Publications
2008
Cherbuin, N., Anstey, K. J., Sachdev, P. S., Maller, J. J., Meslin,
C., Mack, H. A., Wen, W., and Easteal, S. (2008). Total and
Regional Gray Matter Volume Is Not Related to APOE*E4 Status in a Community
Sample of Middle-Aged Individuals. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
63(5), 501-4.
Prichard, Z., Mackinnon, A., Jorm, A.F., and Easteal,
S., 2008, No evidence for interaction between MAOA and childhood adversity
for antisocial behavior.
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric
Genetics 147B(2), 228-232.
Sachdev PS, Parslow R, Wen W, Anstey KJ, Easteal, S.
2007. Sex differences in the causes and consequences of white matter hyperintensities.
Neurobiology of Aging (In press)
2007
MacArthur DG, Seto JT, Raftery JM, Quinlan KG, Huttley GA, Hook JW, Lemckert
FA, Edwards MR, Berman Y, Hardeman EC, Gunning PW, Easteal S,
Yang N, North KN. 2007. Loss of function of the ACTN3 gene alters muscle metabolism
in a mouse model and has been selectively favored during recent human evolution.
Nature Genetics 39(10), 1261-1265.
Prichard ZM, Mackinnon AJ, Jorm AF, Easteal S. 2007. AVPR1A
and OXTR polymorphisms are associated with sexual and reproductive behavioural
phenotypes in humans. Human Mutation 28(11), 1150.
Golubchik T, Wise MJ, Easteal S, Jermiin LS. 2007. Mind the
Gaps: Evidence of Bias in Estimates of Multiple Sequence Alignments.Molecular
Biology and Evolution 24(11), 2433-2442.
Huttley GA, Wakefield MJ, Easteal S. (2007) Rates of genome
evolution and branching order from whole genome analysis: opossum reveals dog,
not mouse, is our evolutionary companion. Molecular Biology and
Evolution 24:1722-30.
Chipman P, Jorm AF, Prior M, Sanson A, Smart D, Tan X, Easteal S.
2007. No interaction between the serotonin transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR)
and childhood adversity or recent stressful life events on symptoms of anxiety,
depression or anxiety related personality traits: Results from three community
surveys. Amer J Med Genet Neuropsychiatr Genet. 144:561-5.
Anstey KJ, Mack HA, Christensen H, Li S-C, Reglade-Meslin C, Maller J, Kumar
R, Dear K, Easteal S, Sachdev P. 2007. Corpus callosum
size, RT speed and variability in mild cognitive disorders and in a normative
sample. Neuropsychologia 45:1911-20.
Jorm AF, Mather KA, Butterworth P, Anstey KJ, Christensen H, Easteal
S. 2007. APOE genotype and cognitive functioning in a large age-stratified
population sample.Neuropsychology 21:1-8.
Prichard ZM, Jorm AF, MacKinnon AJ, Easteal S. 2007. Association
analysis of 15 polymorphisms within 10 candidate genes for antisocial behaviour.
Psychiatric Genetics 17:299-303.
2006
1. Ho JWK, Adams CE, Lew LB, Matthews TJ, Ng CC, Shahabi-Sirjani, Tan LH, Zhao
Y, Easteal S, Wilson SR, Jermiin LS. SeqVis: visualization
of compositional heterogeneity in large alignments of nucleotides. (Submitted
to Bioinformatics).
2. Pritchard Z, Easteal S. 2006. Characterization of simple
sequence repeat variants linked to candidate genes for behavioural phenotypes.
Human Mutation 27:120.
3. Ng CH, Easteal S, Tan S, Schweitzer I, Ho BK, Aziz S. 2006.
Serotonin transporter polymorphisms and clinical response to sertaline across
ethnicities. Prog Neuropsychopharm Biol Psych 30:953-7.
2005
4. Easteal S. Whittle B. Mettenmeyer A. Attenborough R. Bhatia,
K, Alpers MP. (2005) Mitochondrial genome diversity among Papuan-speaking people
of Papua New Guinea. Pp 693-728. In: Papuan Pasts: cultural, linguistic
and biological histories of Papuan speaking peoples. Eds: Pawley
A, Attenborough R, Golson J, Hide R. Pacific Linguistics: Canberra, Australia
5. Harley N, Attenborough R, Bhatia K, Alpers MP, Easteal S.
(2005) The importance of social structure for patterns of human genetic diversity:
Y-chromosome and mitochondrial genome variation in Papuan-speaking people of
mainland Papua New Guinea. Pp 693-728. In: Papuan Pasts: cultural,
linguistic and biological histories of Papuan speaking peoples.
Eds: Pawley A, Attenborough R, Golson J, Hide R. Pacific Linguistics: Canberra,
Australia
6. Easteal S, Demosthenes P. (2005) A view from the future.
Australian Life Scientist March-April:4–6.
Syndicated in BioITWorld.
2004
7. Torpy DJ, Bachmann AW, Gartside M, Grice M, Harris JM, Clifton P, Easteal
S, Jackson RV, Whitworth JA. (2004). Association between chronic fatigue
syndrome and the corticosteroid binding globulin gene ALA SER224 polymorphism.
Endocrine Research 30:417–29.
8. Ng C.-H., Schweitzer I, Norman T, Easteal, S. (2004). The
emerging role of pharmacogenetics. Australian and New Zealand Journal
of Psychiatry. 38:483–9.
9. Jorm AF, Butterworth P, Anstey KJ, Christensen H, Easteal S,
Maller J, Mather KA, Turakulov RI, Wen W, Sachdev P. (2004). Memory complaints
in a community sample aged 60-64 years: Associations with cognitive functioning,
psychiatric symptoms, medical conditions, APOE genotype, hippocampus and amygdala
volumes, and white-matter hyperintensities. Psychological Medicine
34: 1495–1506.
10. Dwyer T, Posonby A-L, Stankovich J, Blizzard L, Easteal S.
(2004) Measuring environmental factors can enhance the search for disease causing
genes. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 58:
613-5.
11. Jorm A.F., Christensen H., Rodgers B., Jacomb P.A. & Easteal,
S. (2004). Association of adverse childhood experiences, age of menarche
and adult reproductive behavior: Does the androgen receptor gene play a role?
American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics)
125B:105-11.
12. Mather KA, President M, Easteal S, Hollenbach J, Klitz
W, Huttley W, Thomson G. (in press) Long distance linkage disequilibrium between
HLA microsatellites in two human populations. Proc XIII Int Histocompatibility
Workshop.
13. Gao X, Mack SJ, Currie B, Easteal S, McCluskey, J. (in
press). Aboriginal Austrailains from Cape York, Groote Eylandt, Kimberly and
Yuendumu, Australia. Proc XIII Int Histocompatibility Workshop.
2003
14. Easteal, S. (2003). Genome Diversity and Health. Pp 46-54.
In: DNA Analysis for Human Health in the Post-Genomic Era.
APEC Centre for Technology Foresight, Bangkok, Thailand.
15. Yang N, McArthur DG, Gulbin JP, Hahn AG, Beggs AH, Easteal S,
North K. (2003) ACTN3 genotype is associated with human elite athletic performance.
American Journal of Human Genetics 73:627–31.
16. Turakulov R & Easteal S. (2003) How many SNP loci are
needed to detect population structure. Human Heredity
55:37-45.
17. Jorm AF, Prior M, Sanson A, Smart D,Zhang Y, Tan S, Easteal S.
(2003) Apolipoprotein E genotype and temperament: a longitudinal study from
infancy to the late teens. Psychosomatic Medicine
65:662–4.
2002
18. Jorm AF, Prior M, Sanson A, Smart D, Zhang Y, Tan S, Easteal S.
(2002) Lack of association of a single-nucleotide polymorphism of the mu-opioid
receptor gene with anxiety-related traits: results from a cross-sectional study
of adults and a longitudinal study of children. Am J Med Genet
114:659-64.
19. Hofer SM, Christensen H, Mackinnon AJ, Korten AE, Jorm AF, Henderson AS,
Easteal S. (2002) Change in cognitive functioning associated
with apoE genotype in a community sample of older adults. Psychol
Aging 17:194-208.
20. Prichard Z, Jorm AF, Prior M, Sanson A, Smart D, Yafei Zhang Y, Huttley
G, Easteal, S (2002) Association of estrogen receptor polymorphisms
with behaviour traits in children and adolescents. Am J Med Genet
(Neuropsych Genet) 114:169-76.
2001
21. Board PG, Coggan M, Chelvanayagam G, Easteal S, Jermiin
LS, Schulte GK, Danley DE, Hoth LR, Griffor MC, Kamath AV, Rosner MH, Chrunyk
BA, Perregaux DE, Gabel CA, Geoghegan KF, Pandit J. 2001. Characterization of
the Omega class glutathione transferases. Chem-Biol Interact
133:204-6.
22. Adcock GJ, Dennis ES, Easteal S, Huttley GA, Jermiin LS,
Peacock WJ, Thorne A. (2001). Lake Mungo 3: A Response To Recent
Critique. Archaeology in Oceania 36:170-174.
23. Smith AG, Box NF, Marks LH, Chen W, Smit DJ, Wyeth JR, Hutttley GA, Easteal
S, Sturm RA. (2001). The human melanocortin-1 receptor locus: analysis
of transcription unit, locus polymorphism and haplotype evolution. Gene
281:81-94.
24. Adcock GJ, Dennis ES, Easteal S, Huttley GA, Jermiin LS,
Peacock WJ, Thorne A. (2001). Human origins and ancient DNA. Science
292:1655-1656.
25. Mills M, Yang N, Weinberger R, Vanderwoude D, Beggs AH, Easteal
S, North KN. 2001. Differential expression of the actin binding proteins,
? actinin 2 and 3, in different species: implications for the evolution of functional
redundancy. Hum Mol Genet 10:1335-1346. Cover Issue.
26. Jorm AF, Prior M, Sanson A, Smart D, Zhang Y, Easteal S.
(2001) Association of a polymorphism of the dopamine transporter gene with externalizing
behavior problems and associated temperament traits: A longitudinal study from
infancy to the mid-teens. Submitted to Am J Med Genet (Neuropsych
Genet) 105:346-350.
27. Watson E, Easteal S, Penny D. (2001) Homo genus, a taxonomic
revision. In: Tobias PV, Raath MA, Moggi-Cecchi J, Doyle GA (eds).
Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia. Angelo Pontecorboli.
28. Adcock GJ, Dennis ES, Easteal S, Huttley GA, Jermiin LS,
Peacock WJ, Thorne A. (2001) Mitochondrial DNA Sequences in Ancient Australians:
Implications for Modern Human Origins. Proc Nat Acad Sci (USA)
98: 537-542. Cover issue.
2000
29. Jorm AF, Henderson AS, Jacomb PA, Christensen H, Korten AE, Rodgers B, Tan
X, Easteal S. (2000) Association of a functional polymorphism
of the monoamine oxidase A gene promoter with personality and psychiatric symptoms.
Psych Genet 10:87–90
30. Jorm, AF, Prior M, Sanson A, Zhang, Y, Easteal S (2000).
Association of a functional polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene with
anxiety-related temperament and behavior problems in children: A longitudinal
study from infancy to the mid-teens. Mol Psych 5:542-547.
31. Huttley GA, Easteal S, Southey M, Giles G, McCredie M,
Hopper J, Venter D. (2000) Adaptive evolution of the tumour suppressor BRCA1
in humans and chimpanzees. Nature Genet 25:410-413
32. Jorm AF, Henderson AS, Jacomb PA, Christensen H, Korten AE, Rodgers B, Tan
X, Easteal S. (2000) Association of Smoking and Personality
With a Polymorphism of the Dopamine Transporter Gene: Results From a Community
Survey Am J Med Genet (Neuropsych Genet) 96: 331-4.
33. Jorm AF, Easteal S. (2000) Assessing genetic variants as
risk factors in epidemiological studies of mental disorders: The importance
of population controls Soc Psych Psych Epi 35: 1–4
34. Henderson AS, Korten AE, Jorm AF, Jacomb PA, Christensen H, Rodgers B, Tan
X, Easteal S. (2000) COMT, and DRD3 polymorphisms, environmental
exposures and personality traits related to common mental. Am J
Med Genet (Neuropsyc Genet) 96:102–107
35. Wolf MJ, Easteal S, Kahn M, McKay BD, Jermiin LS. (2000)
TrExML—a maximum-likelihood program for extensive tree-space exploration.
Bioinformatics 16:383-394
36. Huttley GA, Jakobsen IB, Wilson SR, Easteal S. (2000) How
important is DNA replication in mammalian mutagenesis? Mol Biol
Evol 17:929-37
37. Andrews TD, Easteal S. (2000) Concerted Evolutionary Rate
Acceleration of Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I and Other Mitochondrial Electron
Transport Chain Proteins in Simian Primates. J Mol Evol 50:562-568
38. Board PG, Coggan M, Chelvanayagam G, Easteal S, Jermiin
LS, Schulte GK, Danley DE, Holth LR, Griffor MC, Kamath AV, Rosner MH, Chrunyk
BA, Perregaux DE, Gabel CA, Geoghegan KF, Pandit J. (2000) Identification, characterization
and crystal structure of the Omega class of glutathione transferases. J
Biol Chem 275:24798-806.
1999
39. Jones RA, Jermiin LS, Easteal S, Patel BKC, Beacham IR.
(1999) Amylase and 16S rRNA genes from a hyperthermophilic archaebacterium.
J App Microbiol 86:93-107
40. Cheung B, Holmes RS, Easteal S and Beacham IR. (1999) Evolution
of Class I alcohol dehydrogenase genes in catarrhine primates: gene conversion,
substitution rates, and gene regulation. Mol Biol Evol
16:23–36
41. Jacomb PA, Jorm AF, Croft L, Gao X and Easteal S (1999)
HLA-A and CTGB33 polymorphisms and variation in IQ scores. Personal
Indiv Differ 26:795–799
42. Salamon H, Klitz W, Easteal S, Gao X, Erlich H, Fernandez-Viña,
Trachtenberg W, McWeeney S, Nelson MP, Thomson G. (1999) Evolution of HLA class
II molecules: allelic and amino acid site variability across populations. Genetics
152:393–400
43. North K, Yang N, Wattanasirichaigoo, D, Mills M, Kim S, Tong HQ, Easteal
S, Beggs A. (1999) A common nonsense mutation results in ?-actinin-3
deficiency in the general population: evidence for genetic redundancy in humans.
Nature Genet 21:353-4
44. Easteal, S. (1999) Molecular evidence for the early divergence
of placental mammals. BioEssays 21:1052–1058
45. Easteal, S. (1999) Reply to Benton. BioEssays
21:1060
1998
46. Wise C, Sraml M and Easteal S. (1998) Non-neutral evolution
at the ND2 locus in humans and chimpanzees Genetics 148:409-421
47. Jakobsen IB, Gao X, Easteal S, and Chelvanayagam G. (1998)
The distribution of sequence variation among HLA-A allelic families: implications
for peptide binding and T-cell receptor binding specificities. Immunol
Cell Biol 76:135-142
48. Jakobsen IB, Wilson SR and Easteal S. (1998) Patterns of
reticulate evolution for the classical Class I and II HLA loci. Immunogenetics
48:312-323
49. Easteal S. (1998) DNA and the Exodus fallacy. Australian
Science 1998(2):33– 34
50. Andrews, TD, Jermiin LS, Easteal S. (1998) Accelerated
evolution of the cytochrome b gene of simian primates: adaptive evolution in
concert with other mitochondrial proteins? J Mol Evol
47:249-257
51. Nilsson C, Jiang M, Pettersson K, Iitiä A, Mäkelä M, Easteal
S, Herrera R, Huhtaniemi I. (1998) Determination of a common genetic
variant of luteinizing hormone using DNA hybridization and immunoassays Clin
Endochrinol 49: 369-376
52. Cullen LM, Gao X, Easteal S, Jazwinska EC. (1998) The haemochromatosis
C282Y and H63D mutations: prevalence in non-caucasian populations. Am
J Hum Genet 62:1403– 1407
53. Jorm AF, Henderson AS, Jacomb PA, Christensen H, Korten AE, Rogers B, Tan
S, Easteal S. (1998) An association study of a functional polymorphism
of the serotonin transporter gene with personality and psychiatric symptoms.
Mol Psych 3: 449-451
1997
54. Henderson S, Jorm A, Jacomb P, Korten, A and Easteal S.
(1997) Molecular genetics and the epidemiology of common mental disorders: new
opportunities. Epidemiologia e Psychiatria Sociale
6:167– 172
55. Easteal S and Herbert G (1997) Molecular evidence from
the nuclear genome for the time frame of human evolution. J Mol
Evol 44S: 121–132
56. Chelvanayagam G and Easteal S (1997) Correlating patterns
in alignments of similar sequences with experimental assays. Comp
Appl Biol Sci (now Bioinformatics) 13:13–22
57. Jorm AF, Henderson AS, Jacomb PA, Croft L and Easteal S (1997)
Quantitative trait loci for neuroticism: an allelic association study with the
serotonin (HTR2) receptor and monoamine oxidase A genes. Personal
Indiv Differ 22:287– 290
58. Jakobsen IB, Wilson SR and Easteal S (1997) The partition
matrix: interpreting variable phylogenetic signals along nucleotide sequence
alignments. Mol Biol Evol 14: 474–484
59. Wise CA, Sraml M, Rubinsztein D and Easteal S (1997) Comparative
nuclear and mitochondrial genome diversity in humans and chimpanzees. Mol
Biol Evol 14:707–716
60. Chelvanayagam G, Jakobsen IB, Gao X and Easteal S (1997)
Functional and evolutionary considerations based on homology models of five
distinct HLA-A alleles. Pp. 264–266. In: D. Charron (ed) Genetic
Diversity of HLA: Functional and Medical Implications. EDK, Paris,
France.
61. Jermiin L, Olsen G and Easteal S. (1997) Majority rule
consensus of maximum likelihood trees. Mol Biol Evol
14:1296– 1302
62. Chelvanayagam G and Easteal S. (1997) Peptides: two-faced,
cheating, go-betweens? Limits in the cellular immune system. Immunogenetics
46: 516–519
1996
63. Richards RI, Crawford J, Narahara K, Mangelsdorf M, Friend K, Staples A,
Denton M, Easteal S, Hori T-A, Kondo I, Jenkins T, Goldman
A, Panich V, Ferakova E and Sutherland GR (1996) Dynamic mutation loci: Allele
distributions in different populations. Ann Hum Genet 60:391–400
64. Jakobsen I and Easteal S (1996) A program for calculating
and displaying compatibility matrices as an aid in determining reticulate evolution
in nucleotide sequences. Comp Appl Biol Sci (now Bioinformatics)
12: 291-295
65. Herbert G and Easteal S (1996) The relative rates of DNA
evolution in human and Old World monkey lineages. Mol Biol Evol
13:1054–1057
66. Chelvanayagam G, Jakobsen IB, Gao X and Easteal S (1996)
Structural comparison of MHC Class I molecules and homology modelling of five
distinct HLA-A alleles. Prot Engineer 9:1151–1164
67. Fitzgerald J, Dahl H-HM, Jakobsen I and Easteal S (1996)
Evolution of mammalian X-linked and autosomal Pgk and Pdh E1? subunit genes.
Mol Biol Evol 13: 1023– 1031
68. Sraml M, Cristidis L, Easteal S, Horn P and Collet C (1996)
Molecular relationships of Australian waterfowl (Anseriformes). Aust
J Zool 44:47–58
69. Korten AE, MacKinnon AJ, Henderson AS, Easteal S and Jorm
AF (1996) Attenuation of apolipoprotein E ?4 allele gene dose in late age. Lancet
347:542
70. Guinand B and Easteal S (1996) Multivariate patterns of
genetic differentiation support complex colonization schemes in Bufo marinus
populations. Evolution 50: 944– 951.
71. Betty DB, Chin-Atkins A, Croft L, Sraml M and Easteal S
(1996) Independent origins of the 9 bp mtDNA deletion polymorphism in Aboriginal
Australians. Am J Hum Genet 58:428–433
