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MARSHA WILCOX, D.Sc., Ed.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Education
Post-Doc, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Sc.D., Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, New York
Ed.D., Research Methods, Special Education, Columbia University, New York, NY
M.S., Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY
Ed.M. Behavioral Research, Columbia University, New York, NY
M.A., Special Education, Columbia University, New York, NY
B.M., Music/Special Education, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

Research Interests

Dr. Marsha A. Wilcox is a Genetic Epidemiologist and Biostatistician at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her main appointment is in the Genetics Program at the School of Medicine. Dr. Wilcox is a graduate of the State University of New York at Potsdam, Columbia University and Harvard University. She received an Ed.D. from Columbia University in research methods and an Sc.D. from Harvard University in epidemiology, with a minor in biostatistics. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School with Drs. Ming Tsuang and Steve Faraone in psychiatric genetics. She also currently holds an appointment as a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Wilcox’s research interests include the investigation of the genetic etiologies of psychiatric disorders, the identification of empirically derived phenotypes prior to linkage and genetic association studies, and the application of novel methods in genetic epidemiology. She has published papers on each of these topics in several journals including Nature Genetics, the American Journal of Human Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Biological Psychiatry and others.

Dr. Wilcox participates in research on Alzheimer disease in the MIRAGE project, an investigation of the genetic etiology of substance abuse with a collaborative group based at Yale, and with researchers at BU to identify genes which promote healthy aging in a cohort of centenarians and their offspring in the New England Centenarian Study.

Dr. Wilcox co-teaches a course in Genetic Epidemiology with Dr. Lindsay Farrer, chief of the Genetics Program. She is currently in the process of writing a textbook in genetic epidemiology with several other faculty members.

In her free time, Dr. Wilcox is involved in field trials and search and rescue training with her two golden retrievers, Luke and Molly. She also directs a youth choir and has an organic garden.

Selected Publications

Nelson D, Hartman E, Ojemann PG, Wilcox, MA. Outcomes measurement and management with a large Medicaid population: a public/private collaboration. Behav Healthc Tomorrow. 1995 May-Jun;4(3):31-7.

Eisen SV, Wilcox MA, Leff HS, Schaefer E, Culhane M. Assessing behavioral health outcomes in outpatient programs: reliability and validity of the BASIS-32. J Behav Health Serv Res. 1999 Feb;26(1):5-17.

Blacker D, Wilcox MA, Laird N, Rodes L, Horvath S, Go R, Perry R, Watson B, Bassett S, McInnis M, Albert M, Hyman B, Tanzi R. Alpha-2 macroglobulin is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease. Nat Genet. 1998 Aug;19(4):357-60.

Laird N, Blacker D, Wilcox MA. The sib transmission/disequilibrium test is a Mantel-Haenszel test. Am J Hum Genet. 1998 Dec;63(6):1915-6.

Lunetta KL, Wilcox MA, Smoller JW, Neuberg D. Exploring linkage for alcoholism using affection status and quantitative event related potential phenotypes. Genet Epidemiol. 1999;17 Suppl 1:S241-6.

Wilcox MA, Smoller JW, Lunetta KL, Neuberg D. Using recursive partitioning for exploration and follow-up of linkage and association analyses. Genet Epidemiol. 1999;17 Suppl 1:S391-6.

Blacker D, Crystal A, Wilcox, Laird N, Tanzi R. Reply to Dow et al., Rudrasingham et al., and Rogaeva et al. Nature Genet 1999;22:21-22.

Cai T, Wei LJ, Wilcox MA. Semiparametric analysis for clustered failure time data. Biometrika 2000;87(4):867-878.

Mutter GL, Baak JP, Fitzgerald JT, Gray R, Neuberg D, Kust GA, Gentleman R, Gullans SR, Wei LJ, Wilcox M. Global expression changes of constitutive and hormonally regulated genes during endometrial neoplastic transformation. Gynecol Oncol. 2001 Nov;83(2):177-85.

Page G, Wilcox MA, Occhiuto J, Adak S, Neuberg D, Bajorunaite R, George V. Comparison of the QTDT analysis for IgE in the CSGA data set. Genet Epidemiol. 2001;21 Suppl 1:S312-6.

Eisen SV, Wilcox M, Idiculla T, Speredelozzi A, Dickey B. Assessing consumer perceptions of inpatient psychiatric treatment: the perceptions of care survey. Jt Comm J Qual Improv. 2002 Sep;28(9):510-26.

Wilcox M, Faraone SV, Su J, Van Eerdewegh P, Tsuang MT. Genome scan of three quantitative traits in schizophrenia pedigrees. Biol Psychiatry. 2002 Nov 1;52(9):847-54.

Yip A, Ma Q, Wilcox M, Panhuysen CI, Farrell J, Farrer LA, Wyszynski DF. Search for genetic factors predisposing to atherogenic dyslipidemia. BMC Genetics 2003, 4(Suppl 1):S100 (1 December 2003)

Wilcox MA, Wyszynski DF, Panhuysen CI, Ma Q, Yip A, Farrell J, Farrer LA. Empirically derived phenotypic subgroups - qualitative and quantitative trait analyses. BMC Genetics 2003, 4(Suppl 1):S15 (1 December 2003)

Wyszynski DF, Panhuysen CI, Ma Q, Yip AG, Wilcox MA, Erlich P, Farrer LA. Genome-wide screen for heavy alcohol consumption. BMC Genet (In Press).

Strauch K, Golla A, Wilcox MA, Baur MP. Genetic analysis of phenotypes derived from longitudinal data - Presentation Group 1 of GAW13. Genet Epidemiol. (In Press).

Terry DF, Wilcox MA, McCormick MA, Perls TT. Cardiovascular advantages among the offspring of Centenarians. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2003 May;58(5):M425-31.

Terry DF, Wilcox MA, McCormick MA, Perls TT. Stress susceptibility among Centenarian offspring. J Gerontol (In Press).

Terry DF, Wilcox MA, McCormick MA, Perls TT. Cardiovascular disease delay in Centenarian offspring. J Gerontol (In Press).

Chang G, Wilcox MA. A Medicaid HMO quality initiative: An assessment (Submitted).

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