Publications

Optical Limits in Skin Reflectance Measurement: Quantifying Melanin-Dependent Constraints on Erythema Detection

Pryor Y, He J, Kang J, Jenkins B, Lasisi T · Journal of Investigative Dermatology 146, 1740–1751

Objective skin measurements are not automatically unbiased. Analysing 15,000+ reflectance spectra, we show that melanin progressively masks hemoglobin’s spectral signature, so visible-range erythema detection, whether by spectrophotometers, clinical cameras, or AI, loses sensitivity in the darkest skin, where data are also scarcest.

• Journal
• bioRxiv

National and state-level datasets of United States forensic DNA databases 2001–2025

Pryor Y, Ranka V, Donadio JP, Muller SC, Wilson J, Lasisi T · Scientific Data

The first harmonized longitudinal record of US forensic DNA infrastructure: a monthly national (NDIS) time series reconstructed from archived FBI webpages, state-level totals and policy metadata for all 50 states, and standardized demographic data from public-records requests.

• Journal
• arXiv
• Dataset

Ancient Ecuadorian genomes reveal millennia of genetic continuity on the Pacific Coast of South America

Lindo J, Rivas Alava D, Juengst S, Pryor Y, Joseph SK, Ortiz Aguilu JJ, Lunniss R · PNAS Nexus 5, pgag323

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Classical Foundations and Genomic Advances in Human Pigmentation and Hair Morphology

Pryor Y, Heald L, Lasisi T · Under review

• Preprint

Whole Methylomes Reveal High-Altitude–Associated Methylation at Hypoxia and Pigmentation Genes in South American Indigenous Populations

Pryor Y, Lindo J, Migliore NR, Alava DR, Di Gerlando R, Tineo DHT, Gusmão L, Gonzalez-Andrade F, Achilli A · Environmental Epigenetics, dvaf026

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Deconstructing Eurocentrism in skin pigmentation research via the incorporation of diverse populations and theoretical perspectives

Pryor Y, Lindo J · Evolutionary Anthropology, 1–11

• Journal

Attraction of Culex pipiens to House Sparrows Is Influenced by Host Age but Not Uropygial Gland Secretions

Garvin MC, Austin A, Boyer K, Gefke M, Wright C, Pryor Y, Soble A, Whelan RJ · Insects 9, 127