Diptasri Mandal, PhD

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	Diptasri Mandal, PhD Associate Professor of Genetics 533 Bolivar Street New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: (504) 568- 6156 Fax: (504) 568-8500 dmanda@lsuhsc.edu Genetic Studies of Prostate Cancer African American Family Study General Population Family Study
Degrees	BSc Zoology - 1984 Calcutta University, Calcutta, India MSc Zoology with specialization in Entomology - 1986 Burdwan University, Burdwan, India MS Biology - 1991 University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA PhD Human Genetics, Biometry minor - 1996 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Bio	Dr. Diptasri M. Mandal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. She received her PhD. in Human Genetics from the Department of Biometry and Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center in 1996. She joined the Department of Medicine in 1997, and in June 2000 moved to the Department of Genetics. The major focus of her research is genetic studies of complex human traits and diseases, especially cancer. Studies are underway to identify disease susceptible loci for hereditary prostate cancer and lung cancer using linkage and association analyses. She has ongoing collaborations to identify disease susceptible loci of endometriosis in Puerto Rico. Her research also includes methodological studies of genetic analysis of complex traits using computer simulations to evaluate the performance of various linkage methods under realistic situations.
Research Interests	Genetic studies of complex traits/diseases such as prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and endometriosis Statistical genetic analysis methods through computer simulation
Teaching Activities	Genetic Epidemiology Population Genetics
Selected Publications	Liu P, Vikis HG, Wang D, Lu Y, Wang Y, Schwartz AG, Pinney SM, Yang P, de Andrade M, Petersen GM, Wiest JS, Fain PR, Gazdar A, Gaba C, Rothschild H, Mandal D.M., Coons T, Lee J, Kupert E, Seminara D, Minna J, Bailey-Wilson JE, Wu X, Spitz MR, Eisen T, Houlston RS, Amos CI, Anderson MW, You M. Familial aggregation of common sequence variants on 15q24-25.1 in lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008. 100:1326-30. M. You, D. Wang, P. Liu, H. Vikis, M. James, Y. Lu, Y. Wang, M. Wang, D. Jia, Y. Liu, L.J. Bierut, P. Yang, Z. Sun, Y. Wu, W. Zheng, X. Shu, J. Long, Y. Gao, Y. Xiang, W. Chow, N. Rothman, S.M. Pinney, G.M. Petersen, M. de Andrade, J.S. Wiest, P.R. Fain, A.G. Schwartz, A. Gazdar, C. Gaba, H. Rothschild, D. M. Mandal , J. Lee, E. Kupert, D. Seminara, J. Minna, J.E. Bailey-Wilson, C. I. Amos, and M.W. Anderson. RGS17 is a candidate for the lung cancer susceptibility locus on chromosome 6q23-25. Clinical Cancer Research.2009. 15:2666-74. D. M. Mandal, O. Sartor, S.L. Halton, D.E. Mercante, J.E. Bailey-Wilson, W. Rayford. Identification of Prostate Cancer Cases in Louisiana and a Comparison of Prostate Cancer Specific Clinical Data on African-American and Caucasian Males with and without Family History. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 2008. 11:274-279. D. M. Mandal, A.J.M. Sorant, L.D. Atwood, A.F. Wilson, J.E. Bailey-Wilson. Allele Frequency Misspecification: Effect on Power and Type I Error of Model-dependent Linkage Analysis of Quantitative Traits under Random Ascertainment. BMC Genetics. 2006. 7:21.
Additional Info	Diptasri Mandal, PhD, Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor of Genetics