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Jukka Corander

Jukka Corander

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Genetics

D-Index
76
Citations
23871
World Ranking
1816
National Ranking
7

Overview

Jukka Corander is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has a substantial research output focused on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their publication record spans over 200 works, reflecting expertise primarily in molecular biology, epidemiology, artificial intelligence, statistics, probability, and genetics.

Their work addresses key topics including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference

They have frequently published in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Nature Communications

Examples of recent papers include:

  • Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Plasmids Shaped the Recent Emergence of the Major Nosocomial Pathogen Enterococcus faecium, 2020, mBio
  • Improved Prediction of Bacterial Genotype-Phenotype Associations Using Interpretable Pangenome-Spanning Regressions, 2020, mBio
  • Genome evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity in avian Escherichia coli, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A large-scale genomic snapshot of Klebsiella spp. isolates in Northern Italy reveals limited transmission between clinical and non-clinical settings, 2022, Nature Microbiology

Jukka Corander collaborates regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research efforts. These frequent collaborators include Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Anna K. Pöntinen, Ørjan Samuelsen, and Teemu Kallonen.

Best Publications

  • Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

    Gerry Tonkin-Hill;Gerry Tonkin-Hill;Neil MacAlasdair;Neil MacAlasdair;Christopher Ruis;Christopher Ruis;Aaron Weimann

  • The fecal microbiota of irritable bowel syndrome patients differs significantly from that of healthy subjects.

    Anna Kassinen;Lotta Krogius-Kurikka;Harri Mäkivuokko;Teemu Rinttilä

  • Bayesian analysis of genetic differentiation between populations.

    Jukka Corander;Patrik Waldmann;Mikko J Sillanpää

  • Enhanced Bayesian modelling in BAPS software for learning genetic structures of populations.

    Jukka Corander;Pekka Marttinen;Jukka Sirén;Jing Tang

  • Bayesian identification of admixture events using multilocus molecular markers

    Jukka Corander;Pekka Marttinen

  • Approximate Bayesian computation

    Mikael Sunnåker;Alberto Giovanni Busetto;Elina Numminen;Jukka Corander

  • Hierarchical and Spatially Explicit Clustering of DNA Sequences with BAPS Software

    Lu Cheng;Thomas R. Connor;Thomas R. Connor;Jukka Sirén;David M. Aanensen

  • Evolution and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Russian population

    Nicola Casali;Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy;Yanina Balabanova;Simon R Harris

  • BAPS 2: enhanced possibilities for the analysis of genetic population structure

    Jukka Corander;Patrik Waldmann;Pekka Marttinen;Mikko J. Sillanpää

  • Bayesian spatial modeling of genetic population structure

    Jukka Corander;Jukka Sirén;Elja Arjas

  • Emergence of Epidemic Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecium from Animal and Commensal Strains

    François Lebreton;François Lebreton;Willem van Schaik;Willem van Schaik;Willem van Schaik;Abigail Manson McGuire Manson McGuire;Paul Godfrey

  • Fast and flexible bacterial genomic epidemiology with PopPUNK.

    John A. Lees;Simon R. Harris;Gerry Tonkin-Hill;Rebecca A. Gladstone

  • CYP2D6 worldwide genetic variation shows high frequency of altered activity variants and no continental structure.

    Johanna Sistonen;Antti Sajantila;Oscar Lao;Jukka Corander

  • Dense genomic sampling identifies highways of pneumococcal recombination

    Claire Chewapreecha;Simon R Harris;Nicholas J Croucher;Claudia Turner;Claudia Turner;Claudia Turner

  • Global Emergence and Dissemination of Enterococci as Nosocomial Pathogens : Attack of the Clones?

    Ana M. Guzman Prieto;Willem van Schaik;Malbert R. C. Rogers;Teresa M. Coque

  • Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for High-Resolution Typing of Enterococcus faecium

    Mark de Been;Mette Pinholt;Mette Pinholt;Janetta Top;Stefan Bletz

  • Bayesian analysis of population structure based on linked molecular information.

    Jukka Corander;Jing Tang

  • Fundamentals and Recent Developments in Approximate Bayesian Computation

    Jarno Lintusaari;Michael U. Gutmann;Ritabrata Dutta;Samuel Kaski

  • Patterns of genome evolution that have accompanied host adaptation in Salmonella.

    Gemma C. Langridge;Maria Fookes;Thomas R. Connor;Theresa Feltwell

  • Bayesian optimization for likelihood-free inference of simulator-based statistical models

    Michael U. Gutmann;Jukka Corander

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen D. Bentley
Stephen D. Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Nicholas J. Croucher
Nicholas J. Croucher Imperial College London
Samuel Kaski
Samuel Kaski Aalto University
William P. Hanage
William P. Hanage Harvard University
Samuel K. Sheppard
Samuel K. Sheppard University of Bath
Simon R. Harris
Simon R. Harris Wellcome Sanger Institute
Alan McNally
Alan McNally University of Birmingham
Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson Wellcome Sanger Institute
Thomas R. Connor
Thomas R. Connor Cardiff University

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