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Kepher H. Makambi’s Publications
Kepher H. Makambi’s Publications
Sheppard VB, Cavalli LR, Dash C, Kanaan YM, Dilawari AA, Horton S, Makambi KH . Correlates of Triple Negative Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy Patterns in Black and White Women With Breast Cancer. Clin Breast Cancer; 2017 Wang JHY, Ma GX, Liang W, Tan Y, Makambi KH , Dong R, Vernon SW, Tu SP, Mandelblatt JS. Physician Intervention and Chinese Americans’ Colorectal Cancer Screening. American Journal of Health Behavior; 2017 (doi: 10.5993/AJHB.42.1.2) Ghosh S, Loffredo CA, Mitra, PS, Trnovec T, Murinova LP, Sovcikova E, Hoffman EP, Makambi KH , Dutta SK. PCBs exposure and potential future cancer incidence in Slovak children: An assessment from molecular finger printing by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA®) derived from experimental and epidemiological investigations ψ . Environmental Science and Pollution Research; 2017 (doi: 10.1007/s11356-017-0149-12017) Jaehong Jeong, Tammey Naab, Martin Ongkeko, Kepher Makambi , Farhan A. Khan, Jan Blancato. Significant DLX4 expression in inflammatory breast cancer tumors from African American patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 737 (doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-737) Oppong BA, Dash C, O’Neill S, Li Y, Makambi KH , Pien E, Markariou E, Coleman T, Adams-Campbell LL. Breast density in multi-ethnic women presenting for screening mammography. To Appear: The Breast Journal; 2017 Firl KC, King JS, Makambi KH , Loffredo CA. Changes in the diagnosis of congenital cardiovascular malformations during the 1st year of life: impacts on epidemiological risk factor associations. Cardiology in the Young 27(4):770-781; 2017 Taylor TR, Barrow J, Makambi K , Sheppard V, Wallington SF, Martin C, Greene D, Yeruva SLH, Horton S. A restorative yoga intervention for African-American breast cancer survivors: a pilot study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities; 2017 (doi: 10.1007/s40615-017-0342-4) Urge WB, Makambi KH , Wanjoya A. Estimating three-way latent interaction effects in structural equation modeling. International Journal of Statistics and Analysis (IJSA) 5(6):73-84; 2016 Sugita B, Gill M, Mahajan A, Duttargi A, Kirolikar S, Almeida R, Regis K, Oluwasanmi OL, Marchi F, Marian C, Makambi K , Kallakury B, Sheahan L, Cavalli IJ, Ribeiro EM, Madhavan M, Boca B, Gusev Y, Cavalli LR. Differentially expressed miRNAs in triple negative breast cancer between African-American and non-Hispanic white women. Oncotarget; 2016 Sanda M, Benicky J, Wu J, Wang Y, Makambi K , Ahn J, Smith CI, Zhao P, Zhang L, Goldman R. Increased sialylation of site specific O-glycoforms of hemopexin in liver disease. Clinical Proteomics 13:24; 2016 (DOI 10.1186/s12014-016-9125-x)
Snead FE, Oppong BA, Xu H, Makambi K , Elian T, Sheppard VB. Narrowing racial gaps in breast cancer: Factors impacting probability of adjuvant radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 96(2S):S36; 2016 (doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.06.099) Flowers S, Zhou X, Wu J, Wang Y, Makambi KH , Kallakury BV, Singer MS, Rosen SD, Davidson B, Goldman R. Expression of the extracellular sulfatase SULF2 is associated with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Oncotarget 7(28):43177-43187; 2016 Teletia R. Taylor, Alana Mohammed, Jules P. Harrell, Kepher H. Makambi , Alfonso Campbell, Lloyd R. Sloan. An examination of self-rated health among African-American men. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities; 2016 (DOI: 10.1007/s40615-016-0243-y) Sheppard VB, Hurtado-de-Mendoza A, Talley CH, Zhang Y, Cabling ML, Makambi KH . Reducing racial disparities in breast cancer survivors’ ratings of quality cancer care: The Enduring impact of trust. Journal for Healthcare Quality 38:143-163; 2016 Trout KK, Homko CJ, Wetzel-Effinger L, Mulla W, Mora R, McGrath J, Basel-Brown L, Arcamone A, Sami P, Makambi KH . Macronutrient composition or social determinants? Impact on infant outcomes with gestational diabetes mellitus (GD). Diabetes Spectrum 29:71-78; 2016 Loffredo CA, Tang Y, Momen M, Makambi KH , Radwan GN, Aboul-Foutoh A. PM2.5 as a marker of exposure to tobacco smoke and other sources of particulate matter in Cairo, Egypt. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 20(3):417-422; 2016 Mohammed A, Harrell JP, Makambi KH , Campbell AL, Sloan LR, Carter-Nolan PL, Taylor TR. Factors associated with exercise motivation among African American men. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 3(3)457-465; 2016 (DOI: 10.1007/s40615-015-0158-z) Adams-Campbell LL, Dash C, Kim BH, Hicks J, Makambi K , Hagberg J. Cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal Black women. Int. J. Sports Med. 37(04):261-266; 2016 Dash C, Randolph-Jackson PD, Isaacs C, Mills M, Makambi K , Watkins VV, Adams Campbell LL. An exercise trial to reduce cancer related fatigue in African American breast cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy: Design, rationale, and methods. Contemp Clin Trials 47:153-157; 2016 Sheppard VB, Hicks J, Makambi K , Hurtado-de-Mendoza A, Demark-Wahnefried W, AdamsCampbell L. The Feasibility and Acceptability of a Diet and Exercise Trial in Overweight and Obese Black Breast Cancer Survivors: The Stepping STONE Study. Contemporary Clinical Trials 46:106-113; 2016 Korba B, Shetty K, Medvedev A, Viswanathan P, Varghese R, Zhou B, Roy R, Makambi KH , Ressom H, Loffredo C. Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1a Core Gene Nucleotide Patterns Associated with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk. Journal of General Virology 96:2928–2937; 2015 (PMID:26296571) Llanos AA, Marian C, Brasky TM, Dumitrescu RG, Liu Z, Mason JB, Makambi KH , Spear SL, Kallakury BV, Freudenheim JL, Shields PG. Associations between genetic variation in onecarbon metabolism and LINE-1 DNA methylation in histologically normal breast tissues. Epigenetics; 2015 (PMID:26090795) Oppong BA, Makambi K , Shi Y, Sheppard V, Willey S, Adams-Campbell L. Stage of presentation at initial breast cancer diagnosis: Does race remain a factor? The Breast Cancer Journal 21:445-446; 2015 (PMID:25958889) Dash C, Makambi K , Wallington SF, Sheppard V, Taylor TR, Hicks JS, Adams-Campbell LL. An exercise trial targeting African-American women with metabolic syndrome and at high risk for breast cancer: Rationale, Design, and Methods. Contemporary Clinical Trials 43:33-38; 2015 (PMID:25962889) Sun B, Wang Y, Kota KK, Shi Y, Motlak S, Makambi KH , Loffredo CA, Shields PG, Yang Q, Harris CC, Zheng YL. Telomere length variation: A potential new biomarkers for lung cancer risk. Lung Cancer 88:297-303; 2015 Kim BH, Wallington SF, Makambi KH , Adams-Campbell LL. Social networks and physical activity behaviors among cancer survivors: Data from the 2005 Health Information National Trends Survey. Journal of Health Communications 20:656-662; 2015 Sheppard VB, Oppong BA, Hampton R, Snead F, Horton S, Hirpa F, Brathwaite EJ, Makambi K , Onyewu S, Boisvert M, Willey S. Disparities in breast cancer surgery delay: the lingering effect of race. Annals of Surgical Oncology 22(9):2902-2911; 2015. DOI 10.1245/s10434-015-4397-3 Makambi KH , Seung H. A non-iterative extension of the multivariate random effects metaanalysis. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 25:109-123; 2015. PMID:24835926Llanos AA, Dumitrescu,RG, Brasky TM, Liu Z, Mason JB, Marian C, Makambi KH , Spear SL, Kallakury BVS, Freudenheim JL, Shields PG. Relationships between folate concentration, alcohol consumption, gene variants in one-carbon metabolism, and p16INK4a methylation and expression in healthy breast tissues . Carcinogenesis; 2014. PMID:25344837 Chung SH, Makambi KH , Soldin OP. Tobacco Smoke Exposure, C-reactive Protein and Steroid Hormones Measured by Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Healthy Women. J Steroids Horm Sci 5:147; 2014. doi:10.4172/2157-7536.1000147 Llanos AA, Dumitrescu,RG, Brasky TM, Liu Z, Mason JB, Marian C, Makambi KH , Spear SL, Kallakury BVS, Freudenheim JL, Shields PG. Genetic variation in adipokine genes and associations with adiponectin and leptin concentrations in plasma and breast tissues . Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 23(8):1559-68; 2014. PMID:24825736 Makambi KH , Seung H. A non-iterative extension of the multivariate random effects meta-analysis. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
; 2014. PMID:24835926.Yuan A, Wei Y, Makambi K , Wang H. Approximate Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Interval Censoring Model Case II. International Journal of Statistics and Probability 3(3); 2014 Blancato J, Graves A, Rashidi B, Moroni M, Tchobe L, Ozdemirli M, Kallakury B, Makambi KH , Marian C, Mueller SC. SYK allelic loss and the role of Syk-regulated genes in breast cancer survival . PLoS ONE 9(2): e87610. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087610; 2014 Sheppard VB, Harper FWK, Davis K, Hirpa F, Makambi KH . The importance of contextual factors and age in association with anxiety and depression in Black breast cancer patients . Psycho-Oncology 23:143-150; 2013 Boggs AD, Rosenberg L, Coogan PF, Makambi KH , Adams-Campbell LL, Palmer, JR. Restaurant foods, sugar-sweetened soft drinks, and obesity risk among young African American women . Ethnicity & Disease 23(4):445-51; 2013 Makambi KH . On some procedures based on Fisher’s inverse chi-square statistic . Applied Mathematics 4:1109-1114; 2013Elston E, Goldstein M, Makambi KH . Item response theory analysis of the outpatient physical therapy improvement in movement assessment log (OPTIMAL) . Physical Therapy 93(5):661-671; 2013. Sanda M, Pompach P, Brnakova Z, Wu J, Makambi KH , Goldman R. Quantitative liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-multiple reaction monitoring (LC-MS-MRM) analysis of site-specific glycoforms of haptoglobin in liver disease . Mol Cell Proteomics 12(5):1294-305; 2013. Makambi KH . Extended tests for non-zero between-study variance . Journal of Applied Statistics 40(7):1494-1505; 2013.Llanos AA, Brasky TM, Dumitrescu RG, Marian C, Makambi KH , Kallakury BVS, Spear SL, Perry PJ, Convit RJ, Platek ME, Adams-Campbell LL, Freudenheim JL, Shields PG. Plasma IGF-1 and IGF-3 may be imprecise surrogates for breast concentrations: an analysis of healthy women . Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 138(2):571-579; 2013. Makambi KH , Lu W. Combining study outcome measures using adjusted weights . Research Synthesis Methods 4(2):188-197; 2013.Tsai HT, Penson DF, Makambi KH , Lynch JH, Van Den Eeden SK, Potosky AL. Efficacy of Intermittent androgen deprivation therapy vs conventional continuous androgen deprivation therapy for advanced prostate cancer: A meta-analysis . Urology 82(2):327-34; 2013. Mohlman MK, Boulos DN, El Setouhy M, Radwan G, Makambi K , Jillson I, Loffredo CA. A randomized, controlled community-wide intervention to reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure . Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 15(8):1372-1381; 2013. Genkinger JM, Makambi KH , Palmer JR, Rosenberg L, Adams-Campbell LL. Consumption of dairy and meat in relation to breast cancer risk in the Black Women’s Health Study . Cancer Causes and Control 24:675-684; 2013. Greenspan EJ, Lee H, Dyba M, Pan J, Makambi KH , Johnson T, Blancato J, Mueller S, Berry DL, Chung F-L. High-throughput, quantitative analysis of acrolein-derived DNA adducts in human oral cells by immunohistochemistry . J Histochem Cytochem. 60(11):844-53; 2012. Dash C, Chung F-L, Rohan JP, Greenspan E, Christopher PD, Makambi KH , Hara Y, Newkirk K, Davidson B, Adams-Campbell LL. A six-month crossover chemoprevention clinical trial of tea in smokers and non-smokers: Study design and methodological issues . BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 12:96; 2012. Llanos AA, Dumitrescu RG, Marian C, Makambi KH , Spear SL, Kallakury BVS, Perry PJ, Convit RJ, Platek ME, Millen AE, Adams-Campbell LL, Freudenheim JL, Shields PG. Adipokines in plasma and breast tissues: associations with breast cancer risk factors . Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 21(10): 1745–55; 2012. Timothy Deklotz, Kepher H. Makambi , Wenxin Lu, Ziad E. Deeb, Edward Aulisi, Stanley H. Chia. Meta-Analysis of Endoscopic versus Sublabial Pituitary Surgery . The Laryngoscope 122:511-518; 2012. Llanos AA, Makambi KH , Tucker CA, Shields PG, Adams-Campbell LL. Alcohol, anthropometrics, and breast cancer risk in African American women. The Breast Journal; 2012 Jul;18(4):394-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2012.01265.x. Zhou X, Meeker A, Makambi KH , Kosti O, Kallakury B, Sidawy M, Loffredo C, Zheng Y-L. Telomere length variation in normal epithelial cells adjacent to tumor: a potential biomarker for breast cancer local recurrence. Carcinogenesis. 2012 Jan;33(1):113-8. Deklotz T, Makambi KH , Lu W, Deeb ZE, Aulisi E, Chia SH. Meta-Analysis of Endoscopic vs. Sublabial Pituitary Surgery. The Laryngoscope, 2012 Mar;122(3):511-8. doi: 10.1002/lary.22479. Epub 2012 Jan 17. Zhou X, Marian C, Makambi KH , Kosti O, Kallakury B, Loffredo C, Zheng Y-L. miR-9 and miR-375 as potential biomarkers for breast cancer local recurrence. PLoS ONE 7(6): e39011; 2012. Dash C, Chung F-L, Rohan JP, Greenspan E, Christopher PD, Makambi KH , Hara Y, Newkirk K, Davidson B, Adams-Campbell LL. A six-month crossover chemoprevention clinical trial of tea in smokers and non-smokers: Study design and methodological issues. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 96; 2012. Llanos AA, Makambi KH , Tucker CA, Wallington SF, Shields PG, Adams-Campbell LL. Cholesterol, lipoproteins, and breast cancer risk in African American women. Ethnicity and Disease , 18(4):394-5. 2012. Taylor TR, Huntley ED, Sween J, Makambi KH , Mellman TA, Williams CD, Carter-Nolan P, Frederick W. An Exploratory Analysis of Fear of Recurrence among African American Breast Cancer Survivors. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine ; 2012. Makambi KH , Bright-Gbebry M, Agurs-Collins T, Palmer JR, Rosenberg L, Adams-Campbell LL. Dietary patterns and the risk of colorectal adenomas: the Black Women’s Health Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 2011 May;20(5):818-25. Epub 2011 Feb 25.Soldin, O.P., Makambi, K. H. , Soldin, S.J., & O’Mara, D.M. (2011). Steroid hormone levels associated with passive and active smoking. Steroids, 76(7), 653-9. Taylor, T.R., Makambi, K. , Sween, J., Roltsch, M., & Adams-Campbell, L.L. (2011). The effect of a supervised exercise trial on exercise adherence among African American men: A pilot study. Journal of the National Medical Association , 103(6), 488-491. Bright-Gbebry M, Makambi KH , Rohan JA, Rosenberg L, Palmer JR, Adams-Campbell LL. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors: The Black Women’s Health Study . BMC , 2011. Bright-Gbebry M, Makambi KH , Rohan JP, Llanos AA, Rosenberg L, Palmer JR, Adams-Campbell LL. Use of multivitamins, folic acid and herbal supplements among breast cancer survivors: the black women’s health study. BMC Complement Altern Med 2011 ; 11:30- CR, ET Intrprogrammatic Interprogrammatic PMC3095573. Cavalli LR, Noone A-M, Makambi KH , Rone JD, Kasid UN, Haddad BR. Frequent loss of the BL
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Cytogenet Genome Res., 135:19-24; 2011. Sheppard VB, Makambi KH , Taylor T, Wallington SF, Sween J, Adams-Campbell LL. Physical activity reduces breast cancer risk in African American women. Ethnicity and Disease 21:406-411; 2011. Taylor TR, Huntley ED, Makambi KH , Sween J, Adams-Campbell LL, Frederick W, Mellman T. Understanding sleep disturbances in African American breast cancer survivors: A pilot study . Psycho-Oncology 2011. Makambi KH , Seung H. Multivariate random effect meta-analysis: An extension. ASA Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM): Biometrics Section, Miami, FL 2011.Adams-Campbell, L.L., Makambi, K.H. , Mouton, C.P., Palmer, J.R., & Rosenberg, L. (2010, March). Colonoscopy utilization in the black women’s health study. J Natl Med Assoc , 102(3), 237-42. Mouton CP, Carter-Nolan PL, Makambi KH , Taylor TR, Palmer JR, Rosenberg L, Adams-Campbell LL. Impact of perceived racial discrimination on health screening in black women. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2010 Feb;21(1):287-300. Tucker, C.A., Agurs-Collins, T., Carter-Nolan, P., Makambi, K. , & Johnson, A.A. (2010). Overweight and obesity: Impact on breast cancer of African American women through a case-control study. Journal of Non-Significant Results in Education ,1(1), 13-24. Adams-Campbell LL, Makambi KH , Frederick WAI, McCaskill-Stevens W. Breast Cancer risk estimates comparing CARE and GAIL models in African-American women. The Breast Journal 15: 72-79; 2009. Agurs-Collins T, Rosenberg L, Makambi KH , Palmer JR, Adams-Campbell LL. Dietary Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk in Women Participating in the Black Women’s Health Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 90(3): 621-628; 2009. Makambi KH , Williams CD, Taylor TR, Rosenberg L & Adams-Campbell LL. An assessment of the CES-D scale factor structure in Black women: The Black Women’s Health Study . Psychiatry Research 168: 163-170; 2009.Makambi KH , Hartung J. Quantitative synthesis of dichotomous data: Dominance of a single study. ASA Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM): Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Washington, DC 2009.Laing SS & Makambi KH . Predicting Regular Breast Cancer Screening in African American Women with a Family History of Breast Cancer . Journal of the National Medical Association 100: 1309-1317; 2008. Ihemelandu CU, Naab TJ, Mezghebe HM, Makambi KH , Siram SM, Lefafall LD Jr, Dewitty RL & Frederick WA. Treatment and survival outcome for molecular breast cancer subtypes in black women . Ann Surg 247:463-469; 2008. Ihemelandu CU, Naab TJ, Mezghebe HM, Makambi KH , Siram SM, Leffall LD Jr, DeWitty RL Jr, Frederick WA. Basal cell–like (triple-negative) breast cancer, a predictor of distant metastasis in African American women . The American Journal of Surgery 195: 153-158; 2008. Ihemelandu CU, Leffall LD Jr, Dewitty RL, Naab TJ, Mezghebe HM, Makambi KH , Adams-Campbell L, Frederick WA. Molecular breast cancer subtypes in premenopausal and postmenopausal African American women: age-specific prevalence and survival . J Surg Res. 143:109-118; 2007. Adams-Campbell LL, Makambi KH , Palmer JR & Rosenberg L. Diagnostic accuracy of the Gail model in the Black Women’s Health Study . The Breast Journal 13:332-336; 2007. Taylor TR, Williams CD, Makambi KH , Mouton C, Harrell JP, Cozier Y, Palmer JR, Rosenberg L & Adams-Campbell LL. Racial Discrimination and Breast Cancer Incidence in U.S. Black Women: The Black Women’s Health Study . American Journal of Epidemiology 166:46-54; 2007. Ihemelandu CU, Leffall LD Jr., Dewitty RL, Naab TJ, Mezghebe HM, Makambi KH , Adams-Campbell L & Frederick WA. Molecular breast cancer subtypes in premenopausal African-American women, tumor biologic factors and clinical outcome . Annals of Surgical Oncology 14:2994-3003; 2007. Agurs-Collins T, Smoot D, Afful J, Makambi KH & Adams-Campbell LL. Legume Intake and Reduced Colorectal Adenoma Risk in African Americans . Journal of National Black Nurses Association 17:6-12; 2006. Makambi KH . Supplementary test procedures for overall treatment effect. Statistics: A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics 40:289-296; 2006.Williams CD, Taylor TR, Makambi KH , Harrell J, Palmer JR, Rosenberg L & Adams-Campbell LL. CES-D four factor structure confirmed but not invariant in a large cohort of African American women . Psychiatry Research 150:173-180; 2006. Rosenberg L, Boggs D, Wise LA, Palmer JR, Roltsch MH, Makambi KH & Adams-Campbell LL. A follow-up study of physical activity and incidence of colorectal polyps in African-American women . Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 15:1438-1442; 2006. Carter-Nolan PL, Adams-Campbell LL, Makambi KH , Shantell L, Palmer JR & Rosenberg L. Validation of Physical Activity Instruments: Black Women’s Health Study . Ethnicity and Disease16: 943-947; 2006. Makambi KH . On positive estimation of the between-study variance in a one-way random effects ANOVA model . Journal of Statistical Research 38:33-44; 2004.Makambi KH . The effect of the heterogeneity variance estimator on some tests of treatment efficacy . Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 14:439-449; 2004.Reyes MO, Archer JA, Nunlee-Bland G, Daniel G, Morgan OA & Makambi KH . Bone mass in physicians: A Howard University Hospital pilot study . Journal of the National Medical Association 96:299-305; 2004. Hartung J & Makambi KH . Reducing the number of unjustified significant results in meta-analysis . Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation 32:1179-1190; 2003. Makambi KH . On pooling data summaries in the absence of interactions “response-by-study. ” Statistical Methods and Applications: Journal of the Italian Statistical Society 11:127-138; 2002.Makambi KH . Weighted inverse chi-square method for correlated significance tests . Journal of Applied Statistics 30:243-252; 2002.Hartung J & Makambi KH . Positive estimation of the between-study variance in meta-analysis . South Africa Statistical Journal 36:55-76; 2002. Hartung J & Makambi KH . A combined test for improved meta-analysis. Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv 86:397-405; 2002. Hartung J, Argac D & Makambi KH . Small sample properties of tests on homogeneity in one-way ANOVA and meta-analysis . Statistical Papers 43: 197-235; 2002. Hartung J & Makambi KH . Simple non-iterative
t-distribution based tests for meta-analysis
. South Africa Statistical Journal 35:1-17; 2001. Hartung J, Makambi KH & Argac D. An extended ANOVA F-test with applications to the heterogeneity problem in meta-analysis . Biometrical Journal 43:135-146; 2001. Argac D, Makambi KH & Hartung J. A note on testing the nullity of the between group variance in the one-way random effects model under variance heterogeneity . Journal of Applied Statistics 28:215-222; 2001. Makambi KH , Argac D & Hartung J. On the meta-analysis of treatment differences in heteroscedastic samples . Biometrical Letters 37: 1-11; 2000.Makambi KH , Argac D. Another look at the correction of significance level in meta-Analysis: One-way random effects model. Proceedings of the XXIX International Biometrical Colloquium (Poland Region), Piechowice, September 1999