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.

Harney, M. et al. (2003) “vCJD risk in the Republic of Ireland”, BMC Infectious Diseases, 3(1), p. 28.

HAGENAARS, T. et al. (2003) “Dynamics of a scrapie outbreak in a flock of Romanov sheep – estimation of transmission parameters”, Epidemiology and Infection, 131(2), pp. 1015–1022.

Ferguson, N. and Donnelly, C. (2003) “Assessment of the risk posed by bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle in Great Britain and the impact of potential changes to current control measures”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 270(1524), pp. 1579–1584.

Helgason, A. et al. (2003) “A Reassessment of Genetic Diversity in Icelanders: Strong Evidence from Multiple Loci for Relative Homogeneity Caused by Genetic Drift”, Annals of Human Genetics, 67(4), pp. 281–297.

Riley, S. et al. (2003) “Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions”, Science, 300(5627), pp. 1961–1966.

Holmes, C. and Mallick, B. (2003) “Generalized Nonlinear Modeling With Multivariate Free-Knot Regression Splines”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98(462), pp. 352–368.

Donnelly, C. et al. (2003) “Extending backcalculation to analyse BSE data”, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 12(3), pp. 177–190.

Ghani, A. et al. (2003) “Short-term projections for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease onsets”, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 12(3), pp. 191–201.

Donnelly, C., Ghani, A. and Leung, G. (2003) “Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong (vol 361, pg 1761, 2003)”, LANCET, 361(9371), pp. 1832–1832.

Donnelly, C. et al. (2003) “Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong”, The Lancet, 361(9371), pp. 1761–1766.