Peter Donnelly

...a statistical scientist at the University of Oxford. "We designed a questionnaire to help them combine all the evidence using Bayesian reasoning," says Donnelly (Significance, vol 2, p 46). They failed, though, to convince the jury of the...

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...Oxford, and a Fellow of both the Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences. Donnelly currently serves as chair of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. He also played a major role in the HapMap project, an international...

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...groups. Peter Donnelly, director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, said that the study offered an interesting opportunity, but that its value would depend on the details of its design. "You would...

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No more T-shirts Instead of smelly T-shirts, Chaix and colleague Peter Donnelly of the University of Oxford studied previously gathered genetic data on 30 Caucasian couples from Utah and 30 Yoruba couples from Nigeria. The researchers...

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...University of Queensland and Balliol College, Oxford. When elected to a chair at Queen Mary College, London in 1988 he was only 29, and possibly the youngest Professor in Great Britain. He held a chair at the University of Chicago (1994-96)...

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...Australia and the University of Oxford, and is an editor of the Handbook of Statistical Genetics. He is a protege of Peter Donnelly. Balding's research interests lie in the application of mathematics and statistics to problems in...

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...substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern". Professor Peter Donnelly, the director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, said: "DeCODE has been responsible for...

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...variation in our genomes. "We have now entered a new era of large-scale genetics unthinkable even a few years ago," says Professor Peter Donnelly from the University of Oxford, who will chair the consortium. "Breakthroughs in our...

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...we haven't been able to pinpoint the genetic factors which are involved," said lead researcher Peter Donnelly, of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford in England. "Our study is a new dawn to understanding genetic components...

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