In the News
2020:
WSJ Article: “Study Finds Legacy of Slavery Shaped the DNA of Black Americans Today”
2019:
Nature Article: “Genomes trace origins of enslaved people who died on remote island“
Science Times Article: “Genetic Studies on Ancient Caribbean Inhabitants Reveal a Mosaic of History Contrary to Traditional Research“
Guest Speaker, The Atlantic Festival 2019: Genetics and the Human Story
Article, The Atlantic: “How Ancient DNA Can Help Recast Colonial History”
Science Magazine Podcast: “Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales“
Inside Sources Article: “The Next Big Media Pitch Should Be Science“
Science Magazine 2019 Election: Election Results
2018:
Guest Speaker, Taíno Symposium 2018: Genetic Science and Genealogy: Recovering Native Ancestry
2017:
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Catholic News: Answers in the DNA
Indian News Link: The indisputable Indian influence on America
2016:
New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology: An emerging History of Indigenous Caribbean and circum-Caribbean Populations: insights from archaeological, ethnographic, genetic,and historical studies
Research Gate: Genetic Anthropology and Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human History in the Caribbean
AIMS Genetics: A history of you, me, and humanity: mitochondrial DNA in anthropological research
Jada Benn Torres–American Association of Physical Anthropologists:
2015:
Caribbean Life: Scientists map genetic history of humans in the Caribbean
Science Daily: Genetic history of the Caribbean mapped
Généalogie génétique: Diversité génétique dans les Petites Antilles
Human Biology: Racial Experience as an Alternative Operationalization of Race
2014:
American Journal of Human Biology: Origins of marronage: Mitochondrial Lineages of Jamaica’s Accompong Town Maroons
2013:
National Geographic-Changing Planet: Genetic Research in the Caribbean Goes Deeper Than DNA
Repeating Islands: Unearthing Trinidad’s Carib Ancestry
Repeating Islands: DNA Links Trinidad Caribs to Africa and North America
American Journal of Physical Anthropology: An anthropological genetic perspective on creolization in the anglophone caribbean
2012:
PLOS One: Y Chromosome Lineages in Men of the West African Descent
2009:
The Prostate: Replication of prostate cancer risk loci on 8q24, 11q13, 17q12, 19q33, and Xp11 in African Americans
Carcinogenesis: Novel single nucleotide polymorphism associations with colorectal cancer on chromosome 8q24 in African and European Americans
Gastroenterology: 768 Novel SNP Associations with Colorectal Cancer on 8q24 and 5q in African and European Americans
Cancer Prevention Research: Race, Genetic West African Ancestry, and Prostate Cancer Prediction by Prostate specific Antigen in Prospectively Screened High-Risk Men
2007:
The University of Chicago Chronicle: Genetic variant associated with prostate cancer in African-American men
Genome Research: Confirmation study of prostate cancer risk variants at 8q24 in African Americans identifies a novel risk locus
Annals of Human Genetics: Mitochondrial and Y Chromosome Diversity in the English-Speaking Caribbean
Current Hypertension Reports: The relationship between “race” and genetics in biomedical research
*Background Photo: Accompong Town, Jamaica