Publications

Combining genomics and epidemiology to track mumps virus transmission in the United States.

Author(s): Wohl S, Metsky HC, Schaffner SF, Piantadosi A, Burns M, Lewnard JA, Chak B, Krasilnikova LA, Siddle KJ, Matranga CB, Bankamp B, Hennigan S, Sabina B, Byrne EH, McNall RJ, Shah RR, Qu J, Park DJ, Gharib S, Fitzgerald S, Barreira P, Fleming S, Lett S, Rota PA, Madoff LC, Yozwiak NL, MacInnis BL, Smole S, Grad YH, Sabeti PC|Journal: PLoS Biol|PMID: 32045407| February 2020

Unusually large outbreaks of mumps across the United States in 2016 and 2017 raised questions about the extent of mumps…

Quantifying connectivity between local Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite populations using identity by descent.

Author(s): Taylor AR, Schaffner SF, Cerqueira GC, Nkhoma SC, Anderson TJC, Sriprawat K, Pyae Phyo A, Nosten F, Neafsey DE, Buckee CO|Journal: PLoS Genet|PMID: 29077712| October 2017

With the rapidly increasing abundance and accessibility of genomic data, there is a growing interest in using population genetic approaches…

Modeling malaria genomics reveals transmission decline and rebound in Senegal.

Author(s): Daniels RF, Schaffner SF, Wenger EA, Proctor JL, Chang HH, Wong W, Baro N, Ndiaye D, Fall FB, Ndiop M, Ba M, Milner DA Jr, Taylor TE, Neafsey DE, Volkman SK, Eckhoff PA, Hartl DL, Wirth DF|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 25941365| June 2015

To study the effects of malaria-control interventions on parasite population genomics, we examined a set of 1,007 samples of the…