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.

Taylor, A. et al. (2016) “Artemether-lumefantrine and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine exert inverse selective pressure on Plasmodium Falciparum drug sensitivity-associated haplotypes in Uganda”, Open Forum Infect Dis, 4(1), p. ofw229.

Bielby, J. et al. (2016) “Localised Badger Culling Increases Risk of Herd Breakdown on Nearby, Not Focal, Land”, PLOS ONE, 11(10), p. e0164618.

Loh, P.-R. et al. (2016) “Reference-based phasing using the Haplotype Reference Consortium panel”, Nature Genetics, 48(11), pp. 1443–1448.

Palamara, P. (2016) “ARGON: fast, whole-genome simulation of the discrete time Wright-fisher process”, Bioinformatics, 32(19), pp. 3032–3034.

Woodroffe, R. et al. (2016) “Badgers prefer cattle pasture but avoid cattle: implications for bovine tuberculosis control”, Ecology Letters, 19(10), pp. 1201–1208.

Filippi, S. and Holmes, C. (2016) “A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables”, Bayesian Analysis, 12(4), pp. 919–938.

Kim, E. et al. (2016) “Effect of Microvascular Anastomosis Technique on End Product Outcome in Simulated Training: A Prospective Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial”, Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, 32(07), pp. 556–561.

Holton, D. et al. (2016) “Application of a novel approach to assess the thermal evolution processes associated with the disposal of high-heat-generating waste in a geological disposal facility”, Engineering Geology, 211, pp. 102–119.

Cauchemez, S. et al. (2016) “Unraveling the drivers of MERS-CoV transmission.”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(32), pp. 9081–9086.

Ferguson, N. et al. (2016) “Countering the Zika epidemic in Latin America”, Science, 353(6297), pp. 353–354.