Lauren C. Shaw

The paper measures bitter taste receptor mRNA expression in human skin and finds individual variation linked to sun exposure, sex, and age.

This study fine maps a mouse QTL for lean body mass (Burly1) to a 0.8-Mb region on chromosome 2, showing the B6 allele increases lean body mass without affecting food intake or activity.

The paper fine-maps a QTL for gonadal adipose depot weight in mice using congenic strains, revealing at least four distinct loci within the original QTL region.