Obed A Garcia


Obed A. Garcia
  • Assistant Professor
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Anthropology
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2020
  • Spring 2025 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 11:00am-12:00pm in 618 Fraser Hall; or by appt., send an email to oagc@ku.edu

Contact Info

ANTH Office Phone:
ANTH Fax #:
Fraser Hall, room 618
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045

Selected Presentations

Conference Abstracts

2023 Penjueli M, Blanco-Portillo J, Sokol J, Liu F, Garcia O, Taparra K, Barberena-Jonas C, Medina-Muñoz SG, Venkataraman G, Moreno-Estrada A, Kirch P, Feldman M, Gignoux C, Wojcik G, Fox K, Jha AR, Ioannidis A. Pacific Islander Founder Populations. The Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics.

2023 ShapiraR, KleinCJ, KeselerIM, CheungG, GarciaOA, Fernández-ViñaM, MerrimanTR, TinA, PlonSE, Wright MW, AksentijevichI, MackSJ, Bridges, Jr.SL, KleinTE, on behalf of the ClinGen Rheumatologic Autoimmune Disease Clinical Domain Working Group. Development of the ClinGen Rheumatologic Autoimmune Disease Clinical Domain Working Group (RAD CDWG) as an exemplar of complex disease curation. The Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics.

2023 Penjueli M, Blanco-Portillo J, Sokol J, Garcia OA, Liu F, Barbarena Jonas C, Fox K, Feldman M, Jha A, Ioannidis A. Effect of Admixture and Selection in Hawaiians. The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)

2023 Meeting. 4 2023 Garcia OA, Reveille JD, Keseler I, Whirl-Carillo M, Klein C, Shapira R, Wright MW, Bridges SL, Fernandez-Viña M, Mack SJ, Klein TE. Developing an HLA curation framework in ClinGen for complex diseases. The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2023 Meeting.

2022 Zhu K, Kiyamu M, Elías G, Isherwood K, Garcia OA, Lee FS, Rivera-Chira M, Leon-Valerde F, Brutsaert TD, Bigham AW. Genomic features underlying the Andean pattern of high-altitude adaptations. The American Association of Biological Anthropology Meeting.

2022 Battista VM, Zhu KT, Garcia OA, Evans K, Inclán M, Kiyamu M, Brutsaert TD, Shriver M, Pearson L, Bigham AW. Genetic Evidence for Heat Adaptation in Mexican Mayans. The American Association of Biological Anthropology Meeting.

Memberships

2014-Present American Association of Anthropological Genetics

2014-Present American Association of Physical Anthropology

2011-Present The American Society of Human Genetics