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.

Price, A. et al. (2009) “Sensitive detection of chromosomal segments of distinct ancestry in admixed populations.”, PLoS genetics, 5(6).

Lemieux, J. et al. (2009) “Statistical estimation of cell-cycle progression and lineage commitment in Plasmodium falciparum reveals a homogeneous pattern of transcription in ex vivo culture”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(18), pp. 7559–7564.

Kemp, M. et al. (2009) “Syncoilin isoform organization and differential expression in murine striated muscle”, Journal of Structural Biology, 165(3), pp. 196–203.

Webb, A., Hancock, J. and Holmes, C. (2009) “Phylogenetic inference under recombination using Bayesian stochastic topology selection”, Bioinformatics, 25(2), pp. 197–203.

Holmes, C. and Jasra, A. (2009) “Antithetic Methods for Gibbs Samplers”, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 18(2), pp. 401–414.

Price, A. et al. (2008) “Effects of cis and trans genetic ancestry on gene expression in African Americans.”, PLoS genetics, 4(12).

Giannoulatou, E. et al. (2008) “GenoSNP: a variational Bayes within-sample SNP genotyping algorithm that does not require a reference population”, Bioinformatics, 24(19), pp. 2209–2214.

Ramasamy, A. et al. (2008) “Key issues in conducting a meta-analysis of gene expression microarray datasets.”, PLoS medicine, 5(9).

Myers, S. et al. (2008) “A common sequence motif associated with recombination hot spots and genome instability in humans.”, Nat Genet [Preprint].

Mulholland, R. et al. (2008) “Deliberate Self-Harm by Burning: A Retrospective Case Controlled Study”, Journal of Burn Care & Research, 29(4), pp. 644–649.