William Valdar's publications

Publications are given in reverse date order:

Papers

2009

Valdar W, Holmes CC, Mott R, Flint J (2009) A method to characterize confounded associations in genetic mapping of structured populations. Genetics (accepted)

Ramagopalan SV, Valdar W, Criscuoli M, Deluca GC, Dyment DA, Orton SM, Yee IM, Ebers GC, Sadovnick AD; for the Canadian Collaborative Study Group (2008) Age of puberty and the risk of multiple sclerosis: a population based study. Eur J Neurol 2008 Dec 23 [Epub ahead of print]

2008

Bice P, Valdar W, Zhang L, Liu L, Lai D, Grahame N, Flint J, Li TK, Lumeng L, Foroud T (2008) Genomewide SNP Screen to Detect Quantitative Trait Loci for Alcohol Preference in the High Alcohol Preferring and Low Alcohol Preferring Mice. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. Dec 19. [Epub ahead of print]

Wallis-Owen SAG, Valdar W (2008) Deciphering gene-environment interactions through mouse models of allergic asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology J Allergy Clin Immunol. 123(1):14-23.

Ramagopalan SV, Herrera BM, Valdar W, Dyment DA, Orton SM, Yee IM, Criscuoli M, Atkins K, Ebers GC, Sadovnick AD (2008) No Effect of Birth Weight on the Risk of Multiple Sclerosis. A Population-Based Study. Neuroepidemiology 31(3):181-184

Ramagopalan SV, Valdar W, Dyment DA, DeLuca GC, Orton SM, Yee IM, Criscuoli M, Ebers GC, Sadovnick AD; Canadian Collaborative Study Group (2008) No effect of preterm birth on the risk of multiple sclerosis: a population based study. BMC Neurol 8:30

Lopez-Aumatell R, Guitart-Masip M, Vicens-Costa E, Gimenez-Llort L, Valdar W, Johannesson M, Flint J, Tobeña A, Fernandez-Teruel A (2008) Fearfulness in a large N/Nih genetically heterogeneous rat stock: differential profiles of timidity and defensive flight in males and females. Behav Brain Res. 188(1):41-55. Epub 2007 Oct 26.

2007

Ramagopalan SV, Dyment DA, Valdar W, Herrera BM, Criscuoli M, Yee IM, Sadovnick AD, Ebers GC; Canadian Collaborative Study Group (2007) Lancet Neurol. 6(7):604-10 PubMed

Keays DA, Tian G, Poirier K, Huang GJ, Siebold C, Cleak J, Oliver PL, Fray M, Harvey RJ, Molnár Z, Piñon MC, Dear N, Valdar W, Brown SD, Davies KE, Rawlins JN, Cowan NJ, Nolan P, Chelly J, Flint J (2007) Mutations in α-Tubulin Cause Abnormal Neuronal Migration in Mice and Lissencephaly in Humans. Cell 128(1):45-57

Taylor M, Valdar W, Flint J, Mott R (2007) Management, presentation and interpretation of genome scans using GSCANDB. Bioinformatics 15;23(12):1545-9

Keays DA, Clark TG, Campbell TG, Broxholme J, Valdar W (2006) Estimating the number of coding mutations in genotypic and phenotypic driven N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) screens: Revisited. Mammalian Genome 18(2):123-4

2006

Valdar W, Solberg LC, Gaugier D, Cookson WO, Rawlins JNP, Mott R, Flint J (2006) Genetic and environmental effects on complex traits in mice. Genetics 174(2):959-84  PubMed  PDF 

Orton S, Herrera BM, Yee IM, Valdar W, Ramaglopalan SV, Sadovnick AD, Ebers GC (2006)  Increasing sex ratio of multiple sclerosis in Canada. Lancet Neurology 5(11):932-6. PubMed ; TV reports: CTV.ca  CBC.ca 

Valdar W, Solberg LC, Gaugier D, Burnett S, Klenerman P, Cookson WO, Taylor M, Rawlins JNP, Mott R, Flint J (2006) Genome-wide genetic association of complex traits in outbred mice. Nature Genetics 38(8):879-87  PubMed  PDF

Solberg LC, Valdar W, Gauguier D, Nunez G, Taylor A, Hernandez P, Davidson S, Burns P, Cookson W, Deacon R,  Rawlins JNP, Mott R, Flint J (2006) A protocol for high throughput phenotyping, suitable for quantitative trait analysis in mice. Mammalian Genome 17(2):129-46  PubMed

Valdar W, Mott R, Flint J (2006) Simulating the collaborative cross: power of QTL detection and mapping resolution in large sets of recombinant inbred strains of mice. Genetics 172(3):1783-97  PubMed  PDF

2005

Flint J, Valdar W, Shifman S, Mott R (2005) Experimental strategies for mapping and cloning quantitative trait genes in rodents. Nature Reviews Genetics 6, 271-286  PubMed

2004

Churchill GA, Airey DC, Allayee H, Angel JM, Attie AD, Beatty J, Beavis WD, Belknap JK, Bennett B, Berrettini W, Bleich A, Bogue M, Broman KW, Buck KJ, Buckler E, Burmeister M, Chesler EJ, Cheverud JM, Clapcote S, Cook MN, Cox RD, Crabbe JC, Crusio WE, Darvasi A, Deschepper CF, Doerge RW, Farber CR, Forejt J, Gaile D, Garlow SJ, Geiger H, Gershenfeld H, Gordon T, Gu J, Gu W, de Haan G, Hayes NL, Heller C, Himmelbauer H, Hitzemann R, Hunter K, Hsu HC, Iraqi FA, Ivandic B, Jacob HJ, Jansen RC, Jepsen KJ, Johnson DK, Johnson TE, Kempermann G, Kendziorski C, Kotb M, Kooy RF, Llamas B, Lammert F, Lassalle JM, Lowenstein PR, Lu L, Lusis A, Manly KF, Marcucio R, Matthews D, Medrano JF, Miller DR, Mittleman G, Mock BA, Mogil JS, Montagutelli X, Morahan G, Morris DG, Mott R, Nadeau JH, Nagase H, Nowakowski RS, O'Hara BF, Osadchuk AV, Page GP, Paigen B, Paigen K, Palmer AA, Pan HJ, Peltonen-Palotie L, Peirce J, Pomp D, Pravenec M, Prows DR, Qi Z, Reeves RH, Roder J, Rosen GD, Schadt EE, Schalkwyk LC, Seltzer Z, Shimomura K, Shou S, Sillanpaa MJ, Siracusa LD, Snoeck HW, Spearow JL, Svenson K, Tarantino LM, Threadgill D, Toth LA, Valdar W, de Villena FP, Warden C, Whatley S, Williams RW, Wiltshire T, Yi N, Zhang D, Zhang M, Zou F; Complex Trait Consortium (2004) The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits. Nature Genetics 36(11):1133-7  PubMed  

2003

Valdar WSJ, Mott R, Flint J (2003) QTL fine-mapping with recombinant-inbred heterogeneous stocks and in-vitro heterogeneous stocks. Mammalian Genome.14(12):830-838  PubMed  PDF

2002 and earlier

Valdar WSJ (2002) Scoring residue conservation. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 43(2): 227-241.   PubMed  PDF  Errata

Nobeli I, Laskowski RA, Valdar WSJ, Thornton JM (2001) On the molecular discrimination between adenine and guanine in proteins. Nucleic Acids Research 29(21): 4294-4309   PubMed   PDF

Valdar WSJ, Thornton JM (2001) Conservation helps to identify biologically relevant crystal contacts. Journal of Molecular Biology 313(2): 399-416.   PubMed  PDF   Errata

Valdar WSJ, Thornton JM (2001) Protein-protein interfaces: analysis of amino acid conservation in homodimers. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 42(1): 108-124.   PubMed  PDF

Books & Chapters


Valdar WSJ
& Jones DT (2002) Amino acid residue conservation. In Bioinformatics: Sequence, Structure, Function (Orengo, CA, Thornton JM, Jones DT Eds).  Amazon


Posters

Valdar WSJ, Thornton JM (2000) Residue conservation at protein-protein interfaces. Bloomsbury Centre for Structural Biology Annual Meeting. Slideshow

Valdar WSJ, Thornton JM (1999) Residue conservation at protein-protein interfaces. ISMB99, Heidelberg, Germany. Abstract
 

Talks

2006

Too many to remember.

2005

"Mapping quantitative trait loci in heterogeneous stock mice". Center for Human Genetic Research, Mass General Hospital, Harvard University, USA (September 2005)

"Mapping genes that affect common diseases using outbred animals" MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University, UK(July 2005)  abstract

"Mapping quantitative trait loci in heterogeneous stock mice" Complex Trait Consortium 2005, 4th Annual Conference. University of Groningen, The Netherlands (June 2005)

"Simulating the collaborative cross: power of QTL detection and mapping resolution in large sets of recombinant inbred strains of mice". The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Sweden (February 2005)  PDF

2004

"Collaborative Cross RILs and related strategies for fine-mapping small effect QTLs". Complex Trait Consortium 2004, 3rd Annual Conference.  Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbour, Maine USA  (July 2004)   PDF

2003

"Mapping epistatic QTLs in recombinant inbred heterogenous stocks". Talk to biostatistics group at Roslin Institute, Edinburgh (December 2003)

"Mapping epistasis in RIHS or Exstatic: an epistatic extension to HAPPY". BioStag meeting, WTCHG, Oxford University, UK (November 2003)

"Fine mapping QTLs using recombinant inbred HS and in vitro HS". Complex Trait Consortium 2003, 2nd Annual Conference, Oxford University, UK (July 2003) PDF

2002 and earlier

"Scoring residue conservation". BioStag meeting, WTCHG, Oxford University, UK (July 2002) PDF

"Residue conservation at protein-protein interfaces". Talk on my PhD to the Gerstein group at Yale University, USA (March 2001). Slideshow

"Conservation at protein-protein interfaces". Final year PhD talk to UCL Biochemistry department, UK (May 2000). Slideshow
 

Theses

Valdar WSJ (2003) Detection of epistatic quantitative trait loci in murine heterogeneous stock recombinant inbred lines. MSc thesis (subject: applied statistics), Oxford University.

Valdar WSJ (2001) Residue conservation in the prediction of protein-protein interfaces. PhD thesis (subject: protein structure bioinformatics), University College London. PDF

Valdar WSJ (1998) J-Features: development of a java-based feature table editor. MSc thesis (subject: bioinformatics), Manchester University. PDF