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.

van Dorp, L. et al. (2015) “Evidence for a Common Origin of Blacksmiths and Cultivators in the Ethiopian Ari within the Last 4500 Years: Lessons for Clustering-Based Inference”, PLOS Genetics, 11(8), p. e1005397.

Lipsitch, M. et al. (2015) “Potential Biases in Estimating Absolute and Relative Case-Fatality Risks during Outbreaks”, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(7), p. e0003846.

Carvalho, D. et al. (2015) “Suppression of a Field Population of Aedes aegypti in Brazil by Sustained Release of Transgenic Male Mosquitoes”, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(7), p. e0003864.

Dorigatti, I. et al. (2015) “Modelling the immunological response to a tetravalent dengue vaccine from multiple phase-2 trials in Latin America and South East Asia”, Vaccine, 33(31), pp. 3746–3751.

Holmes, C. et al. (2015) “Two-sample Bayesian Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing”, Bayesian Analysis, 10(2).

Van Kerkhove, M. et al. (2015) “A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making”, Scientific Data, 2(1), p. 150019.

Nam, K. et al. (2015) “Extreme selective sweeps independently targeted the X chromosomes of the great apes”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(20), pp. 6413–6418.

Rantalainen, M., Lindgren, C. and Holmes, C. (2015) “Robust Linear Models for Cis-eQTL Analysis”, PLOS ONE, 10(5), p. e0127882.

Taylor, J. et al. (2015) “Factors influencing success of clinical genome sequencing across a broad spectrum of disorders.”, Nature Genetics, 47(7), pp. 717–726.

Kucharski, A. et al. (2015) “Transmission Potential of Influenza A(H7N9) Virus, China, 2013–2014 - Volume 21, Number 5—May 2015 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC”, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 21(5), pp. 852–855.