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Isobel Barnes
BScH MSc PhD
Associate Professor
Isobel Barnes is a Senior Statistician in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit. She completed a PhD in statistics before joining the unit in 2010. Her research interests are in cancer screening, risk factors for cancer in different ethnic groups, as well as cervical and breast cancer epidemiology.
Isobel is a co-investigator of the AgeX trial, a clinical trial assessing the harms and benefits of extending the age range for breast screening in the UK. Isobel also works on the Million Women Study, a cohort study of women’s health, which includes over 1.3 million women.
Recent publications
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Comparing the accuracy and efficiency of third generation sequencing technologies, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and Pacific Biosciences, for DNA barcode sequencing applications
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Cuber P. et al, (2023), Ecological Genetics and Genomics, 28
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MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads.
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Uliano-Silva M. et al, (2023), BMC Bioinformatics, 24
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Historical Mitogenomic Diversity and Population Structuring of Southern Hemisphere Fin Whales.
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Buss DL. et al, (2023), Genes (Basel), 14
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Establishing the availability of the mammalian genus name Antillomys and species name Antillomys rayi (Rodentia, Cricetidae)
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Brace S. et al, (2023), Therya, 14, 293 - 298
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Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain.
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Charlton S. et al, (2022), Nat Ecol Evol