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Blum M.G.B., M.A. Nunes, D. Prangle, S.A. Sisson. A comparative review of dimension reduction methods in approximate Bayesian computation. arXiv:1202.3819 (2012)

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Sjödin P., A.E. Sjöstrand, M. Jakobsson, M.G.B Blum. Resequencing data provide no evidence for a human bottleneck in Africa during the penultimate glacial period. Molecular Biology and Evolution, advance access (2012) Supp Mat

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Csilléry K., O. François, M.G.B. Blum. abc: an R package for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC). Methods in Ecology and Evolution doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00179.x (2012)

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Jay F., M.G.B. Blum, E. Frichot, O. François. Modèles à variables latentes en génétique des populations. Journal de la société française de statistique 152:3-20 (2011)

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Jay F., O. François, M.G.B. Blum. Predictions of Native American Population Structure Using Linguistic Covariates in a Hidden Regression Framework. PLoS ONE 6: e16227 (2011)
 
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Blum M.G.B., M. Jakobsson. Deep divergences of human gene trees and models of human origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28: 889-898 (2011)
Featured by Faculty of 1000.
There is also a press release from the CNRS,
and a Web article in the French journal Pour La Science.
 
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Blum M.G.B. Approximate Bayesian Computation: a nonparametric perspective. Journal  of the American Statistical Association, 105: 1178-1187, Supp Mat 1, Supp Mat 2 (2010)
 
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Blum M.G.B., V-C Tran.  HIV with contact tracing: a case study in Approximate Bayesian Computation. Biostatistics, 11: 644-660 (2010)

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Blum M.G.B. Choosing the Summary Statistics and the Acceptance Rate in Approximate Bayesian Computation. In COMPSTAT 2010-Proceedings in Computational Statistics, ed. G. Saporta, Y. Lechevallier.  Springer, Physica Verlag pp 47-56 (2010)
 
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Csilléry K., M.G.B. Blum,  O.E. Gaggiotti, O. François. Approximate Bayesian Computation in practice. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25: 410-418 (2010)
 
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Csilléry K., M.G.B. Blum,  O.E. Gaggiotti, O. François. Invalid arguments against ABC: A reply to AR Templeton. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25: 490-491 (2010)
 
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Blum M.G.B., O. François. Non-linear regression models for Approximate Bayesian Computation.
Statistics and Computing, 20: 63-73  (2010).
Supporting Information.
R code
2 Examples in R: Parameter estimation; Model selection
Now implemented in the abc R package
 

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Naderi S., H-R Rezaei, F. Pompanon, M.G.B. Blum, R. Negrini, H-R Naghash, O. Balkız, M. Mashkour, O. Gaggiotti, P. Ajmone-Marsan, A. Kence, J-Denis Vigne, P.Taberlet. The goat domestication process inferred from large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild and domestic individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105: 17659-64 (2008)
A digest of the paper can be found in the CNRS website
 
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Forhan G., J-L Martiel, M.G.B. Blum. A deterministic model of admixture and genetic introgression: The case of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon. Mathematical Biosciences, 216:71-76 (2008)
 
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François O., M.G.B. Blum, M. Jakobsson, N.A. Rosenberg. Demographic history of European populations of Arabidopsis Thaliana. PLoS Genetics 4(5)(2008)
A report in the CNRS website about this work
 

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Durand E., M. G. B. Blum and O. François. Prediction of group patterns in social mammals based on a coalescent model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 249: 262-270 (2007)
 
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Blum M.G.B. and N.A. Rosenberg. Estimating the number of ancestral lineages using a maximum likelihood method based on rejection sampling. Genetics 176: 1741-1747 (2007).
 
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Rosenberg N.A. and M.G.B Blum. Sampling properties of homozygosity-based statistics for linkage disequilibrium. Mathematical Biosciences 208: 33-47 (2007).
 
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Mooers A.O., L. J. Harmon, M. G. B. Blum, D. H. J. Wong and S.B. Heard. Some models of phylogenetic tree shape in Reconstructing Evolution: new mathematical and computational advances (O. Gascuel and M. Steel, eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford (2007).
 
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Rosenberg N. A., S. Mahajan, C. Gonzalez-Quevedo, M. G. B. Blum, L. Nino-Rosales, V. Ninis, P. Das, M. Hegde, L. Molinari, G. Zapata, J. L. Weber, J. W. Belmont and P. I. Patel. Low Levels of Genetic Divergence across Geographically and Linguistically Diverse Populations from India. PLoS Genetics 2: 2052-2061 (2006).
 
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Blum M.G.B. , O.François and S. Janson. The mean, variance and joint distribution of two statistics sensitive to phylogenetic tree balance. Annals of Applied Probability 16: 2195-2214 (2006).
 
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Blum M.G.B., E. Heyer, O. François and F. Austerlitz. Matrilineal fertility inheritance detected in hunter-gatherer populations using the imbalance of gene genealogies. PLoS Genetics, 2:1138-1146 (2006).
 
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Blum M.G.B. and O.François. Which random processes describe the Tree of Life? A large-scale study of phylogenetic tree imbalance. Systematic Biology 55: 685-691 (2006). Supplementary Material
 
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Blum M.G.B. and O. François. On statistical tests of phylogenetic imbalance: the Sackin and other indices revisited. Mathematical Biosciences, 195: 141-153 (2005).
 
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Blum M.G.B. and O. Francois. External branch length and minimal clade size under the neutral coalescent. Advances in Applied Probability, 37: 647-662 (2005).
 
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Bortolussi N. , E. Durand, M. Blum, O.Francois. APTreeshape: Statistical analysis of phylogenetic tree shape. Bioinformatics, 22: 363-364 (2005).
 
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Blum M.G.B. , C. Damerval , S. Manel and O. François. Brownian models and coalescent structures. Theoretical Population Biology 65: 249-261, 2004.
 
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