A new paper published today in Nature Genetics by Stefania Benonisdottir and Professor Augustine Kong sheds light on the impact of ascertainment bias on genetic studies and the role of footprints in genetic data to overcome it.
Congratulations to Dr Francesco Rampazzo, Lecturer in Demography at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, who has received an honourable mention for the Italian Society of Statistics’ (Società Italiana di Statistica) award for best thesis in demography.
A new Population Studies paper by Emeritus Professor of Family Demography John Ermisch from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science finds that women across all educational groups had fewer children and later on in life.
An innovative study published today in Science Advances finds that baseball and basketball players whose athletic skills peaked earlier or declined faster had significantly shorter lifespans. Those who peaked earlier had a 1.2 year shorter adult life expectancy whilst those who maintained athletic performance for longer had an 0.8 year higher life expectancy, according to the study by Dr Saul Newman from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.
