Jeffrey Long

Professor
Director, Genetics Computation Lab

Photo: Jeffrey Long

Evolutionary Anthropology

Email: 
jlo@unm.edu
Curriculum vitae
 

Recent Courses:

  • Human Biology (ANTH 350/550)
  • Topics in Biological Anthropology: Analytical Anthropology (ANTH 450)
  • Population Genetics (ANTH 491/591)
  • Topics in Biological Anthropology: Modern Genetics and Darwinism (ANTH 550)
  • Topics in Biological Anthropology: Research Computing in Evolutionary Anthropology (ANTH 550)
  • Topics in Biological Anthropology: Statistical Concepts and Data Analysis (ANTH 550)
  • Topics in Interdisciplinary Biological and Biomedical Science (ANTH 620)

Education:

BA, University of California at Santa Barbara (1976)

MA, Arizona State University (1978)

MS, Human Genetics, University of Michigan (1982)

PhD, Human Genetics, University of Michigan (1984)
Dissertation: "Estimation of genetic variation and divergence: Application to Gainj and Kalam speakers of highland New Guinea."

Research:

Population genetics, statistical genetics, and the genetic basis of common disease.

Recent Publications:

Koehl AJ, Long JC (2017) The contributions of admixture and genetic drift to diversity among post-contact populations in the Americas.  Am J Phys Anthropol. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23347 Early View: 30 October 2017

Long JC (2013) The AIMLESS genome. The Anthropology of Race: Genes, Biology, and Culture. Edited by John Hartigan. School of Advanced Research.

Royal CD, Novembre J, Fullerton SM, Goldstein DB, Long JC, Bamshad MJ, Clark AG. Inferring genetic ancestry: opportunities, challenges, and implications (2010). Am J Hum Genet. May 14;86(5):661-73.

Lewis, CM Jr, Long JC (2008) Native South American Genetic Structure and Prehistory Inferred from Hierarchical Modeling of mtDNA. Mol Biol Evol 25(3): 478 – 486

Hunley KL, Long JC (2005) Gene flow across linguistic boundaries in Native North American populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA), 102:1312-1317.

Long JC, Kittles RA (2003) Human genetic diversity and the non-existence of biological races. Human Biology, 75:449-471.

Peterson, R, Goldman D, Long JC (1999) Effects of worldwide population subdivision on ALDH2 linkage disequilibrium. Genome Research 9:844-852.

Long JC, Knowler WC, Hanson RL, Robin RW, Urbanek M, Moore E, Bennett PH, Goldman D: Evidence for Genetic Linkage to Alcohol Dependence on Chromosomes 4 and 11 from and Autosome-wide Scan in an American Indian Population (1998) Am J Med Genet. (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 81: 216-221.

Long JC, Williams RC, Urbanek M (1995) An E-M algorithm and testing strategy for multiple locus haplotypes. Am J Hum Genet. 56: 799-810.

Long JC: The genetic structure of admixed populations (1991) Genetics, 127: 417-428.

Smouse, PE, Long JC, Sokal RR (1986) Multiple regression and correlation extensions of the Mantel test of matrix correspondence. Syst Zool, 35: 627-632.