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Margaret Daniele Fallin
Associate Professor
Academic Degrees
PhD
Departmental Affiliation
Epidemiology
Genetic Epidemiology
Joint Departmental Affiliations
Biostatistics, Medicine
Departmental Address
615 N. Wolfe St., Room W6509
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 410-955-3463
Fax: 410-955-0863
Research and Professional Experience

I am interested in applying genetic epidemiology methods to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. I also work on the genetic predisposition to features affecting aging populations such as muscle strength and frailty.

In addition to these applied projects, I am interested in evaluating and improving methods for genetic analysis of population data. My research interests focus on methodology for population and family-based tests of genetic associations with human disease. I am also interested in building the field of epigenetic epidemiology, and work with the Center for Excellence in Genome Sciences focused on the epigenetic contributions to human disease.

Keywords

SNP, genetic epidemiology, autism, schizophrenia, epigenetics

Selected Publications

Fallin D & Schork N. (2000) Accuracy of Haplotype Frequency Estimation for Biallelic Loci via the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Unphased Diploid Genotype Data. Am J Hum Genet,. 67(4):947-59.

Schork N, Fallin D, Lanchbury J. (2000) Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and the Future of Genetic Epidemiology. Clinical Genetics, 58( 4): 250-264.

le Stunff C, Fallin D, Schork N, Bougneres P. (2000) Genetic variation of insulin secretion and juvenile obesity course associated with a variant of the insulin gene. Nature Genetics, 26( 4): 444-446.

Schork N, Nath SK, Fallin D, Chakravarti A. (2000) Linkage Disequilibrium Analysis of Bi-allelic DNA markers, human quantitative trait loci, and threshold-deinfed cases and controls. Am J Hum Genet. 67(5):1208-1218.

Fallin D, Cohen A, Essioux L, Chumakov I, Blumenfeld M, Cohen D, Schork N. (2001) Genetic Analysis of Case/Control Data Using Estimated Haplotype Frequencies: Application to APOE Locus Variation and Alzheimer’s disease. Genome Research, 11:143-151.

le Stunff C, Fallin D, Bougneres P. (2001) Paternal transmission of class I INS VNTR alleles predisposes to childhood obesity. Nature Genetics, 29:96-99.

Swift-Scanlan T, Lan T, Fallin D, Coughlin, Potash J, DePaulo R, McInnis M. (2002) Genetic Analysis of the CTG(n) NOTCH4 Polymorphism in 65 Multiplex Bipolar Pedigrees. Psychiatric Genetics, 12(1): 43-7.

Basset, S. Avramopoulos D, Fallin D. Evidence for parent of origin effect in late onset Alzheimer’s disease. (2002) American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 14(6):679-686.

Leffell MS, Fallin D, Erlich HA, Fernandez-Vijna M, Hildebrand WH, Mack SJ, Zachary AA. (2002). HLA antigens, alleles and haplotypes among the Yup'ik Alaska natives: report of the ASHI Minority Workshops, Part II. Hum Immunol 63(7): 614-25.

Fallin D, Beaty T, Chen W, Liang KY. (2002) Power Comparisons for Genotypic versus Allelic TDT methods with >2 Alleles. Genetic Epidemiology, 23(4): 458-461.

Schork NJ, Gardner JP, Zhang L, Fallin D, Thiel B, Jakubowski H and Aviv. (2002) Genomic association/linkage of sodium lithium countertransport in CEPH pedigrees. Hypertension 40(5): 619-28.

Blacker D, Bertram L, Saunders AJ, Moscarillo TJ, Albert MS, Wiener, Perry RT, Collins JS, Harrell LE, Go RC, Mahoney A, Beaty T, Fallin D, Avramopoulos D, Chase GA, Folstein MF, McInnis MG, Bassett SS, Doheny KJ, Pugh EW and Tanzi RE (2003). Results of a high-resolution genome screen of 437 Alzheimer's Disease families. Hum Mol Genet 12(1): 23-32.

Tsai CT, Fallin D, Chiang FT, Hwang JJ, Lai LP, Hsu KL, Tseng JL, Liau CS and Tseng YZ (2003). Angiotensinogen gene haplotype and hypertension: interaction with ACE gene I allele. Hypertension 41(1): 9-15.

Arking D, Becker D, Yanek L, Fallin D, Judge D, Moy T, Becker L, Dietz H. (2003). KLOTHO Allele Status and the Risk for Early-Onset Occult Coronary Artery Disease. American Journal of Human Genetics, 72(5):1154-61.

Newschaffer CJ, Fallin D, Lee NL (2003). Heritable and nonheritable risk factors for autism spectrum disorders. Epidemiol Rev 24(2): 137-53.

Fallin D, Lasseter VK, Wolyniec PS, McGrath JA, Nestadt G, Valle D, Liang KY, Pulver AE. (2003). Genomewide Linkage Scan for Schizophrenia Susceptibility Loci among Ashkenazi Jewish Families Shows Evidence of Linkage on Chromosome 10q22. American Journal of Human Genetics, 73(3): 601-11.

Fallin D, Hetmanski JB, Park J, Scott AF, Ingersoll R, Fuernkranz HA, McIntosh I, Beaty TH. (2003) Family-based analysis of MSX1 haplotypes for association with oral clefts. Genetic Epidemiology, 25(2): 168-75.

Liu X, Beaty TH, Deindl P, Huang SK, Lau S, Sommerfeld C, Fallin D, Kao WH, Wahn U, Nickel R. (2003) Associations between total serum IgE levels and the 6 potentially functional variants within the genes IL4, IL13, and IL4RA in German children: the German Multicenter Atopy Study. Journal of Allergy Clinical Immunology, 112(2): 382-388.

Dos Santos C, Fallin D, Le Stunff C, LeFur S, Bougneres P. (2003) The INS VNTR is a QTL for the insulin response to oral glucose in obese children. Physiol Genomics, 16(3):309-13.

Leffell MS, Fallin MD, Hildebrand WH, Cavett JW, Iglehart BA, Zachary AA. (2004) HLA alleles and haplotypes among the Lakota Sioux: report of the ASHI minority workshops, part III. Hum Immunol. 65(1):78-89.

Groman JD, Hefferon TW, Casals T, Bassas L, Estivill X, Des Georges M, Guittard C, Koudova M, Fallin MD, Nemeth K, Fekete G, Kadasi L, Friedman K, Schwarz M, Bombieri C, Pignatti PF, Kanavakis E, Tzetis M, Schwartz M, Novelli G, D'Apice MR, Sobczynska-Tomaszewska A, Bal J, Stuhrmann M, Macek M Jr, Claustres M, Cutting GR. (2004) Variation in a repeat sequence determines whether a common variant of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene is pathogenic or benign. Am J Hum Genet. 74(1):176-9.

Liu X, Beaty TH, Deindl P, Huang SK, Lau S, Sommerfeld C, Fallin MD, Kao WH, Wahn U, Nickel R. (2004) Associations between specific serum IgE response and 6 variants within the genes IL4, IL13, and IL4RA in German children: The German Multicenter Atopy Study. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 113(3):489-495.

Liu X, Fallin MD, Kao WL. (2004) Genetic dissection methods: designs used for tests of gene-environment interaction. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 14(3):241-245.

Fallin MD, Lasseter VK, Wolyniec PS, McGrath JA, Nestadt G, Valle D, Liang KY, Pulver AE. (2004) Genomewide Linkage Scan for Bipolar-Disorder Susceptibility Loci among Ashkenazi Jewish Families. Am J Hum Genet. 75(2):204-19.

Bjornsson HT, Fallin MD, Feinberg AP. (2004) An integrated epigenetic and genetic approach to common human disease. Trends Genet. 20(8):350-8.

Dos Santos C, Fallin D, Le Stunff C, LeFur S, Bougneres P. (2004) INS VNTR is a QTL for the insulin response to oral glucose in obese children. Physiol Genomics. 16(3):309-13.

Avramopoulos D, Fallin MD, Bassett SS. (2005) Linkage to chromosome 14q in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients without psychotic symptoms. Am J Med Genet. 132b(1):9-13.

Walston J, Arking DE, Fallin MD, Li T, Beamer B, Xue Q, Ferrucci L, Fried LP, Chakravarti A. (2005) IL-6 Gene Variation is Not Associated with Increased Serum Levels of IL-6, Muscle, Weakness, or Frailty in Older Women. Experimental Gerontology, in press.

Brown EE, Fallin MD, Goedert JJ, Chen R, Whitby D, Foster CB, Lauria C, Alberg AJ, Messina A, Montella M, Rezza G, Vitale F, Chanock S, and the Kaposi Sarcoma Genetics Working Group. (2005) A common genetic variant in FCGR3A-V158F and risk of Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus infection and classic Kaposi sarcoma. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention, accepted for publication.

Benke KS, Chase GA, and Fallin MD. (2005) Susceptibility scoring often reduces power to detect a genetic association using the genotypic TDT. Genetic Epidemiology, Supplement, GAW proceedings, in press.

Zandi PP, Kalaydjian A, Avramopoulos D, Shao H, Fallin MD, Newschaffer CJ. (2006) Rh and ABO maternal-fetal incompatibility and risk of autism. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 141(6):643-7.

Bassett SS, Avramopoulos D, Perry RT, Wiener H, Watson B Jr, Go RC, Fallin MD. (2006) Further evidence of a maternal parent-of-origin effect on chromosome 10 in late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 141(5):537-40.

Cheslack-Postava K, Fallin MD, Avramopoulos D, Connors SL, Zimmerman AW, Eberhart CG, Newschaffer CJ. (2007) Beta(2)-Adrenergic receptor gene variants and risk for autism in the AGRE cohort. Mol Psychiatry, 12(3):283-91.

Mulle JG, Fallin MD, Lasseter VK, McGrath JA, Wolyniec PS, Pulver AE. (2007) Dense SNP association study for bipolar I disorder on chromosome 18p11 suggests two loci with excess paternal transmission. Mol Psychiatry. 12(4):367-75.

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