David N. Stivers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics

Department of Biostatistics

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Some recent publications in peer-reviewed journals:

• Barton MC, Stivers DN. Microarray analysis of hepatic-regulated gene expression: specific applications and nonspecific problems. Hepatology 2002; 35(3):727-729.

• Baggerly KA, Coombes KR, Hess KR, Stivers DN, Abruzzo LV, Zhang W. Identifying differentially expressed genes in cDNA microarray experiments. Journal of Computational Biology 2001; 8(6):639-659.

• Hess KR, Zhang W, Baggerly KA, Stivers DN, Coombes KR. Microarrays: handling the deluge of data and extracting reliable information. Trends in Biotechnology 2001; 19(11):463-468.

• Tan FK, Reveille JD, Arnett FC, Stivers DN, Tsao BP. Poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase and susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus and primary antiphospholipid syndrome: comment on the article by Delrieu et al. Arthritis and Rheumatism 2000; 43(6):1421-1423.

• Zhou X, Tan FK, Stivers DN, Arnett FC. Microsatellites and intragenic polymorphisms of transforming growth factor beta and platelet-derived growth factor and their receptor genes in Native Americans with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma): a preliminary analysis showing no genetic association. Arthritis and Rheumatism 2000; 43(5):1068-1073.

• Chakraborty R, Stivers DN, Su B, Zhong Y, Budowie B. The utility of short tandem repeat loci beyond human identification: implications for development of new DNA typing systems. Review. Electrophoresis 1999; 20(8):1682-1696.

• Tan FK, Stivers DN, Arnett FC, Chakraborty R, Howard R, Reveille JD. HLA haplotypes and microsatellite polymorphisms in and around the major histocompatibility complex region in a Native American population with a high prevalence of scleroderma (systemic sclerosis). Tissue Antigens 1999; 53(1):74-80.

• Chakraborty R, Stivers DN. Further response to Mueller and Thompson: considerations on the tests of independence of alleles that are relevant for forensic applications (letter). Journal of Forensic Science 1998; 43:448-449.

• Tan FK, Stivers DN, Foster MW, Chakraborty R, Howard RF, Milewicz DM, Arnett FC. Association of microsatellite markers near the fibrillin 1 gene on human chromosome 15q with scleroderma in a Native American population. Arthritis and Rheumatism 1998; 41(10):1729-1737.

• Chakraborty R, Kimmel M, Stivers DN, Davison LJ, Deka R. Relative mutation rates at di-, tri-, and tetranucleotide microsatellite loci. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1997; 94(3):1041-1046.

• Stivers DN, Chakraborty R. A test of allelic independence based on distributions of allele size differences at microsatellite loci. Human Heredity 1997; 47(2):66-75.