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.
Journal article
Band G. and Leffler EM., (2024), Trends in parasitology
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A second update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19.
Journal article
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
Preprint
Hamilton W. et al, (2023)
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Malaria protection due to sickle haemoglobin depends on parasite genotype
Journal article
Band G. et al, (2022), Nature, 602, 106 - 111
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Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia.
Journal article
López S. et al, (2021), Nat Commun, 12