Research Assistant Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine
Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program, School of Medicine
Molecular and Medical Genetics Graduate Program, School of Medicine
Program in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, School of Medicine
Areas of interest
Genetic regulation of dyslipidemias in primates
Genetic regulation of obesity in primates
Atherosclerosis
Publications
Selected publications
Bimber BN, Raboin MJ, Letaw J, Nevonen K, Spindel JE, McCouch SR, Cervera-Juanes R, Spindel E, Carbone L, Ferguson B, Vinson A. 2016. Whole-genome characterization in pedigreed non-human primates using Genotyping-By-Sequencing (GBS) and imputation. BMC Genomics 17:676.
Vinson A, Mitchell AD, Silver J, Toffey D, Raboin MJ. 2013. Sex-specific heritability of spontaneous lipid levels in an extended pedigree of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). PLoS ONE 8(8):e72241.
Vinson A, Prongay K, Ferguson B. 2013. The value of extended pedigrees for next-generation analysis of complex disease in the rhesus macaque. Invited review, ILAR Journal 54:91-105.
Vinson A, Curran JE, Johnson MP, Dyer TD, Moses EK, Blangero J, Cox LA, Rogers J, VandeBerg JL, Havill L, Mahaney MC. 2011. Genetical genomics of Th1 and Th2 immune response in a baboon model of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis 217:387-394.
Vinson A, Mahaney MC, Diego V, Cox LA, Rogers J, VandeBerg JL, and Rainwater DL. 2008. Genotype-by-diet effects on co-variation in Lp-PLA2 activity and LDL cholesterol concentration in baboons fed an atherogenic diet. Journal of Lipid Research 49(6):1295-1302.
Vinson A, Mahaney MC, Cox LA, Rogers J, VandeBerg JL, and Rainwater DL. 2008. A pleiotropic QTL on 2p influences serum Lp-PLA2 activity and LDL cholesterol concentration in a baboon model for the genetics of atherosclerosis risk factors. Atherosclerosis 196:667-673.
Rogers J, Garcia R Jr, Shelledy W, Kaplan J, Arya A, Johnson Z, Bergstrom M, Novakowski L, Nair P, Vinson A, Newman D, Heckman G and Cameron J. 2006. An initial genetic linkage map of the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) genome using human microsatellite loci. Genomics 87:30-38.