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Stephen Oppenheimer

Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology Oxford University
Verified email at gtc.ox.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] Iron and its relation to immunity and infectious disease

SJ Oppenheimer - The Journal of nutrition, 2001 - Elsevier
The continuing unresolved debate over the interaction of iron and infection indicates a need
for quantitative review of clinical morbidity outcomes. Iron deficiency is associated with …

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

…, SJ Oppenheimer, C Tyler-Smith, R Durbin, J Dortch… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan …

Iron supplementation increases prevalence and effects of malaria: report on clinical studies in Papua New Guinea

SJ Oppenheimer, FD Gibson, SB Macfarlane… - Transactions of the …, 1986 - Elsevier
A placebo-controlled trial of intramuscular iron dextran prophylaxis for two-month-old infants
was carried out on the north coast of Papua New Guinea where there is high transmission …

Double-blind, controlled calcium supplementation and bone mineral accretion in children accustomed to a low-calcium diet

…, YC Xu, WP Zeng, J Lau, SJ Oppenheimer… - The American journal of …, 1994 - Elsevier
A randomized, double-blind, controlled calcium supplementation trial was conducted for 18
mo to determine its effects on bone acquisition and height increment in 162 7-y-old Chinese …

Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania

…, KJ Robson, K Auckland, SJ Oppenheimer… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Recent genomic analyses show that the earliest peoples reaching Remote Oceania—associated
with Austronesian-speaking Lapita culture—were almost completely East Asian, …

[PDF][PDF] Population turnover in remote Oceania shortly after initial settlement

…, M Ferry, TK Harper, M Michel, J Oppenheimer… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Ancient DNA from Vanuatu and Tonga dating to about 2,900–2,600 years ago (before
present, BP) has revealed that the "First Remote Oceanians" associated with the Lapita …

Slow boat to Melanesia?

SJ Oppenheimer, M Richards - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The origin of the Polynesian islanders and of the Austronesian languages that they speak
has been debated for more than 200 years. Diamond has presented the predominantly held …

A Neolithic expansion, but strong genetic structure, in the independent history of New Guinea

A Bergström, SJ Oppenheimer, AJ Mentzer, K Auckland… - Science, 2017 - science.org
New Guinea shows human occupation since ~50 thousand years ago (ka), independent
adoption of plant cultivation ~10 ka, and great cultural and linguistic diversity today. We …

The interaction of alpha thalassaemia with malaria

SJ Oppenheimer, AVS Hill, FD Gibson… - Transactions of the …, 1987 - Elsevier
A controlled trial of iron dextran prophylaxis in infants 2 months old was carried out on the
north coast of New Guinea, where malaria is holoendemic. These infants have a high carrier …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation, extensive heterozygosity, and convergence of signaling potential all indicate a critical role for KIR3DL3 in higher primates

…, AJ Mentzer, SJ Oppenheimer… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cell functions are modulated by polymorphic killer cell immunoglobulin-like
receptors (KIR). Among 13 human KIR genes, which vary by presence and copy number, …