Duncan Palmer
Senior Research Fellow in statistical genetics. I co-lead the Biobank Rare-Variant Consortium and build methods for rare variation at biobank scale.
Run around, walk up to a building, read the sign. Eight facts, three people to annoy, six reviewers. Press F to rebut, Space to jump over them. Don't stay too long.
About
I develop statistical and computational methods to understand disease mechanisms, combining genetic, phenotypic and functional data across very large, globally distributed cohorts, with a particular interest in the rare end of the allele frequency spectrum.
SMARTbiomed Senior Research Fellow at the Big Data Institute and Department of Statistics, Oxford, where I co-lead the (gen)omics theme. Previously a postdoc with Ben Neale, Nick Patterson and Cecilia Lindgren at MGH, the Broad Institute and Oxford. DPhil in Statistics at Oxford with Dame Angela McLean and Gil McVean. Master's in Mathematics and Statistics at Warwick.
Selected work
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2026
Palmer DS, Hill B, Hodgson S, Jäeloo M, Kalantzis G, Kousathanas A, et al., Neale BM
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2023
Analysis of genetic dominance in the UK Biobank
Palmer DS, Zhou W, Abbott L, Wigdor EM, Baya N, Churchhouse C, et al.
Science 379:1341–1348 -
2022
Exome sequencing in bipolar disorder identifies AKAP11 as a risk gene shared with schizophrenia
Palmer DS, Howrigan DP, Chapman SB, Adolfsson R, Bass N, et al.
Nature Genetics 54:541–547 -
2019
Mapping the drivers of within-host pathogen evolution using massive data sets
Palmer DS, Turner I, Fidler S, Frater J, Goedhals D, Goulder P, et al., McLean AR, McVean G
Nature Communications 10:3017