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Dennis H. O'Rourke

Dennis H. O'Rourke

Professor

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801-581-7454

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Areas of Specialization

Population and evolutionary genetics, genetic epidemiology, quantitative methods, native America, Arctic regions and Siberia

Research


Selected Publications

Books

Stinson, S., B. Bogin, R. Huss-Ashmore, and D.H. O'Rourke, eds.
2000 Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective. Forthcoming from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

O'Rourke, D.H., G.M. Petersen and F.E. Johnston (eds.)
1983 Genetics, Evolution and Disease. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc. (Also appeared as American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 62, No. 1)

Journal Articles

O'Rourke, D.H.
2003 Anthropological genetics in the Genomic Era: A look back and ahead. American Anthropologist 105(1):99-107.

Carlyle, S.W., R.L. Parr, M.G. Hayes and D.H. O'Rourke
2000. The Context of Maternal Lineages in the Greater Southwest. Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop. 113(1):85-101.

O'Rourke, D.H., M.G. Hayes and S.W. Carlyle
2000 Spatial and Temporal Stability of mtDNA Haplogroup Frequencies in Native North America. Human Biology 72(1):15-34.

O'Rourke, D.H., S.W. Carlyle and R.L. Parr
1996 Ancient DNA: A review of methods, progress, and perspectives. Amer. J. Hum. Biol. 8(5): 557-571.

Parr, R.L., S.W. Carlyle, and D.H. O'Rourke
1996 Ancient DNA analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands. Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop. 99(4):507-519.

Suarez, B.K., C.L. Hampe, D. O'Rourke, P. Van Eerdewegh, and T. Reich
1995 Sib-based detection of QTLs. Genetic Epidemiology. 12(6):675-680.

Bamshad, M., M.H. Crawford, D.H. O'Rourke and L.B. Jorde
1994 Biochemical heterozygosity and morphologic variation in a colony of Papio hamadryas hamadryas baboons. Evolution 48(4):1211-1221.

O'Rourke, D.H., A. Mobarry and B.K. Suarez
1992 Patterns of genetic variation in Native America. Human Biology. 64(3):417-434. (Invited Review for special issue of journal commemorating Columbian quincentenary)

Invited Book Chapters

O'Rourke, D.H., M.G. Hayes and S.W. Carlyle
2003 The consent process and aDNA research: Contrasting approaches in northern North America. IN: Biological Anthropology and Ethics. Trudy Turner, ed. State University of New York Press: Albany. IN PRESS.

Hayes, M. G., J.B. Coltrain and D.H. O'Rourke
2003 Molecular archaeology of the Dorset, Thule, and Sadlermiut: Ancestor-descendant relationships in Eastern North American arctic prehistory. IN: The Dorset Culture: 75 Years After Jenness, P. Sutherland (ed.). Mercury Series, Archaeological Survey of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec. IN PRESS.

O'Rourke, D.H., M.G. Hayes and S.W. Carlyle
2000 Ancient DNA Studies in Physical Anthropology. IN: Annual Review of Anthropology, 29:217-242. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc.

O'Rourke, D.H.
2000 Genes, Geography, and Human Variation. IN: Human Biology: An Evolutionary & Biocultural Perspective. Stinson, S., B. Bogin, R. Huss-Ashmore and D.H. O'Rourke, eds. Wiley-Liss, Inc.

O'Rourke, D.H., R.L. Parr and S.W. Carlyle
1999 Molecular genetic variation in prehistoric inhabitants of the Eastern Great Basin. IN: Understanding Prehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction and Interpretation. B.E. Hemphill and C.S. Larsen (eds.), University of Utah Press.