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.

Carmi, S. et al. (2013) “The Variance of Identity-by-Descent Sharing in the Wright–Fisher Model”, Genetics, 193(3), pp. 911–928.

Drong, A. et al. (2013) “The presence of methylation quantitative trait loci indicates a direct genetic influence on the level of DNA methylation in adipose tissue”, PLoS ONE, 8(2), p. e55923.

Donnelly, P. et al. (2013) “Germline mutations affecting the proofreading domains of POLE and POLD1 predispose to colorectal adenomas and carcinomas”, Nature Genetics, 45(2), pp. 136–144.

Garbutcheon-Singh, K. et al. (2013) “Cytotoxic platinum( ii ) intercalators that incorporate 1 R ,2 R -diaminocyclopentane”, Dalton Transactions, 42(4), pp. 918–926.

McMurray, F. et al. (2013) “Adult onset global loss of the FTO gene alters body composition and metabolism in the mouse”, PLoS Genetics, 9(1), p. e1003166.

Livak, K. et al. (2013) “Methods for qPCR gene expression profiling applied to 1440 lymphoblastoid single cells”, Methods, 59(1), pp. 71–79.

Simon, M. et al. (2013) “A comparative phenotypic and genomic analysis of C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N mouse strains”, Genome Biology, 14(7), p. r82.

Koukounari, A. et al. (2013) “A Latent Markov Modelling Approach to the Evaluation of Circulating Cathodic Antigen Strips for Schistosomiasis Diagnosis Pre- and Post-Praziquantel Treatment in Uganda”, PLOS Computational Biology, 9(12), p. e1003402.

Nouvellet, P. et al. (2013) “Rabies and Canine Distemper Virus Epidemics in the Red Fox Population of Northern Italy (2006–2010)”, PLOS ONE, 8(4), p. e61588.

Godfray, H. et al. (2013) “A restatement of the natural science evidence base relevant to the control of bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1768).