Gavin Band
Senior Statistician
I am a Senior Statistician and GMS DPhil Programme teaching lead at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. My interests are in host and pathogen genetics, in particular in the interplay between human and parasite genetics in malaria infections - for example as described in our recent paper. I am the creator of several software packages for genetic analysis, and designed the widely-used BGEN format.
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Recent publications
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Malaria endemicity linked to shorter telomeres in leukocytes.
Band G. and Leffler EM., (2024), Trends in parasitology
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An accurate genetic colocalization method for the HLA locus
Butler-Laporte G. et al, (2024)
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A second update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19.
COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative None., (2023), Nature, 621, E7 - E26
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A fourth locus in thePlasmodium falciparumgenome associated with sickle haemoglobin
Hamilton W. et al, (2023)
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Malaria protection due to sickle haemoglobin depends on parasite genotype
Band G. et al, (2022), Nature, 602, 106 - 111