Fatimah Jackson
Professor
Applied Biological Anthropology
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742


Research Lab Phone: (301) 405-7643
Office Phone: (301) 405-1431
Fax: (301) 405-8678
Email: fj6@umail.umd.edu
 

Articles in Refereed Journals

Jackson, L.C., Bloch, E.F., Jackson, R.T., Chandler, J.P., Kim, Y.L., and Malveaux, F. 1985. Influence of dietary cyanide on immunoglobulin and thiocyanate levels in the serum of Liberian adults. Journal of the National Medical Association 77(10):777-782.

Jackson, L.C. 1985. Malaria in Liberian children and mothers: biocultural perceptions of illness versus clinical evidence of disease. Social Science and Medicine 20(12):1281-1287.

Jackson, L.C., Chandler, J.P., and Jackson, R.T. 1986. Inhibition and adaptation of red cell glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in vivo to chronic sublethal dietary cyanide in an animal model. Human Biology 85(1):67-77.

Jackson, L.C. 1986. Sociocultural and ethnohistorical influences on genetic diversity in Liberia. American Anthropologist 88(4):171-179.

Jackson, R.T. and Jackson, L.C. 1987. Biological and behavioral contributors to anemia during pregnancy in Liberia, West Africa. Human Biology 59(4):585-597.

Jackson, L.C., Oseguera, M., Medrano, S., and Kim, Y.L. 1988. Carbamylation of hemoglobin in vivo with chronic sublethal dietary cyanide: implications for hemoglobin S. Biochemical Medicine and Metabolic Biology 39:64-68.

Jackson, L.C. 1988. Behavioral effects of chronic sublethal dietary cyanide in an animal model: implications for humans consuming cassava. Human Biology 60(4):142-151.

Jackson, L.C. 1988. Possible adaptation to serum thiocyanate overload associated with chronic sublethal dietary cyanide ingestion. Human Biology 60(4):152-155.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1989 HLA diversity within the context of general human heterogeneity: anthropological perspectives. Transplantation Proceedings 21(6):3869-3871.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1990. Two evolutionary models for the interactions of dietary cyanogens, hemoglobin S, and falciparum malaria. American Journal of Human Biology 2:521-532.

Jackson, F.L.C., Bekheit, S.S., El Etr, S.M., Quach, N.K. 1990. Larvicidal effects of grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) seedling extracts on 2nd and 3rd instar Culex pipiens larvae. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 6(3):500-504.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1991. An evolutionary perspective on salt, hypertension, and human genetic variability. Hypertension 17(1):I-129-I-132.

Jackson, R.T. and Jackson, F.L.C. 1991. Reassessing "hereditary" intra-ethnic differences in anemia status. Ethnicity and Disease 1(1):26-41.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1991. Influence of chronic sublethal cyanide on body weight in neonatal swine: implications for humans consuming cassava (Manihot esculenta). American Journal of Human Biology 3:339-345.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1991. Secondary compounds in plants (allelochemicals) as promoters of human biological variation. Annual Review of Anthropology 202:505-546.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1992 Race and ethnicity as biological constructs. Ethnicity and Disease 2(2):120-125.

Jackson, F.L.C., Jackson, R.T., DeLumen, B.O., Sio, S.F., Dinkins, L., Muhammad, A.F.H. 1992. Cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Liberia: History, geography, traditional processing, and cyanogenic glycoside levels. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 28:227-242.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1993. The bioanthropological context of disease. Journal of Kidney Biology 21(4) (Suppl 1): 10-14.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1993. Evolutionary and political economic perspectives on biological diversity in African Americans. Journal of Black Studies. 23(4):539-560.

Jackson, R.T., Jackson, F.L.C., and Yu, S. 1993 The relationship between third trimester maternal weight gain, hematologic status, and infant birth weight in samples of Liberian mothers. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 30:309-319.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1994 Bioanthropological impact of chronic exposure to sublethal cyanides from cassava in Africa. Actae Horticulturae. 375:295-309.

Lieberman, L. and Jackson, F.L.C. 1995 Race, Displacement from Africa, Afro-european-sapiens, and Multiregional continuity: Race implications of competing perspectives on the origins of modern humans. American Anthropologist 197:231-242.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1996 The coevolution of humans and domesticated plants. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 39:161-176

Jackson, F.L.C. 1997 Concerns and priorities in genetic studies: Insights from recent African American biohistory. Seton Hall Law Review, 27(3): 951-970.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1998 Scientific limitations and ethical ramifications of a non-representative Human Genome Project: African American responses. Science and Engineering Ethics 4:155-170.

Jackson, F.L.C. 1999 African-American responses to the Human Genome Project. Public Understanding of Science, 8(3): 181-191.

Jackson, F.L.C. 2000 Anthropological Measurement: The Mismeasure of African Americans. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 568: 154-171.

Jackson, F.L.C..2000 Is there a need for the HGDP, now that the HGP is interested in human variation? Politics and the Life Sciences 18(2):300-301.

Jackson, F.L.C. 2001 Response to: How ‘Caucasoids’ got such big crania and why they shrank: from Morton to Rushton. Current Anthropology (February 2001)

Niba LL, Bokanga M, Jackson FC, Li BW, Schlimme DS (2002) Physiochemical properties and starch granular characteristics of flour from various cassava (Manihot esculenta) genotypes. Journal of Food Science 67(5):1701-1705.

Jackson, F.L.C. 2003 Ethnogenetic Layering: A Novel Approach to Determining Environmental Health Risk Potentials Among Children from Three US Regions. Journal of Children's Health, 1(3):369-386.

Jackson, F. 2004 Human genetic variation and health: Ethnogenetic layering as a way of detecting relevant population substructuring. British Medical Bulletin. 69:215-235.

Jackson, F. 2005 Use of ethnogenetic layering (EL) and phenotype segregation network analysis (PSNA) in cancer health disparities research. Cancer (forthcoming)

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