Mark Shriver
Professor of Biological Anthropology

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Research Summary
Human population genomics and complex disease mapping.
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Most Recent Publications
Quantitative analysis of facial shape in children to support respirator design
Christopher Nemeth, Hanne Hoskens, Graham Wilson, Mike Jones, Josef DiPietrantonio, Bukola Salami, Del Harnish, Peter Claes, Seth M. Weinberg, Mark D. Shriver, Benedikt Hallgrímsson, 2025, Applied Ergonomics
A Functional Linear Regression for High-Resolution 3D Faces
Hyun Bin Kang, Matthew Logan Reimherr, Mark Shriver, Peter Claes, 2024, Stat
Mapping genes for human face shape: Exploration of univariate phenotyping strategies
Meng Yuan, Seppe Goovaerts, Michiel Vanneste, Harold Matthews, Hanne Hoskens, Stephen Richmond, Ophir D. Klein, Richard A. Spritz, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Susan Walsh, Mark D. Shriver, John R. Shaffer, Seth M. Weinberg, Hilde Peeters, Peter Claes, 2024, PLoS Computational Biology
Syndrome-informed phenotyping identifies a polygenic background for achondroplasia-like facial variation in the general population
Michiel Vanneste, Hanne Hoskens, Seppe Goovaerts, Harold Matthews, Jay Devine, Jose D. Aponte, Joanne Cole, Mark Shriver, Mary L. Marazita, Seth M. Weinberg, Susan Walsh, Stephen Richmond, Ophir D. Klein, Richard A. Spritz, Hilde Peeters, Benedikt Hallgrímsson, Peter Claes, 2024, Nature Communications
The Trotter collection: A review of Mildred Trotter's hair research and an update for studies of human variation
Sandra L. Koch, Arslan Zaidi, Tomás González, Mark D. Shriver, Nina G. Jablonski, 2024, American Journal of Biological Anthropology
Hybrid autoencoder with orthogonal latent space for robust population structure inference
Meng Yuan, Hanne Hoskens, Seppe Goovaerts, Noah Herrick, Mark D. Shriver, Susan Walsh, Peter Claes, 2023, Scientific Reports
Exploring regional aspects of 3D facial variation within European individuals
Franziska Wilke, Noah Herrick, Harold Matthews, Hanne Hoskens, Sylvia Singh, John R. Shaffer, Seth M. Weinberg, Mark D. Shriver, Peter Claes, Susan Walsh, 2023, Scientific Reports
Joint multi-ancestry and admixed GWAS reveals the complex genetics behind human cranial vault shape
Seppe Goovaerts, Hanne Hoskens, Ryan J. Eller, Noah Herrick, Anthony M. Musolf, Cristina M. Justice, Meng Yuan, Sahin Naqvi, Myoung Keun Lee, Dirk Vandermeulen, Heather L. Szabo-Rogers, Paul A. Romitti, Simeon A. Boyadjiev, Mary L. Marazita, John R. Shaffer, Mark D. Shriver, Joanna Wysocka, Susan Walsh, Seth M. Weinberg, Peter Claes, 2023, Nature Communications
Using data-driven phenotyping to investigate the impact of sex on 3D human facial surface morphology
Harold S. Matthews, Soha Mahdi, Anthony J. Penington, Mary L. Marazita, John R. Shaffer, Susan Walsh, Mark D. Shriver, Peter Claes, Seth M. Weinberg, 2023, Journal of Anatomy on p. 274-283
The Legacy of Infectious Disease Exposure on the Genomic Diversity of Indigenous Southern Mexicans
Obed A. Garcia, Kendall Arslanian, Daniel Whorf, Serena Thariath, Mark Shriver, Jun Z. Li, Abigail W. Bigham, 2023, Genome Biology and Evolution
Most-Cited Papers
A global reference for human genetic variation
Adam Auton, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, David M. Altshuler, Richard M. Durbin, David R. Bentley, Aravinda Chakravarti, Andrew G. Clark, Peter Donnelly, Evan E. Eichler, Paul Flicek, Stacey B. Gabriel, Richard A. Gibbs, Eric D. Green, Matthew E. Hurles, Bartha M. Knoppers, Jan O. Korbel, Eric S. Lander, Charles Lee, Hans Lehrach, Elaine R. Mardis, Gabor T. Marth, Gil A. McVean, Deborah A. Nickerson, Jeanette P. Schmidt, Stephen T. Sherry, Jun Wang, Richard K. Wilson, Eric Boerwinkle, Harsha Doddapaneni, Yi Han, Viktoriya Korchina, Christie Kovar, Sandra Lee, Donna Muzny, Jeffrey G. Reid, Yiming Zhu, Yuqi Chang, Qiang Feng, Xiaodong Fang, Xiaosen Guo, Min Jian, Hui Jiang, Xin Jin, Tianming Lan, Guoqing Li, Jingxiang Li, Yingrui Li, Shengmao Liu, Xiao Liu, Yao Lu, Xuedi Ma, Meifang Tang, Bo Wang, Guangbiao Wang, Honglong Wu, Renhua Wu, Xun Xu, Ye Yin, Dandan Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Jiao Zhao, Meiru Zhao, Xiaole Zheng, Namrata Gupta, Neda Gharani, Lorraine H. Toji, Norman P. Gerry, Alissa M. Resch, Jonathan Barker, Laura Clarke, Laurent Gil, Sarah E. Hunt, Gavin Kelman, Eugene Kulesha, Rasko Leinonen, William M. McLaren, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Asier Roa, Dmitriy Smirnov, Richard E. Smith, Ian Streeter, Anja Thormann, Iliana Toneva, Brendan Vaughan, Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley, Russell Grocock, Sean Humphray, Terena James, Zoya Kingsbury, Ralf Sudbrak, Marcus W. Albrecht, Vyacheslav S. Amstislavskiy, Tatiana A. Borodina, Matthias Lienhard, Florian Mertes, Marc Sultan, Bernd Timmermann, Marie Laure Yaspo, Lucinda Fulton, Victor Ananiev, Zinaida Belaia, Dimitriy Beloslyudtsev, Nathan Bouk, Chao Chen, Deanna Church, Robert Cohen, Charles Cook, John Garner, Timothy Hefferon, Mikhail Kimelman, Chunlei Liu, John Lopez, Peter Meric, Chris O'Sullivan, Yuri Ostapchuk, Lon Phan, Sergiy Ponomarov, Valerie Schneider, Eugene Shekhtman, Karl Sirotkin, Douglas Slotta, Hua Zhang, Senduran Balasubramaniam, John Burton, Petr Danecek, Thomas M. Keane, Anja Kolb-Kokocinski, Shane McCarthy, James Stalker, Michael Quail, Christopher J. Davies, Jeremy Gollub, Teresa Webster, Brant Wong, Yiping Zhan, Christopher L. Campbell, Yu Kong, Anthony Marcketta, Fuli Yu, Lilian Antunes, Matthew Bainbridge, Aniko Sabo, Zhuoyi Huang, Lachlan J.M. Coin, Lin Fang, Qibin Li, Zhenyu Li, Haoxiang Lin, Binghang Liu, Ruibang Luo, Haojing Shao, Yinlong Xie, Chen Ye, Chang Yu, Fan Zhang, Hancheng Zheng, Hongmei Zhu, Can Alkan, Elif Dal, Fatma Kahveci, Erik P. Garrison, Deniz Kural, Wan Ping Lee, Wen Fung Leong, Michael Stromberg, Alistair N. Ward, Jiantao Wu, Mengyao Zhang, Mark J. Daly, Mark A. DePristo, Robert E. Handsaker, Eric Banks, Gaurav Bhatia, Guillermo Del Angel, Giulio Genovese, Heng Li, Seva Kashin, Steven A. McCarroll, James C. Nemesh, Ryan E. Poplin, Seungtai C. Yoon, Jayon Lihm, Vladimir Makarov, Srikanth Gottipati, Alon Keinan, Juan L. Rodriguez-Flores, Tobias Rausch, Markus H. Fritz, Adrian M. Stütz, Kathryn Beal, Avik Datta, Javier Herrero, Graham R.S. Ritchie, Daniel Zerbino, Pardis C. Sabeti, Ilya Shlyakhter, Stephen F. Schaffner, Joseph Vitti, David N. Cooper, Edward V. Ball, Peter D. Stenson, Bret Barnes, Markus Bauer, R. Keira Cheetham, Anthony Cox, Michael Eberle, Scott Kahn, Lisa Murray, John Peden, Richard Shaw, Eimear E. Kenny, Mark A. Batzer, Miriam K. Konkel, Jerilyn A. Walker, Daniel G. MacArthur, Monkol Lek, Ralf Herwig, Li Ding, Daniel C. Koboldt, David Larson, Kai Ye, Simon Gravel, Anand Swaroop, Emily Chew, Tuuli Lappalainen, Yaniv Erlich, Melissa Gymrek, Thomas Frederick Willems, Jared T. Simpson, Mark D. Shriver, Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld, Carlos D. Bustamante, Stephen B. Montgomery, Francisco M. De La Vega, Jake K. Byrnes, Andrew W. Carroll, Marianne K. DeGorter, Phil Lacroute, Brian K. Maples, Alicia R. Martin, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Suyash S. Shringarpure, Fouad Zakharia, Eran Halperin, Yael Baran, Eliza Cerveira, Jaeho Hwang, Ankit Malhotra, Dariusz Plewczynski, Kamen Radew, Mallory Romanovitch, Chengsheng Zhang, Fiona C.L. Hyland, David W. Craig, Alexis Christoforides, Nils Homer, Tyler Izatt, Ahmet A. Kurdoglu, Shripad A. Sinari, Kevin Squire, Chunlin Xiao, Jonathan Sebat, Danny Antaki, Madhusudan Gujral, Amina Noor, Kenny Ye, Esteban G. Burchard, Ryan D. Hernandez, Christopher R. Gignoux, David Haussler, Sol J. Katzman, W. James Kent, Bryan Howie, Andres Ruiz-Linares, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Scott E. Devine, Hyun Min Kang, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Tom Blackwell, Sean Caron, Wei Chen, Sarah Emery, Lars Fritsche, Christian Fuchsberger, Goo Jun, Bingshan Li, Robert Lyons, Chris Scheller, Carlo Sidore, Shiya Song, Elzbieta Sliwerska, Daniel Taliun, Adrian Tan, Ryan Welch, Mary Kate Wing, Xiaowei Zhan, Philip Awadalla, Alan Hodgkinson, Yun Li, Xinghua Shi, Andrew Quitadamo, Gerton Lunter, Jonathan L. Marchini, Simon Myers, Claire Churchhouse, Olivier Delaneau, Anjali Gupta-Hinch, Warren Kretzschmar, Zamin Iqbal, Iain Mathieson, Androniki Menelaou, Andy Rimmer, Dionysia K. Xifara, Taras K. Oleksyk, Yunxin Fu, Xiaoming Liu, Momiao Xiong, Lynn Jorde, David Witherspoon, Jinchuan Xing, Brian L. Browning, Sharon R. Browning, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Peter H. Sudmant, Ekta Khurana, Chris Tyler-Smith, Cornelis A. Albers, Qasim Ayub, Yuan Chen, Vincenza Colonna, Luke Jostins, Klaudia Walter, Yali Xue, Mark B. Gerstein, Alexej Abyzov, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Jieming Chen, Declan Clarke, Yao Fu, Arif O. Harmanci, Mike Jin, Donghoon Lee, Jeremy Liu, Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Jing Zhang, Yan Zhang, Chris Hartl, Khalid Shakir, Jeremiah Degenhardt, Sascha Meiers, Benjamin Raeder, Francesco Paolo Casale, Oliver Stegle, Eric Wubbo Lameijer, Ira Hall, Vineet Bafna, Jacob Michaelson, Eugene J. Gardner, Ryan E. Mills, Gargi Dayama, Ken Chen, Xian Fan, Zechen Chong, Tenghui Chen, Mark J. Chaisson, John Huddleston, Maika Malig, Bradley J. Nelson, Nicholas F. Parrish, Ben Blackburne, Sarah J. Lindsay, Zemin Ning, Yujun Zhang, Hugo Lam, Cristina Sisu, Danny Challis, Uday S. Evani, James Lu, Uma Nagaswamy, Jin Yu, Wangshen Li, Lukas Habegger, Haiyuan Yu, Fiona Cunningham, Ian Dunham, Kasper Lage, Jakob Berg Jespersen, Heiko Horn, Donghoon Kim, Rob Desalle, Apurva Narechania, Melissa A.Wilson Sayres, Fernando L. Mendez, G. David Poznik, Peter A. Underhill, David Mittelman, Ruby Banerjee, Maria Cerezo, Thomas W. Fitzgerald, Sandra Louzada, Andrea Massaia, Fengtang Yang, Divya Kalra, Walker Hale, Xu Dan, Kathleen C. Barnes, Christine Beiswanger, Hongyu Cai, Hongzhi Cao, Brenna Henn, Danielle Jones, Jane S. Kaye, Alastair Kent, Angeliki Kerasidou, Rasika Mathias, Pilar N. Ossorio, Michael Parker, Charles N. Rotimi, Charmaine D. Royal, Karla Sandoval, Yeyang Su, Zhongming Tian, Sarah Tishkoff, Marc Via, Yuhong Wang, Huanming Yang, Ling Yang, Jiayong Zhu, Walter Bodmer, Gabriel Bedoya, Zhiming Cai, Yang Gao, Jiayou Chu, Leena Peltonen, Andres Garcia-Montero, Alberto Orfao, Julie Dutil, Juan C. Martinez-Cruzado, Rasika A. Mathias, Anselm Hennis, Harold Watson, Colin McKenzie, Firdausi Qadri, Regina LaRocque, Xiaoyan Deng, Danny Asogun, Onikepe Folarin, Christian Happi, Omonwunmi Omoniwa, Matt Stremlau, Ridhi Tariyal, Muminatou Jallow, Fatoumatta Sisay Joof, Tumani Corrah, Kirk Rockett, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Jaspal Kooner, Tran Tinh Hien, Sarah J. Dunstan, Nguyen ThuyHang, Richard Fonnie, Robert Garry, Lansana Kanneh, Lina Moses, John Schieffelin, Donald S. Grant, Carla Gallo, Giovanni Poletti, Danish Saleheen, Asif Rasheed, Lisa D. Brooks, Adam L. Felsenfeld, Jean E. McEwen, Yekaterina Vaydylevich, Audrey Duncanson, Michael Dunn, Jeffery A. Schloss, 2015, Nature on p. 68-74
Genome-wide mapping of global-to-local genetic effects on human facial shape
Peter Claes, Jasmien Roosenboom, Julie D. White, Tomek Swigut, Dzemila Sero, Jiarui Li, Myoung Keun Lee, Arslan Zaidi, Brooke C. Mattern, Corey Liebowitz, Laurel Pearson, Tomás González, Elizabeth J. Leslie, Jenna C. Carlson, Ekaterina Orlova, Paul Suetens, Dirk Vandermeulen, Eleanor Feingold, Mary L. Marazita, John R. Shaffer, Joanna Wysocka, Mark D. Shriver, Seth M. Weinberg, 2018, Nature Genetics on p. 414-423
Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude adaptation
Torsten Günther, Helena Malmström, Emma M. Svensson, Ayça Omrak, Federico Sánchez-Quinto, Gülşah M. Kılınç, Maja Krzewińska, Gunilla Eriksson, Magdalena Fraser, Hanna Edlund, Arielle R. Munters, Alexandra Coutinho, Luciana G. Simões, Mário Vicente, Anders Sjölander, Berit Jansen Sellevold, Roger Jørgensen, Peter Claes, Mark D. Shriver, Cristina Valdiosera, Mihai G. Netea, Jan Apel, Kerstin Lidén, Birgitte Skar, Jan Storå, Anders Götherström, Mattias Jakobsson, 2018, PLoS Biology
Sexual selection on male vocal fundamental frequency in humans and other anthropoids
David A. Puts, Alexander K. Hill, Drew H. Bailey, Robert S. Walker, Drew Rendall, John R. Wheatley, Lisa L.M. Welling, Khytam Dawood, Rodrigo Cárdenas, Robert P. Burriss, Nina G. Jablonski, Mark D. Shriver, Daniel Weiss, Adriano R. Lameira, Coren L. Apicella, Michael J. Owren, Claudia Barelli, Mary E. Glenn, Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, 2016, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 20152830
MeshMonk: Open-source large-scale intensive 3D phenotyping
Julie D. White, Alejandra Ortega-Castrillón, Harold Matthews, Arslan A. Zaidi, Omid Ekrami, Jonatan Snyders, Yi Fan, Tony Penington, Stefan Van Dongen, Mark D. Shriver, Peter Claes, 2019, Scientific Reports
Insights into the genetic architecture of the human face
Julie D. White, Karlijne Indencleef, Sahin Naqvi, Ryan J. Eller, Hanne Hoskens, Jasmien Roosenboom, Myoung Keun Lee, Jiarui Li, Jaaved Mohammed, Stephen Richmond, Ellen E. Quillen, Heather L. Norton, Eleanor Feingold, Tomek Swigut, Mary L. Marazita, Hilde Peeters, Greet Hens, John R. Shaffer, Joanna Wysocka, Susan Walsh, Seth M. Weinberg, Mark D. Shriver, Peter Claes, 2021, Nature Genetics on p. 45-53
Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation
Arslan A. Zaidi, Brooke C. Mattern, Peter Claes, Brian McEcoy, Cris Hughes, Mark D. Shriver, 2017, PLoS Genetics on p. e1006616
Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and voice attractiveness
Alexander K. Hill, Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, John R. Wheatley, Lisa L.M. Welling, Robert P. Burriss, Peter Claes, Coren L. Apicella, Michael A. McDaniel, Anthony C. Little, Mark D. Shriver, David A. Puts, 2017, Evolution and Human Behavior on p. 249-258
Facial recognition from DNA using face-to-DNA classifiers
Dzemila Sero, Arslan Zaidi, Jiarui Li, Julie D. White, Tomás B.González Zarzar, Mary L. Marazita, Seth M. Weinberg, Paul Suetens, Dirk Vandermeulen, Jennifer K. Wagner, Mark D. Shriver, Peter Claes, 2019, Nature Communications
Shared heritability of human face and brain shape
Sahin Naqvi, Yoeri Sleyp, Hanne Hoskens, Karlijne Indencleef, Jeffrey P. Spence, Rose Bruffaerts, Ahmed Radwan, Ryan J. Eller, Stephen Richmond, Mark Shriver, John R. Shaffer, Seth M. Weinberg, Susan Walsh, James Thompson, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Stefan Sunaert, Hilde Peeters, Hilde , Joanna Wysocka, Peter Claes, 2021, Nature Genetics
News Articles Featuring Mark Shriver
Jul 03, 2023
Podcast reveals how daily stress may affect our health as we age
From work demands to family responsibilities to social expectations, most of us spend our lives bouncing from one stressor to another, all the while contending with a continuous onslaught of digital information feeds.
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Jun 07, 2023
Life before air conditioning: Curly hair kept early humans cool
Curly hair does more than simply look good — it may explain how early humans stayed cool while conserving water, according to researchers who studied the role human hair textures play in regulating body temperature.
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Apr 20, 2023
Yes, scientists believe all blue-eyed people came from a common ancestor
All blue-eyed people share a specific genetic trait that leads scientists to believe that all blue-eyed people share an ancestor from 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.
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Feb 20, 2023
Podcast explores the genetics of personality through the lens of adoption
Social scientists have long sought to better understand how and why different behavioral traits develop in different individuals.
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Nov 07, 2022
Center for Human Evolution and Diversity accepting grant applications
The Center for Human Evolution and Diversity at Penn State (CHED) is currently accepting proposals for grants available from the center for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years.
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