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Jang, S-K, LM Evans, and 61 others. Accepted at Nature Human Behavior. Rare variant heritability of smoking from deep whole-genome sequencing of up to 26,000 individuals.
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Jami, ES. And 95 others (Evans co-author on consortium paper). Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Accepted at Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.11.035
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Howe, LJ, and 102 others (Evans co-author on consortium paper). Accepted at Nature Genetics. Within-sibship GWAS of 25 phenotypes improve estimates of direct genetic effects.
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Evans, LM, S Jang, MA Ehringer, DB Hancock, J Otto, SI Vrieze, MC Keller. 2021. Genetic architecture of four smoking behaviors using partitioned SNP heritability. Addiction. 116(9): 2498-2508. DOI:10.1111/add.15450. PMC8759147
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Colbert, SMC‡, S Funkhouser+, EC Johnson, CL Morrison, C Hoeffer, NP Friedman, MA Ehringer, LM Evans. 2021. Novel characterization of the multivariate genetic architecture of internalizing psychopathology and alcohol use. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 186(6):353-366. DOI:10.1002/ajmg.b.32874. PMC8556277
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Ip, HF, and 142 others. (Evans co-author on consortium paper). In press. Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age. Translational Psychiatry.
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Adjangba, A‡, R Border, P Romero Villela, MC Keller, MA Ehringer, LM Evans.Ìý2020.ÌýLimited evidence of modified genetic susceptibility to tobacco smoking at rs16969968 based on age of onset of regular smoking. Nicotine & Tobacco Research,Ìýntaa229,Ìý
- Gouker, FE, CH Carlson, J Zou, LM Evans, CR Crowell, CD Smart, SP DiFazio, LB Smart. Accepted pending minor revision at American Journal of Botany. Sexual dimorphism and sex ratio bias in the dioecious willow, Salix purpurea L. Preprint on BioRxiv:
- Bothwell, H, LM Evans, EI Hersch-Green, S Woolbright, G Allan, TG Whitham. Accepted at Ecological Applications. Genetic data improves niche model discrimination and alters the direction and magnitude of climate change forecasts.
- Thomas, AL*, LM Evans*, MD Nelsen, EJ Chesler, MS Powers, WC Booher, C Lowry, JD DeFries, MA Ehringer. 2021. Whole genome sequencing of inbred mouse strains selected for high and low open-field activity. Behavior Genetics. 51:68-81.
- Evans, LM, EC Johnson, WE Melroy-Greif, JK Hewitt, CA Hoeffer, MC Keller, LM Saba, JA Stitzel, MA Ehringer. 2020. The role of a priori-identified addiction and smoking gene sets in smoking behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 22:1310-1315.
- Border R, EC Johnson, LM Evans, MC Keller. 2019. Measurement Error Cannot Account for Failed Replications of Historic Candidate Gene-by-Environment Hypotheses: Response to Vrshek-Schallhorn et al. The American Journal of Psychiatry. 176:668-669.
- Border R, A Smolen, R Crowley, M Stallings, S Brown, RD Conger, J Derringer, MB Donnellan, BC Haberstick, J Hewitt, C Hopfer, K Krauter, MB McQueen, TL Wall, MC Keller, LM Evans. 2019. Imputation of behavioral candidate gene repeat variants in 486,565 publicly-available UK Biobank individuals. European Journal of Human Genetics. 27:963-969.
- Border R, EC Johnson, LM Evans, A Smolen, N Berley, PF Sullivan, MC Keller. 2019. No support for candidate gene or candidate gene-by-interaction hypotheses for major depression across multiple large samples. The American Journal of Psychiatry. 176:376-387. https:// doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18070881. PMC5934350
- Carlson, C, F Gouker, C Crowell, L Evans, S DiFazio, C Smart, L Smart. 2019. Joint linkage and association mapping of complex traits in shrub willow (Salix purpurea L.). Annals of Botany. 124:701-715. DOI:10.1093/aob/mcz047
- Chhetri, HB, D Macaya-Sanz, D Kainer, LM Evans, K Ault, T Rosentiel, SH Strauss, D Jacobson, TJ Tschaplinski, GA Tuskan, SP DiFazio. 2019. Genome-wiide association analysis of Populus trichocarpa identifies key polymorphisms controlling morphological and physiological traits. New Phytologist. 223:293-309. DOI:10.1111/nph.15777.
- ÌýZhou R, Macaya-Sanz D, Rodgers-Melnick E, Carlson CH, Gouker FE, Evans LM, Schmutz J, Jenkins JW, Yan J, Tuskan JA, Smart LB, DiFazio SP. 2018. Characterization of a large sexually dimorphic genome interval in Salix purpurea L. (Salicaceae). Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 293:1473-1452. DOI: 10.1007/s00438-018-1473-y
- Evans, LM, R Tahmasbi, SI Vrieze, G Abecasis, S Das, D Bjelland, T DeCandia, Haplotype Reference Consortium, ME Goddard, BM Neale, J Yang, PM Visscher, MC Keller. 2018 Comparison of methods that use whole genome data to estimate the heritability and genetic architecture of complex traits. Nature Genetics. 50:737-745. DOI:Ìý10.1038/s41588-018-0108-x.
- Evans, LM, R Tahmasbi, SI Vrieze, G Abecasis, S Das, D Bjelland, T DeCandia, Haplotype Reference Consortium, ME Goddard, J Yang, PM Visscher, MC Keller. 2018. Narrow-sense heritability estimation of complex traits using identity-by-descent information. Heredity. 121:616-630. DOI:10.1038/s41437-018-0067-0. PMC6221881.
- Evans, LM, MC Keller. 2018. Correspondence: Using partitioned heritability methods to explore genetic architecture. Nature Reviews Genetics. DOI:10.1038/nrg.2018.6
- Johnson, EC, LM Evans, MC Keller. 2018 Relationship between estimated autozygosity and complex traits in the UK Biobank. PLoS Genetics. 14(7):e1007556. DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1007556.
- Chhatre, VE, LM Evans, SP DiFazio, SR Keller. 2018. Adaptive introgression and maintenance of a trispecies hybrid complex in range-edge populations of Populus. Molecular Ecology. 27:4820-4838. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14820
- Xie, M, W Muchero, AC Bryan, K Yee, H-B Guo, J Zhang, TJ Tschaplinski, VR Singan, E Lindquist, RS Payyavula, J Barros-Rios, R Dixon, N Engle, RW Sykes, M Davis, SS Jawdy, LE Gunter, O Thompson, SP DiFazio, LM Evans, K Winkeler, C Collins, J Schmutz, H Guo, U Kalluri, M Rodriguez, K Feng, J-G Chen, GA Tuskan. 2018. A 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate 3-Phosphate Synthase Functions as a Transcriptional Repressor in Populus. The Plant Cell. 30:1645-1660. DOI:10.1105/tpc.18.00168
- Wills, AG, LM Evans, C Hopfer. 2017. Phenotypic and genetic relationship between BMI and drinking in a sample of UK adults. Behavior Genetics. 47(3):290-297. DOI:10.1007/s10519-017-9838-2. PMC5546738.
- Bothwell, HM, SA Cushman, SA Woolbright, EI Hersch-Green, LM Evans, TG Whitham, GJ Allan. 2017. Conserving threatened riparian ecosystems in the American West: Precipitation gradients and river networks drive genetic connectivity and diversity in a foundation riparian tree (Populus angustifolia). Molecular Ecology. 26:5114-5132.
- Evans, LM, S Kaluthota, DW Pearce, GJ Allan, K Floate, SB Rood, TG Whitham. 2016. Bud phenology and growth are subject to divergent selection across a latitudinal gradient in Populus angustifolia and impact adaptation across the distributional range and associated arthropods. Ecology and Evolution. 6:2565-4582. DOI:10.1002/ece3.2222
- Evans LM, GJ Allan, SP DiFazio, GT Slavov, JA Wilder, SB Rood, KD Floate, TG Whitham. 2015. Geographical barriers and climate influence demographic history in narrowleaf cottonwoods. Heredity. 114:387-396. DOI:10.1038/hdy.2014.115
- Kaluthota, S, DW Pearce, LM Evans, MG Letts, TG Whitham, SB Rood. 2015. Higher photosynthetic capacity from higher latitude: foliar characteristics and gas exchange of southern, central and northern populations of Populus angustifolia. Tree Physiology. 35:936-948. DOI:Ìý10.1093/treephys/tpv069
- Evans LM, GT Slavov, E Rodgers-Melnick, J Martin, P Ranjan, W Muchero, AM Brunner, W Schackwitz, L Gunter, J-G Chen, GA Tuskan, SP DiFazio. 2014. Population genomics of Populus trichocarpa identifies signatures of selection and adaptive trait associations. Nature Genetics. 46:1089-1096. DOI:10.1038/ng.3075 **Press release at:
- Muchero W, J Guo, SP DiFazio, J-G Chen, PRanjan, GT Slavov, LE Gunter, S Jawdy, AC Bryan, R Sykes, A Ziebell, I Porth, O Skyba, F Unda, YA El-Kassaby, CJ Douglas, SD Mansfield, J Martin, W Schackwitz, LM Evans, O Czarnecki, GA Tuskan. 2014. Multi-environment Identification and Molecular Validation of Allelic Variants Associated With Cell Wall Chemistry in Populus. BMC Genomics. 16:24.
- Brunner AM, LM Evans, C-Y Hsu, S Xiaoyan. 2014. Vernalization and the chilling requirement to exit bud dormancy: shared or separate regulation? Frontiers in Plant Science. 5:732. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00732
- Cushman, SA, T Max, N Meneses, LM Evans, SM Ferrier, B Honchak, TG Whitham, GJ Allan. 2014. Landscape genetic connectivity in a riparian foundation tree is jointly driven by climatic gradients and river networks. Ecological Applications. 24:1000-1014.
- Bangert RK, SM Ferrier, LM Evans, K Kennedy, KC Grady, GJ Allan, TG Whitham. 2013. The proportion of three foundation plant species and their genotypes influence an arthropod community: restoration implications for the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher. Restoration Ecology 21:447-456.
- Evans LM, GJ Allan, N Meneses, TL Max, TG Whitham. 2013. Herbivore host-associated genetic differentiation depends on the scale of plant genetic variation examined. Evolutionary Ecology 27:65-81.
- Evans LM, GJ Allan, and TG Whitham. 2012. Populus hybrid hosts drive divergence in the herbivorous mite, Aceria parapopuli: Implications for conservation of plant hybrid zones as essential habitat. Conservation Genetics 13:1601-1609.
- Evans, LM, JS Clark, AV Whipple, TG Whitham. 2012. The relative influences of host plant genotype and yearly abiotic variability in determining herbivore abundance. Oecologia. 168:483-489.
- Whitham, TG, CA Gehring, LJ Lamit, T Wojtowicz, LM Evans, AR Keith, DS Smith. 2012. Community specificity: life and afterlife effects of genes. Trends in Plant Science 17:271-281.
- Evans, LM, RW Hofstetter, MP Ayres, KD Klepzig. 2011. Temperature alters the relative abundance and population growth rates of species within the Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) community. Environmental Entomology 40:824-834.
- Whitham TG, CA Gehring, LM Evans, CJ LeRoy, RK Bangert, JA Schweitzer, GJ Allan, RC Barbour, DG Fischer, BM Potts, JK Bailey. 2010. A community and ecosystem genetics approach to conservation biology and management. Pp. 50-73. In Molecular Approaches in Natural Resource Conservation (J.A DeWoody, J.W. Bickham, C. Michler, K. Nichols, O.E. Rhodes, and K. Woeste, eds.). Cambridge University Press.
- Evans, LM, GJ Allan, S Woolbright, S Shuster, TG Whitham. 2008. Hybridization and genotypic variation in a foundation tree drive cryptic speciation of a specialist herbivore. Evolution 62:3027-3040.Ìý
Preprints, In Review, and In Preparation:
Mize, TM†, SA Funkhouser+, JM Buck, JA Stitzel, MA Ehringer, LM Evans. Testing association of previously implicated gene-sets and gene-networks in nicotine exposed mouse models with human smoking phenotypes. In review at Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Funkhouser, SA+, JD Boardman, JK Hewitt, MC Stallings, CJ Hopfer, SA Brown, TA Wall, CA Reynolds, MC Keller, LM Evans. In prep. Investigating heterogeneous genetic effects contributing to smoking behaviors. Preprint on MedRxiv:
Hatoum, AS, EC Mitchell, CL Morrison, LM Evans, MC Keller, NP Friedman. GWAS of over 427,000 individuals establishes GABAergic and synaptic molecular pathways as key for cognitive executive functions. Preprint on BioRxiv:
Tahmasbi, R, LM Evans, E Turkheimer, MC Keller. Testing the moderation of quantitative gene by environment interactions in unrelated individuals. BioRxiv: Ìý