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.

Atchison, C. et al. (2023) “Long-term health impacts of COVID-19 among 242,712 adults in England”, Nature Communications, 14(1), p. 6588.

Herriott, L. et al. (2023) “EpiGeoPop: a tool for developing spatially accurate country-level epidemiological models.”

Bhatia, S. et al. (2023) “Retrospective evaluation of real-time estimates of global COVID-19 transmission trends and mortality forecasts”, PLoS ONE, 18(10).

Cooper, B. et al. (2023) “The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England”, Nature, 623, pp. 132–138.

Carrera Carrera, J. 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 [Preprint].

Ward, H. et al. (2023) “Design and implementation of a national program to monitor the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in England using self-testing: the REACT-2 study”, American Journal of Public Health, 113(11), pp. 1201–1209.

Saada, J. et al. (2023) “Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(10), p. msad211.

Johnson, R. et al. (2023) “Investigating the dose-dependency of the midgut escape barrier using a mechanistic model of within-mosquito dengue virus population dynamics”, p. 2023.09.28.559904.

Parag, K., Cowling, B. and Lambert, B. (2023) “Angular reproduction numbers improve estimates of transmissibility when disease generation times are misspecified or time-varying”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(2007), p. 20231664.

Hunter, D. and Holmes, C. (2023) “Where medical statistics meets artificial intelligence”, New England Journal of Medicine, 389(13), pp. 1211–1219.