Kathleen O'Connor (PhD 1995, SUNY-Albany)
Research Interests:
Biodemography; human reproductive biology and ecology, human mortality
patterns and correlates, paleodemography, nutritional anthropology,
anthropology of AIDS, applied anthropology
"My research and
teaching interests focus on variation in human fertility and mortality, and
the biological, cultural, and environmental factors contributing to this
variation. In my research on human fertility I examine age-related,
population and individual-level variation in female reproductive function. My
laboratory specializes in developing and optimizing collection methods and
assays for population-level research in reproductive ecology. My research on
human mortality has focused on the application of etiologic models of the age
pattern of mortality to paleodemographic data."
Lab Web Page: [Click Here]
Class Web Pages:
Reproductive Endocrinology Lab Seminar (Bio A 455)
Biodemography (Bio A 450)
Effective Teaching of Anthropology (Anth 599)
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Selected Publications:
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2008
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Wander KW, Brindle E, O’Connor KA.C-reactive protein across the menstrual cycle. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Published Online: Feb 6 2008 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20785.
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2007
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Fujita M, Brindle E, Shofer J, Ndemwa P, Kombe Y, Shell-Duncan B, O'Connor KA. Retinol-binding protein stability in dried blood spots. Clinical Chemistry 53: 1972-1975.
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2007
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Ferrell RJ, O’Connor KA, Rodriguez G, Holman DJ, Brindle E, Miller RC, Simon J, Mansfield PK, Wood JW, Weinstein M. Monitoring reproductive aging in a 5-year prospective study: aggregate and individual changes in luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) with age. Menopause 14(1):29-37.
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2006
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O’Connor KA, Brindle E, Miller RC, Shofer JB, Ferrell RJ, Klein NA, Soules MR, Holman DJ, Mansfield PK, Wood JW. Ovulation detection methods for urinary hormones: Precision, daily and intermittent sampling, and a combined hierarchical method. Human Reproduction 21(6):1442-1452.
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2005
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Ferrell RJ, O’Connor KA, Rodriguez G, Gorrindo T, Holman DJ, Brindle E, Miller RC, Schechter DE, Korshalla L, Simon J, Mansfield PK, Wood JW, Weinstein M. Monitoring reproductive aging in a five year prospective study: aggregate and individual changes in steroid hormones and menstrual cycle lengths with age. Menopause 12(5):567-577.
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2004
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Miller RC, Brindle E, Holman DJ, Shofer JB, Klein NA, Soules MR, O’Connor KA Comparison of specific gravity and creatinine methods for normalizing urinary reproductive hormone concentrations. Clinical Chemistry 50(5):924-32.
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2004
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O’Connor KA, Brindle E, Shofer JB, Miller RC, Klein NA, Soules MR, Campbell KL, Mar C, Handcock MS. Statistical correction for non-parallelism in a urinary enzyme immunoassay. Journal of Immunoassay and Immunochemistry 25(3):259-278.
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2003
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O'Connor KA, Brindle E, Holman DJ, Klein NA, Soules MR, Campbell KL, Kohen F, Munro CJ, Shofer J, Lasley WL, Wood JW. Urinary estrone conjugate and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide enzyme-immunoassays for population research. Clinical Chemistry 49(7):1139-1148.
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2002
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Holman DJ, Wood JW and O'Connor KA. Estimating age at death distributions from skeletal samples: a multivariate latent trait approach. In: Hoppa R and Vaupel J (eds), Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Cambridge University Press, pp.193-221.
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2001
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O'Connor KA, Holman DJ, Wood JW. Menstrual cycle variability and the perimenopause. American Journal of Human Biology 13(4):465-478.
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