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.

Kim, H.-M., Mallick, B. and Holmes, C. (2005) “Analyzing Nonstationary Spatial Data Using Piecewise Gaussian Processes”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100(470), pp. 653–668.

Lewis, J. et al. (2005) “Beer Halls as a Focus for HIV Prevention Activities in Rural Zimbabwe”, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 32(6), pp. 364–369.

Jeffreys, A. et al. (2005) “Human recombination hot spots hidden in regions of strong marker association”, Nature Genetics, 37(6), pp. 601–606.

Horner, B. et al. (2005) “Case-controlled study of patients with self-inflicted burns”, Burns, 31(4), pp. 471–475.

Donnelly, C. et al. (2005) “Gender difference in HIV‐1 RNA viral loads”, HIV Medicine, 6(3), pp. 170–178.

Winckler, W. et al. (2005) “Comparison of Fine-Scale Recombination Rates in Humans and Chimpanzees”, Science, 308(5718), pp. 107–111.

Johnston, W. et al. (2005) “Herd-level risk factors associated with tuberculosis breakdowns among cattle herds in England before the 2001 footandmouth disease epidemic”, Biology Letters, 1(1), pp. 53–56.

Anderson, R. et al. (2005) “Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, and control of SARS: the 2002–2003 epidemic”, in SARS. Oxford University Press, pp. 61–80.

Jasra, A., Holmes, C. and Stephens, D. (2005) “Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and the Label Switching Problem in Bayesian Mixture Modeling”, Statistical Science, 20(1).

Woodroffe, R. et al. (2005) “Welfare of badgers (Meles meles) subjected to culling: patterns of trap-related injury”, Animal Welfare, 14(1), pp. 11–17.