Department of Anthropology

Penn State University

AnnE Buchanan

Research Associate in Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society

Faculty Image Office: 515 Carpenter Building
Telephone: (814) 865-1586 Fax: (814) 863-1474
Email: abw1@psu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
 

Education:

 BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Anthropology and Latin American Studies, 1977    MPH, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston; Population Studies, 1979   DrPH, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston; Population Studies, 1983 

Research Activities and Interests :

Dr. Buchanan's research interests include public health, epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, developmental genetics, and evolution.  She has a long-standing interest in complex diseases, such as type II diabetes in Amerindian and Mexican American populations, heart disease and asthma, what we know about the epidemiology and genetics of diseases presumably caused by gene by environment interaction, and why we don't know more. Previous work includes historical demographic and epidemiological research in Laredo, Texas, the genetic epidemiology of diabetes and the New World syndrome in Mvskoke Indians of Oklahoma and Mexican Americans of Laredo, DNA extraction and amplification methods for archived blood samples, and other laboratory genetics work.  She is currently part of the group working on the developmental genetics of the mouse dentition in the Weiss Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics lab, is working on a project on the epistemology of epidemiology and genetics, as well as a second book on genes and evolution.

Publications:

  • Buchanan, A, Risch, G, Robichaux, M, Sherry, S, Batzer, M, Weiss, K.  (2000) Long DOP-PCR of rare archival anthropological samples.  Human Biology.

  • Zhao, Z, Stock, D, Buchanan, A, Weiss, K. (2000) Expression of Dlx genes during murine dental development Dev Genes Evol., 210: 270-275.

  • Weiss, K, Buchanan, A (2000) Rediscovering Darwin after a Darwinian Century, Evol  Anth., 9(5), 187-200.

  • Weiss, K, Buchanan, A (2003) Evolution by Phenotype, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2003 Spring; 46(2):159-82.

  • Weiss, K, Buchanan, A (2004) Genetics and the Logic of Evolution, Wiley-Liss.

  • S. M. Fullerton, A.V. Buchanan, V.A. Sonpar, S.L. Taylor, J.D. Smith, C. S. Carlson, V. Salomaa, J.H. Stengård, E. Boerwinkle, A.G. Clark, D.A. Nickerson, K. M. Weiss (2004)            The Effects of Scale: Variation in the APOA1/C3/A4/A5 Gene Cluster, Hum Genet Jun;115(1):36-56.

  • Buchanan, A.V., Weiss, K.M., Fullerton, S.M.  (2006) Dissecting Complex Disease: The Quest for the Philosopher's Stone? International Journal of Epidemiology, 35: 562-571; published online Mar 15.

  • Buchanan, A.V., Weiss, K.M., Fullerton, S.M. (2006) Author's Response: On Stones, Wands, and Promises , International Journal of Epidemiology,35: 593-596; published online Mar 15.

  • Weiss, K.M. and Buchanan, A.V. (2006).  Review of Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade. In your own image, Nature 441, June 15: 813-814.