Joseph G. Lorenz, Ph.D.

        E-mail Address: jlorenz@cimr.umdnj.edu
       Office Telephone: 856-757-9722

I received my B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  I received my M.A. and, in 1995, my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Davis.  The focus of my dissertation research was on the geographic and ethnic distribution of mitochondrial DNA variation among North American Indians.  My postdoctoral research experience includes two years in a paternity testing / forensic lab in Denver, CO as well as two and a half years in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism / NIH in Rockville, MD doing research on the genetics of alcohol consumption in rhesus macaques.  Currently I am at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research in Camden, NJ where I am doing work on extracting DNA from ancient tissue for genetic analysis.  My research career has ranged broadly across human populations and primate species but I am basically interested in the fundamental questions of population and evolutionary genetics: 1) What is the extent of genetic diversity within a species?  2) What can the distribution of genetic variation tell us about the history of populations within a species?  3) What role does the extant genetic variation within a species play in producing the observable phenotypic variation?

Selected Publications

In Preparation.
J.G. Lorenz, J.C. Long, A. Hurley, M. Champoux, D. Goldman, S.J. Suomi, and J.D. Higley.  Genetic and Environmental Components of Variation in Alcohol Consumption in Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta).

2000

David Glenn Smith, Joseph Lorenz, Becky K. Rolfs, Robert L. Bettinger, Brian Green, Jason Eshleman, Beth Schultz and Ripan Malhi.  Implications of the Distribution of Albumin Naskapi and Albumin Mexico for New World Prehistory. . American Journal  of Physical Anthropology  111:557-572.

Claudia Fahlke, Joseph G. Lorenz, Jeffrey Long, Maribeth Champoux, Stephen J. Suomi, and J. Dee Higley.  Rearing Experiences and Stress-induced Plasma Cortisol as Early Risk Factors for Excessive Alcohol Consumption in Nonhuman Primates.  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 24(5):644-650.

Jeffrey C. Long and Joseph G. Lorenz.  Genetic Polymorphism and American Indian Origins, Affinities, and Health.  pp. 122-137.  In: The Health of American Indians and Alaska Natives, Rhoades, ER (ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

1999.

Frederika A. Kaestle, Joseph G. Lorenz and David G. Smith.  Molecular Genetics and the Numic Expansion: A Molecular Investigation of the Prehistoric Inhabitants of Stillwater Marsh.  In: Prehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands.  Hemphill, B and Larsen, CS (eds.), Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

David Glenn Smith, Ripan S. Malhi, Jason Eshleman, Joseph G. Lorenz and Frederika A. Kaestle.  Distribution of mtDNA Haplogroup X among Native North Americans. American Journal  of Physical Anthropology  110(3):271-284.

1997

Joseph G. Lorenz and David G. Smith.  Distribution of Sequence Variation in the mtDNA Control Region of Native North Americans.  Human Biology  69(6):749-775.

1996
Joseph G. Lorenz and David G. Smith.  Distribution of Four Founding mtDNA Haplogroups Among Native North Americans.  American Journal  of Physical Anthropology  101(3):307-323.

1995
Paul Bouey, Joseph Lorenz, and Howard Spero.  Stable Isotopes.  In: Report of the Archaeological Analysis of CA-SAC-43, Cultural Resource Mitigation for the Sacramento Urban Area Levee Reconstruction Project.  Submitted to the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers, Sacramento District, Sacramento Cty., CA.

1994
Joseph G. Lorenz and David G. Smith.  Distribution of the 9-bp Mitochondrial DNA Region V Deletion among North American Indians.  Human Biology. 66(5): 777-788.00