Miriam Gjerdevik
forsker, MSc, PhD
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Som statistiker spenner forskningen min bredt. Jeg liker svært godt å fordype meg i statistisk metodeutvikling og å utvikle statistisk programvare, særlig i programmeringsspråket R. Jeg har programmert flere funksjoner i R-pakken Haplin, som er et statistisk verktøy for genetisk assosiasjonsanalyse, særlig utviklet med tanke på å utnytte familiestruktur i data. Problemstillingene jeg forsker på er hovedsakelig knyttet til genetisk epidemiologi og medisin, samt anvendelser av disse metodene og dataanalyse innen registerstudier, biobankdata og befolkningsstudier. I tillegg liker jeg å jobbe med mer anvendte problemstillinger på tvers av ulike forskningsdisipliner, som for eksempel fruktbarhet og helse og lungesykdommer. Jeg liker godt å undervise i statistikk, og i 2020 vant jeg, sammen med gode kolleger, undervisningspris på Det medisinske fakultetet ved UiB. Min hovedstilling er som førsteamanuensis ved Høgskulen på Vestlandet.
Prosjekter og publikasjoner
- Maria Christine Magnus, Karoline Hansen Skåra, Ellen Øen Carlsen, Miriam Gjerdevik, Cecilia H. Ramlau-Hansen, Mikko Myrskylä, Liv Bente Bergem Romundstad, Siri Eldevik Håberg, (2025). Use of assisted reproductive technologies for male and female infertility and perinatal outcomes. Fertility and Sterility s. 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2025.02.013
- Siri Nærland Skodvin, Håkon Kristian Gjessing, Astanand Jugessur, Julia Romanowska, Christian Magnus Page, Elizabeth Claire Corfield, Yunsung Lee, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Miriam Gjerdevik, (2023). Statistical methods to detect mother-father genetic interaction effects on risk of infertility: A genome-wide approach. Genetic Epidemiology s. 503-519. doi: 10.1002/gepi.22534
- Julia Romanowska, Haakon Egdetveit Nustad, Christian Magnus Page, William Robert Paul Denault, Yunsung Lee, Maria Christine Magnus, Kristine Løkås Haftorn, Miriam Gjerdevik, Boris Novakovic, Richard Saffery, Håkon K. Gjessing, Robert Lyle, Per Minor Magnus, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Astanand Jugessur, (2023). The X-factor in ART: does the use of assisted reproductive technologies influence DNA methylation on the X chromosome?. Human Genomics doi: 10.1186/s40246-023-00484-6
- Julia Romanowska, Haakon Nustad, Christian Magnus Page, William Robert Paul Denault, Jon Bohlin, Yunsung Lee, maria magnus, Kristine Løkås Haftorn, Miriam Gjerdevik, Boris Novakovic, Richard Saffrey, Håkon Gjessing, Robert Lyle, Per Magnus, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Astanand Jugessur, (2022). The X-factor in ART: does the use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies influence DNA methylation on the X chromosome?. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.10.06.510603
- Miriam Gjerdevik, Rolv T. Lie, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Erik Berg, Kristin Judith Billaud Feragen, Åse Sivertsen, (2021). Isolated oral clefts and school grades: population-based cohort study from Norway. BMJ Open doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046944
- Ane Aamli Gagnat, Miriam Gjerdevik, Stein Atle Lie, Amund Gulsvik, Per S. Bakke, Rune Nielsen, (2020). Acute exacerbations of COPD and risk of lung cancer in COPD patients with and without a history of asthma. European Clinical Respiratory Journal s. 1-9. doi: 10.1080/20018525.2020.1799540
- Miriam Gjerdevik, Håkon K. Gjessing, Julia Romanowska, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Astanand Jugessur, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Rolv T. Lie, (2020). Design efficiency in genetic association studies. Statistics in Medicine s. 1292-1310. doi: 10.1002/sim.8476
- Julia Romanowska, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Astanand Jugessur, Miriam Gjerdevik, Zongli Xu, Jack Taylor, Allen J. Wilcox, Inge Jonassen, Rolv T. Lie, Håkon K. Gjessing, (2020). Gene-methylation interactions: Discovering region-wise DNA methylation levels that modify SNP-associated disease risk. Clinical Epigenetics doi: 10.1186/s13148-020-00881-x
- Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Julia Romanowska, Miriam Gjerdevik, Rolv T. Lie, Håkon K. Gjessing, Astanand Jugessur, (2019). A genome-wide scan of cleft lip triads identifies parent-of-origin interaction effects between ANK3 and maternal smoking, and between ARHGEF10 and alcohol consumption. F1000 Research doi: 10.12688/f1000research.19571.2
- Ane Aamli Gagnat, Amund Gulsvik, Per S. Bakke, Miriam Gjerdevik, (2019). Comparison of two lung cancer screening scores among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A community study. Clinical Respiratory Journal s. 114-119. doi: 10.1111/crj.12988
- Miriam Gjerdevik, Astanand Jugessur, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Julia Romanowska, Rolv T. Lie, Heather J. Cordell, Håkon K. Gjessing, (2019). Haplin power analysis: a software module for power and sample size calculations in genetic association analyses of family triads and unrelated controls. BMC Bioinformatics doi: 10.1186/s12859-019-2727-3
- Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Rolv T. Lie, Julia Romanowska, Miriam Gjerdevik, Håkon K. Gjessing, Astanand Jugessur, (2018). A genome-wide search for gene-environment effects in isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate triads points to an interaction between maternal periconceptional vitamin use and variants in ESRRG. Frontiers in Genetics doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00060
- Øivind Skare, Rolv T. Lie, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Miriam Gjerdevik, Julia Romanowska, Håkon K. Gjessing, Astanand Jugessur, (2018). Analysis of parent-of-origin effects on the X chromosome in asian and european orofacial cleft triads identifies associations with DMD, FGF13, EGFL6, and additional loci at Xp22.2. Frontiers in Genetics doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00025
- Miriam Gjerdevik, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Julia Romanowska, Rolv T. Lie, Astanand Jugessur, Håkon K. Gjessing, (2017). Parent-of-origin-environment interactions in case-parent triads with or without independent controls. Annals of Human Genetics s. 60-73. doi: 10.1111/ahg.12224
- Andreas Thelle, Miriam Gjerdevik, Malcolm Sue-Chu, Ole Magnus Hagen, Per S. Bakke, (2017). Randomised comparison of needle aspiration and chest tube drainage in spontaneous pneumothorax. European Respiratory Journal s. 1-9. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01296-2016
- Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Astanand Jugessur, Miriam Gjerdevik, Julia Romanowska, Min Shi, Terri H. Beaty, Mary L. Marazita, Jeffrey C. Murray, Allen J. Wilcox, Rolv T. Lie, Håkon K. Gjessing, (2017). Genome-wide analysis of parent-of-origin interaction effects with environmental exposure (PoOxE): An application to European and Asian cleft palate trios. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184358
- L M Moreno Uribe, Tatiana Fomina, R G Munger, P A Romitti, M M Jenkins, Håkon K. Gjessing, Miriam Gjerdevik, Kaare Christensen, Allen James Wilcox, Jeffrey C. Murray, Rolv T. Lie, G L Wehby, (2017). A Population-Based Study of Effects of Genetic Loci on Orofacial Clefts. Journal of Dental Research s. 1322-1329. doi: 10.1177/0022034517716914
- Øivind Skare, Håkon K. Gjessing, Miriam Gjerdevik, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Julia Romanowska, Rolv T. Lie, Astanand Jugessur, (2017). A new approach to chromosome-wide analysis of X-linked markers identifies new associations in Asian and European case-parent triads of orofacial clefts. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183772
- Ane Aamli Gagnat, Miriam Gjerdevik, Frode Gallefoss, Harvey O. Coxson, Amund Gulsvik, Per S. Bakke, (2017). Incidence of non-pulmonary cancer and lung cancer by amount of emphysema and airway wall thickness: A community-based cohort. European Respiratory Journal s. 1-8. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01162-2016
- Miriam Gjerdevik, Thomas Blix Grydeland, George R. Washko, Harvey O. Coxson, Edwin K. Silverman, Amund Gulsvik, Per S. Bakke, (2015). The relationship of educational attainment with pulmonary emphysema and airway wall thickness. Annals of the American Thoracic Society s. 813-820. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201410-485OC
- Andreas Thelle, Miriam Gjerdevik, Thomas Blix Grydeland, Trude Duelien Skorge, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Per S. Bakke, (2015). Pneumothorax size measurements on digital chest radiographs: Intra- and inter- rater reliability. European Journal of Radiology s. 2038-2043. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2015.07.003
- Miriam Gjerdevik, Ivar Heuch, (2014). Improving the error rates of the Begg and Mazumdar test for publication bias in fixed effects meta-analysis. BMC Medical Research Methodology doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-109
- Håkon Gjessing, Miriam Gjerdevik, Astanand Jugessur, Julia Romanowska, (2023). Family-based methods to identify genes implicated in infertility and fetal viability.
- Siri Nærland Skodvin, Håkon Gjessing, Miriam Gjerdevik, Astanand Jugessur, Julia Romanowska, (2023). Family-based methods to identify genes implicated in infertility and fetal viability.
- Yunsung Lee, Miriam Gjerdevik, Astanand Jugessur, Håkon Kristian Gjessing, Elizabeth Claire Corfield, Alexandra Havdahl, Jennifer Ruth Harris, Maria Christine Magnus, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Per Minor Magnus, (2023). Parent-of-origin effects on childhood asthma.
- Håkon Kristian Gjessing, Miriam Gjerdevik, Julia Romanowska, Astanand Jugessur, (2023). Family-based methods to identify genes implicated in infertility and fetal viability.
- Dinka Smajlagic, Stella Tsotsi, Miriam Gjerdevik, Christian Magnus Page, Tetyana Zayats, Chloe Austerberry, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Robert Lyle, Per Minor Magnus, Håkon K. Gjessing, Elizabeth Claire Corfield, Alexandra Havdahl, Ole Andreassen, Mona Bekkhus, (2022). Parent-of-origin effects in childhood aggression.