Use of WGS and Omics to better understand the biology and behaviour of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Web-based resource designed to explore Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) genomic variation at a global scale.
The Strain Bank is a collection of well characterized strains of M. tuberculosis that are available to the TB research community
PlasmoView is a web-tool that facilitates the investigation of Plasmodium falciparum polymorphisms across populations in malaria endemic regions and the presentation of allele frequencies on maps.
VarB software can read in multi-sample VCF files, and visualize and critically assess contents and identify informative markers
A Java desktop application for visualising and exploring comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) data.
TB Genomics Asia Network (UKRI GCRF funded) inaugural meeting (The Philippines, February 2019)
International Workshop in Epidemiology in Infectious Diseases in Malaysia | Course Dates: 15-20th October
Short Annual Course on Infectious Disease study using the latest 'Omics software and technologies | Course Dates: 19-21 September 2018
Taane Clark - Professor of Genomics and Global Health (co-Director of The Applied Genome Centre) Send Mail
Susana Campino - Associate Professor Send Mail
Francesc Coll - Assistant Professor
Monica Campos - Research Fellow
Ernest Diez Benavente - Research Fellow
Catherine Ludden - Research Fellow
Jody Phelan - Assistant Professor
Emilia Manko - Research Assistant
Anton Spadar - Research Assistant
Anna Turkiewicz - Research Assistant
Emma Collins - MRC PhD Student
Wouter Deelder - PhD Student
Paula Gomez Gonzalez - MRC PhD Student
Matthew Higgins - BBRSC PhD Student
Amy Ibrahim - MRC PhD Student
Gary Napier BBSRC PhD StuDent
Ashley Osbourne - Nagasaki-LSHTM PhD Student
Tanushree Tunstall - BBRSC PhD Student
Daniel Ward - Bloomsbury Research Fund PhD Student
Ifeyinwa Aniebo (PhD)
Francesc Coll (Bloomsbury PhD)
Jody Phelan (BBSRC PhD)
Ana Rita Gomes
Afonso Guerra
Stephane Hue
Kim Mallard
Harold Ocholla (Wellcome PhD)
Yaa Oppong (BBSRC PhD)
Mark Preston
Matt Ravenhall (BBSRC PhD)
Neneh Sallah
Hanif Bin Samad
Nuno Sepulveda
Bem Sobkowiak
Stefan Panaiotov
Jean-Bosco Oudraogo
Issaka Zongo
Rick Fairhurst
Jaime Robledo
Cristophe Sola
Steffan Borrmann
Harold Ocholla
Mahamadou Diakite
Richard Anthony
Rumina Hasan
Pascal Michon
Isabel Portugal
Miguel Viveiros
Arnab Pain
Oumar Faye
Keertan Dheda
Rob Warren
Ruth McNerney
Tim Anderson
Francois Nosten
Prapat Suriyaphol
Surakameth Mahasirimongkol
Sanjib Bhakta
David Baker
Martin Hibberd
Colin Sutherland
Teun Bousema
Francesc Coll
David Conway
Julian Parkhill
Cally Roper
Nuno Sepulveda
Alister Craig
Chris Drakeley
Nick Furnham
Judith Glynn
Julius Hafalla
Martin Holland
Nigel Martin
Eleanor Riley
Brendan Wren
Julius Hafalla
Fady Mohareb
George Roussos
Bryan Greenhouse
Ma. Cecilia G. Ama
Raul Destura
Dodge Lim
Maxine Caws
YY Teo
Laura Gomez
Sobkowiak B, Banda L, Mzembe T, Crampin AC, Glynn JR, Clark TG. Bayesian reconstruction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission networks in a high incidence area over two decades in Malawi reveals associated risk factors and genomic variants. Microb Genom. 2020 Apr 1. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000361.
Perdigao J, Modesto A, Pereira AL, Neto O, Matos V, Godinho A, Phelan J, Charleston J, Spadar A, Florez de Sessions P, Hibberd M, Campino S, Costa A, Fernandes, Ferreira F, Correia AB, Gonçalves L, Clark TG & Duarte A. Whole Genome Sequencing Resolves a Polyclonal Outbreak by Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactam and Carbapenem Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Portuguese tertiary-care hospital. Microb Genom. 2020 Apr 1. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000349.
Katale BZ, Mbelele PM, Lema NA, Campino S, Mshana SA, Rweyemamu MM, Phelan JE, Lema N, Keyyu JD, Majigo M, Mbugi EV, Dockrell HM, Clark TG, Matee MI, Mpagama S. Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates and clinical outcomes of patients treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Tanzania. BMC Genomics. 2020 Feb 21;21(1):174. doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-6577-1.
Perdigao J, Gomes P, Miranda A, Maltez F, Machado D, Silva C, Phelan J, Brum L, Campino S, Couto I, Viveiros M, Clark TG, Portugal I. Using genomics to understand the origin and dispersion of multidrug and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Portugal. Sci Rep. 2020 Feb 13;10(1):2600.
Benavente ED, Campos M, Phelan J, Nolder D, Dombrowski JG, Marinho CRF, Sriprawat K, Taylor AR, James Watson J, Roper C, Nosten F, Sutherland CJ, Campino S, Clark TG. A molecular barcode to inform the geographical origin and transmission dynamics of Plasmodium vivax malaria. PLoS Genet. 2020 Feb 13;16(2):e1008576. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008576.
Doyle RM, O'Sullivan DM, Aller SD, Bruchmann S, Clark T, Coello Pelegrin A, Cormican M, Diez Benavente E, Ellington MJ, McGrath E, Motro Y, Phuong Thuy Nguyen T, Phelan J, Shaw LP, Stabler RA, van Belkum A, van Dorp L, Woodford N, Moran-Gilad J, Huggett JF, Harris KA. Discordant bioinformatic predictions of antimicrobial resistance from whole-genome sequencing data of bacterial isolates: an inter-laboratory study. Microb Genom. 2020 Feb 12. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000335.
Diakité SAS, Traoré K, Sanogo I, Clark TG, Campino S, Sangaré M, Dabitao D, Dara A, Konaté DS, Doucouré F, Cissé A, Keita B, Doumbouya M, Guindo MA, Toure MB, Sogoba N, Doumbia S, Awandare GA, Diakité M. A comprehensive analysis of drug resistance molecular markers and Plasmodium falciparum genetic diversity in two malaria endemic sites in Mali. Malar J. 2019 Nov 12;18(1):361.
Jabbar A, Phelan JE, de Sessions PF, Khan TA, Rahman H, Khan SN, Ali S, Campino S, Waddell S, Clark TG. Whole genome sequencing of drug resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a highly endemic tuberculosis region of Pakistan. Sci Reports. 2019 Oct 18;9(1):14996.
Ajawatanawong P, Yanai H, Smittipat N, Disratthakit A, Yamada N, Miyahara R, Nedsuwan S, Imasanguan W, Kantipong P, Chaiyasirinroje B, Wongyai J, Plitphonganphim S, Tantivitayakul P, Phelan J, Parkhill J, Clark TG, Hibberd ML, …, Mahasirimongkol S, Tokunaga K, Palittapongarnpim P. A novel Ancestral Beijing sublineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis suggests the transition site to Modern Beijing sublineages. Scientific Reports 2019 Sep 23;9(1):13718. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50078-3
Dheda K, Gumbo T, Maartens G, Dooley KE, Murray M, Furin J, Nardell EA, Warren RM; Lancet Respiratory Medicine drug-resistant tuberculosis Commission group (T.G. Clark, member). The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission: 2019 update: epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant and incurable tuberculosis. Lancet Respir Med. 2019 Sep; 7(9):820-826
Deelder W, Christakoudi S, Phelan J, Diez Benavente E, Campino S, McNerney R, Palla L, Clark TG. Machine learning predicts accurately Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance from whole genome sequencing data. Frontiers in Genetics. Sept 26. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00922
Benavente ED, Gomes AR, De Silva JR, Grigg M, Walker H, Barber BE, William T, Yeo TW, de Sessions PF, Ramaprasad A, Ibrahim A, Charleston J, Hibberd ML, Pain A, Moon RW, Auburn S, Lau YL, Anstey NM, Clark TG & Campino S. Whole genome sequencing of amplified Plasmodium knowlesi DNA from unprocessed blood reveals genetic exchange events between Malaysian Peninsular and Borneo subpopulations. Sci Reports. 2019 Jul 8;9(1):9873.
Phelan JE, Lim DR, Mitarai S, de Sessions PF, Tujan MAA, …, Hibberd ML, Kato S, Ama MCG, Clark TG. Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequencing provides insights into the Manila strain and drug-resistance mutations in the Philippines. Sci Rep. 2019 Jun 26;9(1):9305.
Phelan J, O’Sullivan DM, Machado D, Ramos J, YEA Oppong, Campino S, O’Grady J, McNerney R, Hibberd M, Viveiros M, Huggett JF, Clark TG. Integrating informatics tools and portable sequencing technology for rapid detection of resistance to anti-tuberculous drugs. Genome Med. 2019 Jun 24;11(1):41
Mohring F, Hart MN, Rawlinson T, Henrici R, Charleston JA, Benavente ED, Patel A, Hall J, Almond N, Campino S, Clark TG, et al. Rapid and iterative genome editing in the malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi provides new tools for P. vivax research. Elife. 2019 Jun 17;8. pii: e45829.
Ravenhall M, Diez Benavente E, Sutherland CJ, Baker DA, Campino S, Clark TG. An analysis of large structural variation in global Plasmodium falciparum isolates identifies a novel duplication of the chloroquine resistance associated gene. Scientific Reports 2019; Jun 4;9(1):8287.
Nacul, L, de Barros B, Kingdon C, Cliff J, Clark TG, Mudie K, Dockrell H, Lacerda E. Evidence of Clinical Pathology Abnormalities in People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) from an Analytic Cross-Sectional Study. Diagnostics (Basel). 2019 Apr 10;9(2). pii: E41.
Ravenhall M, Campino S, Clark TG. SV-Pop: Population-based structural variant analysis and visualization. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 20:136.
Gomez-Gonzalez PJ, Andreu N, Phelan J, de Sessions PF, Glynn JR, Crampin AC, Campino S, Butcher PD, Hibberd ML, Clark TG. An integrated whole genome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals insights into relationship between its genome, transcriptome and methylome. Scientific Reports. 2019 Mar 26;9(1):5204.
He Y, Campino S, Benavente ED, Warhurst DC, Beshir KB, Lubis I, Gomes AR, Feng J, Jiazhi W, Sune X, Huang F, Tang L, Sutherland CJ, Clark TG. Artemisinin resistance-associated markers in Plasmodium falciparum parasites from the China-Myanmar border: predicted structural stability of K13 propeller variants detected in a low-prevalence area. PloS One. 2019; Mar 18;14(3): e0213686.
Dombrowski JG, de Souza RM, Bandeira CL, …., Clark TG, Epiphanio S, Gonçalves LA, Marinho CRF. Falciparum malaria during pregnancy is associated with microcephaly in newborns. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(5):e193300.
Oppong YEA, Phelan J; Perdigão J, Machado D, Miranda A, Portugal I, Miguel Viveiros; Clark TG & Hibberd ML. Genome-wide analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis polymorphisms reveals lineage-specific associations with drug resistance. BMC Genomics. 2019 Mar 29;20(1):252.
Broad JB, Wu Z, Clark TG, Musson D, Jaung R, Bissett I, Arroll B, Connolly MJ. Diverticulosis and nine connective tissue disorders: epidemiological evidence of association. Connective Tissue Research. In press.
Costa SS, Sobkowiak B, Parreira R, Edgeworth JD, Viveiros M, Clark TG & Couto I. Genetic diversity of norA, coding for a main efflux pump of Staphylococcus aureus. Front Genet. 2019 Jan 9;9:710.
Grignard L, Mair C, Curry J, Mahey L, Bastiaens GJH, Tiono AB, Okebe J, Coulibaly SA, Gon√ßalves BP, Affara M, Ouédraogo A, Bougouma EC, Sanou GS, Nebie I, Lanke KHW, Sirima SB, d'Alessandro U, Clark TG, Campino S, Bousema T, Drakeley C. Bead Based assays to simultaneously detect multiple human inherited blood disorders associated with malaria. Malaria J. 2019 Jan 21;18(1):14
Cook, S., Malyutina, S., Kudryavtsev, A. V, Averina, M., Bobrova, N., Boytsov, S., … Clark, T. G., … Leon, D. A. (2018). Know Your Heart: Rationale, design and conduct of a cross-sectional study of cardiovascular structure, function and risk factors in 4500 men and women aged 35-69 years from two Russian cities, 2015-18. Wellcome Open Research, 3, 67. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14619.2
Campos, M. C., Dombrowski, J. G., Phelan, J., Marinho, C. R. F., Hibberd, M., Clark, T. G., & Campino, S. (2018). Zika might not be acting alone: Using an ecological study approach to investigate potential co-acting risk factors for an unusual pattern of microcephaly in Brazil. PLOS ONE, 13(8), e0201452. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201452
Sobkowiak, B., Glynn, J. R., Houben, R. M. G. J., Mallard, K., Phelan, J. E., Guerra-Assunção, J. A., … Clark, T. G. (2018). Identifying mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections from whole genome sequence data. BMC Genomics, 19(1), 613. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4988-z
Higgins, M., Ravenhall, M., Ward, D., Phelan, J., Ibrahim, A., Forrest, M. S., … Clark, T. G., Campino, S. (2018). PrimedRPA: Primer design for Recombinase polymerase amplification assays. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty701
Palittapongarnpim, P., Ajawatanawong, P., Viratyosin, W., Smittipat, N., Disratthakit, A., Mahasirimongkol, S., … Clark, T. G., … Tokunaga, K. (2018). Evidence for Host-Bacterial Co-evolution via Genome Sequence Analysis of 480 Thai Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 1 Isolates. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 11597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29986-3
Ndila, C. M., Uyoga, S., Macharia, A. W., Nyutu, G., Peshu, N., Ojal, J., … Clark, T. G., … Yamoah, L. (2018). Human candidate gene polymorphisms and risk of severe malaria in children in Kilifi, Kenya: a case-control association study. The Lancet Haematology, 5(8), e333–e345. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3026(18)30107-8
Auburn, S., Benavente, E. D., Miotto, O., Pearson, R. D., Amato, R., Grigg, M. J., … Clark, T. G., … Price, R. N. (2018). Genomic analysis of a pre-elimination Malaysian Plasmodium vivax population reveals selective pressures and changing transmission dynamics. Nature Communications, 9(1), 2585. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04965-4
Leon, L. J., Doyle, R., Diez-Benavente, E., Clark, T. G., Klein, N., Stanier, P., & Moore, G. E. (2018). Enrichment of Clinically Relevant Organisms in Spontaneous Preterm-Delivered Placentas and Reagent Contamination across All Clinical Groups in a Large Pregnancy Cohort in the United Kingdom. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84(14). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00483-18
Kiyuka, P. K., Agoti, C. N., Munywoki, P. K., Njeru, R., Bett, A., Otieno, J. R., … Clark, T. G., … Cotten, M. (2018). Human Coronavirus NL63 Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Patterns in Rural Coastal Kenya. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 217(11), 1728–1739. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy098
Sepúlveda, N., Phelan, J., Diez-Benavente, E., Campino, S., Clark, T. G., Hopkins, H., … Beshir, K. B. (2018). Global analysis of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein-2 ( pfhrp2 ) and pfhrp3 gene deletions using whole-genome sequencing data and meta-analysis. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 62, 211–219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2018.04.039
McNerney, R., Zignol, M., & Clark, T. G. (2018). Use of whole genome sequencing in surveillance of drug resistant tuberculosis. Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, 16(5), 433–442. https://doi.org/10.1080/14787210.2018.1472577
Perdigão, J., Silva, C., Diniz, J., Pereira, C., Machado, D., Ramos, J., … Clark, T. G., … Portugal, I. (2018). Clonal expansion across the seas as seen through CPLP-TB database: A joint effort in cataloguing Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity in Portuguese-speaking countries. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2018.03.011
Last, A. R., Pickering, H., Roberts, C. h., Coll, F., Phelan, J., Burr, S. E., … Clark, T. G., … Holland, M. J. (2018). Population-based analysis of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis in trachoma-endemic West African communities identifies genomic markers of disease severity. Genome Medicine, 10(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-018-0521-x
Ravenhall, M., Campino, S., Sepúlveda, N., Manjurano, A., Nadjm, B., Mtove, G., … Clark, T. G., … MalariaGEN. (2018). Novel genetic polymorphisms associated with severe malaria and under selective pressure in North-eastern Tanzania. PLOS Genetics, 14(1), e1007172. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007172
Coll, F., Phelan, J., Hill-Cawthorne, G. A., Nair, M. B., Mallard, K., Ali, S., … Clark, T. G. (2018). Genome-wide analysis of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Genetics, 50(2), 307–316. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-017-0029-0
Benavente, E. D., de Sessions, P. F., Moon, R. W., Grainger, M., Holder, A. A., Blackman, M. J., … Clark, T. G. (2018). A reference genome and methylome for the Plasmodium knowlesi A1-H.1 line. International Journal for Parasitology, 48(3–4), 191–196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.09.008
Benavente ED, de Sessions PF, Moon RW, Grainger M, Holder AA, Blackman MJ, Roper C, Drakeley CJ, Pain A, Sutherland CJ, Hibberd ML, Campino S, Clark TG. A reference genome and methylome for the Plasmodium knowlesi malaria A1-H.1 strain. Int J Parasitology. In press.
Sheen P, Requena D, Gushiken E, Gilman RH, Antiparra R, Lucero B, Lizarraga P, Cieza B, Roncal E, Grandjean L, Pain A, McNerney R, Clark TG, Moore D, Zimic M. A multiple genome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals specific novel genes and mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance. BMC Genomics 2017; Oct 11;18(1):769. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-4146-z.
Nakatani Y, Opel-Reading HK, Merker M, …, Clark TG, et al. Role of alanine racemase mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis D-cycloserine resistance. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Oct 2. pii: AAC.01575-17.
Campos MC, Phelan J, Taylor MC, Pain A, Clark TG, Kelly JM. Genome-wide mutagenesis and multi-drug resistance in American trypanosomes induced by the front-line drug benznidazole. Scientific Reports; Oct 31;7(1):14407.
Tosas-Auguet O, Stabler RA, Betley J, Preston M, Dhaliwal M, Gaunt M, Ioannou A, Desai N, Karadag T, Marbach H, Patel A, Batra R, Clark TG & Edgeworth J. Frequent Undetected Ward-Based MRSA Transmission Linked to Patient Sharing Between Hospitals. Clinical Inf Diseas 2017 Oct 31. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix901.
Benavente ED, de Sessions PF, Moon RW, Holder AA, Blackman MJ, Roper C, Drakeley CJ, Pain A, Sutherland CJ, Hibberd ML, Campino S, Clark TG. Analysis of nuclear and organellar genomes of Plasmodium knowlesi in humans reveals ancient population structure and recent recombination among host-specific subpopulations. PloS Genetics 2017 Sep 18;13(9):e1007008.
Kanji A, Hasan R, Zaver A, Ali A, Ashraf M, Imtiaz K, Clark TG, McNerney R, Shafiq S, Hasan R. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Efflux pumps genes in Extensively Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Pakistan. Tuberculosis. (Edinb). 2017 Dec;107:20-30. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2017.07.012. Epub 2017 Aug 3.
Sengstake S, Bergval IL, Schuitema A, de Beer AJ, Phelan J, de Zwaan R, Clark TG, van Soolingen D, Anthony RM. Pyrazinamide resistance-conferring mutations in pncA and the transmission of Multi drug resistant TB in Georgia. BMC Infect Dis. 2017 Jul 12;17(1):491.
Dombrowski JG, Souza RM, Curry J, Hinton L, Silva NRM, Grignard L, Gonçalves L, Gomes A, Epiphanio S, Drakeley C, Huggett J, Clark TG, Campino S, Marinho C. G6PD deficiency alleles in a malaria endemic region in Western Brazilian Amazon. Malaria J. 2017; Jun 15;16(1):253. doi: 10.1186/s12936-017-1889-6.
Benavente ED, de Oliveira TC, Campino S, Ward Z, Chan W, Mohareb FR, Sutherland CJ, Ferreira M, Roper C, Clark TG. Using whole genomic variation in Plasmodium vivax malaria to reveal regions under selective pressure. PloS One 2017. 2017 May 11;12(5):e0177134.
Gomes AR, Ravenhall M, Diez Benavente E, Talman A, Sutherland C, Roper C, Clark TG, Campino S. Genetic diversity of next generation antimalarial targets: a baseline for drug resistance surveillance programmes. International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance. 2017;7(2):174-180.
Walk J, Reuling I, Behet M, Meerstein-Kessel , …, Clark TG, Huynen MA, Hermsen CC, Bijker EM, Scholzen EA, Sauerwein RW. Modest heterologous protection after Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite immunization in a randomized controlled trial. BMC Medicine. 2017; 15:168.
Trimarsanto H, Benavente ED, Noviyanti R, Utami RA, Trianty L, Pava Z, Getachew S, Kim JY, Goo YK, Wangchuck S, Liu Y, Gao Q, Dowd S, Cheng Q, Clark TG, Price RN, Auburn S. VivaxGEN: An Open Access Platform for Comparative Analysis of Short Tandem Repeat Genotyping Data in Plasmodium vivax Populations. PloS Negl. Trop. Medicine. 2017 Mar 31;11(3):e0005465.
Sepulveda N, Manjurano A, Campino SG, Lemnge M, Lusingu J, Olomi R, Rockett KA, Hubbart C, Jeffreys A, MalariaGEN, Clark TG & Riley EM & Drakeley CJ. Genetic signatures of malaria selection validated by association with current and historic measures of malaria transmission intensity. J Inf Diseas 2017; May 25. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jix250
Dheda K, Gumbo T, Maartens G, Dooley KE, McNerney R, Murray M, Furin J, Nardell EA, London L, Lessem E, Theron G, van Helden P, Niemann S, Merker M, Dowdy D, Van Rie A, Siu GKH, Pasipanodya JG, Rodrigues C, Clark TG, et al. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis. Lancet Respir Med. 2017 Mar 15. pii: S2213-2600(17)30079-6.
Last A, Roberts C, Coll F, …, Clark TG, Thomson N, Holland M. Genome wide association analysis in ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection identifies genomic markers associated with disease severity. Nature Microbiology 2017;
Lacerda E, Bowman E, Cliff J, Kingdon C, King E, Clark TG, Dockrell H, Riley E, Nacul L. Protocol for the UK ME/CFS Biobank - a Resource for High Quality Biomedical Research. Open Journal of Bioresources 2017; 4: 4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ojb.28
Dheda K. Limberis J, Pietersen E, Phelan J, Theron G, Esmail A, Jayakumar J, Lesosky M, McNerney R, Fennelly K, van Helden P, Sirgel F, Pain A, Clark TG & Warren R. Molecular epidemiology, transmission dynamics, and outcomes of programmatically incurable TB in South Africa: a prospective cohort study. Lancet Resp. Med 2017; Jan 18. pii: S2213-2600(16)30433-7.
Clarke GM, Rockett KA, …, Manjurano A, Sepúlveda N, Clark TG, et al. Multi-centre analysis of the association between severe malaria and multiple forms of G6PD deficiency. eLife 2017;6:e15085
Andreu N, Phelan J, de Sessions P, Cliff JM, Clark TG, Hibberd M. Primary macrophages and J774 cells respond differently to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sci Rep. 2017; Feb 8;7:42225. doi: 10.1038/srep42225.
McNerney R, Clark TG, Campino S, Rodriguez C, Dolinger D, Smith L, Schito M. Removing the bottleneck in whole genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis for rapid drug resistance analysis: a call to action. Int J Infectious Dis. 2016 Dec 13. pii: S1201-9712(16)31642-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.11.422.
Phelan J, O’Sullivan DM, Whale AS, Campino S, Viveiros M, Huggett J, Clark TG. The impact of DNA processing and sequencing technology on Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome characterisation and drug resistance profiling. Genome Medicine 2016, 8:132.
Ravenhall M, Benavente ED, Mipando M, Jensen ATR, Sutherland CJ, Roper C, Kwiatkowski DP, Montgomery J, Phiri KS, Terlouw A, Craig A, Campino S, Ocholla H, Clark TG. Characterising the impact of sustained Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine use upon the Plasmodium falciparum population in Malawi. Malaria J. 2016. Nov 29;15(1):575. PMID: 27899115
Refregier G, Abadia E, Matsumoto T, Ano H, Takashima T, Tsuyuguchi I, Aktas E, Panaiotov S, Phelan J, Coll F, McNerney R, Clark TG, Sola C. Combining host and pathogen data to reconstruct deep tuberculosis evolution: linking back Turkish and Japanese history to Paleolithic? Infect Genet Evol. 2016 Oct 13. pii: S1567-1348(16)30418-X
Ansaria HR, Templeton TJ, Subudhi AK, Ramaprasad A, Tang J, Lu F, Naeem R, Oguike MC, DiezBenavente E, Clark TG, Sutherland CJ, Barnwell JW, Culleton R, Cao J, Pain A. Genome-scale comparison of expanded gene families in Plasmodium ovale wallikeri and Plasmodium ovale curtisi with Plasmodium malariae and with other Plasmodium species. Int J Parasitology 2016 Jul 5. pii: S0020-7519(16)30135-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.05.009. PMID: 27392654
Coker OO, Chaiprasert A, Ngamphiw C, Tongsima S, Regmi SM, Clark TG, Ong RTH, Teo Y, Prammananan T, Palittapongarnpim P. (2016) Genetic signatures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Nonthaburi genotype revealed by whole genome analysis of isolates from tuberculous meningitis patients in Thailand. PeerJ 4:e1905. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1905
Phelan J, Coll F, McNerney R, Glynn JR, Campino S, Pain A, Clark TG. Recombination in PE and PPE multi-family genes contributes to genetic variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. BMC Genomics 2016 Feb 29;17(1):151. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-2467-y
Campino SG, Assefa S, Thompson E, Drought LG, Taylor C, Gorvett Z, Carret CJ, Flueck C, Ivens AC, Kwiatkowski DP, Alano P, Baker DA, Clark TG. Genomic variation in the A4 and F12 gametocyte non-producing malaria strains. Malaria J 2016 Apr 21;15(1):229. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1254-1.
Phelan J, Coll F, McNerney R, Ascher DB, Furnham N, Coeck N, Hill-Cawthorne GA, Nair MB, Mallard K, Meehan C, Sola C, Hibberd M, Ramsey A, Pain A, Rigouts L, Clark TG. Whole genome association analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates provides insight into mutation position and the minimal inhibitory concentration of anti-tuberculosis drugs. BMC Medicine 2016, 14:31. doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0575-9.
Kim J-Y, Goo Y-K, Zo Y-G; Ji S-Y, Trimarsanto H; To S, Clark TG, Price R, Auburn S. Further evidence of increasing diversity of Plasmodium vivax in the Republic of Korea in recent years. PLoS One. 2016 Mar 18;11(3):e0151514. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151514
Getachew S, To S, Trimarsanto H, Ley-Thriemer K, Clark TG, Aseffa A, Petros B, Price RN, Auburn S. Variation in complexity of infection and transmission stability between neighbouring populations of Plasmodium vivax in Southern Ethiopia. PloS One 2015 Oct 15;10(10):e0140780.
Moule MG, Spink N, Willcocks S, Lim J, Guerra-Assunção JA, Cia F, Senior N, Atkins H, Titball RW, Clark TG, Bancroft G, Cuccui J, Wren BW. Characterisation of new virulence factors involved in the intracellular growth and survival of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Infect. & Immun. (in press).
Dalla Costa ER, Vasconcelos SEG, Esteves LS, Gomes HM, Gomes LL, Silva PEA, Perdigão J, Portugal I, Viveiros M, McNerney R, Pain A, Clark TG, Rastogi N, Unis G, Rossetti MLR, Suffys PN. Multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the Latin American Mediterranean lineage wrongly identified as Mycobacterium pinnipedii (ST863) causing active tuberculosis in south Brazil. J Clin Microbiology 2015 Sep 23. pii: JCM.02012-15.
Roberts CH, Franklin CS, Makalo P, …, Clark TG, Burton M, Mabey DCW, Bailey R, Barroso I, Holland MJ. Host genome-wide associations with pathology from ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infections converge on the metabolic cell cycle, cell surface receptors and associated signalling pathways. Nature Scientific Reports 2015; 5:17447.
Assefa SA, Lim C, Preston MD, Duffy CW, Nair MB, Kadir KA, Goldberg JE, Neafsey D, Divis PCS, Clark TG, Duraisingh MT, Conway DJ, Pain A, Singh B. Population genomic structure and adaptation in the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2015; 112(42): 13027-32.
Sheen P, Requena D, Gilman RH, Gushiken E, Antiparra R, Lucero B, Lizárraga P, Cieza B, Roncal E, Grandjean L, Pain A, McNerney R, Clark TG, Moore D, Zimic M. A multiple genome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals specific genes and mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance. Int J Mycobacteriology (in press).
Shelton J, Risley P, De Silva N, Hubbart C, Jeffreys A, Rowlands K, Craik R, Cornelius V, Hensmann M, Molloy S, Sepulveda N, Clark TG et al. Genetic Determinants Of Anti-Malarial Acquired Immunity In A Large Multi-Centre Study. Malaria Journal 2015; Aug 28;14(1):333.
Cairns M, Preston MD, Lawley T, Clark TG, Stabler R, Wren B. Genomic epidemiology of a protracted hospital outbreak caused by a toxin A negative, Clostridium difficile sublineage PCR Ribotype 017 strain in London, England. J Clin Micro 2015; Jul 15. pii: JCM.00648-15.
Abdallah AM, Hill-Cawthorne G, Otto TD, Coll F, Ummels R, Adroub SA, Gao G, Guerra-Assunção AJ, Malas T, Naeem R, Zhang H, Panigrahi AK, Ali S, Mcnerney R, Brosch R, Clark TG, Behr MA, Bitter W, Pain A. Genomic expression catalogue of a global collection of BCG vaccine strains show evidence for highly diverged metabolic and cell-wall adaptations. Scientific Reports 2015; 5:15443.
Kanji A, Hasan Z, Ali A, McNerney R, Mallard K, Coll F, Hill-Cawthorne C, Nair M, Clark TG, Zaver A, Jafri S, Hasan R. Characterization of genomic variations in SNPs of PE_PGRS genes reveals deletions and insertions in extensively drug resistant (XDR) M. tuberculosis strains from Pakistan. Int J Mycobacteriology 2015; 4, 73-79.
Noviyanti R, Coutrier F, Utami RAS, Trimarsanto H, …, Clark TG, Price R, Auburn S. Contrasting transmission dynamics of co-endemic Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax: implications for malaria control and elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 May 7;9(5):e0003739. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003739
Coll F, McNerney R, Preston MD, Guerra-Assunção JA, …, Pain A, Clark TG. Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences. Genome Medicine 2015; May 27; 7:51.
Benavente ED, Coll F, Furnham N, McNerney R, Glynn JR, Campino S, Pain A, Mohareb FR, Clark TG. PhyTB: Phylogenetic tree visualisation and sample positioning for M. tuberculosis. BMC Bioinformatics. 2015 May 13;16:155. doi: 10.1186/s12859-015-0603-3.
Straimer J, Recker, Martin-Valls A, Preston M, Clark TG, Mueller A, Przyborski J, Borrmann S. Gene amplification fuels the acquisition of high-level anti-folate resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Nature Commun. 2015 (in press)
Phelan J, Coll F, McNerney R, Pain A, Bhakta S, Clark TG. Mycobacterium aurum genome sequence and investigating tuberculosis infection and drug resistance. Int J Mycobact. 2015; 4: 207–216.
Samad H, Coll F, Preston MD, Ocholla H, Fairhurst RM, Clark TG. Imputation-based population genetics analysis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites. PLoS Genet. 2015; 11(4):e1005131.
Manjurano A, NadimB, Wangai M, Mtove G, MalariaGEN, Reyburn H, Drakeley CJ, Riley E, Clark TG. Polymorphisms in USP38, FREM3, SDC1, DDC and LOC727982 genes and differential susceptibility to severe malaria phenotypes in Tanzania. J Infectious Dis. 2015 J Mar 24. pii: jiv192.
Bergval I, Schuitema A, de Ronde H, Coll F, Mallard K, Pain A, McNerney R, Clark TG, Anthony R. The majority of the mutations fixed in the genomes of in vitro selected isogenic drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutants can be detected as minority variants in the parent culture. FEMS Microbiology Letters 2015 Jan;362(2):1-7.
Manjurano A, Nadim B, Wangai M, Mtove G, Reyburn H, Riley E, Drakeley CJ, Clark TG. African Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase alleles associated with protection from severe malaria in heterozygous females in Tanzania. PloS Genetics 2015 Feb 11;11(2):e1004960.
Glynn JR, Guerra Assunção JA, Houben RMGJ, Mzembe T, Munthali L, Parkhill J, Crampin AC, Clark TG. Whole genome sequencing shows a low proportion of tuberculosis disease is attributable to close contacts in rural Malawi. PLoS One. 2015 Jul 16;10(7):e0132840
Guerra-Assunção JA, Crampin AC, Houben RMGJ, Mzembe T, Mallard K, Coll F, Khan P, Banda L, Chiwaya A, Pereira RPA, McNerney R, Fine PEM, Parkhill J, Clark TG, Glynn JR. Large scale population-based whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis provides insights into transmission in a high prevalence area. E-life 2015; 4:e05166.
Ali A, Hasan Z, McNerney R, Mallard K, Hill-Cawthorne G, Coll F, Nair M, Pain A, Clark TG, Hasan R. Whole genome sequencing based characterization of extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Pakistan. PloS One 2015 Feb 26;10(2):e0117771.
Guerra-Assunção JA, Houben RMGJ, Crampin AC, Mzembe T, Mallard K, Coll F, Khan P, Banda L, Chiwaya A, Pereira RPA, McNerney R, Harris D, Parkhill J, Clark TG, Glynn JR. Relapse or reinfection with tuberculosis: a whole genome sequencing approach in a population with high HIV prevalence. J Infectious Diseases 2014 Oct 21. pii: jiu574.
Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (TG Clark, Senior statistical author). Reappraisal of known malaria resistance loci in a large multicenter study. Nature Genetics 2014; Sep 28. doi: 10.1038/ng.3107.
Perdigão J, Silva H, Machado D, …. , Clark TG, Viveiros M, Portugal I. Unraveling the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic diversity and evolution in a high Multi and Extensive Drug resistance burden setting: the Lisboa family and tuberculosis in Lisbon, Portugal. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:991
Takala-Harrison S, Jacob CG, Arze C, …., Clark TG, Miotto O, MacInnis B, Kwiatkowski DP, White NJ, Ringwald P, Plowe CV. Independent emergence of artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Southeast Asia. J Infectious Disease 2014 Sep 1. pii: jiu491.
Coll F, McNerney R, Guerra-Assunção JA, Glynn JR, Perdigão J, Viveiros M, Portugal I, Pain A, Martin N, Clark TG. A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. Nature Comm. 2014 Sep 1;5:4812. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5812.
Liu Y, Auburn S, Cao J, Trimarsanto H, Zhou H, Gray K, Clark TG, Price RN, Cheng Q, Huang R, Gao Q. Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Plasmodium vivax in Central China. Malaria J 2014 Jul 9;13(1):262
Apinjoh TO, Anchang-Kimbi JK, Njua-Yafi C, Ngwai AN, Mugri RN, Clark TG, Rockett KA, Kwiatkowski DP, Achidi EA, MalariaGEN Consortium. Association of candidate gene polymorphisms with malaria and TGF-beta and IL10 levels in three regions of Cameroon: case -control study. Malaria Journal 2014, 13:236 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-236
Hill-Cawthorne G, Hudson L, Mohamed M, Piepenburg O, Nair M, Dodgson A, Forrest M, Clark TG & Pain A. Recombinations in staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements compromise the molecular detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. PloS One 2014 Jun 27;9(6):e101419.
Henriques G, Hallett RL, Beshir KB, Gadalla N, Johnson RE, Burrow R, van Schalkwyk D, Sawa P, Omar SA, Clark TG, Bousema T, Sutherland CJ. Sub-microscopic Plasmodium falciparum persisting in Kenyan children immediately after ACT show directional selection at the pfmdr1, pfcrt, pfubp1 and pfap2mu loci. J Inf. Diseas. 2014 Jul 3. pii: jiu358.
Maiga B, Dolo A, Campino S, Sepulveda N, Corran P, Rockett K, Troye-Blomberg M, Doumbo O, Clark TG. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and mild malaria susceptibility in Dogon and Fulani, Mali. Malaria J 2014, Jul 11; 13(1):270.
Preston MD, Campino S, Assefa SA, …., Sutherland CJ, Roper C, Clark TG. A barcode of organellar genome polymorphisms identifies the geographic origin of Plasmodium falciparum strains. Nature Commun. 2014 Jun 13;5:4052. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5052.
Ocholla H, Mipando M, … Craig A, Clark TG & Montgomery J. Whole-genome sequencing of Malawi Plasmodium falciparum isolates reveals selection pressure on genes encoding drug-response proteins and candidate vaccine antigens. J Infectious Disease 2014 Jun 19. pii: jiu349.
Alsford S, Currier R, Guerra-Assunção JA, Clark TG, Horn D. An RNAi screen uncovers the major determinants of human serum sensitivity in Trypanosoma brucei brucei. PLoS Pathog. 2014 May 15;10(5):e1004130. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004130. eCollection 2014 May.
Naeem R, Hidayah L, Preston MD, Clark TG, Pain A. SVAMP: Sequence Variation Analysis, Maps and Phylogeny. Bioinformatics 2014 Apr 23
Kafsack BFC, Rovira-Graells N, Clark TG, Crowley VM, Campino SG, Williams AE, Drought LG, Kwiatkowski DP, Baker DA, Cortés A, Llinás M. A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites. Nature. 2014 Feb 23. doi: 10.1038/nature12920.
Sepulveda N, Manjurano A, Riley E, Drakeley C, Clark TG. On the performance of in tackling missing genotypes of the alpha-thalassemia locus in a malaria association study. Annals Human Genetics 2014 Jul;78(4):277-89
Coll F, Preston M, Guerra-Assunção JA, Hill-Cawthorn G, Harris D, Perdigão J, Viveiros M, Portugal I, Drobniewski F, Gagneux S, Glynn JR, Pain A, Parkhill J, McNerney R, Martin N, Clark TG. PolyTB: A genomic variation map for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2014 May;94(3):346-54. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2014.02.005. Epub 2014 Feb 15.
Moule MG, Hemsley CM, Seet Q, Senior NJ, Guerra A, Lim J, Champion OL, Sarkar-Tyson M, Clark TG, Tan P, Titball RW, Cuccui J, Wren BW. Genomewide saturation mutagenesis of Burkholderia pseudomallei reveals the essential gene set and identifies novel virulence determinants. MBio 2014, Feb 11;5(1).
Mobegi VA, Duffy CW, Amambua-Ngwa A, Loua KM, Laman E, Nwakanma DC, MacInnis B, Aspeling-Jones H, Clark TG, Kwiatkowski DP, Conway DJ. Genome-wide analysis of local signatures of selection on the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in West African populations of differing endemicity. Mol Bio Evol 2014 Jun;31(6):1490-9
Assefa S, Campino S, Ocholla H, Sutherland CJ, Clark TG. estMOI: Estimating multiplicity of infection using parasite deep sequencing data. Bioinformatics 2014 May 1;30(9):1292-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu005. Epub 2014 Jan 17.
Preston MD, Assefa S, Ocholla H, Sutherland CJ, Borrmann S, Nzila A, Michon P, Hien TT, Bousema T, Drakeley CJ, Zongo I, Ouedraogo JB, Djimde AA, Doumbo OK, Nosten F, Fairhurst RM, Conway DJ, Roper C, Clark TG. PlasmoView: A web-based resource to visualise global Plasmodium falciparum genomic variation. J Infect Dis. 2013 Dec 12.
Apinjoh TO. Anchang-Kimbi JK, Yafi CN, Rockett KA, Mbunwe E, Besingi RN, Clark TG, Kwiatkowski DP, Achidi, EA Association between cytokine and Toll-like receptor gene polymorphisms and severe malaria in three regions of Cameroon. PloS One 2013; 8(11): e81071
Nwakanma DC, Duffy CW, Amambua-Ngwa A, Oriero EC, Bojang KA, Pinder M, Drakeley CJ, Sutherland CJ, Milligan PJ, MacInnis B, Kwiatkowski DP, Clark TG, Greenwood BM, Conway DJ. Changes in malaria parasite drug resistance in The Gambia over a 25-year period related to genomic signatures of selection. J Infect. Disease 2013 Nov 21.
Maiga B, Dolo A, Touré O, Dara V, Tapily A, Campino S, Sepulveda N, Corran P, Rockett K, Clark TG & Troye Blomberg M & Doumbo OK. Fcgamma Receptor IIa and malaria susceptibility in Fulani and Dogon living in an endemic area of Mali. Scand J Immunol. 2014 Jan;79(1):43-50. doi: 10.1111/sji.12122..
Borrmann S, Mwai L, Abdirahnam A, Straimer J, Rippert A, Sasi P, Mosobo M, Lowe B, Campino S, Assefa S, Auburn S, Manske M, Maslen G, Peshu N, Kwiatkowski DP, Marsh K, Nzila A, Clark TG. Genome-wide screen identifies new candidate genes associated with artemisinin susceptibility in Plasmodium falciparum in Kenya. Scientific Reports 2013; Nov 25;3:3318. doi: 10.1038/srep03318.
Maiga B, Dolo A, Touré O, Dara V, Tapily A, Campino S, Sepulveda N, Risley P, Corran P, Rockett KA, Kwiatkowski DP, The MalariaGEN Consortium, Clark TG & Troye Blomberg M & Doumbo OK. Human candidate polymorphisms involved in malaria susceptibility in sympatric ethnic groups in Mali. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 2;8(10):e75675..
Clark TG, Mallard K, Coll F, Preston M, Assefa, S, …, Eisenach K, Joloba, M, Bentley, S, Parkhill J, Jones-López, E, McNerney, R. Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Treatment Experienced Patients. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 11;8(12):e83012.
Liu X, Ong RH, Pillai EN, Elzein AM, Small KS, Clark TG, Kwiatkowski DP, Teo YY. Detecting and characterizing genomic signatures of positive selection in global populations. Am J Hum Genet. 2013 May 22. doi:pii:
Kariuki SM, Rockett KA, Clark TG, Reyburn H, Agbenyega T, Taylor TE, Williams T, MalariaGEN Consortium, Newton RJC. Phenotypes and Gene Polymorphisms of Malaria-associated Seizures in African Populations. Epilepsia 2013 Apr 24. doi: 10.1111/epi.12173.
Band G, Le QS, … , Schuldt K, Clark TG, Small KS, Teo YY, Kwiatkowski DP, Rockett KR, Barrett JC, Spencer C, MalariaGEN. Imputation based meta-analysis of severe malaria in three African populations. PLoS Genet. 2013 May;9(5):e1003509. Epub 2013 May 23.
Sepulveda N, Campino SG, Assefa S, Sutherland C, Pain A, Clark TG. A Poisson mixture modelling approach to detecting copy number variation in whole sequence coverage data. BMC Genomics 2013; 14(1):128
Takala-Harrison S, Clark TG et al. Genetic loci associated with delayed clearance of Plasmodium falciparum following artemisinin treatment in Southeast Asia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jan 2;110(1):240-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211205110. Epub 2012 Dec 17.
Auburn S, Marfurt J, Maslen G, Campino S, MacHunter B, Enny Kenangalem, Russell B, William T, Barber B, Yeo T, MacInnis B, Manske M, Miotto O, Clark TG, Anstey NM, Kwiatkowski D, Price RN. Effective preparation of Plasmodium vivax DNA for high-throughput whole-genome sequencing. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e53160. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053160. Epub 2013 Jan 4.
Manjurano AM & Clark TG, Nadjm B, Mtove G, Wangai M, Sepulveda N, Campino S, Rockett KR, Richardson A, MalariaGEN consortium, Riley EM, Drakeley CJ, Reyburn H. Candidate human genetic polymorphisms and severe malaria in a Tanzanian population. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e47463. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047463. Epub 2012 Oct 29.
Coll F, Mallard K, Preston M, McNerney R, Martin N, Clark TG. SpolPred: Rapid and accurate ascertainment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain types from short genomic sequences. Bioinformatics. 2012 Nov 15;28(22):2991-3. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts544. Epub 2012 Sep 26.
Preston MD, Manske M, Horner N, Assefa S, Campino S, Auburn S, Zongo I, Ouédraogo JB, Nosten F, Anderson T, Clark TG. VarB: A visualisation and analysis tool for polymorphisms derived from sequence data. Bioinformatics. 2012 Nov 15;28(22):2983-2985. Epub 2012 Sep 13.
Toure O, Konate S, Sissoko S, Amadou N, Barry A, Sall H, Diarra E, Poudiougou B, Sepulveda N, Campino S, Rockett KA, Clark TG & Thera MA & Doumbo O, in collaboration with the MalariaGEN Consortium. Candidate polymorphisms and severe malaria in a Malian population. PLoS ONE 7(9): e43987. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043987.
Campino S, Clark TG. Genetic contribution to malaria susceptibility and resistance, in Genomic variation and genetic disorders of developing countries, Oxford University Press, New York (2012).
Dunstan SJ, Rockett KA, Quyen NTN, Teo YY, Thai CO, Hang NT, Richardson A, Clark TG, de Vries J, Day N, O’Riordan SE, Kwiatkowski DP, Farrar J, Phu NH, MalariaGEN Consortium, Hien TT. Variation in human genes encoding adhesion and pro-inflammatory molecules are associated with severe malaria in the Vietnamese. Genes Immun. 2012 Jun 7. doi: 10.1038/gene.2012.25.
da Silva Santos S, Clark TG, Campino S, Suarez-Mutis MC, Rockett KA, et al. (2012) Investigation of Host Candidate Malaria-Associated Risk/Protective SNPs in a Brazilian Amazonian Population. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36692. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036692
Smith M, Campino S, Gu Y, Clark TG, Otto TD, Maslen G, Manske M, Imwong M, Dondorp AM, Kwiatkowski DP, Quail MA, Swerdlow HA. An In-Solution Hybridisation Method for the Isolation of Pathogen DNA from Human DNA-rich Clinical Samples for Analysis by NGS. The Open Genomics Journal, 5: 18-29; doi: 10.2174/1875693X01205010018.
Auburn S, Campino S, Miotto O, Djimde AA, Zongo I, Manske M, Maslem G, Mangano V, Alcock D, MacInnis B, Rockett K, Clark TG, Doumbo OK, Ouédraogo JB, Kwiatkowski DP. Characterisation of Within-Host Plasmodium falciparum Diversity using Next-Generation Sequence Data. PLoS One. 2012;7(2):e32891. Epub 2012 Feb 29.
Cliff JM, Lee J, Constantinou N, Cho J, Clark TG, Ronacher K, King EL, Lukey PT, Duncan K, van Helden P, Walzl G, Dockrell HM. Distinct phases of blood gene expression pattern through tuberculosis treatment reflect modulation of the humoral immune response. J Infect Diseas. 2012 Aug 7.
Ghansah A, Rockett K, Clark TG, Wilson M, Koram K, Oduro R, Amego-Etego L, Anyorigiya T, Hudgson A, Milligan P, Rogers W, Kwiatkowski D. Haplotype analyses of haemoglobin C and haemoglobin S and the dynamics of the evolutionary response to malaria in Kassena-Nankana District of Ghana. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34565. Epub 2012 Apr 10.
Lawley TD, Clare S, Walker AW, Stares MD, …, Clark TG, Parkhill J, Dougan G. Targeted restoration of the intestinal microbiota with a simple, defined bacteriotherapy resolves relapsing Clostridium difficile in mice. PLoS Pathog. 2012 Oct;8(10):e1002995. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002995. Epub 2012 Oct 25.
Manske M, Miotto O, …., Clark TG (Statistics lead until Jan 2010), Newbold CN, Berriman M, MacInnis B, Kwiatkowski DP. Next-generation sequencing analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity within the host and across populations. Nature 2012 Jun 13. doi: 10.1038/nature11174.
Manjurano A, Okell L, Lukindo T, Reyburn H, Olomi R, Roper C, Clark TG, Joseph S, Riley EM, Drakeley C. Association of sub-microscopic malaria parasite carriage with transmission intensity in north-eastern Tanzania. Malaria Journal 2011, 10:370
Downing T, Imamura H, Decuypere, Clark TG et al. Whole genome sequencing of Leishmania donovani clinical lines reveals dynamic variation related to drug resistance. Genome Res. 2011 Dec;21(12):2143-56. Epub 2011 Oct 28.
Robinson T, Campino S, …. Clark TG, Sutherland C. Drug-Resistant Genotypes and Multi-Clonality in Plasmodium falciparum Analysed by Direct Genome Sequencing from Peripheral Blood of Malaria Patients. PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23204. Epub 2011
Auburn S, Campino S, Clark TG et al.. An effective method to purify Plasmodium falciparum DNA directly from clinical blood samples for whole genome high-throughput sequencing. PLoS One. 2011;6(7):e22213. Epub 2011 Jul 18.
Campino S, Auburn S, Kivinen K, … , Clark TG, Kwiatkowski DP. Population genetic analysis of Plasmodium parasites using a customized Illumina GoldenGate genotyping assay. PLoS One. 2011;6(6):e20251. Epub 2011 Jun 6.
Sambo MR, Tovoada MJ, Benchimol C, Quinhentos V, Velosa R, Marques MI, Clark TG, Coutino A, Penha-Goncalves C. Transforming growth factor beta 2 and heme oxygenase 1 genes are risk factors for the cerebral malaria syndrome in Angolan children. Plos One 2010 Jun 16;5(6):e11141.
Carroll RP, Segundo DS, Hollowood K, Marafioti T, Clark TG, Harden PN, Wood KJ. Immune Phenotype Predicts Risk for Posttransplantation Squamous Cell Carcinoma. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Apr;21(4):713-22.
Clark TG, Campino SG, Teo YY, Small K, Auburn S, Rockett KA, Kwiatkowski DP, Holmes CC. A Bayesian approach to assess differences in linkage disequilibrium patterns in genomewide association studies. Bioinformatics. 2010 Aug 15;26(16):1999-2003.
Thye T, Vannberg FO, …., African TB Genetics Consortium (TG Clark = member of the TB statistical analysis group); Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Morris AP, Meyer CG, Horstmann RD, Hill AV. Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2. Nat Genet. 2010 Sep; 42(9):739-41.
Lawley TD, Clare S, Deakin LJ, Goulding D, Yea J, Raisen C, Lovell J, Cook F, Clark TG, Dougan G. A quantitative and practical method for monitoring Clostridium difficile spore decontamination. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Aug 27.
Auburn A, Fry AE, Clark TG, Campino S, Diakite M, Green A, Richardson A, Jallow M, Sisay-Joof F, Pinder M, Molyneux ME, Taylor TE, Rockett KA, Haldar K, Kwiatkowski DP. Further evidence supporting Gs signal transduction in severe malaria pathogenesis. PloS One 2010; 5(4):e10017.
Sousa I, Clark TG, Holt R, Pagnamenta A, Mulder E, Bailey AJ, Battaglia A, Monaco AP, International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium (IMGSAC). Polymorphisms in leucine-rich repeat genes are associated with autism spectrum disorder susceptibility in populations of European ancestry. Molecular Autism 2010; 1:7.
Daelemans C, Ritchie ME, Smits G, Abu-Amero S, Sudbery IM, Forrest MS, Campino S, Clark TG et al, High-throughput analysis of candidate imprinted genes and allele-specific gene expression in the human term placenta. BMC Genet. 2010 Apr 19;11:25.