Work Summary:

My central research interest is the use of genetic data to learn about population history and 'speciation'. I am currently developing methods to learn about patterns of ancestry within the British Isles from the data collected by the People of the British Isles project. In addition, I am developing new methods for using linked variation to fit non-equilibrium models of population history and for population structure analyses of very large data sets being generated in the course of genome-wide association studies. I distribute software that I develop for others to use, e.g. http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison/software/shellfish/shellfish.php

Publications:

D Davison, J Pritchard and G Coop (2009) An approximate likelihood for genetic data under a model with recombination and population splitting. *Theoretical Population Biology* 75(4):331-345

S Myles, D Davison, J Barrett, M Stoneking and N Timpson (2008) Worldwide population differentiation at disease-associated SNPs *BMC Medical Genomics* 1(1):22

Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (2007) Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. *Nature* 447:661-678

Research Areas:

Population genetics, statistical genetics, population structure and history, 'Speciation' and 'Species-level' systematics, and association mapping.

Keywords

• Population genetics
• Statistical genetics
• Population structure and history
• 'Speciation' and 'Species-level' systematics
• Association mapping