Publications
Kosova G, Abney M, Ober C. (2010) Heritability of reproductive fitness traits in a human population. PNAS in press.
Abney M (2009) A graphical algorithm for fast computation of identity coefficients and generalized kinship coefficients. Bioinformatics. 25:1561-1563.[pdf] [supplementary material]
Ober C, Nord AS, Thompson EE, Pan L, Tan Z, Cusanovich D, Sun Y, Nicolae R, Edelstein C, Schneider DH, Billstrand C, Pfaffinger D, Phillips N, Anderson RL, Philips B, Rajagopalan R, Hatsukami TS, Rieder MJ, Heagerty PJ, Nickerson DA, Abney M, Marcovina S, Jarvik GP, Scanu AM, Nicolae DL. (2009) Genome-wide association study of plasma lipoprotein(a) levels identifies multiple genes on chromosome 6q. Journal of Lipid Research 50:798-806. [pdf]
Abney M (2008) Identity-by-descent estimation and mapping of qualitative traits in large, complex pedigrees. Genetics 179:1577-1590. [pdf]
McArdle PF, Dytch H, O'Connell JR, Shuldiner AR, Mitchell BD, Abney M. (2007) Homozygosity by descent mapping of blood pressure in the Old Order Amish: evidence for sex specific genetic architecture. BMC Genetics 8:66. [pdf]
Pan L, Ober C, Abney M (2007) Heritability estimation of sex-specific effects on human quantitative traits. Genetic Epidemiology 31: 338–347. [pdf]
Weiss LA, Pan L, Abney M, Ober C (2006) The sex-specific genetic architecture of quantitative traits in humans. Nature Genetics 38: 218–222. [pdf]
Kurina LM, Weiss LA, Graves SW, Parry R, Williams GH, Abney M, Ober C (2005) Sex differences in the genetic basis of morning serum cortisol levels: Genome-wide screen identifies two novel loci specific to women. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 90: 4747-4752. [pdf]
Weiss LA, Abney M, Parry R, Scanu AM, Cook EH, Ober C (2005) Variation in ITGB3 has sex-specific associations with plasma lipoprotein(a) and whole blood serotonin levels in a population-based sample. Human Genetics 117: 81–87. [pdf]
Weiss LA, Abney M, Cook EH, Ober C (2005) Sex-specific genetic architecture of whole blood serotonin levels. American Journal of Human Genetics 76: 33–41. [pdf]
Bourgain C, Abney M, Schneider D, Ober C, McPeek MS (2004) Testing for Hardy-Weinberg in samples with related individuals. Genetics 168: 2349–2361. [pdf]
Weiss LA, Veenstra-VanderWeele J, Newman DL, Kim S-J, Dytch H, McPeek MS, Cheng S, Ober C, Cook EH, Abney M (2004) Genomewide association study identifies ITGB3 as a QTL for whole blood serotonin. European Journal of Human Genetics 12: 949–954. [pdf]
Newman DL, Hoffjan S, Bourgain C, Abney M, Nicolae RI, Profits ET, Grow MA, Walker K, Steiner L, Parry R, Reynolds R, McPeek MS, Cheng S, Ober C (2004) Are common disease susceptibility alleles the same in outbred and founder populations? European Journal of Human Genetics 12: 584–590. [pdf]
Newman DL, Abney M, Dytch H, Parry R, McPeek MS, Ober C (2003) Major loci influencing serum triglyceride levels on 2q14 and 9p21 localized by homozygosity-by-descent mapping in a large Hutterite pedigree. Human Molecular Genetics 12: 137–144. [pdf]
Abney M, Ober C, McPeek MS (2002) Quantitative trait homozygosity and association mapping and empirical genome-wide significance in large complex pedigrees: Fasting serum insulin levels in the Hutterites. American Journal of Human Genetics 70: 920–934. [pdf]
Newman DL, Abney M, McPeek MS, Ober C, Cox NJ (2001) The importance of genealogy in determining genetic associations with complex traits. American Journal of Human Genetics 69: 1146–1148. [pdf]
Ober C, Abney M, McPeek MS (2001) The genetic dissection of complex traits in a founder population. American Journal of Human Genetics 69: 1068–1079. [pdf]
Sun L, Abney M, McPeek MS (2001) Detection of misspecified relationships in inbred and outbred pedigrees, Genetic Epidemiology 21: S36–S41.
Abney M, McPeek MS, Ober C (2001) Narrow and broad heritabilities of quantitative traits in a founder population, American Journal of Human Genetics 68: 1302–1307. [pdf]
Abney M, McPeek MS, Ober C (2000) Estimation of variance components of quantitative traits in inbred populations, American Journal of Human Genetics 66: 629–650. [pdf]
Ober C, Cox NJ, Abney M, Di Rienzo A, Lander ES, Changylaket B,Gidley H, Kurtz B, Lee J, Nance M, Pettersson A, Prescott J, Richardson A, Schlenker E, Summerhill E, Willadsen S, Parry R and the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Asthma (1998) Genome-wide search for asthma susceptibility loci in a founder population, Human Molecular Genetics 7: 1393–1398. [pdf]
Lidsey JE, Liddle AR, Kolb E, Copeland EJ, Barriero t, Abney M (1997) Reconstructing the Inflaton Potential—an Overview. Reviews of Modern Physics 69: 373–410. [pdf]
Abney M (1997) Fluctuations and Bubble Dynamics in First Order Phase Transitions, Physical Review D 55: 582–594. [pdf]
Abney M, Epstein R, Olinto A (1996) Observational Constraints on the Internal Structure and Dynamics of the Vela Pulsar, Astrophysical Journal Letters 466: L91. [pdf]
Abney M, Epstein R (1996) Ekman pumping in compact astrophysical bodies, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 312: 327–340. [pdf]
Kolb E, Abney M, Copeland E, Liddle AL, Lidsey JE (1995) The Inflaton Potential from Present Day Observations, Nuclear Physics B Suppl. 43: 118–125. [pdf]
Abney M (1994) Hydrodynamic Detonation Instability in Electroweak and QCD Phase Transitions, Physical Review D 49: 1777–1782. [pdf]