Publications

Citations: 3,374; H-index: 26; i10-index: 41 (as of Dec. 2024)

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*Equal contribution, ‡Undergraduate student mentee, †Graduate student mentee, +Postdoctoral mentee

  1. Arehart, CH†, M Lin, R Gibson‡, S Raghavan, CR Gignoux, MA Stanislawski, AD Grotzinger, LM Evans. Accepted at Nature Communications. Modeling the genomic architecture of adiposity and anthropometrics across the lifespan. MedRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.14.24312003
  2. Brasher, MS†, AD Grotzinger, NP Friedman, HR Smolker, LM Evans. 2024. Disentangling Differing Relationships Between Internalizing Disorders and Alcohol Use. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics.195:e32975. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.b.32975. PMC11147714
  3. Van der Laan, C, and 128 others (Evans co-author on consortium paper). 2024. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on ADHD symptoms and diagnosis reveals 17 novel loci and 22 potential effector genes. Nature Genetics. Accepted in principle. Preprint on MedRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.24305817
  4. Kaluthota, S, DW Pearce, LM Evans, TG Whitham, SB Rood. 2024 Greener leaves from northern trees: Latitudinal compensation in riparian cottonwoods. Forest Ecology and Management. 562:121919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121919
  5. Romero Villela, PN, LM Evans, T Palviainen, R Border, J Kaprio, RHC Palmer, MC Keller, MA Ehringer. 2024. Loci on Chromosome 20 Interact with rs16969968 to Influence Cigarettes per Day in European Ancestry Individuals. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 257:111126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111126
  6. Simon SJ, A Furches, H Chhetri, LM Evans, CR Abeyratne, P Jones, G Wimp, D Macaya-Sanz, D Jacobson, TJ Tschaplinski, GA Tuskan, SP DiFazio. 2024. Genetic underpinnings of arthropod community distributions in Populus trichocarpa. New Phytologist. 242(3): 1307-1323. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19660
  7. Arehart, CH†, JD Sterrrett, R Garris, RQ Pilco, CR Gignoux, LM Evans*, MA Stanislawski*. 2023. Poly-omic risk scores predict inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis. mSystems. 9(1): e00677-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00677-23. PMC10805030.
  8. Evans, LM, CH Arehart†, AD Grotzinger, TJ Mize†, MS Brasher†, JA Stitzel, MA Ehringer, CA Hoeffer. 2023. Transcriptome-Wide Gene-Gene Interaction Association Study Elucidates Pathways and Functional Enrichment of Complex Traits. PLoS Genetics. 19(5): e1010693. PMC10237671. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010693
  9. Brasher, M‡, TM Mize†, AL Thomas, CA Hoeffer, MA Ehringer, LM Evans. 2023. Testing human anxiety associations of genes previously implicated by mouse anxiety models. Genes, Brain & Behavior. 22(6): e12851. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12851 PMC10733569
  10. Evans, LM, PN Romero Villela. 2023. News & Views: Contributions of rare variants to complex traits. Nature. 614:418-419. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00272-1
  11. Booher, W, L Vanderlinden, L Hall, A Thomas, LM Evans, L Saba, MA Ehringer. 2023. Hippocampal RNA Sequencing in Mice Selectively Bred for High and Low Activity. Genes Brain and Behavior. 22(2): e12832. http://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12832
  12. Hatoum, AS, CL Morrison, EC Mitchell, M Lam, CE Benca-Bachman, AE Reineberg, RHC Palmer, LM Evans, MC Keller, NP Friedman. 2023. Genome-Wide Association Study Shows that Executive Functioning Is Influenced by GABAergic Processes and Is a Neurocognitive Genetic Correlate of Psychiatric Disorders. Biological Psychiatry. 93(1):59-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.034
  13. Mize, TM†, SA Funkhouser+, JM Buck, JA Stitzel, MA Ehringer, LM Evans. 2022. Testing association of previously implicated gene-sets and gene-networks in nicotine exposed mouse models with human smoking phenotypes. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 25(5):1030-1038. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac269
  14. Mize, TM†, LM Evans. 2022. Examination of a novel expression-based gene-SNP annotation strategy to identify tissue-specific contributions to heritability in multiple phenotypes. European Journal of Human Genetics. 32:263-269. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-022-01244-1
  15. Jang, S-K, LM Evans, and 61 others. 2022. Rare variant heritability of smoking from deep whole-genome sequencing of up to 26,000 individuals. Nature Human Behavior. 6:1577–1586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01408-5. PMC9985486
  16. Jami, ES. And 95 others (LMEvans co-author on consortium paper). 2022. Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 61(7):934-945. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.11.035
  17. Howe, LJ, and 102 others (LMEvans co-author on consortium paper). 2022. Within-sibship GWAS of 25 phenotypes improve estimates of direct genetic effects. Nature Genetics. 54(5):581+
  18. Evans, LM, S Jang, MA Ehringer, DB Hancock, J Otto, SI Vrieze, MC Keller. 2021. Genetic architecture of four smoking behaviors using partitioned SNP heritability. Addiction. 116(9): 2498-2508. DOI:10.1111/add.15450. PMC8759147
  19. Colbert, SMC‡, S Funkhouser+, EC Johnson, CL Morrison, C Hoeffer, NP Friedman, MA Ehringer, LM Evans. 2021. Novel characterization of the multivariate genetic architecture of internalizing psychopathology and alcohol use. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 186(6):353-366. DOI:10.1002/ajmg.b.32874. PMC8556277
  20. Ip, HF, and 142 others. (Evans co-author on consortium paper). 2021. Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age. Translational Psychiatry. 11:413. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01480-x. PMC8324785.
  21. Adjangba, A‡, R Border, P Romero Villela, MA Ehringer, LM Evans. 2021. Limited evidence of modified genetic susceptibility to tobacco smoking at rs16969968 based on age of onset of regular smoking. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 23(6):1055-1063. DOI:10.1093/ntr/ntaa229. PMC8150133
  22. Gouker, FE, CH Carlson, J Zou, LM Evans, CR Crowell, CD Smart, SP DiFazio, LB Smart. 2021. Sexual dimorphism in the dioecious willow, Salix purpurea. American Journal of Botany. 108(8):1374-1387. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1704
  23. Thomas, AL*, LM Evans*, MD Nelsen, EJ Chesler, MS Powers, WC Booher, C Lowry, JD DeFries, MA Ehringer. 2021. Whole genome sequencing of inbred mouse strains selected for high and low open-field activity. Behavior Genetics. 51:68-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-020-10014-y. PMC7854991
  24. Bothwell, H, LM Evans, EI Hersch-Green, S Woolbright, G Allan, TG Whitham. 2020. Genetic data improves niche model discrimination and alters the direction and magnitude of climate change forecasts. Ecological Applications. 31(3):e02254. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2254
  25. Evans, LM, EC Johnson, WE Melroy-Greif, JK Hewitt, CA Hoeffer, MC Keller, LM Saba, JA Stitzel, MA Ehringer. 2020. The role of a priori-identified addiction and smoking gene sets in smoking behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 22:1310-1315. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaa006. PMC7749195
  26. Border R, EC Johnson, LM Evans, MC Keller. 2019. Measurement Error Cannot Account for Failed Replications of Historic Candidate Gene-by-Environment Hypotheses: Response to Vrshek-Schallhorn et al. The American Journal of Psychiatry. 176:668-669. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19040374r
  27. Border R, A Smolen, R Crowley, M Stallings, S Brown, RD Conger, J Derringer, MB Donnellan, BC Haberstick, J Hewitt, C Hopfer, K Krauter, MB McQueen, TL Wall, MC Keller, LM Evans. 2019. Imputation of behavioral candidate gene repeat variants in 486,565 publicly-available UK Biobank individuals. European Journal of Human Genetics. 27:963-969. DOI:10.1038/s41431-019-0349-x. PMC6777532
  28. Border R, EC Johnson, LM Evans, A Smolen, N Berley, PF Sullivan, MC Keller. 2019. No support for candidate gene or candidate gene-by-interaction hypotheses for major depression across multiple large samples. The American Journal of Psychiatry. 176:376-387. DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18070881. PMC6548317
  29. Carlson, C, F Gouker, C Crowell, L Evans, S DiFazio, C Smart, L Smart. 2019. Joint linkage and association mapping of complex traits in shrub willow (Salix purpurea L.). Annals of Botany. 124:701-715. DOI:10.1093/aob/mcz047
  30. Chhetri, HB, D Macaya-Sanz, D Kainer, LM Evans, K Ault, T Rosentiel, SH Strauss, D Jacobson, TJ Tschaplinski, GA Tuskan, SP DiFazio. 2019. Genome-wiide association analysis of Populus trichocarpa identifies key polymorphisms controlling morphological and physiological traits. New Phytologist. 223:293-309. DOI:10.1111/nph.15777.
  31. Zhou R, Macaya-Sanz D, Rodgers-Melnick E, Carlson CH, Gouker FE, Evans LM, Schmutz J, Jenkins JW, Yan J, Tuskan JA, Smart LB, DiFazio SP. 2018. Characterization of a large sexually dimorphic genome interval in Salix purpurea L. (Salicaceae). Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 293:1473-1452. DOI:10.1007/s00438-018-1473-y
  32. Evans, LM, R Tahmasbi, SI Vrieze, G Abecasis, S Das, D Bjelland, T DeCandia, Haplotype Reference Consortium, ME Goddard, BM Neale, J Yang, PM Visscher, MC Keller. 2018 Comparison of methods that use whole genome data to estimate the heritability and genetic architecture of complex traits. Nature Genetics. 50:737-745. DOI:10.1038/s41588-018-0108-x. PMC5934350
  33. Evans, LM, R Tahmasbi, SI Vrieze, G Abecasis, S Das, D Bjelland, T DeCandia, Haplotype Reference Consortium, ME Goddard, J Yang, PM Visscher, MC Keller. 2018. Narrow-sense heritability estimation of complex traits using identity-by-descent information. Heredity. 121:616-630. DOI:10.1038/s41437-018-0067-0. PMC6221881.
  34. Evans, LM, MC Keller. 2018. Correspondence: Using partitioned heritability methods to explore genetic architecture. Nature Reviews Genetics. DOI:10.1038/nrg.2018.6
  35. Johnson, EC, LM Evans, MC Keller. 2018 Relationship between estimated autozygosity and complex traits in the UK Biobank. PLoS Genetics. 14(7):e1007556. DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1007556.
  36. Chhatre, VE, LM Evans, SP DiFazio, SR Keller. 2018. Adaptive introgression and maintenance of a trispecies hybrid complex in range-edge populations of Populus. Molecular Ecology. 27:4820-4838. DOI:10.1111/mec.14820
  37. Xie, M, W Muchero, AC Bryan, K Yee, H-B Guo, J Zhang, TJ Tschaplinski, VR Singan, E Lindquist, RS Payyavula, J Barros-Rios, R Dixon, N Engle, RW Sykes, M Davis, SS Jawdy, LE Gunter, O Thompson, SP DiFazio, LM Evans, K Winkeler, C Collins, J Schmutz, H Guo, U Kalluri, M Rodriguez, K Feng, J-G Chen, GA Tuskan. 2018. A 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate 3-Phosphate Synthase Functions as a Transcriptional Repressor in Populus. The Plant Cell. 30:1645-1660. DOI:10.1105/tpc.18.00168
  38. Wills, AG, LM Evans, C Hopfer. 2017. Phenotypic and genetic relationship between BMI and drinking in a sample of UK adults. Behavior Genetics. 47(3):290-297. DOI:10.1007/s10519-017-9838-2. PMC5546738.
  39. Bothwell, HM, SA Cushman, SA Woolbright, EI Hersch-Green, LM Evans, TG Whitham, GJ Allan. 2017. Conserving threatened riparian ecosystems in the American West: Precipitation gradients and river networks drive genetic connectivity and diversity in a foundation riparian tree (Populus angustifolia). Molecular Ecology. 26:5114-5132.
  40. Evans, LM, S Kaluthota, DW Pearce, GJ Allan, K Floate, SB Rood, TG Whitham. 2016. Bud phenology and growth are subject to divergent selection across a latitudinal gradient in Populus angustifolia and impact adaptation across the distributional range and associated arthropods. Ecology and Evolution. 6:2565-4582. DOI:10.1002/ece3.2222
  41. Evans LM, GJ Allan, SP DiFazio, GT Slavov, JA Wilder, SB Rood, KD Floate, TG Whitham. 2015. Geographical barriers and climate influence demographic history in narrowleaf cottonwoods. Heredity. 114:387-396. DOI:10.1038/hdy.2014.115
  42. Kaluthota, S, DW Pearce, LM Evans, MG Letts, TG Whitham, SB Rood. 2015. Higher photosynthetic capacity from higher latitude: foliar characteristics and gas exchange of southern, central and northern populations of Populus angustifolia. Tree Physiology. 35:936-948. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv069
  43. Evans LM, GT Slavov, E Rodgers-Melnick, J Martin, P Ranjan, W Muchero, AM Brunner, W Schackwitz, L Gunter, J-G Chen, GA Tuskan, SP DiFazio. 2014. Population genomics of Populus trichocarpa identifies signatures of selection and adaptive trait associations. Nature Genetics. 46:1089-1096. DOI:10.1038/ng.3075 **Press release at: http://jgi.doe.gov/signatures-selection-inscribed-poplar-genomes/
  44. Muchero W, J Guo, SP DiFazio, J-G Chen, PRanjan, GT Slavov, LE Gunter, S Jawdy, AC Bryan, R Sykes, A Ziebell, I Porth, O Skyba, F Unda, YA El-Kassaby, CJ Douglas, SD Mansfield, J Martin, W Schackwitz, LM Evans, O Czarnecki, GA Tuskan. 2014. Multi-environment Identification and Molecular Validation of Allelic Variants Associated With Cell Wall Chemistry in Populus. BMC Genomics. 16:24.
  45. Brunner AM, LM Evans, C-Y Hsu, S Xiaoyan. 2014. Vernalization and the chilling requirement to exit bud dormancy: shared or separate regulation? Frontiers in Plant Science. 5:732. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00732
  46. Cushman, SA, T Max, N Meneses, LM Evans, SM Ferrier, B Honchak, TG Whitham, GJ Allan. 2014. Landscape genetic connectivity in a riparian foundation tree is jointly driven by climatic gradients and river networks. Ecological Applications. 24:1000-1014.
  47. Bangert RK, SM Ferrier, LM Evans, K Kennedy, KC Grady, GJ Allan, TG Whitham. 2013. The proportion of three foundation plant species and their genotypes influence an arthropod community: restoration implications for the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher. Restoration Ecology 21:447-456.
  48. Evans LM, GJ Allan, N Meneses, TL Max, TG Whitham. 2013. Herbivore host-associated genetic differentiation depends on the scale of plant genetic variation examined. Evolutionary Ecology 27:65-81.
  49. Evans LM, GJ Allan, and TG Whitham. 2012. Populus hybrid hosts drive divergence in the herbivorous mite, Aceria parapopuli: Implications for conservation of plant hybrid zones as essential habitat. Conservation Genetics 13:1601-1609.
  50. Evans, LM, JS Clark, AV Whipple, TG Whitham. 2012. The relative influences of host plant genotype and yearly abiotic variability in determining herbivore abundance. Oecologia. 168:483-489.
  51. Whitham, TG, CA Gehring, LJ Lamit, T Wojtowicz, LM Evans, AR Keith, DS Smith. 2012. Community specificity: life and afterlife effects of genes. Trends in Plant Science 17:271-281.
  52. Evans, LM, RW Hofstetter, MP Ayres, KD Klepzig. 2011. Temperature alters the relative abundance and population growth rates of species within the Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) community. Environmental Entomology 40:824-834.
  53. Whitham TG, CA Gehring, LM Evans, CJ LeRoy, RK Bangert, JA Schweitzer, GJ Allan, RC Barbour, DG Fischer, BM Potts, JK Bailey. 2010. A community and ecosystem genetics approach to conservation biology and management. Pp. 50-73. In Molecular Approaches in Natural Resource Conservation (J.A DeWoody, J.W. Bickham, C. Michler, K. Nichols, O.E. Rhodes, and K. Woeste, eds.). Cambridge University Press.
  54. Evans, LM, GJ Allan, S Woolbright, S Shuster, TG Whitham. 2008. Hybridization and genotypic variation in a foundation tree drive cryptic speciation of a specialist herbivore. Evolution 62:3027-3040.