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Author:: Bigham, Abigail Winslow
Title:: Evidence for Natural Selection in High Altitude Human Populations
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: HIF pathway
Hypoxia
Natural Selection
High Altitude
Andes
Tibet
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark Shriver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Shriver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
Jeffrey Arnold Kurland, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member

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Author:: Canada, Brian Ashley
Title:: Augmentation of the Zebrafish Phenomic Landscape by Histological Analysis and Content-Based Image Retrieval
Graduate Program:: Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:: content-based image retrieval
zebrafish
histological analysis
phenotyping
phenomics
File:: Download BrianCanada-Dissertation-Final.pdf
Committee Members:: James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Keith C Cheng, Committee Member
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member

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Author:: Hill, Cheryl Ann
Title:: Evolution and Development of Temporal Bone Pneumatization in Hominids
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: computed tomography
pneumatization
temporal bone
human
African apes
File:: Download Hill_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Walker, Committee Member
Timothy Michael Ryan, Committee Member
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
Carol V Gay, Committee Member

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Author:: Sparks, Corey Shepard
Title:: HOUSEHOLDS, LAND AND LABOR: POPULATION DYNAMICS IN THE NORTHERN ORKNEY ISLAND, SCOTLAND, 1851 to 2003.
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: Demography
Scotland
Orkney
File:: Download SparksDiss10_25.pdf
Committee Members:: James William Wood, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Lyons Johnson, Committee Member
Jeffrey Arnold Kurland, Committee Member
Robert Schoen, Committee Member
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
George Robert Milner, Committee Member

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Author:: Chockalingam, Annapoorani
Title:: GENOMIC AND IMMUNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CONTROL GRAM-NEGATIVE INTRAMAMMARY INFECTIONS IN DAIRY CATTLE
Graduate Program:: Animal Science
Keywords:: Mastitis
Gram-negative bacteria
Single-nucleotide-ploymorphism
Bactericidal/permeability increasing protein
LPS-binding
cytokines
innate immune response
File:: Download Anna-thesis-eTD.pdf
Committee Members:: Cindy E Mc Kinney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas D Bannerman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guy F Barbato, Committee Member
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
Eric Thomas Harvill, Committee Member
Robert Paulson, Committee Member

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Author:: Quillen, Ellen Elizabeth
Title:: Investigating Genes Related to the Evolution of Indigenous American Skin Pigmentation
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: skin color
human evolution
natural selection
Colombia
pigmentation
population genetics
File:: Download Ellen_Quillen_eeq101_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark Shriver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Shriver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
David Andrew Puts, Committee Member
David John Vandenbergh, Committee Member
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member

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Author:: Lawson, Heather Alane
Title:: Molecular Evolutionary Underpinnings of Craniofacial Growth and Development
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: genomics
primate
molecular evolution
craniofacial
genotype
phenotype
File:: Download Lawson2008.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anton Nekrutenko, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member
Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member

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Author:: Norton, Heather Lynne
Title:: Human Skin Pigmentation Variation: A Phenotypic, Genotypic, and Evolutionary Perspective
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: Island Melanesia
natural selection
skin pigmentation
File:: Download Norton_master.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark Shriver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
Jeffrey Arnold Kurland, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member

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Author:: Halder, Indrani
Title:: MEASURING AND USING INDIVIDUAL GENOMIC ANCESTRY TO STUDY COMPLEX PHENOTYPES
Graduate Program:: Genetics
Keywords:: Genomic ancestry
individual ancestry estimation
population stratification
admixture mapping
complex diseases
racial/ethnic differences in disease risk
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark Shriver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hiroshi Akashi, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member
Esteban J Parra, Committee Member

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Author:: Wagner, Jennifer Kristin
Title:: Social and Legal Implications of DNA Ancestry Tests
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: genetic ancestry
genomic ancestry
DNA ancestry
ELSI
File:: Download JKWDissertation8.5.10amended.pdf
Committee Members:: Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Shriver, Committee Member
Nina G Jablonski, Committee Member
Chloe B Silverman, Committee Member
Jonathan Harold Marks, Committee Member

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