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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.

Behr, M. et al. (2020) “Testing for dependence on tree structures”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(18), pp. 9787–9792.
Banerjee, A. et al. (2020) “Estimating excess 1-year mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic according to underlying conditions and age: a population-based cohort study”, The Lancet, 395(10238), pp. 1715–1725.
Yasumizu, Y. et al. (2020) “Genome-Wide Natural Selection Signatures Are Linked to Genetic Risk of Modern Phenotypes in the Japanese Population”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(5), pp. 1306–1316.
Ainslie, K. et al. (2020) “Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment”, Wellcome Open Research, 5, p. 81.
Parag, K. and Donnelly, C. (2020) “Adaptive estimation for epidemic renewal and phylogenetic skyline models”, Systematic Biology, 69(6), pp. 1163–1179.
Dean, N. et al. (2020) “Creating a framework for conducting randomized clinical trials during disease outbreaks”, New England Journal of Medicine, 382(14), pp. 1366–1369.
Forna, A. et al. (2020) “Spatiotemporal variability in case fatality ratios for the 2013–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa”, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 93, pp. 48–55.
Lambert, B. et al. (2020) “The pace of modern culture.”, Nature human behaviour, 4(4), pp. 352–360.
Vogel, S. et al. (2020) “Exploring movement decisions: Can Bayesian movement‐state models explain crop consumption behaviour in elephants (Loxodonta africana)?”, Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(4), pp. 1055–1068.
Pafitanis, G., Nikkhah, D. and Myers, S. (2020) “The Dunning–Kruger effect: Revisiting ‘the valley of despair’ in the evolution of competency and proficiency in reconstructive microsurgery”, Journal of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, 73(4), pp. 783–808.