Publications
Publications
In Press
Alcock J, Franklin ML, Kuzawa CW, "Nutrient signaling: the evolutionary origins of the immune modulating effects of dietary fat" Quarterly Review Biology
Gettler LT, McDade TW, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, "Prolactin, fatherhood, and reproductive behavior in human males" Amer J Phys Anthropol
Quinn EA, Largo F, Power M, Kuzawa CW, "Predictors of breast milk composition in Filipino mothers" Amer J Hum Biol
Tallman PS, Adair LS, Borja J, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, "Microbial exposures in infancy predict levels of the immunoregulatory cytokine interleukin-4 in filipino young adults" Amer J Hum Biol
2012
Kuzawa CW (2012), Why
evolution needs development, and medicine needs evolution. Int'l
J Epidemiology, 43:223-229
Norris SA, Osmond C, Gigante D, Kuzawa CW, Lakshmy R, Lee NR, Ramirez-Zea M, Richter L, Stein AD, Tandon N, Fall CHD and COHORTS group, "Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and prevalence of diabetes in five low- or middle-income country birth cohorts" Diabetes Care 35(1):72-79.
Curocichin G, Wu Y, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, Borja J, Qin L, Lange EM, Adair LS, Lange LL, Mohlke KL, "Single nucleotide polymorphisms at five loci are associated with C-reactive protein levels in a cohort of young adult Filipinos" J Hum Genetics 56(12):823-7.
Croteau-Chonka DC, Wu Y, Li Y, Fogarty MP, Lange LA, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Borja JB, Luo J, AbdelBaky O, Combs T, Adair LS, Lange EM, Mohlke KL, "Population-specific coding variant underlies genome-wide association with adiponectin level" Hum Mol Genet. 21(2):463-71.
2011
McDade TW, Tallman P, Feranil A, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, "Comparative insights into the regulation of inflammation: Levels and predictors of interleukin 6 and interleukin 10 in young adults in the Philippines" Amer J Phys Anthropol. 146(3):373-84.
Gettler LT, McDade TW, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW (2011), "Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males" Proc Nat Acad of Sciences. 108(39):16194-16199. Supporting information.
Gettler LT, McDade TW, Agustin SB, Kuzawa CW, "Short-term changes in fathers' hormones during father-child play: Impacts of paternal attitudes and experience" Hormones and Behavior. 60(5):599-606
Feranil AB, Duazo PL, Kuzawa CW, Adair LS, "Coconut oil is associated with a beneficial lipid profile in pre-menopausal women in the Philippines" Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 20(2):190-5.
Kuzawa CW, Thayer Z, "The timescales of human adaptation: The role of epigenetic processes" Epigenomics. 3(2)221-234.
Lester BM, Tronick E, Nestler E, Abel T, Kosofsky B, Kuzawa CW, Marsit CJ, Maze I, Meaney MJ, Monteggia LM, Reul JMHM, Skuse DH, Sweatt JD, Wood MA, "Behavioral Epigenetics" Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1226 (2011)14-33.
Slining MM, Kuzawa CW, Mayer-Davis
EJ, Adair LS. "Evaluating
the indirect effect of infant weight velocity on insulin resistance in young
adulthood: Birth cohort study from the Philippines." Int J Epidemiol.
173(6):640-8
Eisenberg DTA, Salpea KD, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG, Humphries SE, "Substantial variation in qPCR measured mean blood telomere lengths in young men from eleven European countries". Amer J Hum Biol. 23(2):228-31.
2010
Kuzawa CW, Adair LS, Lee N, McDade TW, Rapid weight gain after birth predicts life history and reproductive strategy in Filipino males, Proc National Academy of Sciences. Supplemental material. 107(39):16800-5.
Wu Y, Li Y, Lange EM, Croteau-Chonka DC, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Qin L, Curocichin G, Borja J, Lange LA, Adair LS, Mohlke KL., "Genome-wide association study for adiponectin levels in Filipino women identifies CDH13 and a novel uncommon haplotype at KNG1-ADIPOQ. Hum Mol Genet. 19(24):4955-64.
Duazo P, Avila J, Kuzawa CW, “Breastfeeding and later psychosocial development in the Philippines”. Am J Hum Biol. 22(6): 725-30
Eisenberg DT, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG, “Worldwide allele frequencies of the human apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene: Climate, local adaptations and evolutionary history”, American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143:100-111.
Teslovich TM, Musunuru K, Smith AV...Kuzawa CW...Kathiresan K. 2010. “Biological, clinical, and population relevance of 95 loci mapped for serum lipid concentrations”, Nature, 466, 707-713.
Gettler LT, Agustin S, Kuzawa CW, “Testosterone, physical activity and somatic outcomes among Filipino males,” Amer J Phys Anthropol, 142(4):590-9.
Kuzawa CW, “Beyond feast-famine: brain evolution, human life history and the metabolic syndrome”, In Evolutionary Anthropology, M Muehlenbein (ed), Cambridge University Press. Pp. 518-527.
Kuzawa CW, Gettler LT, Huang Y-Y, McDade TW, “Mothers have lower testosterone than non-mothers: Evidence from the Philippines”, Hormones and Behavior. 57(4-5): 441-7.
Lange LA, Croteau-Chonka DC, Marvelle AF, Qin L, Gaulton KJ, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Wang Y, Li Y, Levy S, Borja JB, Lange EM, Adair LS, Mohlke KL. Genome-wide association study of homocysteine levels in Filipinos provides evidence for CPS1 in women and a stronger MTHFR effect in young adults. Human Molecular Genet. 19(10): 2050-8.
McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW “Early origins of inflammation: Infectious exposures in infancy predict lower levels of C-reactive protein in adulthood” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277(1684): 1129-37.
Rutherford JN, McDade TW, Feranil A, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “High prevalence of low HDL-c in the Philippines compared to the US: population differences in associations with diet and BMI” Asia Pacific J Clinical Nutrition. 19(1):57-67.
Rutherford JN, McDade TW, Lee NR, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Change in waist circumference over 11-years and current waist circumference independently predict elevated CRP in Filipino women, Amer J Hum Biol 22(3):310-5.
Kuzawa CW, Review of PB Gray and K Anderson, Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior. Harvard University Press, 2010. Ethos
2009
Kuzawa CW, Sweet E, “Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: Developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health”. Amer J Hum Biol. 21(1): 2-15.
Kuzawa CW, Quinn EA, “Developmental origins of adult function and health: Evolutionary hypotheses”, Annual Review of Anthropology, 38: 131-47.
Kuzawa CW, Muller M, Gettler L, McDade TW, Feranil A, “Fatherhood, pairbonding and testosterone in the Philippines”, Hormones and Behavior, 56: 429-35.
Kuzawa CW. Review of TM Pollard, Western Diseases. An Evolutionary Perspective. Cambridge University Press. 2008. For: Integrative and Comparative Biology.
McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Population differences in C-reactive protein concenteration and associations with adiposity: Comparing young adults in the Philippines and the U.S.” Amer J Clin Nutr
2008
Heinke, D, Kuzawa, CW, “Self-reported illness and birth weight in the Philippines: Implications for hypotheses of adaptive fetal plasticity”. Amer J Hum Biol 20: 538-544.
Kuzawa CW, Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Beedle A, “Evolution, developmental plasticity, and metabolic disease”, In Evolution in Health and Disease (2nd Edition), SC Stearns and JC Koella (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 253-264.
Kuzawa CW, “The developmental origins of adult health: intergenerational inertia in adaptation and disease” In Evolution and Health, W Trevathan, EO Smith and JJ McKenna (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 325-349.
Kuzawa CW, Review of K Hawkes, R Paine, The Evolution of Human Life History, School of American Research Press. 2006. For: Anthropos. 103(1): 260.
McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Adiposity and pathogen exposure predict C-reactive protein in Filipino women.” J Nutrition. 138(12):2442-7.
Sharrock, K, Kuzawa, CW, Tanner, S, Leonard, WR, Reyes-Garcia, V, Vadez, V, Huanca, T, McDade, TW “Developmental changes in the relationship between leptin and adiposity in Tsimané children and adolescents”. Amer J Hum Biol 20: 392-8.
2007
Kuzawa, CW, “Developmental origins of life history strategy: growth, productivity and reproduction” Amer J Hum Biol 19(5):654-61.
Kuzawa, CW, EA Quinn and LS Adair, “Leptin in a lean population of Filipino adolescents” Amer J Phys Anthropol, 132(4):642-9.
Kuzawa CW, Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, “Developmental perspectives on the origins of obesity” in Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease. E Fantuzzi and T Mazzone ed., Humana Press.
Kuzawa CW, Review of RC Hauspie, N Cameron, L Molinari, Methods in Human Growth Research. Cambridge University Press. 2004. In: Anthropos. 102(1): 262.
Kuzawa CW, Review of SC Cunnane, Survival of the Fattest. The Key to Human Brain Evolution. In: Amer J Phys Anthropol 132 (1):158-159.
Digital seminar: Kuzawa CW, “Early nutrition, development and health: Evolutionary perspectives on the metabolic syndrome”, for the digital seminar series Evolutionary Medicine (Randolph Nesse, ed), Published by Henry Stewart Talks.
2005
Kuzawa CW and IL Pike, “The fetal origins of developmental plasticity. Introduction to the special issue.” Amer J Hum Biol 17(1) 1-4.
Kuzawa CW, “The fetal origins of developmental plasticity. Are maternal cues reliable predictors of future nutritional environments?” Amer J Hum Biol 17(1) 5-21.
Lampl, M, Kuzawa C, and P Jeanty, “Growth patterns of the heart and kidney suggest inter-organ collaboration in facultative fetal growth.” Amer J Hum Biol 17(2): 178-94.
Kuzawa CW, Review of J Schulkin (ed), Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiologic Adaptation, Cambridge University Press. In: Human Biology, 77(4) 532-36.
Kuzawa CW, “The origins of the developmental origins hypothesis and the importance of postnatal environments: response to Koletzko”. Amer J Hum Biol, 17(5) 662-64.
2004
Kuzawa CW and LS Adair, “A supply-demand model of fetal energy sufficiency predicts lipid profiles in male but not female adolescent Filipinos”. Eur J Clin Nutr, 58(3) 438-48.
McDade, TW, Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, and M Beck, “Prenatal and early postnatal environments are significant predictors of total immunoglobulin E concentration in Filipino adolescents.” Clin Exp Allergy, 34 (1) p.44-50.
Kuzawa CW, “Modeling fetal adaptation to nutrient restriction: testing the fetal origins hypothesis with a supply-demand model”. J Nutrition, 134: 194-200.
McDade, T.W. and C. W. Kuzawa, “Fetal programming of immune function: The early origins of immunity in Filipino adolescents.” In: Fetal nutrition and adult disease: Programming of chronic disease through fetal exposure to undernutrition, S.C. Langley-Evans (ed.). pp. 311-332.
2003
Leonard WR, Robertson ML, Snodgrass JJ, Kuzawa CW. “Metabolic correlates of hominid brain evolution.” Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 136(1):5-15.
Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, Avila, JL, Cadungog, JHC, and N-A Le, “Atherogenic lipid profiles in Filipino adolescents with low body mass index and low dietary fat intake.” Amer J Hum Biol, 15(5):688-96.
Lampl, ML, Kuzawa, CW, and P Jeanty, “Prenatal smoke exposure alters growth in limb proportions and head shape in the midgestation fetus”, Amer J Hum Biol 15(4):533-46.
Kuzawa, CW, and LS Adair, “Lipid profiles in an adolescent Filipino population: relationship to birth weight and maternal energy status during pregnancy”, Amer J Clin Nutr, 77: 960-66.
2002
2001
Adair, LS, CW Kuzawa and J Borja, “Maternal energy stores and diet composition during pregnancy program adolescent blood pressure” Circulation, 104(9)1034-9.
McDade, TW, M Beck, CW Kuzawa and LS Adair, “Prenatal undernutrition, postnatal environments, and antibody response to vaccination in adolescence,” Amer J Clin Nutr, 74(4)543-8.
McDade, TW, M Beck, CW Kuzawa and LS Adair, “Prenatal undernutrition and postnatal growth are associated with adolescent thymic function”, J of Nutrition, 131: 1225-31.
Adair, LS and CW Kuzawa, “Early growth retardation and syndrome X: Conceptual and methodological issues surrounding the programming hypothesis,” In: R Martorell and F Haschke, eds., Nutrition and Growth, Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series, Vol. 47, pp 333-350. Geneva.
1998
Kuzawa, CW, “Adipose tissue in human infancy and childhood: an evolutionary perspective.” Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 41: 177-209.
Barrett, RL, CW Kuzawa, TW McDade,
GA Armelagos, “The
third epidemiologic transition and emerging infectious disease”,
Annual Reviews of Anthropology, 27: 247-71.