatistics
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital
60 Murray Street, Box #18, 5th floor, room 5-226
Toronto, ON  M5T 3L9
(416) 586-8245 
bull@lunenfeld.ca 
http://www.mshri.on.ca/faculty/  
Current Academic Appointments
  • Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Full Member, School of Graduate Studies
Other Affiliations
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital
Research Interests
  • statistical methods for human genetics
  • categorical data analysis
  • logistic regression modelling
  • analysis of multiple outcomes
Primary Teaching Responsibilities
  • Co-ordinator of a research seminar and journal club in statistical methods for human genetics research for graduate students and faculty in biostatistics and statistics at the University of Toronto 
Honours and Awards
  • 2001 Recipient of The Anthony Miller Award For Excellence In Research In Public Health to recognize the outstanding contributions to research of faculty in the Graduate Department of Public Health Sciences
  • Recipient of 2001 Best Paper Award from the International Genetic Epidemiology Society for the article entitled: Design considerations for association studies of candidate genes in families, Genetic Epidemiology 20:149-174, 2001. Authors SB Bull, GA Darlington, CMT Greenwood, J Shin.
  • Senior Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2002-2007        
Current Research Projects
  • 1999 - 2009     Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems. Subproject: Statistical genetic modelling and analysis of complex traits.
  • 2004 - 2009     Regression models for complex data.
  • 2007 - 2012     Design and analysis of genomewide studies of complex diseases and traits
  • 2006 - 2009    Genome-wide association of common alleles with long-term diabetic complications
  • 2008 – 2012    Discovery & characterization of clinically important changes in axillary node-negative breast cancer
Representative Publications
  • L Sun, SB Bull. Reduction of selection bias in genomewide studies by resampling. Genetic Epidemiology, 28: 352–367, 2005.
  • JM Biernacka, L Sun, SB Bull. Simultaneous localization of two linked disease susceptibility genes, Genetic Epidemiology, 28: 33-47, 2005.
    • JM Biernacka, L Sun, SB Bull. Tests for the presence of two linked disease susceptibility genes. Genetic Epidemiology, 29: 389–401, 2005.
  • SB Bull, S John, L Briollais. Fine mapping by linkage and association in nuclear family and case-control designs. Genetic Epidemiology, 29: Suppl 1:S48-58, 2005.
  • JP Lewinger, SB Bull. Validity, efficiency, and robustness of a family-based test of association, Genetic Epidemiology, 30(1):62-76, Jan 2006.
  • W He, SB Bull, N Gokgoz, IL Andrulis, J Wunder. Application of reliability coefficients in cDNA microarray data analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 25(6):1051-66, Mar 2006.
  • SB Bull, JP Lewinger, SSF Lee. Confidence intervals for multinomial logistic regression in sparse data, Statistics in Medicine, 2007; 26:903–918
  • J Shin, GA Darlington, C Cotton, M Corey, SB Bull. Confidence intervals for candidate gene effects and environmental factors in population-based association studies of families, Annals of Human Genetics, 2007 Jul;71(Pt 4):421-32.
  • SSF Lee, L Sun, R Kustra,  SB Bull. EM-Random Forest and New Measures of Variable Importance for Multi-Locus Quantitative Trait Linkage Analysis, Bioinformatics, 2008 Jul 15;24(14):1603-10.

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