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Weight-of-evidence for forensic DNA profiles by Balding, David J, Barnett, Vic

“…Assessing Weight-of-Evidence for DNA Profiles is an excellent introductory text to the use of statistical analysis for assessing DNA evidence. It offers…”
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Bridging trees for posterior inference on ancestral recombination graphs by Heine, K, Beskos, A, Jasra, A, Balding, D, De Iorio, M

“…We present a new Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, implemented in the software Arbores, for inferring the history of a sample of DNA sequences. Our principal…”
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A genome‐wide association study identifies novel gene associations with facial skin wrinkling and mole count in Latin Americans by Chen, Y., André, M., Adhikari, K., Blin, M., Bonfante, B., Mendoza‐Revilla, J., Fuentes‐Guajardo, M., Palmal, S., Chacón‐Duque, J.C., Hurtado, M., Villegas, V., Granja, V., Jaramillo, C., Arias, W., Lozano, R.B., Everardo‐Martínez, P., Gómez‐Valdés, J., Villamil‐Ramírez, H., Cerqueira, C.C.S., Hünemeier, T., Ramallo, V., Gonzalez‐José, R., Schüler‐Faccini, L., Bortolini, M.‐C., Acuña‐Alonzo, V., Canizales‐Quinteros, S., Gallo, C., Poletti, G., Bedoya, G., Rothhammer, F., Balding, D., Tobin, D.J., Wang, S., Faux, P., Ruiz‐Linares, A.

“…Summary Background Genome‐wide association studies (GWASs) have identified genes influencing skin ageing and mole count in Europeans, but little is known about…”
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Inferring Coalescence Times From DNA Sequence Data by Tavare, S, Balding, D. J, Griffiths, R. C, Donnelly, P

“…The paper is concerned with methods for the estimation of the coalescence time (time since the most recent common ancestor) of a sample of intraspecies DNA…”
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A GWAS identifies novel gene associations with facial skin wrinkling and mole count in Latin-Americans by Chen, Y, André, M, Adhikari, K, Blin, M, Bonfante, B, Mendoza-Revilla, J, Fuentes-Guajardo, M, Palmal, S, Chacón-Duque, J C, Hurtado, M, Villegas, V, Granja, V, Jaramillo, C, Arias, W, Lozano, R B, Everardo-Martínez, P, Gómez-Valdés, J, Villamil-Ramírez, H, de Cerqueira, C C S, Hünemeier, T, Ramallo, V, Gonzalez-José, R, Schüler-Faccini, L, Bortolini, M-C, Acuña-Alonzo, V, Canizales-Quinteros, S, Gallo, C, Poletti, G, Bedoya, G, Rothhammer, F, Balding, D, Tobin, D J, Wang, S, Faux, P, Ruiz-Linares, A

“…Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genes influencing skin ageing and mole count in Europeans but little is known about the relevance of…”
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Evaluating DNA evidence in a genetically complex population by Hessab, T., Aranha, R.S., Moura-Neto, R.S., Balding, D.J., Schrago, C.G.

“…•The use of a single Brazilian allele frequency database is feasible with an appropriate adjustment.•When using the Brazilian database, we propose a…”
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Heritability and genetic correlations of insulin resistance and component phenotypes in Asian Indian families using a multivariate analysis by Zabaneh, D, Chambers, J. C, Elliott, P, Scott, J, Balding, D. J, Kooner, J. S

“…Aims/hypothesis Insulin resistance and related metabolic disturbances are more common among Asian Indians than European whites. Little is known about the…”
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Approximate Bayesian Computation in Population Genetics by Beaumont, Mark A, Zhang, Wenyang, Balding, David J

“…We propose a new method for approximate Bayesian statistical inference on the basis of summary statistics. The method is suited to complex problems that arise…”
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Identifying adaptive genetic divergence among populations from genome scans by Beaumont, Mark A., Balding, David J.

“…The identification of signatures of natural selection in genomic surveys has become an area of intense research, stimulated by the increasing ease with which…”
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Tight Clustering of Extracellular BP180 Epitopes Recognized by Bullous Pemphigoid Autoantibodies by Zillikens, Detlef, Rose, Pamela A., Balding, Shawn D., Liu, Zhi, Olague-Marchan, Monica, Diaz, Luis A., Giudice, George J.

“…Bullous pemphigoid is a blistering skin disease associated with autoantibodies against the BP180 antigen, a transmembrane component of the hemidesmosome…”
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Fine-Scale Mapping of Disease Loci via Shattered Coalescent Modeling of Genealogies by Morris, A.P., Whittaker, J.C., Balding, D.J.

“…We present a Bayesian, Markov-chain Monte Carlo method for fine-scale linkage-disequilibrium gene mapping using high-density marker maps. The method explicitly…”
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Little Loss of Information Due to Unknown Phase for Fine-Scale Linkage-Disequilibrium Mapping with Single-Nucleotide–Polymorphism Genotype Data by Morris, A.P., Whittaker, J.C., Balding, D.J.

“…We present the results of a simulation study that indicate that true haplotypes at multiple, tightly linked loci often provide little extra information for…”
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Differential coexpression analysis of obesity-associated networks in human subcutaneous adipose tissue by Walley, A J, Jacobson, P, Falchi, M, Bottolo, L, Andersson, J C, Petretto, E, Bonnefond, A, Vaillant, E, Lecoeur, C, Vatin, V, Jernas, M, Balding, D, Petteni, M, Park, Y S, Aitman, T, Richardson, S, Sjostrom, L, Carlsson, L M S, Froguel, P

“…Objective: To use a unique obesity-discordant sib-pair study design to combine differential expression analysis, expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs)…”
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Fine mapping of disease genes via haplotype clustering by Waldron, E.R.B., Whittaker, J.C., Balding, D.J.

“…We propose an algorithm for analysing SNP‐based population association studies, which is a development of that introduced by Molitor et al. [2003: Am J Hum…”
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Statistical Approaches for Genome-Wide Association Studies by Balding, D

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Bayesian Fine-Scale Mapping of Disease Loci, by Hidden Markov Models by Morris, A.P., Whittaker, J.C., Balding, D.J.

“…We present a new multilocus method for the fine-scale mapping of genes contributing to human diseases. The method is designed for use with multiple biallelic…”
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DNA profile match probability calculation: how to allow for population stratification, relatedness, database selection and single bands by Balding, D J, Nichols, R A

“…In DNA profile analysis, uncertainty arises due to a number of factors such as sampling error, single bands and correlations within and between loci. One of…”
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Likelihood-based inference for genetic correlation coefficients by Balding, David J.

“…We review Wright's original definitions of the genetic correlation coefficients F ST , F IT , and F IS , pointing out ambiguities and the difficulties that…”
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Time for DNA Disclosure by Krane, D. E., Bahn, V., Balding, D., Barlow, B., Cash, H., Desportes, B. L., D'Eustachio, P., Devlin, K., Doom, T. E., Dror, I., Ford, S., Funk, C., Gilder, J., Hampikian, G., Inman, K., Jamieson, A., Kent, P. E., Koppl, R., Kornfield, I., Krimsky, S., Mnookin, J., Mueller, L., Murphy, E., Paoletti, D. R., Petrov, D. A., Raymer, M., Risinger, D. M., Roth, A., Rudin, N., Shields, W., Siegel, J. A., Slatkin, M., Song, Y. S., Speed, T., Spiegelman, C., Sullivan, P., Swienton, A. R., Tarpey, T., Thompson, W. C., Ungvarsky, E., Zabell, S.

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Identification of functionally important regions of a haemoglobin receptor from Neisseria meningitidis by Perkins-Balding, D, Baer, M. T, Stojiljkovic, I

“…Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Correspondence D. Perkins-Balding…”
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