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.

Ferreira, L., Hu, S. and Myers, S. (2024) “Unravelling genetic interactions affecting quantitative traits in the UK Biobank”, in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, pp. 791–792.

McCabe, R. and Donnelly, C. (2023) “Public awareness of and opinions on the use of mathematical transmission modelling to inform public health policy in the United Kingdom”, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 20.

Carrera, J.-P. et al. (2023) “Real-time RT-PCR for Venezuelan equine encephalitis complex, Madariaga, and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses: application in human and mosquito public health surveillance in Panama”, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 61(12), pp. e00152 - e00123.

Penn, M. et al. (2023) “Leaping through tree space: continuous phylogenetic inference for rooted and unrooted trees”, Genome Biology and Evolution, 15(12).

Fournier, R. et al. (2023) “Haplotype-based inference of recent effective population size in modern and ancient DNA samples”, Nature Communications, 14(1), p. 7945.

Vicco, A. et al. (2023) “A simulation-based method to inform serosurvey designs for estimating the force of infection using existing blood samples”, PLoS Computational Biology, 19(11).

Penn, M. et al. (2023) “Sherlock - A flexible, low-resource tool for processing camera-trapping images”, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(1), pp. 91–102.

Jiang, X. et al. (2023) “Age-dependent topic modeling of comorbidities in UK Biobank identifies disease subtypes with differential genetic risk”, Nature Genetics, 55(11), pp. 1854–1865.

Torabi, F. et al. (2023) “Wastewater-based surveillance models for COVID-19: A focused review on spatio-temporal models”, Heliyon, 9(11), p. e21734.

Kim, Y. et al. (2023) “Lessons for cross-species viral transmission surveillance from highly pathogenic avian influenza Korean cat shelter outbreaks”, Nature Communications, 14(1), pp. 6958–6958.