Newcastle University

Qualifications

BSc in Mathematics,
MSc in Statistics,
PhD in Population Genetics.

Previous Positions

Lecturer in Statistics, University of Aberdeen 1999-2004

Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Chartered Statistician

Research Interests

Theoretical population genetics.
Development of association of phenotypes with genetic markers.
Statistical aspects of molecular ecology.
Analysis of large genetic datasets.

Other Expertise

Computer intensive methods in statistics.

Keywords

BATWING, Statistical Genetics

Postgraduate Teaching

I teach on the MSc in Medical Genetics

• Wilson IJ, Weale ME, Balding DJ. Inferences from DNA data: population histories, evolutionary processes and forensic match probabilities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A: Statistics in Society 2003, 166(2), 155-188.
• Wilson IJ. Approximate Likelihood Methods for SNP data with Genetic Correlations. 2012. In Preparation.
• Soemedi R, Wilson IJ, Bentham J, Darlay R, Topf A, Zelenika D, Cosgrove C, Setchfield K, Thornborough C, Granados-Riveron J, Blue GM, Breckpot J, Hellens S, Zwolinski S, Glen E, Mamasoula C, Rahman TJ, Hall D, Rauch A, Devriendt K, Gewillig M, O'Sullivan J, Winlaw DS, Bu'Lock F, Brook F, Bhattacharya S, Lathrop M, Santibanez-Koref H, Cordell HJ, Goodship JA, Keavney BD. Contribution of Global Rare Copy Number Variants to the Risk of Sporadic Congenital Heart Disease. American Journal of Human Genetics 2012. Submitted.
• Soemedi R, Topf A, Wilson IJ, Darlay R, Rahman T, Glen E, Hall D, Huang N, Bentham J, Bhattacharya S, Cosgrove C, Brook JD, Granados-Riveron J, Setchfield K, Bu'lock F, Thornborough C, Devreindt K, Breckpot J, Hofbeck M, Lathrop M, Rauch A, Blue G, Winlaw D, Hurles M, Santibanez-Koref M, Cordell H, Goodship J, Keavney B. Phenotype-Specific Effect of Chromosome 1q21.1Rearrangements and GJA5 Duplications in 2437 CongenitalHeart Disease Patients and 6760 Controls. Human Molecular Genetics 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Ermini L, Wilson IJ, Goodship THJ, Sheerin NS. Complement polymorphisms: Geographical distribution and relevance to disease. Immunobiology 2011, (epub ahead of print).
• Wilson IJ, Howey RAJ, Houniet DT, Santibanez-Koref M. Finding genes that influence quantitative traits with tree-based clustering. BMC Proceedings 2011, 5(s9), S98.
• Payne BAI, Wilson IJ, Hateley CA, Horvath R, Santibanez-Koref M, Samuels DC, Price DA, Chinnery PF. Mitochondrial aging is accelerated by anti-retroviral therapy through the clonal expansion of mtDNA mutations. Nature Genetics 2011, 43(8), 806-U121.
• Wilson IJ, Dawson KJ. A Markov chain Monte Carlo strategy for sampling from the joint posterior distribution of pedigrees and population parameters under a Fisher-Wright model with partial selfing. Theoretical Population Biology 2007, 72(3), 436-458.
• Santos-Lopes SS, Pereira RW, Wilson IJ, Pena SDJ. A worldwide phylogeography for the human X chromosome. PLoS ONE 2007, 2(6), e557.
• Vickers MA, McLeod E, Spector TD, Wilson IJ. Assessment of mechanism of acquired skewed X inactivation by analysis of twins. Blood 2001, 97(5), 1274-1281.
• Emery AM, Wilson IJ, Craig S, Boyle PR, Noble LR. Assignment of paternity groups without access to parental genotypes: multiple mating and developmental plasticity in squid. Molecular Ecology 2001, 10(5), 1265-1278.
• Estoup A, Wilson IJ, Sullivan C, Cornuet JM, Moritz C. Inferring population history from microsatellite and enzyme data in serially introduced cane toads, Bufo marinus. Genetics 2001, 159(4), 1671-1687.
• Wilson I.J., and Balding D. J. Genealogical inference from microsatellite data.. Genetics, 1998, 150, 499-510.