Selected publications

Wang, J., Qiu, Q., Haider, M., Bell, M., Gruslin, A., and Christians, J.K. (2009) Expression of pregnancy associated plasma protein A2 (PAPPA2) during pregnancy in human and mouse. Journal of Endocrinology 202: 337-345. [accepted preprint]

Christians, J.K., Hoeflich, A. and Keightley, P.D. (2006) PAPPA2, an enzyme that cleaves an insulin-like growth factor binding protein, is a candidate gene for a QTL affecting body size in mice.  Genetics 173: 1547–1553. [PDF]

Oliver, F. *, Christians, J.K. *, Liu, X, Rhind, S., Verma, V., Davison, C., Brown, S.D.M, Denny, P., and Keightley, P.D. (2005) Regulatory variation at glypican-3 underlies a major growth QTL in mice.  PLoS Biology 3: e135. * equal contribution.  [PDF]  

Christians, J.K. (2002) Avian egg size: variation within species and inflexibility within individuals.  Biological Reviews 77: 1-26. [PDF]