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.

Koukounari, A. et al. (2007) “Schistosoma haematobium Infection and Morbidity Before and After Large-Scale Administration of Praziquantel in Burkina Faso”, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 196(5), pp. 659–669.

Myers, S., Leigh, I. and Navsaria, H. (2007) “Epidermal repair results from activation of follicular and epidermal progenitor keratinocytes mediated by a growth factor cascade”, Wound Repair and Regeneration, 15(5), pp. 693–701.

Lewis, J. et al. (2007) “Evaluating the proximate determinants framework for HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe”, Sexually Transmitted Infections, 83(suppl 1), pp. i61 - i61-i69.

van Boven, M. et al. (2007) “Detecting Emerging Transmissibility of Avian Influenza Virus in Human Households”, PLOS Computational Biology, 3(7), p. e145.

Marchini, J. et al. (2007) “A new multipoint method for genome-wide association studies by imputation of genotypes”, Nature Genetics, 39(7), pp. 906–913.

Donnelly, C. et al. (2007) “Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial”, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 11(4), pp. 300–308.

Haiman, C. et al. (2007) “Multiple regions within 8q24 independently affect risk for prostate cancer”, Nature Genetics, 39(5), pp. 638–644.

Jewell, N. et al. (2007) “Non‐parametric estimation of the case fatality ratio with competing risks data: an application to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)”, Statistics in Medicine, 26(9), pp. 1982–1998.

Dellaportas, P., Denison, D. and Holmes, C. (2007) “Flexible Threshold Models for Modelling Interest Rate Volatility”, Econometric Reviews, 26(2-4), pp. 419–437.

Coop, G. and Myers, S. (2007) “Live Hot, Die Young: Transmission Distortion in Recombination Hotspots”, PLOS Genetics, 3(3), pp. e35 – 0377.