Publications by Statistical Genetics and Epidemiology

Our research spans areas of statistical genetics, in particular the development of powerful statistical approaches to analyse genetic data, as well as studying infectious diseases.

Lang, M. et al. (2025) “Shared risk factors for malaria and schistosomiasis co-infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis”, openRxiv.

Gregoire, V. et al. (2025) “Public reporting guidelines for outbreak data: enabling accountability for effective outbreak response by developing standards for transparency and uniformity”, Public Health [Preprint].

Hayes, S. et al. (2025) “Ecology and environment predict spatially stratified risk of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b in wild birds across Europe”, Scientific Reports [Preprint].

Steyn, N. et al. (2025) “Pandemic-risk-related behaviour change in England from June 2020 to March 2022: the cross-sectional REACT-1 study among over 2 million people”, BMJ Public Health [Preprint].

Ferreira, L., Hu, S. and Myers, S. (2025) “Interactions with polygenic background impact quantitative traits in the UK Biobank”, p. 2025.11.14.25340263.

Wang, H. et al. (2025) “Health inequalities in risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in England’s second wave: population-based cross-sectional analysis from the REACT-1 study”, BMJ Public Health [Preprint].

Hayes, S. et al. (2025) “Generalizing an outbreak cluster detection method for two groups: an application to rabies”, Royal Society Open Science, 12(11).

Lang, M. et al. (2025) “Non-linear age dynamics of malaria infection and fine-scale environmental exposure in rural Uganda”, medRxiv.

Parag, K. et al. (2025) “Asymmetric limits on timely interventions from noisy epidemic data”, Communications Physics [Preprint].