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.

Webster, J. et al. (2006) “Parasites as causative agents of human affective disorders? The impact of anti-psychotic, mood-stabilizer and anti-parasite medication on Toxoplasma gondii’s ability to alter host behaviour”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 273(1589), pp. 1023–1030.

Jasra, A. et al. (2006) “Bayesian Mixture Modelling in Geochronology via Markov Chain Monte Carlo”, Mathematical Geosciences, 38(3), pp. 269–300.

LEUNG, G. et al. (2006) “Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to SARS-coronavirus in asymptomatic or subclinical population groups”, Epidemiology and Infection, 134(2), pp. 211–221.

HAGENAARS, T., DONNELLY, C. and FERGUSON, N. (2006) “Epidemiological analysis of data for scrapie in Great Britain”, Epidemiology and Infection, 134(2), pp. 359–367.

Holmes, C. and Held, L. (2006) “Bayesian auxiliary variable models for binary and multinomial regression”, Bayesian Analysis, 1(1), pp. 145–168.

Heard, N., Holmes, C. and Stephens, D. (2006) “A Quantitative Study of Gene Regulation Involved in the Immune Response of Anopheline Mosquitoes”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101(473), pp. 18–29.

Pintore, A., Speckman, P. and Holmes, C. (2006) “Spatially adaptive smoothing splines”, Biometrika, 93(1), pp. 113–125.

Bourne, F. et al. (2006) “TB policy and the badger culling trials”, Veterinary Record, 158(12), pp. 418–418.

Donnelly, C. et al. (2006) “Positive and negative effects of widespread badger culling on tuberculosis in cattle”, Nature, 439(7078), pp. 843–846.

De Wet, H. et al. (2006) “Modulation of the BK channel by estrogens: examination at single channel level”, Molecular Membrane Biology, 23(5), pp. 420–429.