Dara Torgerson, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

I co-lead the Torgerson-Hernandez Lab (THeLab) along with Dr. Ryan Hernandez at UCSF. Our group is focused on developing computational approaches to study the interplay between human evolutionary history and environmental contributions to complex disease in the context of genetic ancestry. My background is in population genetics and bioinformatics, and I have specific expertise in integrative genomic and metabolomic studies of respiratory disease in diverse human populations.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2021
• Ph.D Department of Biology McMaster University
• B.Sc, M.Sc. Department of Zoology University of Guelph

Interests

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• Metabolomics
• Computational Biology
• Genomics
• Respiratory Disease
• Bioinformatics

Websites

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• THeLab (thelab.ucsf.edu)

Publications (82)

Top publication keywords:
Bronchopulmonary DysplasiaGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseChromosomes, Human, Pair 6Bronchiolitis, ViralShockReceptors, Adrenergic, beta-2Genome-Wide Association StudyEvolution, MolecularGenetic LociX ChromosomeAsthmaGenetic Association StudiesIndians, North AmericanPolymorphism, Single NucleotideRespiratory Insufficiency

• Return of Participants' Incidental Genetic Research Findings: Experience from a Case-Control Study of Asthma in an American Indian Community.
  Journal of personalized medicine 2023 Best LG, O'Leary M, O'Leary R, Lawrence W, Torgerson DG
• The Urinary Metabolomic Fingerprint in Extremely Preterm Infants on Total Parenteral Nutrition vs. Enteral Feeds.
  Metabolites 2023 Guardado M, Steurer M, Chapin C, Hernandez RD, Ballard PL, Torgerson D
• The hydrocortisone-responsive urinary metabolome of premature infants.
  Pediatric research 2023 Torgerson D, Guardado M, Steurer M, Chapin C, Hernandez RD, Ballard PL
• Leveraging electronic health records to identify risk factors for recurrent pregnancy loss across two medical centers: a case-control study.
  Research square 2023 Roger J, Xie F, Costello J, Tang A, Liu J, Oskotsky T, Woldemariam S, Kosti I, Le B, Snyder MP, Giudice LC, Torgerson D, Shaw GM, Stevenson DK, Rajkovic A, Glymour MM, Aghaeepour N, Cakmak H, Lathi RB…
• Return of Participants' Incidental Genetic Research Findings: Experience from a Case-Control Study of Asthma in an American Indian Community.
  Research square 2023 Best LG, O'Leary M, O'Leary R, Lawrence W, Torgerson DG

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• Efficacy and feasibility of the BREATHE asthma intervention with American Indian children: a randomized controlled trial.
  Scientific reports 2022 O'Leary RA, O'Leary MA, Torgerson DG, Mettler RD, Enright KJ, Best LG
• Blood metabolomics in infants enrolled in a dose escalation pilot trial of budesonide in surfactant.
  Pediatric research 2021 Ballard PL, Torgerson D, Wadhawan R, Hudak ML, Weitkamp JH, Harris J, Asselin J, Chapin C, Ballard RA, McEvoy CT
• Recent shifts in the genomic ancestry of Mexican Americans may alter the genetic architecture of biomedical traits.
  eLife 2020 Spear ML, Diaz-Papkovich A, Ziv E, Yracheta JM, Gravel S, Torgerson DG, Hernandez RD
• Easy-HLA: a validated web application suite to reveal the full details of HLA typing.
  Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2020 Geffard E, Limou S, Walencik A, Daya M, Watson H, Torgerson D, Barnes KC, CAAPA, Cesbron Gautier A, Gourraud PA, Vince N
• Association of HLA-DRB1∗09:01 with tIgE levels among African-ancestry individuals with asthma.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2020 Vince N, Limou S, Daya M, Morii W, Rafaels N, Geffard E, Douillard V, Walencik A, Boorgula MP, Chavan S, Vergara C, Ortega VE, Wilson JG, Lange LA, Watson H, Nicolae DL, Meyers DA, Hansel NN, Ford JG,…
• Dectin-1 genetic deficiency predicts chronic lung allograft dysfunction and death.
  JCI insight 2019 Calabrese DR, Wang P, Chong T, Hoover J, Singer JP, Torgerson D, Hays SR, Golden JA, Kukreja J, Dugger D, Christie JD, LTOG investigators, Greenland JR
• Rare Protein-Altering Telomere-related Gene Variants in Patients with Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2019 Ley B, Torgerson DG, Oldham JM, Adegunsoye A, Liu S, Li J, Elicker BM, Henry TS, Golden JA, Jones KD, Dressen A, Yaspan BL, Arron JR, Noth I, Hoffmann TJ, Wolters PJ
• Author Correction: Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations.
  Nature communications 2019 Daya M, Rafaels N, Brunetti TM, Chavan S, Levin AM, Shetty A, Gignoux CR, Boorgula MP, Wojcik G, Campbell M, Vergara C, Torgerson DG, Ortega VE, Doumatey A, Johnston HR, Acevedo N, Araujo MI, Avila PC…
• Correction: Genetic variation in CRHR1 is associated with short-term respiratory response to corticosteroids in preterm infants at risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  Pediatric research 2019 Lewis T, Truog W, Norberg M, Ballard PL, Torgerson D, TOLSURF Study Group
• Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations.
  Nature communications 2019 Daya M, Rafaels N, Brunetti TM, Chavan S, Levin AM, Shetty A, Gignoux CR, Boorgula MP, Wojcik G, Campbell M, Vergara C, Torgerson DG, Ortega VE, Doumatey A, Johnston HR, Acevedo N, Araujo MI, Avila PC…
• Genetic variation in CRHR1 is associated with short-term respiratory response to corticosteroids in preterm infants at risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  Pediatric research 2018 Lewis T, Truog W, Norberg M, Ballard PL, Torgerson D, TOLSURF Study Group
• A genome-wide association and admixture mapping study of bronchodilator drug response in African Americans with asthma.
  The pharmacogenomics journal 2018 Spear ML, Hu D, Pino-Yanes M, Huntsman S, Eng C, Levin AM, Ortega VE, White MJ, McGarry ME, Thakur N, Galanter J, Mak ACY, Oh SS, Ampleford E, Peters SP, Davis A, Kumar R, Farber HJ, Meade K, Avila PC…
• An admixture mapping meta-analysis implicates genetic variation at 18q21 with asthma susceptibility in Latinos.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2018 Gignoux CR, Torgerson DG, Pino-Yanes M, Uricchio LH, Galanter J, Roth LA, Eng C, Hu D, Nguyen EA, Huntsman S, Mathias RA, Kumar R, Rodriguez-Santana J, Thakur N, Oh SS, McGarry M, Moreno-Estrada A, …
• Ancestry and genetic associations with bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2018 Torgerson DG, Ballard PL, Keller RL, Oh SS, Huntsman S, Hu D, Eng C, Burchard EG, Ballard RA, TOLSURF Study Group
• Reply.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2018 Ballard RA, Ballard PL, Askie LM, Schreiber MD, Hibbs AM, Torgerson DG, Keller RL
• Genotypes associated with tacrolimus pharmacokinetics impact clinical outcomes in lung transplant recipients.
  Clinical transplantation 2018 Calabrese DR, Florez R, Dewey K, Hui C, Torgerson D, Chong T, Faust H, Rajalingam R, Hays SR, Golden JA, Kukreja J, Singer JP, Greenland JR
• Genetic contributions to lupus nephritis in a multi-ethnic cohort of systemic lupus erythematous patients.
  PloS one 2018 Lanata CM, Nititham J, Taylor KE, Chung SA, Torgerson DG, Seldin MF, Pons-Estel BA, Tusié-Luna T, Tsao BP, Morand EF, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Criswell LA
• Whole-Genome Sequencing of Pharmacogenetic Drug Response in Racially Diverse Children with Asthma.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2018 Mak ACY, White MJ, Eckalbar WL, Szpiech ZA, Oh SS, Pino-Yanes M, Hu D, Goddard P, Huntsman S, Galanter J, Wu AC, Himes BE, Germer S, Vogel JM, Bunting KL, Eng C, Salazar S, Keys KL, Liberto J, Nuckton…
• Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks.
  Nature genetics 2017 Demenais F, Margaritte-Jeannin P, Barnes KC, Cookson WOC, Altmüller J, Ang W, Barr RG, Beaty TH, Becker AB, Beilby J, Bisgaard H, Bjornsdottir US, Bleecker E, Bønnelykke K, Boomsma DI, Bouzigon E, …
• Update on the State of the Science for Analytical Methods for Gene-Environment Interactions.
  American journal of epidemiology 2017 Gauderman WJ, Mukherjee B, Aschard H, Hsu L, Lewinger JP, Patel CJ, Witte JS, Amos C, Tai CG, Conti D, Torgerson DG, Lee S, Chatterjee N
• Genetic variants and risk of asthma in an American Indian population.
  Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 2017 Best LG, Azure C, Segarra A, Enright KJ, Hamley S, Jerome D, O'Leary MA, O'Leary RA, Parisien A, Trottier K, Yracheta JM, Torgerson DG
• On a Collision Course: The Electronic Medical Record and Genetic Studies of Asthma.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2017 Ortega VE, Torgerson DG
• Differential methylation between ethnic sub-groups reflects the effect of genetic ancestry and environmental exposures.
  eLife 2017 Galanter JM, Gignoux CR, Oh SS, Torgerson D, Pino-Yanes M, Thakur N, Eng C, Hu D, Huntsman S, Farber HJ, Avila PC, Brigino-Buenaventura E, LeNoir MA, Meade K, Serebrisky D, Rodríguez-Cintrón W, Kumar …
• A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome.
  Nature communications 2016 Mathias RA, Taub MA, Gignoux CR, Fu W, Musharoff S, O'Connor TD, Vergara C, Torgerson DG, Pino-Yanes M, Shringarpure SS, Huang L, Rafaels N, Boorgula MP, Johnston HR, Ortega VE, Levin AM, Song W, …
• Air Pollution and Lung Function in Minority Youth with Asthma in the GALA II (Genes-Environments and Admixture in Latino Americans) and SAGE II (Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes, and Environments) Studies.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2016 Neophytou AM, White MJ, Oh SS, Thakur N, Galanter JM, Nishimura KK, Pino-Yanes M, Torgerson DG, Gignoux CR, Eng C, Nguyen EA, Hu D, Mak AC, Kumar R, Seibold MA, Davis A, Farber HJ, Meade K, Avila PC, …
• The TAM family receptor tyrosine kinase TYRO3 is a negative regulator of type 2 immunity.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2016 Chan PY, Carrera Silva EA, De Kouchkovsky D, Joannas LD, Hao L, Hu D, Huntsman S, Eng C, Licona-Limón P, Weinstein JS, Herbert DR, Craft JE, Flavell RA, Repetto S, Correale J, Burchard EG, Torgerson …
• Massively Parallel Identification of Regulatory Variants in Asthma.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2016 Biton A, Torgerson D, Letonqueze O, Zhao W, Zaitlen N, Erle DJ
• Pooled Sequencing of Candidate Genes Implicates Rare Variants in the Development of Asthma Following Severe RSV Bronchiolitis in Infancy.
  PloS one 2015 Torgerson DG, Giri T, Druley TE, Zheng J, Huntsman S, Seibold MA, Young AL, Schweiger T, Yin-Declue H, Sajol GD, Schechtman KB, Hernandez RD, Randolph AG, Bacharier LB, Castro M
• Genetic and socioeconomic study of mate choice in Latinos reveals novel assortment patterns.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015 Zou JY, Park DS, Burchard EG, Torgerson DG, Pino-Yanes M, Song YS, Sankararaman S, Halperin E, Zaitlen N
• Adapt-Mix: learning local genetic correlation structure improves summary statistics-based analyses.
  Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2015 Park DS, Brown B, Eng C, Huntsman S, Hu D, Torgerson DG, Burchard EG, Zaitlen N
• Fine mapping of the myosin light chain kinase (MYLK) gene replicates the association with asthma in populations of Spanish descent.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2015 Acosta-Herrera M, Pino-Yanes M, Ma SF, Barreto-Luis A, Corrales A, Cumplido J, Pérez-Rodríguez E, Campo P, Eng C, García-Robaina JC, Quintela I, Villar J, Blanca M, Carracedo Á, Carrillo T, Garcia JG,…
• The landscape of genomic imprinting across diverse adult human tissues.
  Genome research 2015 Baran Y, Subramaniam M, Biton A, Tukiainen T, Tsang EK, Rivas MA, Pirinen M, Gutierrez-Arcelus M, Smith KS, Kukurba KR, Zhang R, Eng C, Torgerson DG, Urbanek C, GTEx Consortium, Li JB, Rodriguez-…
• PIGS: improved estimates of identity-by-descent probabilities by probabilistic IBD graph sampling.
  BMC bioinformatics 2015 Park DS, Baran Y, Hormozdiari F, Eng C, Torgerson DG, Burchard EG, Zaitlen N
• Genome-wide association study and admixture mapping reveal new loci associated with total IgE levels in Latinos.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2014 Pino-Yanes M, Gignoux CR, Galanter JM, Levin AM, Campbell CD, Eng C, Huntsman S, Nishimura KK, Gourraud PA, Mohajeri K, O'Roak BJ, Hu D, Mathias RA, Nguyen EA, Roth LA, Padhukasahasram B, Moreno-…
• A genome-wide association study of susceptibility to acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adolescents and young adults.
  Blood 2014 Perez-Andreu V, Roberts KG, Xu H, Smith C, Zhang H, Yang W, Harvey RC, Payne-Turner D, Devidas M, Cheng IM, Carroll WL, Heerema NA, Carroll AJ, Raetz EA, Gastier-Foster JM, Marcucci G, Bloomfield CD, …
• Identification of a variant in KDR associated with serum VEGFR2 and pharmacodynamics of Pazopanib.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2014 Maitland ML, Xu CF, Cheng YC, Kistner-Griffin E, Ryan KA, Karrison TG, Das S, Torgerson D, Gamazon ER, Thomeas V, Levine MR, Wilson PA, Bing N, Liu Y, Cardon LR, Pandite LN, O'Connell JR, Cox NJ, …
• Genetic ancestry influences asthma susceptibility and lung function among Latinos.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2014 Pino-Yanes M, Thakur N, Gignoux CR, Galanter JM, Roth LA, Eng C, Nishimura KK, Oh SS, Vora H, Huntsman S, Nguyen EA, Hu D, Drake KA, Conti DV, Moreno-Estrada A, Sandoval K, Winkler CA, Borrell LN, …
• Whole-genome sequencing of individuals from a founder population identifies candidate genes for asthma.
  PloS one 2014 Campbell CD, Mohajeri K, Malig M, Hormozdiari F, Nelson B, Du G, Patterson KM, Eng C, Torgerson DG, Hu D, Herman C, Chong JX, Ko A, O'Roak BJ, Krumm N, Vives L, Lee C, Roth LA, Rodriguez-Cintron W, …
• Integrated genome-wide association, coexpression network, and expression single nucleotide polymorphism analysis identifies novel pathway in allergic rhinitis.
  BMC medical genomics 2014 Bunyavanich S, Schadt EE, Himes BE, Lasky-Su J, Qiu W, Lazarus R, Ziniti JP, Cohain A, Linderman M, Torgerson DG, Eng CS, Pino-Yanes M, Padhukasahasram B, Yang JJ, Mathias RA, Beaty TH, Li X, Graves P…
• Genome-wide interaction studies reveal sex-specific asthma risk alleles.
  Human molecular genetics 2014 Myers RA, Scott NM, Gauderman WJ, Qiu W, Mathias RA, Romieu I, Levin AM, Pino-Yanes M, Graves PE, Villarreal AB, Beaty TH, Carey VJ, Croteau-Chonka DC, del Rio Navarro B, Edlund C, Hernandez-Cadena L,…
• Genome-wide association study and admixture mapping identify different asthma-associated loci in Latinos: the Genes-environments & Admixture in Latino Americans study.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2014 Galanter JM, Gignoux CR, Torgerson DG, Roth LA, Eng C, Oh SS, Nguyen EA, Drake KA, Huntsman S, Hu D, Sen S, Davis A, Farber HJ, Avila PC, Brigino-Buenaventura E, LeNoir MA, Meade K, Serebrisky D, …
• Inherited GATA3 variants are associated with Ph-like childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and risk of relapse.
  Nature genetics 2013 Perez-Andreu V, Roberts KG, Harvey RC, Yang W, Cheng C, Pei D, Xu H, Gastier-Foster J, E S, Lim JY, Chen IM, Fan Y, Devidas M, Borowitz MJ, Smith C, Neale G, Burchard EG, Torgerson DG, Klussmann FA, …
• A genome-wide association study of bronchodilator response in Latinos implicates rare variants.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2013 Drake KA, Torgerson DG, Gignoux CR, Galanter JM, Roth LA, Huntsman S, Eng C, Oh SS, Yee SW, Lin L, Bustamante CD, Moreno-Estrada A, Sandoval K, Davis A, Borrell LN, Farber HJ, Kumar R, Avila PC, …
• Population genetics of rare variants and complex diseases.
  Human heredity 2013 Maher MC, Uricchio LH, Torgerson DG, Hernandez RD
• Analysis of Latino populations from GALA and MEC studies reveals genomic loci with biased local ancestry estimation.
  Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2013 Pasaniuc B, Sankararaman S, Torgerson DG, Gignoux C, Zaitlen N, Eng C, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Chapela R, Ford JG, Avila PC, Rodriguez-Santana J, Chen GK, Le Marchand L, Henderson B, Reich D, Haiman CA, …
• Novel susceptibility variants at 10p12.31-12.2 for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in ethnically diverse populations.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2013 Xu H, Yang W, Perez-Andreu V, Devidas M, Fan Y, Cheng C, Pei D, Scheet P, Burchard EG, Eng C, Huntsman S, Torgerson DG, Dean M, Winick NJ, Martin PL, Camitta BM, Bowman WP, Willman CL, Carroll WL, …
• Integration of mouse and human genome-wide association data identifies KCNIP4 as an asthma gene.
  PloS one 2013 Himes BE, Sheppard K, Berndt A, Leme AS, Myers RA, Gignoux CR, Levin AM, Gauderman WJ, Yang JJ, Mathias RA, Romieu I, Torgerson DG, Roth LA, Huntsman S, Eng C, Klanderman B, Ziniti J, Senter-Sylvia J,…
• A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for serum total IgE in diverse study populations.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2012 Levin AM, Mathias RA, Huang L, Roth LA, Daley D, Myers RA, Himes BE, Romieu I, Yang M, Eng C, Park JE, Zoratti K, Gignoux CR, Torgerson DG, Galanter JM, Huntsman S, Nguyen EA, Becker AB, Chan-Yeung M,…
• Further replication studies of the EVE Consortium meta-analysis identifies 2 asthma risk loci in European Americans.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2012 Myers RA, Himes BE, Gignoux CR, Yang JJ, Gauderman WJ, Rebordosa C, Xie J, Torgerson DG, Levin AM, Baurley J, Graves PE, Mathias RA, Romieu I, Roth LA, Conti D, Avila L, Eng C, Vora H, LeNoir MA, Soto…
• Adaptive evolution of the FADS gene cluster within Africa.
  PloS one 2012 Mathias RA, Fu W, Akey JM, Ainsworth HC, Torgerson DG, Ruczinski I, Sergeant S, Barnes KC, Chilton FH
• Genome-wide association studies of asthma indicate opposite immunopathogenesis direction from autoimmune diseases.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2012 Li X, Ampleford EJ, Howard TD, Moore WC, Torgerson DG, Li H, Busse WW, Castro M, Erzurum SC, Israel E, Nicolae DL, Ober C, Wenzel SE, Hawkins GA, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA
• Genome-wide ancestry association testing identifies a common European variant on 6q14.1 as a risk factor for asthma in African American subjects.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2012 Torgerson DG, Capurso D, Ampleford EJ, Li X, Moore WC, Gignoux CR, Hu D, Eng C, Mathias RA, Busse WW, Castro M, Erzurum SC, Fitzpatrick AM, Gaston B, Israel E, Jarjour NN, Teague WG, Wenzel SE, …
• Case-control admixture mapping in Latino populations enriches for known asthma-associated genes.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2012 Torgerson DG, Gignoux CR, Galanter JM, Drake KA, Roth LA, Eng C, Huntsman S, Torres R, Avila PC, Chapela R, Ford JG, Rodríguez-Santana JR, Rodríguez-Cintrón W, Hernandez RD, Burchard EG
• Fast and accurate inference of local ancestry in Latino populations.
  Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2012 Baran Y, Pasaniuc B, Sankararaman S, Torgerson DG, Gignoux C, Eng C, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Chapela R, Ford JG, Avila PC, Rodriguez-Santana J, Burchard EG, Halperin E
• Resequencing candidate genes implicates rare variants in asthma susceptibility.
  American journal of human genetics 2012 Torgerson DG, Capurso D, Mathias RA, Graves PE, Hernandez RD, Beaty TH, Bleecker ER, Raby BA, Meyers DA, Barnes KC, Weiss ST, Martinez FD, Nicolae DL, Ober C
• ARID5B genetic polymorphisms contribute to racial disparities in the incidence and treatment outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2012 Xu H, Cheng C, Devidas M, Pei D, Fan Y, Yang W, Neale G, Scheet P, Burchard EG, Torgerson DG, Eng C, Dean M, Antillon F, Winick NJ, Martin PL, Willman CL, Camitta BM, Reaman GH, Carroll WL, Loh M, …
• Identification of KIF3A as a novel candidate gene for childhood asthma using RNA expression and population allelic frequencies differences.
  PloS one 2011 Kovacic MB, Myers JM, Wang N, Martin LJ, Lindsey M, Ericksen MB, He H, Patterson TL, Baye TM, Torgerson D, Roth LA, Gupta J, Sivaprasad U, Gibson AM, Tsoras AM, Hu D, Eng C, Chapela R, Rodríguez-…
• Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations.
  Nature genetics 2011 Torgerson DG, Ampleford EJ, Chiu GY, Gauderman WJ, Gignoux CR, Graves PE, Himes BE, Levin AM, Mathias RA, Hancock DB, Baurley JW, Eng C, Stern DA, Celedón JC, Rafaels N, Capurso D, Conti DV, Roth LA, …
• Recombination rates in admixed individuals identified by ancestry-based inference.
  Nature genetics 2011 Wegmann D, Kessner DE, Veeramah KR, Mathias RA, Nicolae DL, Yanek LR, Sun YV, Torgerson DG, Rafaels N, Mosley T, Becker LC, Ruczinski I, Beaty TH, Kardia SL, Meyers DA, Barnes KC, Becker DM, Freimer …
• Cosmopolitan and ethnic-specific replication of genetic risk factors for asthma in 2 Latino populations.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2011 Galanter JM, Torgerson D, Gignoux CR, Sen S, Roth LA, Via M, Aldrich MC, Eng C, Huntsman S, Rodriguez-Santana J, Rodriguez-Cintrón W, Chapela R, Ford JG, Burchard EG
• The impact of FADS genetic variants on ω6 polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in African Americans.
  BMC genetics 2011 Mathias RA, Sergeant S, Ruczinski I, Torgerson DG, Hugenschmidt CE, Kubala M, Vaidya D, Suktitipat B, Ziegler JT, Ivester P, Case D, Yanek LR, Freedman BI, Rudock ME, Barnes KC, Langefeld CD, Becker …
• Sequencing the IL4 locus in African Americans implicates rare noncoding variants in asthma susceptibility.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2009 Haller G, Torgerson DG, Ober C, Thompson EE
• Targets of balancing selection in the human genome.
  Molecular biology and evolution 2009 Andrés AM, Hubisz MJ, Indap A, Torgerson DG, Degenhardt JD, Boyko AR, Gutenkunst RN, White TJ, Green ED, Bustamante CD, Clark AG, Nielsen R
• Evolutionary processes acting on candidate cis-regulatory regions in humans inferred from patterns of polymorphism and divergence.
  PLoS genetics 2009 Torgerson DG, Boyko AR, Hernandez RD, Indap A, Hu X, White TJ, Sninsky JJ, Cargill M, Adams MD, Bustamante CD, Clark AG
• Darwinian and demographic forces affecting human protein coding genes.
  Genome research 2009 Nielsen R, Hubisz MJ, Hellmann I, Torgerson D, Andrés AM, Albrechtsen A, Gutenkunst R, Adams MD, Cargill M, Boyko A, Indap A, Bustamante CD, Clark AG
• Collaborative care for depression in UK primary care: a randomized controlled trial.
  Psychological medicine 2007 Richards DA, Lovell K, Gilbody S, Gask L, Torgerson D, Barkham M, Bland M, Bower P, Lankshear AJ, Simpson A, Fletcher J, Escott D, Hennessy S, Richardson R
• Enhanced adaptive evolution of sperm-expressed genes on the mammalian X chromosome.
  Heredity 2006 Torgerson DG, Singh RS
• Sex-specific functional specialization and the evolutionary rates of essential fertility genes.
  Journal of molecular evolution 2005 Torgerson DG, Whitty BR, Singh RS
• Rapid evolution through gene duplication and subfunctionalization of the testes-specific alpha4 proteasome subunits in Drosophila.
  Genetics 2004 Torgerson DG, Singh RS
• A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention for GPs in the assessment and management of depression.
  Psychological medicine 2004 Gask L, Dowrick C, Dixon C, Sutton C, Perry R, Torgerson D, Usherwood T
• Genetic relationships among some species groups within the genus Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae).
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2003 Torgerson DG, Lampo M, Velázquez Y, Woo PT
• Sex-linked mammalian sperm proteins evolve faster than autosomal ones.
  Molecular biology and evolution 2003 Torgerson DG, Singh RS
• Occurrence of sibling species of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Venezuela: first evidence from reproductively isolated sympatric populations.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1999 Lampo M, Torgerson D, Márquez LM, Rinaldi M, García CZ, Arab A
• Randomised controlled trial of exercise for low back pain: clinical outcomes, costs, and preferences.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1999 Moffett JK, Torgerson D, Bell-Syer S, Jackson D, Llewlyn-Phillips H, Farrin A, Barber J
• Confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness ratios: the use of 'bootstrapping'.
  Journal of health services research & policy 1997 Campbell M, Torgerson D
• Unequal randomisation can improve the economic efficiency of clinical trials.
  Journal of health services research & policy 1997 Torgerson D, Campbell M
• Calcium, vitamin D, and hip fractures. Vitamin D alone may be helpful.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1994 Torgerson D, Campbell M