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.

Bouma, A. et al. (2009) “Estimation of Transmission Parameters of H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus in Chickens”, PLOS Pathogens, 5(1), p. e1000281.

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

Woodroffe, R. et al. (2009) “BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE AND BADGERS IN LOCALIZED CULLING AREAS”, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 45(1), pp. 128–143.

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

Hone, J. and Donnelly, C. (2008) “Evaluating evidence of association of bovine tuberculosis in cattle and badgers”, Journal of Applied Ecology, 45(6), pp. 1660–1666.

Jenkins, H. et al. (2008) “Effectiveness of Immunization against Paralytic Poliomyelitis in Nigeria”, New England Journal of Medicine, 359(16), pp. 1666–1674.

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.

JENKINS, H. et al. (2008) “The prevalence, distribution and severity of detectable pathological lesions in badgers naturally infected with Mycobacterium bovis”, Epidemiology and Infection, 136(10), pp. 1350–1361.

Jenkins, H., Woodroffe, R. and Donnelly, C. (2008) “The effects of annual widespread badger culls on cattle tuberculosis following the cessation of culling”, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 12(5), pp. 457–465.

LAMBERTON, P., DONNELLY, C. and WEBSTER, J. (2008) “Specificity of the Toxoplasma gondii-altered behaviour to definitive versus non-definitive host predation risk”, Parasitology, 135(10), pp. 1143–1150.