Arthur Berg, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Arthur Berg, PhD
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Surgery
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Professor, Statistics
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Surgery
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Professor, Statistics
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
Research Interests
Dr. Arthur Berg frequently engages in collaborative research relating to all forms of biostatistics and bioinformatics analyses. He has utilized numerous software tools to perform diverse types of statistical analyses, and he has developed many computational tools of his own.
In addition to his computational strengths, Dr. Berg has also written a number of methodological papers in biostatistics, statistics and statistical genetics.
During his time at Penn State, Dr. Berg has participated in several successful collaborations with faculty, postdocs and students that has involved biostatistical expertise.
- Genes
- Neoplasms
- Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
- Crohn Disease
- Population
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Gene Expression
- Mutation
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Alleles
- Haplotypes
Recent Publications
2024
Farkas, GJ, Cunningham, PM, Sneij, AM, Hayes, JE, Nash, MS, Berg, AS, Gater, DR & Rolls, BJ 2024, 'Reasons for meal termination, eating frequency, and typical meal context differ between persons with and without a spinal cord injury', Appetite, vol. 192, 107110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107110
2023
Darby, A, Parascando, JA, Lipinski, M, Lipinski, C, Mendez-Miller, M, Berg, A, Rabago, D & Oser, TK 2023, 'Awareness and interest in osteopathic manipulative treatment in allopathic medical students', Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, vol. 123, no. 8, pp. 379-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/jom-2022-0232
Tom, CM, Mankarious, MM, Jeganathan, NA, Deutsch, M, Koltun, WA, Berg, AS & Scow, JS 2023, 'Characteristics and Outcomes of Right- Versus Left-Sided Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer', Diseases of the colon and rectum, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 498-510. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000002273
Karpa, K, Ward, J, Stegman, M, Berg, A & Leong, SL 2023, 'IPEx: A gamification tool for learner application of pharmacologic principles of opioid use, misuse, and addiction', Pharmacology Research and Perspectives, vol. 11, no. 5, e01141. https://doi.org/10.1002/prp2.1141
Larsen, M, He, F, Kawasawa, YI, Berg, A, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, D, Bixler, EO & Fernandez-Mendoza, J 2023, 'Objective and subjective measures of sleep initiation are differentially associated with DNA methylation in adolescents', Clinical Epigenetics, vol. 15, no. 1, 136. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-023-01553-2
Mankarious, MM, Hughes, AJ, Berg, AS, Scow, JS, Jeganathan, AN, Kulaylat, AS & Deutsch, MJ 2023, 'Survival outcomes of anal adenocarcinoma versus rectal adenocarcinoma: A retrospective cohort study', Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 694-700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-023-01394-0
Walser, SA, Costigan, H, Stuckey, HL, Berg, A & Stephens, MB 2023, 'The Opaque Language of Sexuality: Medical Students’ and Providers’ Beliefs About Virginity', Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 2619-2638. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02578-7
Farkas, GJ, Berg, AS, Sneij, A, Dolbow, DR & Gorgey, AS 2024, 'The comparison of total energy and protein intake relative to estimated requirements in chronic spinal cord injury', British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 131, no. 3, pp. 489-499. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114523002088
Wang, H, Berger, KN, Miller, EL, Fu, W, Broglie, L, Goldman, FD, Konig, H, Lim, SJ, Berg, AS, Talano, JA, Comito, MA, Farag, SS & Pu, JJ 2023, 'The impacts of total body irradiation on umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cell transplantation', Therapeutic Advances in Hematology, vol. 14. https://doi.org/10.1177/20406207231170708
Satriale, F, Garman, JC, Roy, S, Parascando, J, Berg, A & Oser, T 2023, 'Understanding Nutritional Knowledge and Experiences in Families With a Child Newly Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes', Diabetes Spectrum, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 52-58. https://doi.org/10.2337/ds22-0009
2022
Riley, TD, Radico, JA, Parascando, J, Berg, A & Oser, TK 2022, 'Challenges in Effective Faculty and Provider Recognition to Enhance Engagement', Family medicine, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 461-465. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2022.324428
Schlegel, D, Heron, C, Berg, A, Parascando, J & Silvis, M 2022, 'Diagnoses per Encounter by Telephone, Televideo, and In-Office Visits', Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 491-496. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2022.03.210451
Hawila, N & Berg, A 2023, 'Exact-corrected confidence interval for risk difference in noninferiority binomial trials', Biometrics, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 1133-1144. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13688
Dolbow, DR, Farkas, GJ, Berg, AS, Welsch, MA, Gorgey, AS & Gater, DR 2022, 'Fat to lean mass ratio in spinal cord injury: Possible interplay of components of body composition that may instigate systemic inflammation and metabolic syndrome', Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 833-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2022.2111900
Dinavahi, SS, Chen, YC, Gowda, R, Dhanyamraju, PK, Punnath, K, Desai, D, Berg, A, Kimball, SR, Amin, S, Yang, JM & Robertson, GP 2022, 'Targeting Protein Translation in Melanoma by Inhibiting EEF-2 Kinase Regulates Cholesterol Metabolism though SREBP2 to Inhibit Tumour Development', International journal of molecular sciences, vol. 23, no. 7, 3481. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23073481
Dinavahi, SS, Chen, YC, Punnath, K, Berg, A, Herlyn, M, Foroutan, M, Huntington, ND & Robertson, GP 2022, 'Targeting WEE1/AKT Restores p53-Dependent Natural Killer–Cell Activation to Induce Immune Checkpoint Blockade Responses in “Cold” Melanoma', Cancer Immunology Research, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 757-769. https://doi.org/10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-21-0587
2021
Chen, YC, Dinavahi, SS, Feng, Q, Gowda, R, Ramisetti, S, Xia, X, LaPenna, KB, Chirasani, VR, Cho, SH, Hafenstein, SL, Battu, MB, Berg, A, Sharma, AK, Kirchhausen, T, Dokholyan, NV, Amin, S, He, P & Robertson, GP 2021, 'Activating Sphingosine-1-phospahte signaling in endothelial cells increases myosin light chain phosphorylation to decrease endothelial permeability thereby inhibiting cancer metastasis', Cancer Letters, vol. 506, pp. 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2021.01.004
Farkas, GJ, Swartz, AM, Gorgey, AS, Berg, AS & Gater, DR 2022, 'Acute exercise improves glucose effectiveness but not insulin sensitivity in paraplegia', Disability and Rehabilitation, vol. 44, no. 17, pp. 4656-4662. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2021.1913517
Hawila, N & Berg, A 2021, 'Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on registered interventional clinical trials', Clinical and Translational Science, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1147-1154. https://doi.org/10.1111/cts.13034
Berg, A 2021, 'Bayesian explorations with dice', Teaching Statistics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 114-123. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12271
Gater, DR, Farkas, GJ, Dolbow, DR, Berg, A & Gorgey, AS 2021, 'Body Composition and Metabolic Assessment after Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injury: Development of a Clinically Relevant Equation to Estimate Body Fat', Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 11-22. https://doi.org/10.46292/sci20-00079
Kline, BP, Yochum, GS, Brinton, DL, Schieffer, KM, Weaver, T, Harris, L, Deiling, S, Berg, AS & Koltun, WA 2021, 'COLQ and ARHGAP15 are associated with diverticular disease and are expressed in the colon', Journal of Surgical Research, vol. 267, pp. 397-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.05.043
Lafferty, L, Wawrzyniak, J, Chambers, M, Pagliarulo, T, Berg, A, Hawila, N & Silvis, M 2022, 'Clinical Indoor Running Gait Analysis May Not Approximate Outdoor Running Gait Based on Novel Drone Technology', Sports Health, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 710-716. https://doi.org/10.1177/19417381211050931
Kline, BP, Weaver, T, Brinton, DL, Harris, L, Yochum, GS, Berg, AS & Koltun, WA 2021, 'Clinical and Genetic Factors Impact Time to Surgical Recurrence After Ileocolectomy for Crohn's Disease', Annals of surgery, vol. 274, no. 2, pp. 346-351. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000003660
Farkas, GJ, Gordon, PS, Trewick, N, Gorgey, AS, Dolbow, DR, Tiozzo, E, Berg, AS & Gater, DR 2021, 'Comparison of various indices in identifying insulin resistance and diabetes in chronic spinal cord injury', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 10, no. 23, 5591. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10235591
Berg, A 2021, 'Concursos de modelos bayesianos para el salón de clases', Revista Colombiana de Estadistica, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 243-252. https://doi.org/10.15446/rce.v44n2.89102
Golla, U, Ehudin, MA, Annageldiyev, C, Zeng, Z, Bastihalli Tukaramrao, D, Tarren, A, Date, AA, Elcheva, I, Berg, A, Amin, S, Loughran, TP, Kester, M, Desai, D, Dovat, S, Claxton, D & Sharma, A 2021, 'Dj4 targets the rho-associated protein kinase pathway and attenuates disease progression in preclinical murine models of acute myeloid leukemia', Cancers, vol. 13, no. 19, 4889. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers13194889
Farkas, GJ, Gorgey, AS, Dolbow, DR, Berg, AS & Gater, DR 2021, 'Energy Expenditure, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Body Composition Following Arm Cycling or Functional Electrical Stimulation Exercises in Spinal Cord Injury: A 16-Week Randomized Controlled Trial', Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 121-134. https://doi.org/10.46292/sci20-00065
Batra, EK, Palusci, VJ & Berg, A 2022, 'Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment Fatality among Young Children with an Open Child Protective Services Case at Death', Child Abuse Review, vol. 31, no. 2, CAR2734. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2734
Radico, J, Oser, T, Fausnight, T, Berg, A, Ouyang, A & Leong, SL 2021, 'Factors that Influence Work Family Conflict for Women Faculty [version 1]', MedEd Publish. https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2021.000063.1
Veldheer, S, Scartozzi, C, Bordner, CR, Opara, C, Williams, B, Weaver, L, Rodriguez, D, Berg, A & Sciamanna, C 2021, 'Impact of a Prescription Produce Program on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Outcomes', Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1008-1017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2021.07.005
Raca, G, Abdel-Azim, H, Yue, F, Broach, J, Payne, JL, Reeves, ME, Gowda, C, Schramm, J, Desai, D, Dovat, E, Hu, T, Berg, AS, Bhojwani, D, Payne, KJ & Dovat, S 2021, 'Increased Incidence of IKZF1 deletions and IGH-CRLF2 translocations in B-ALL of Hispanic/Latino children—a novel health disparity', Leukemia, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 2399-2402. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-021-01133-4
GWAS and Sequencing Consortium of Alcohol and Nicotine Use (GSCAN) 2021, 'Model-based assessment of replicability for genome-wide association meta-analysis', Nature communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 1964. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21226-z
Partin, M, Sanchez, A, Poulson, J, Berg, A, Parascando, J & Ramirez, SI 2021, 'Social inequities between prenatal patients in family medicine and obstetrics and gynecology with similar outcomes', Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 181-188. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200279
Berg, A & Hawila, N 2021, 'Some teaching resources using R with illustrative examples exploring COVID-19 data', Teaching Statistics, vol. 43, no. S1, pp. S98-S109. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12258
2020
Liao, JG, Berg, A & McMurry, TL 2021, 'A Robustified Posterior for Bayesian Inference on a Large Number of Parallel Effects', American Statistician, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 145-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2019.1701549
Berg, A 2020, 'Assessing the Impact of the NIH CTSA Program on Clinical Trials Registered With ClinicalTrials.gov', Clinical and Translational Science, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 818-825. https://doi.org/10.1111/cts.12775
Berg, A 2020, 'Bayesian statistics in the classroom: Introducing shrinkage with basketball statistics and the internet movie database', Teaching Statistics, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12220
Kline, BP, Weaver, T, Brinton, DL, Deiling, S, Yochum, GS, Berg, AS & Koltun, WA 2020, 'Clinical and Genetic Factors Associated With Complications After Crohn's Ileocolectomy', Diseases of the colon and rectum, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 357-364. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000001574
Liao, JG, Midya, V & Berg, A 2021, 'Connecting and Contrasting the Bayes Factor and a Modified ROPE Procedure for Testing Interval Null Hypotheses', American Statistician, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2019.1701550
Dinavahi, SS, Gowda, R, Gowda, K, Bazewicz, CG, Chirasani, VR, Battu, MB, Berg, A, Dokholyan, NV, Amin, S & Robertson, GP 2020, 'Development of a Novel Multi-Isoform ALDH Inhibitor Effective as an Antimelanoma Agent', Molecular cancer therapeutics, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 447-459. https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-19-0360
Noel, OF, Berg, A, Onyango, N & MacKay, DR 2020, 'Ethnic and Gender Diversity Comparison between Surgical Patients and Caring Surgeons', Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. E3198. https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000003198
Riley, TD, Curry, WJ, Beck, MJ, Berg, A & Ruffin, MT 2020, 'Feasibility of nonanonymous burnout surveys in a large academic department', Family medicine, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 278-281. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2020.471855
Farkas, GJ, Gordon, PS, Swartz, AM, Berg, AS & Gater, DR 2020, 'Influence of mid and low paraplegia on cardiorespiratory fitness and energy expenditure', Spinal cord series and cases, vol. 6, no. 1, 110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41394-020-00363-5
Liu, R, Onks, C, Petscavage-Thomas, J, Walker, E, Berg, A, Silvis, M & Dhawan, A 2021, 'Prevalence of shoulder labral abnormalities on MRI in a non-athletic asymptomatic young adult population', Skeletal Radiology, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 921-925. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-020-03629-z
Berg, A 2021, 'Statistical Analysis of the International Mathematical Olympiad', Mathematical Intelligencer, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 105-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-10015-z