Theodore G. Schurr
344 University Museum
Subject areas: Molecular anthropology; modern human evolution; human biological variation; biomedical genetics; ancient DNA.
Geographic areas: Siberia; Americas; Southeast Asia; South Asia; Australia; Melanesia; Africa.
Anthropology Department Faculty
Consulting Curator, Physical Anthropology and American Sections, University Museum
Member, CHOP Mitochondrial Research Affinity Group, University of Pennsylvania
Research Associate, Population Studies Center
Consortium Faculty, Penn Genomic Frontiers Institute
Repatriation Committee Member, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Consortium Faculty, African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Behar DM, Blue-Smith J, Soria Hernanz DF, Tzur S, Hadid Y, Bormans C, Moen A, Tyler-Smith C, Quintana-Murci L, Wells RS, The Genographic Consortium. 2008. A novel 154-bp deletion in the human mitochondrial DNA control region in healthy individuals. Hum Mutat [DOI10.1002/humu.20835].
Rubinstein S, Dulik MC, Gokcumen O, Zhadanov SI, Osipova LP, Mehta N, Cocca MF, Gubina M, Posukh O, Schurr TG. 2008. Russian Old Believers: Genetic consequences of their persecution and exile, as shown by mitochondrial DNA evidence. Hum Biol 80(3):203-38.
Behar DM, Villems R, Soodyall H, Blue-Smith J, Perriera L, Metspalu E, Scozzari R, Makkan H, Comas D, Bertranpetit J, Quintana-Murci L, Tyler-Smith C, Wells RS, Rosset S, The Genographic Consortium. 2008. The dawn of matrilineal diversity. Am J Hum Genet 82:1130–40.
Zalloua PA, Xue Y, Khalife J, Makhoul N, Debiane L, Herrera RJ, Soria D, Blue-Smith J, Wells RS, Comas D, Bertranpetit J, Tyler-Smith C, The Genographic Consortium. 2008. Y-chromosomal diversity in Lebanon is structured by recent historical events. Am J Hum Genet 82:873-82.
Gokcumen O, Dulik MC, Pai AA, Zhadanov SI, Osipova LP, Andreenkov O, Tabikhanova L, Gubina M, Labuda D, Schurr TG. 2008. Genetic variation in the enigmatic Altaian Kazakhs of South-Central Russia: Insights into Turkic population history. Am J Phys Anthropol 136(3):278-93.
Zhadanov SI, Grechanina EY, Grechanina YuB, Gusar VA, Fedoseeva NP, Schurr TG, Doronin BM. 2008. Clinical complex syndromes: Importance of genetic screening of mtDNA mutations in the diagnosis of mitochondrial neurodegenerative syndromes. Neurology Korsakova (In Russian) [In Press].
Behar DM, Rosset S, Blue-Smith J, Balanovsky O, Tzur S, Comas D, Mitchell RJ, Quintana-Murci L, Tyler-Smith C, Wells RS, The Genographic Consortium. 2007. The Genographic Project public participation mitochondrial DNA database. PLoS Genetics 3(6): e104.
Zhadanov SI, Grechanina EYa, Grechanina YuB, Gusar VA, Fedoseeva NP, Lebon S, Münnich SA, Schurr TG. 2007. Fatal manifestation of a de novo ND5 mutation: Implication for the pathogenetic mechanisms of ND5 gene defects. Mitochondrion 7(4): 260-66.
Friedlaender JS, Friedlaender FR, Hodgson JA, Stoltz M, Koki G, Horvat G, Zhadanov SI, Schurr TG, Merriwether DA. 2007. Melanesian mtDNA complexity. PLoS One 2(2): e248.
Schroeder KB, Schurr TG, Long JC, Rosenberg NA, Grote MN, Crawford MH, Tarskaia L, Osipova LP, Zhadanov SI, Smith DG. 2007. Native Americans descend from a common founding population. Biology Letters 3(2): 218-23.
Zhadanov SI, Grechanina EY, Grechanina YB, Gusar VA, Fedoseeva NP, Schurr TG. 2006. Studying mitochondrial diseases in the Ukraine: The role of de novo ND5 mutations and pathogenic mechanisms of genetic defects in the ND5 gene. J Ukr Acad Med Sci 12(3): 443-56.
Diego VP, Göring HHH, Cole S, Almasy L, Dyer TD, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Laston S, Wenger C, Cantu T, Dyke B, North K, Tracy RP, Schurr TG, Best LG, Devereuz RB, Fabsitz RR, Lee ET, Howard BV, MacCluer JW. 2006. The region of chromosome 2p harboring the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) locus is linked to fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and obesity-related phenotypes: The Strong Heart Family Study. Diabetes 55(6): 1874-78.
Zhadanov SI, Atamanov VV, Zhadanov NI, Schurr TG. 2006. De novo COX2 mutation in a LHON family of Caucasian origin: Implication for the role of mtDNA polymorphism in human pathology. J Hum Genet 51(3): 161-70.
Mooder KP, Schurr TG, Bamforth FJ, Bazaliiskii V, Savel'ev NA. 2006. Population affinities of Neolithic Siberians: A snapshot from prehistoric Lake Baikal. Am J Phys Anthropol 129: 349-61.
Mooder KP, Weber AW, Bamforth FJ, Lieverse AR, Schurr TG, Bazaliiskii VI, Savel’ev NA. 2005. Matrilineal affinities and prehistoric Siberian mortuary practices: A case study from Neolithic Lake Baikal. J Archeol Sci 32: 619-34.
Zhadanov SI, Atamanov VV, Zhadanov NI, Oleinikov OV, Osipova LP, Schurr TG. 2005. A novel mtDNA ND6 gene mutation associated with LHON in a Caucasian family. Biochem Biophys Res Comm 332: 1115-21.
Shriver MD, Mei R, Parra EJ, Sonpar V, Halder I, Tishkoff SA, Schurr TG, Zhadanov SI, Osipova LP, Brutsaert T, Friedlaender J, Jorde LB, Watkins WS, Bamshad MJ, Gutierrez G, Loi H, Matsuzaki H, Argyropoulos G, Fernandez J, Kittles RA, Akey JM, Jones K. 2005. Large-scale SNP analysis reveals clustered and continuous patterns of human genetic variation. Hum Genom 2(2): 81-89.
Friedlaender J, Schurr T, Gentz F, Koki G, Friedlaender F, Horvat G, Babb P, Cerchio S, Kaestle F, Schanfield M, Deka R, Yanagihara R, Merriwether DA. 2005. Expanding Southwest Pacific mtDNA haplogroups P and Q. Mol Biol Evol 22(6): 1506-17.
Schurr TG, Sherry ST. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome diversity and the peopling of the Americas. Am J Hum Biol 16(4): 420-39.
Weber A, Bettinger R, Anderson D, Bamforth F, Bush A, Katzenberg MA, Schurr T. 2004. The Neolithic and Bronze Age of the Cis-Baikal: some theoretical and methodological considerations. Vestnik IGTU 4(20): 10-19 (In Russian).
Iovita RP, Schurr TG. 2004. Reconstructing the origins and migrations of diasporic populations: The case of the European Gypsies. Amer Anthropol 106(2): 267-81.
Thornton CP, Schurr TG. 2004. Genes, language, and culture: An example from the Tarim Basin. Oxford J Archeol 23(1): 83-106.
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