Miller, Michael, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Institute of Human Genetics
1300 South 2nd Street
Suite 300
West Bank Office Building
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Office: Room 441
Phone: (612) 625-7836
Fax: (612) 624-0315
e-mail: mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu

Research Interests:

Dr. Miller is interested primarily in the quantitative analysis of data from studies in genetics and genetic epidemiology using linkage and association methods. He is currently especially interested in computer simulation of genetic data, simulation-based methods of genetic analysis, and uses of monozygotic twins in genetic research. His substantive interests incude behavioral and psychiatric phenotypes, cardiovascular phenotypes, asthma and age-related variation in health and cognition.

Publications

• Miller, M. B. (1995). Computing conditional recombination probabilities given marker information. Genetic Epidemiology, 12(6), 883-888.
• Miller, M. B. (1996). Limitations of Meehl¿s MAXCOV-HITMAX procedure. American Psychologist., 51, 554-556.
• Neale, M. C., & Miller, M. B. (1997). The use of likelihood-based confidence intervals in genetic models. Behavior Genetics, 27, 113-120.
• Miller, M. B. (1997). Genomic Scanning and the Transmission/Disequilibrium Test: Analysis of Error Rates. Genetic Epidemiology, 14(6). 851-856.
• Gu, C., Miller, M. B., Reich, T. & Rao, D. C. (1998). The Affected-Pedigree-Member method revisited under population stratification. In Statistics in Genetics, M. Elizabeth Halloran and Seymour Geisser (Eds.), The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 112, pp. 165-180. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Miller, M. B. (1998). News, views and comments. Twin Research, 1(2-4), three research news articles..
• Bailey, J. M., Pillard, R. C., Dawood, K., Miller, M. B., Trivedi, S., Farrer, L. A., & Murphy, L. (1999). A family history study of male sexual orientation: No evidence for X-linked transmission. Behavior Genetics, 29(2), 79-86.
• Curtis, D., Miller, M. B., & Sham, P. C. (1999). Combining the Sibling Disequilibrium Test and Transmission/ Disequilibrium Test for multiallelic markers. American Journal of Human Genetics, 64(6), 1785-1786.
• DeWan AT, Arnett DK, Miller MB, Peacock JM, Atwood LD, Province MA, Lewis CE, Hunt SC, Eckfeldt JH. (2002). Refined Mapping of Suggestive Linkage to Renal Function in African Americans: The HyperGEN Study. American Journal of Human Genetics, 71, 204-205.
• Tang W, Arnett DK, Rich SS, North KE, Pankow JS, Miller MB, Borecki IB, Hopkins PN, Leppert M, Myers RH. (2003). Linkage analysis of a composite factor for multiple metabolic syndrome (MMS): The NHLBI Family Heart Study. Diabetes 52:2840-2847.
• Pankow JS, Heiss G, Evans GW, Sholinsky P, Province MA, Coon H, Ellison CR, Miller MB, Qaqish B. (2004). Familial aggregation and genome-wide linkage analysis of carotid artery plaque: the NHLBI Family Heart Study. Hum Hered 57:80-89.
• North, KE, Rose KM, Borecki IB, Oberman A, Hunt SC, Miller MB, Blangero J, Almasy L, Pankow JS. (2004). Evidence for a Gene on Chromosome 13 Influencing Postural Systolic Blood Pressure Change and Body Mass Index. Hypertension, 43:780-784.
• North KE, Miller MB, Coon H, Martin LJ, Peacock JM, Arnett D, et al. (2005). Evidence for a Gene Influencing Fasting LDL Cholesterol and Triglyceride Levels on Chromosome 21q. Atherosclerosis, 179: 119-125.
• Pankow JS, Dunn DM, Hunt SC, Leppert MD, Miller MB, Rao DC, et al. (2005). Further evidence of a quantitative trait locus on chromosome 18q21 influencing postural change in systolic blood pressure: The HyperGEN Study. American Journal of Hypertension, 18(5 pt 1):672-8.
• Lewis CE, North KE, Arnett D, Borecki IB, Coon H, Ellison RC, Hunt SC, Oberman A, Rich SS, Province MA, Miller MB. (2005). Sex-specific findings from a genome-wide linkage analysis of human fatness in non-Hispanic whites and African Americans: The HyperGEN Study. International Journal of Obesity, 29(6):639-49.
• Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, North KE, Gu CC, Lewis CE, Wilk JB, Chakravarti A, Chang YC, Miller MB, Li N, Devereux RB & Arnett DK. (2005). A Population Association Study of Angiotensinogen Polymorphisms and Haplotypes With Left Ventricular Phenotypes. Hypertension, 46, 1294-1299.
• Lilienfeld SO, Spitzer RL & Miller MB (2005). A Response to a Nonresponse to Criticisms of a Nonstudy One Humorous and One Serious Rejoinder to Slater. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 193, 745-746.
• Spitzer RL, Lilienfeld SO & Miller MB (2005). Rosenhan Revisited: The Scientific Credibility of Lauren Slater's Pseudopatient Diagnosis Study. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 193, 734-739.

Link to Bio Sketch:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/Miller_Biosketch.pdf

Link to Personal Web Page:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/