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Amanda J. Lea

Vanderbilt University
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Developmental plasticity: bridging research in evolution and human health

AJ Lea, J Tung, EA Archie… - Evolution, medicine, and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Early life experiences can have profound and persistent effects on traits expressed throughout
the life course, with consequences for later life behavior, disease risk, and mortality rates. …

[HTML][HTML] Applying an evolutionary mismatch framework to understand disease susceptibility

AJ Lea, AG Clark, AW Dahl, O Devinsky, AR Garcia… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise worldwide. Obesity, cardiovascular
disease, and type 2 diabetes are among a long list of “lifestyle” diseases that were rare …

Maximizing ecological and evolutionary insight in bisulfite sequencing data sets

AJ Lea, TP Vilgalys, PAP Durst, J Tung - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-scale bisulfite sequencing approaches have opened the door to ecological and
evolutionary studies of DNA methylation in many organisms. These approaches can be …

High social status males experience accelerated epigenetic aging in wild baboons

JA Anderson, RA Johnston, AJ Lea, FA Campos… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aging, for virtually all life, is inescapable. However, within populations, biological aging
rates vary. Understanding sources of variation in this process is central to understanding the …

Mustard gas poisoning, chronic bronchitis, and lung cancer: an investigation into the possibility that poisoning by mustard gas in the 1914-18 war might be a factor in …

RAM Case, AJ Lea - British journal of preventive & social medicine, 1955 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
METHODS AND MATERIALS The ideal method of investigation would be to take all or a
random sample of the men known to have been gassed and to follow up their histories until the …

[HTML][HTML] A flexible, efficient binomial mixed model for identifying differential DNA methylation in bisulfite sequencing data

AJ Lea, J Tung, X Zhou - PLoS genetics, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Identifying sources of variation in DNA methylation levels is important for understanding gene
regulation. Recently, bisulfite sequencing has become a popular tool for investigating DNA …

Genome-wide quantification of the effects of DNA methylation on human gene regulation

AJ Lea, CM Vockley, RA Johnston, CA Del Carpio… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.37513.001 Changes in DNA methylation are involved in development, disease,
and the response to environmental conditions. However, not all regulatory elements are …

Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships

AJ Lea, DT Blumstein, TW Wey… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Here, we present estimates of heritability and selection on network traits in a single
population, allowing us to address the evolutionary potential of social behavior and the poorly …

Resource base influences genome‐wide DNA methylation levels in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus)

AJ Lea, J Altmann, SC Alberts, J Tung - Molecular ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in resource availability commonly exerts strong effects on fitness‐related traits in
wild animals. However, we know little about the molecular mechanisms that mediate these …

Dietary factors associated with death-rates from certain neoplasms in man.

AJ Lea - Lancet, 1966 - cabdirect.org
Data were from 24 countries and statistical comparisons were between death rates from
coronary disease and from neoplasms of breast, ovaries or rectum among women over 55 years …