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J. Min, O. Vishnyakova, A. Brooks-Wilson, L.T. Elliott. A new sparse Bayesian quantile neural network-based approach and its application to discover physiological sweet spots in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. 2026. GeroScience. Preprint version & Supplementary material
A. Abivardi, M. Webster, P. McCarthy, F. Alfaro-Almagro, L. Radosavljevic, K.L. Miller, S. Jbabdi, M.W. Woolrich, W. Gong, C.F. Beckmann, L.T. Elliott, T.E. Nichols, S.M. Smith. PANDORA: Population Archive of Neuroimaging Data Organized for Rapid Analysis. 2026. medrxiv preprint 2026.01.05.26343425v2
S. Ge, S. Wang, L.T. Elliott. Hyperplane processes with rectified linear units. 2026. Statistics and Computing. 36(86)
O. Vishnyakova, J. Min, Stephen Leach, X. Song, K. Rockwood, A. Brooks-Wilson, L.T. Elliott. Metabolomic sweet spot clock predicts mortality and age-related diseases in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. 2026. Communications Medicine. 6(110)
J. Min, O. Vishnyakova, A. Brooks-Wilson, L.T. Elliott. Metabolites mediate genetic effects on disease in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. 2025. medrxiv preprint 2025.11.12.25339921v1
M. Scott, O. Vishnyakova, L.T. Elliott, G. Morgan, S. Casalino, E. Frangione, E. Lapadula, S. Haller, S. Thakur, Z. Khan, I. Wong, R. Nomigolzar, G. MacDonald, S. Arnoldo, E. Bearss, A. Binnie, B. Borgundvaag, L. Devine, D. Richardson, S. Stern, A. Taher, J. Lerner-Ellis, J. Taher. Development of laboratory-based risk scores to predict mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. 2025. LabMed Discovery. 2(4)
O. Vishnyakova, J. Min, X. Song, K. Rockwood, A. Brooks-Wilson, L.T. Elliott. Epigenetic signature of heterogeneity in aging: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. 2025. biorxiv preprint 2025.08.25.671156v1
V. Lammi et al. Genome-wide association study of long COVID. 2025. Nature Genetics. 57. p1402-17. Supplementary information, Tables, Data & Mention in the podcast This Week in Virology
E. Sidrow, A. Bouchard-Côté, L.T. Elliott. Variational phylogenetic inference with products over bipartitions. 2025. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). Preprint version, Reviews, Manuscript & Code
J. Min, O. Vishnyakova, A. Brooks-Wilson, L.T. Elliott. A joint Bayesian model for change-points and heteroskedasticity applied to the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Journal of Computational Biology. 2025. 32(4). p374-93. Supplementary material 1 & 2
G. Morgan, C.Y.J. Fung, A.C. Gingras, K. Colwill, L. Briollais, E. Frangione, D. Wolday, F. Qi, A. Pasculescu, M. Delgado-Brand, G. Mailhot, T. Tursun, S. Arnoldo, E. Bearrs, A. Binnie, B. Borgundvaag, S. Casalino, S. Chowdhary, M. Dagher, L. Devine, L.T. Elliott, S.M. Friedman, Z. Khan, E. Lapadula, G. MacDonald, T. Mazzulli, S.L. McLeod, C. Mighton, K. Nirmalanathan, D. Richardson, S. Stern, A. Taher, J. Young, J. Lerner-Ellis, J. Taher. Characterizing the SARS-CoV-2 antibody response and associations with patient factors: Serological profiling of participants enrolled in the GENCOV study. 2024. Clinical Biochemistry. 135. Manuscript
M.R.P. Parker, J. Cao, L.L.E. Cowen, L.T. Elliott, J. Ma. Multi-site disease analytics with applications to estimating COVID-19 undetected cases in Canada. Annals of Applied Statistics. 2024. 18(4). p2928-49. Supplementary material, Code & Preprint version
J. Bambi, H. Sadri, K. Moselle, E. Chang, Y. Santoso, J. Howie, A. Rudnick, L.T. Elliott, A. Kuo. Approaches to extracting patterns of service utilization for patients with complex conditions: Graph community detection vs. natural language processing clustering. 2024. BioMedInformatics. 4(3). p1884-900
M.R.P. Parker, J. Cao, L.L.E. Cowen, L.T. Elliott. Faster asymptotic solutions for N-mixtures on large populations. 2024. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics. 30(3). p730-45. Manuscript, Code & Supplementary material
J. Manuello, J. Min, P. McCarthy, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Lee, S. Smith, L.T. Elliott, A.M. Winkler, G. Douaud. The effects of genetic and modifiable risk factors on brain regions vulnerable to ageing and disease. 2024. Nature Communications. 15(2576). Manuscript, Code, Supplementary material 1, 2, 3, Washington Post article, Newsweek article, SFU's Scholarly Impact of the Week & University of Oxford News article
E. Garg, P. Arguello-Pascualli, O. Vishnyakova, A.R. Halevy, S. Yoo, J.D. Brooks, S.B. Bull, F. Gagnon, C.M.T. Greenwood, R.J. Hung, J.F. Lawless, J. Lerner-Ellis, J.K. Dennis, R.J.S. Abraham, J.-M. Garant, B. Thiruvahindrapuram, S.J.M. Jones, CGEn HostSeq Initiative, L.J. Strug, A.D. Paterson, L. Sun, L.T. Elliott. Canadian COVID-19 host genetics cohort replicates known severity associations. 2024. PLOS Genetics. 20(3). Manuscript, Code, Correction & Mention in the CGEn Annual Report 2023-24
The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. A second update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19 . 2023. Nature. 621(7977). pE7-26. Manuscript, Supplementary material 1, 2, 3, Results browser, Jerusalem Post article & Preprint version
O. Vishnyakova, X. Song, K. Rockwood, L.T. Elliott, A. Brooks-Wilson. Physiological phenotypes have optimal values relevant to healthy aging: Sweet spots deduced from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. 2023. GeroScience. 46(2). p1589-605. Manuscript, Supplementary material, Vancouver Sun interview & SFU News article
J. Schneider, D. Stenning, L.T. Elliott. Efficient galaxy classification through pretraining. 2023. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 10. Manuscript, Code & Thesis
S. Yoo, E. Garg et al. HostSeq: A Canadian whole genome sequencing and clinical data resource. 2023. BMC Genomic Data. 24(26). Manuscript, Supplementary material, COVID-19 Immunity Task Force summary & Data
S. Wang, S. Ge, B. Sobkowiak, L. Wang, L. Grandjean, C. Colijn, L.T. Elliott. Genome-wide association with uncertainty in the genetic similarity matrix. 2023. Journal of Computational Biology. 30(2). p117-243. Manuscript & Code
S. Ge, S. Wang, L.T. Elliott. Shape modeling with spline partitions. 2023. Statistics and Computing. 33(13). Supplementary material & Code
S. Lee, J.D. Bijsterbosch F. Alfaro Almagro, L.T. Elliott, P. McCarthy, B. Taschler, R. Sala-Llonche, C.F. Beckmann, E.P. Duff, S.M. Smith, G. Douaud. Amplitudes of resting-state functional networks—investigation into their correlates and biophysical properties. 2022. NeuroImage. 265. Manuscript, Supplementary material 1 & 2
M.R.P. Parker, L.L.E. Cowen, J. Cao, L.T. Elliott. Computational efficiency and precision for replicated-count and batch-marked hidden population models. 2022. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics. 28(1). p43-58. Manuscript, Supplementary material 1, 2, 3 & CRAN package
L. Wang, J. Min, R. Doig, L.T. Elliott, C. Colijn. Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence through integration of serology and incidence data. 2022. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 50(3). p734-50. Manuscript & Supplementary material
C. Wang, A.B. Martins-Bach, F. Alfaro-Almagro, G. Douaud, J.C. Klein, A. Llera, C. Fiscone, R. Bowtell, L.T. Elliott, S.M. Smith, B.C. Tendler, K.L. Miller. Phenotypic and genetic associations of quantitative magnetic susceptibility in UK Biobank brain imaging. 2022. Nature Neuroscience. 25(5583). p818-31. Manuscript, Supplementary material 1 & 2
J. Min, L.T. Elliott. Q-learning with online random forests. 2022. arxiv preprint 2204.03771. Manuscript, Supplementary material & Thesis
M.R.P. Parker, Y. Li, L.T. Elliott, J. Ma, L.L.E. Cowen. Under-reporting of COVID-19 in the Northern Health Authority region of British Columbia. 2021. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 49(4). p1018-38. Manuscript, Supplementary material & CBC Radio One (Prince George) interview
J.E. Stockdale, R. Doig, J. Min, N. Mulberry, L. Wang, L.T. Elliott, C. Colijn. Long time frames to detect the impact of changing COVID-19 measures, Canada, March to July 2020. 2021. Eurosurveillance. 26(4). Code & Supplementary material
W. Chen, L.T. Elliott. Compression for population genetic data through finite-state entropy. 2021. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 19(5). Manuscript, Supplementary material, Thesis & Website
S. Wang, S. Ge, C. Colijn, P. Biller, L. Wang, L.T. Elliott. Estimating genetic similarity matrices using phylogenies. 2021. Journal of Computational Biology. 28(6). p587–600. Manuscript, Code & Supplementary material
S.M. Smith, G. Douaud, W. Chen, T. Hanayik, F. Alfaro-Almagro, K. Sharp, L.T. Elliott. An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank. 2021. Nature Neuroscience. 24(5). p737-45. Data, EBI Accessions & SFU Scholarly Impact of the Week
L.T. Elliott. Kinship solutions for partially observed multiphenotype data. 2020. Journal of Computational Biology. 27(9). p1461-70. Code & Supplementary material
N.J. Armstrong et al. Common genetic variation indicates separate causes for periventricular and deep white matter hyperintensities. 2020. Stroke. 51(7). p2111-21. Manuscript, Supplementary material 1 & 2
S.M. Smith, L.T. Elliott, F. Alfaro-Almagro, P. McCarthy, T.E. Nichols, G. Douaud, K.L. Miller. Brain aging comprises many modes of structural and functional change with distinct genetic and biophysical associations. 2020. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.52677. Data & Code
S. Ge, S. Wang, Y.W. Teh, L. Wang, L.T. Elliott. Random tessellation forests. 2019. Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Manuscript, Artwork, Code, Supplementary material & Preprint version
J. Mollink, S.M. Smith, L.T. Elliott, M. Kleinnijenhuis, M. Hiemstra, F. Alfaro-Almagro, J. Marchini, A.-M. van Cappellen van Walsum, S. Jbabdi, K.L. Miller. The spatial correspondence and genetic influence of interhemispheric connectivity with white matter microstructure. 2019. Nature Neuroscience. 22(5). p809-19. Manuscript & Supplementary material
L.T. Elliott, M. De Iorio, S. Favaro, K. Adhikari, Y.W. Teh. Modeling population structure under hierarchical Dirichlet processes. 2019. Bayesian Analysis. 14(2). p313-39. Code & Supplementary material
L.T. Elliott, K. Sharp, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Shi, K.L. Miller, G. Douaud, J. Marchini, S.M. Smith. Genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank. 2018. Nature. 562(7726). p210-6. Data, Code, Winner's curse correction & Wired article
C. Bycroft, C. Freeman, D. Petkova, G. Band, L.T. Elliott, K. Sharp, A. Motyer, D. Vukcevic, O. Delaneau, J. O’Connell, A. Cortes, S. Welsh, A. Young, M. Effingham, G. McVean, S. Leslie, N. Allen, P. Donnelly, J. Marchini. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data. 2018. Nature. 562(7726). p203-9. Data, Nature News and Views article, Supplementary material & Preprint version
S. Schwab, R. Harbord, V. Zerbi, L.T. Elliott, S. Afyouni, J.Q. Smith, M.W. Woolrich, S.M. Smith, T.E. Nichols. Directed functional connectivity using dynamic graphical models. 2018. NeuroImage. 175. p340-53
L.T. Elliott. Bayesian nonparametric models of genetic variation. 2016. Doctoral thesis, University College London Mathematica code
L.T. Elliott, Y.W. Teh. A nonparametric HMM for genetic imputation and coalescent inference. 2016. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 10(2). p3425-51. Preprint version & Code
R.M. Cichy, P. Sterzer, J. Heinzle, L.T. Elliott, F. Ramirez, J.-D. Haynes. Probing principles of large-scale object representation: Category preference and location encoding. 2013. Human Brain Mapping. 34(7). p1636-51. Supplementary material
L.T. Elliott, Y.W. Teh. Scalable imputation of genetic data with a discrete fragmentation-coagulation process. 2012. Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Code
I. Murray, L.T. Elliott. Driving Markov chain Monte Carlo with a dependent random stream. 2012. arxiv preprint 1204.3187. Manuscript, Code & Mention in Radford Neal's blog
Y.W. Teh, C. Blundell, L.T. Elliott. Modelling genetic variations using fragmentation-coagulation processes. 2011. Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Y. Chen, P. Namburi, L.T. Elliott, J. Heinzle, C.S Soon, M.W.L. Chee, J.-D. Haynes. Cortical surface-based searchlight decoding. 2011. NeuroImage. 56(2). p582-92. Supplementary material

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