Dan Davison

I'm a postdoc in Peter Donnelly's group, in the Statistics Department at Oxford University. I use population genetic data to study population structure, speciation and 'species-level' systematics. I'm currently working on analyses of large data sets of SNP genotypes of humans in the UK and continental Europe. I did my Ph.D. in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, working in Jonathan Pritchard's group and in the Bird Division of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago with Shannon Hackett.

• D Davison, J Pritchard and G Coop (2009) An approximate likelihood for genetic data under a model with recombination and population splitting. Theoretical Population Biology 75(4):331-345
• H Dugdale, T Burke, D Davison, S Baker, C Bueshing, S Ellwood, C Newman, D Macdonald (2009) Application of genetic techniques to validate female teat size as a reliable indicator of annual breeding success in a medium-sized carnivore (submitted)
• A Young, H Barnes, D Davison, S Neubauer and J Schneider (2009) Fast Left Ventricular Mass and Volume in Mice with Three-Dimensional Guide-Point Modeling. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imagery. Accepted.
• S Myles, D Davison, J Barrett, M Stoneking and N Timpson (2008) Worldwide population differentiation at disease-associated SNPs BMC Medical Genomics 1(1):22
• Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (2007) Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature 447:661-678
• My Ph.D. dissertation : "Inferences about the evolutionary history of geographically structured populations: the intersection of population genetics, biogeography and systematics"