Angela R Garcia

Full list of publications can be found at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=URCfj8EAAAAJ&hl=en

2021

APOE4 allele is associated with elevated blood lipids, yet lower innate immune function, in a Tropical Amerindian population with high pathogen exposure. Garcia AR, Finch CE, Gatz M, Kraft T, Cummings D, Stieglitz J, Eid Rodriguez D, Buetow K, Thomas G, Gurven M, Kaplan H, Trumble B.

eLife. 68231.

The indigenous South American Tsimane exhibit relatively modest decrease in brain volume with age despite high systemic inflammation. Andrei Irimia, Nikhil N Chaudhari, David J Robles ... Angela R Garcia, Paul L Hooper, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C Trumble, Michael D Gurven, Gregory S Thomas, Caleb E Finch, Hillard Kaplan.

The Journals of Gerontology: Series A. glab138

Do wealth and inequality associate with heath in a small-scale subsistence society? Jaeggi AV, Blackwell AD, von Rueden C, Trumble BC, Stieglitz J, Garcia AR, Kaplan H, Gurven M. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. 10, e59437.

A field method for cryopreservation of whole blood for later analysis with flow cytometry. Blackwell AD, Garcia AR, Keivanfar N, Bay S.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology. ajpa.24251.

2020

Multi-system physiological dysregulation and ageing in a subsistence population. TS Kraft, J Stieglitz, BC Trumble, AR Garcia, H Kaplan, M Gurven

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 375 (1811)

Evidence for height and immune function tradeoffs among preadolescents in a high pathogen population. AR Garcia, AD Blackwell, BC Trumble, J Stieglitz, H Kaplan, MD Gurven

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, eoaa017

Does exposure to parasites modify relationships between diurnal cortisol and leukocytes among Honduran women?. AR Garcia, B Trumble, TS Kraft, S Murillo, M Marquez, M Gurven, AD Blackwell

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, e24110

Evolution of Immune Sexual Dimorphism in Response to Placental Invasiveness: A Reply to Greenbaum and Greenbaum. AR Garcia, H Natri, KH Buetow, BC Trumble, MA Wilson

Trends in Genetics 36 (1), 5-7

2019

Endogenous Retroviruses and the Pregnancy Compensation Hypothesis: A Reply to David. H Natri, AR Garcia, KH Buetow, BC Trumble, MA Wilson

Trends in Genetics

The Pregnancy Pickle: Evolved Immune Compensation Due to Pregnancy Underlies Sex Differences in Human Diseases. Natri H, Garcia AR, Buetow K, Trumble B, Wilson MA

Trends in Genetics, Volume 35, Issue 7, 478 - 488, DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.04.008

 2018

Dissertation: The Embodiment of Stress: Do cortisol-immune interactions moderate social influences on health?

Garcia AR

UC Santa Barbara

2017

The physiological constellation of deprivation: Immunological strategies and health outcomes. Garcia AR and Blackwell AD.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40.

A Matter of Perception: Subjective socioeconomic status and cortisol among inhabitants of the island of Utila, Honduras. Garcia AR, Gurven M, Blackwell AD.

American Journal of Human Biology. 1–17.

Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane : a cross-sectional cohort study. Kaplan H, Thompson RC, Trumble BC, Wann LS, Allam AH, Beheim B,

Frohlich B, Sutherland ML, Sutherland JD, Stieglitz J, Rodriguez DE, Michalik DE, Rowan CJ, Lombardi GP, Bedi R, Garcia AR, Min JK, Narula, J, Finch CE, Gurven M, Thomas, GS.

Lancet. 15, 1–9.

2021
"Systems within systems: A multi-level approach to understanding patterns of health and disease" CEMinar series lecture, ASU.

"Using a multi-level systems approach to address structural violence in COVID- 19 and other health inequities", AAAG- AAPA Joint Symposium: Thinking beyond the lab? Anthropological geneticists’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the summer of civil unrest

"Mismatch: traits in the wrong place, or the wrong time", Evolutionary Mismatch in the Genomics Era Symposium, virtual (hosted by Princeton University)

2020            

"Evidence for height and immune function trade-offs among pre-adolescents in a high pathogen population", Club EvMed, virtual evolutionary medicine conversations

"Disparities in Health: disentangling biocultural influences on variation in health between and within populations", Center for Evolution and Medicine, ASU

"Eco-social dynamics in determining health-related traits in humans", ASM 300, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU

"Social Disparities in Health: unpacking variation in disease risk between and within populations", Emory University

"Integrating multilevel data to address questions of human health and disease", Computing for Research, School of Life Sciences, ASU

2019            

"Disparities in Health: what drives variation in disease risk between and within populations?", Graduate Student Colloquium, UCSB

"Disparities in Health: what drives variation in disease risk between and within populations?", Intro to Bio Anthropology, Maricopa Community College

"Stress and Immune Regulation in Ecological Context: Past Exposures and Future Responses", Center for Evolution and Medicine seminar series, ASU

"Social Disparities in Health: Endocrine-immune signaling mediates social influences on disease risk", Equality Health

"Social Disparities in Health: Endocrine-immune signaling mediates social influences on disease risk", University of New Mexico

“The embodiment of stress: do neuroendocrine-immune interactions moderate social influences on health?”, UC Los Angeles BEC Talk

“Social Disparities in Health: Endocrine-immune signaling mediates social influences on disease risk”, Penn State University Early Career Seminar Program

“Ecoimmunology: a role for parasites moderating neuroendocrine-immune signaling pathways”, Washington State University