Research focus on a multi-faceted approach to the investigation of genetic determinants underlying complex disease, with a particular interest in psychiatric, behavioral and neurologic disorders. Recent areas of research include the development and application of statistical and epidemiological methods geared towards large scale genomic analysis in both family-based and population-based samples.
1. Ionita-Laza I, McQueen MB, Laird NM, Lange C. (2007) Genomewide weighted hypothesis testing in family-based association studies, with an application to a 100K scan. American Journal of Human Genetics, 81(3), 607-14. | pubmed abstract |
2. McQueen MB, Bertram L, Lange C, Becker KD, Albert MS, Tanzi RE, Blacker D. (2007). Exploring candidate gene associations with neuropsychological performance. American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics, 144(8), 987-91. | |pubmed abstract |
3. McQueen MB, Blacker D, Laird NM (2006). Variance Calculations for Mean Identity-by-Descent Estimation. American journal of human genetics, 78, 914-921.| |pubmed abstract |