Morris W. Foster, PhD

Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology

Associate Director, Center for Applied Social Research

University of Oklahoma, Norman

Assistant Associate Director, General Clinical Research Center

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Morris.W.Foster-1@ou.edu

Research Interests:

Dr. Foster's research focuses on research ethics, particularly the ethics of genetics research and of involving members of minority communities in research. He has been funded by NIH, HRSA, NSF, and other agencies and is also the program leader for the Community Prevention and Control Program of the OU Cancer Institute.

Education:

University of Oklahoma, B.A. 1981, Anthropology

Yale University, M.Phil. 1984, Anthropology

Yale University, Ph.D. 1988, Anthropology

Selected peer-reviewed publications:

Foster MW, Eisenbraun AJ, Carter TH. Nov 1997. Communal discourse as a supplement to informed consent for genetic research. Nature Genetics. 17:277-9.   

Foster MW, Eisenbraun AJ, Carter TH. 1998. Genetic screening of targeted subpopulations: the role of communal discourse in evaluating sociocultural implications. Genetic Testing. 1:269-74.

Foster MW, Freeman WL. Aug 1998. Naming names in human genetic variation research. Genome Research. 8:755-7. 

Foster MW, Bernsten D, Carter TH. Sep 1998. A model agreement for genetic research in socially identifiable populations. American Journal of Human Genetics. 63:696-702. 

Tan FK, Stivers DN, Foster MW, Chakraborty R, Howard RF, Milewicz DM, Arnett FC. Oct 1998. Association of microsatellite markers near the fibrillin 1 gene on human chromosome 15q with scleroderma in a Native American population. Arthritis and Rheumatism. 41:1729-37. 

Foster MW, Sharp RR, Freeman WL, Chino M, Bernsten D, Carter TH. Jun 1999. The role of community review in evaluating the risks of human genetic variation research. American Journal of Human Genetics. 64:1719-27. 

Foster MW; Sharp RR. 2000. Genetic research and culturally specific risks: one size does not fit all. Trends Genet. 16:93-5. 

Sharp RR, Foster MW. Spring 2000. Involving study populations in the review of genetic research. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics : a Journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 28:41-51, 3. 

Foster MW, McCullough M. 2001. Plains Apache. In the Plains volume of the Handbook of North American Indians, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie. Smithsonian Institution.

Foster MW, Sharp RR, Mulvihill JJ. Jun 2001. Pharmacogenetics, race, and ethnicity: social identities and     individualized medical care. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. 23:232-8. 

Sharp RR, Foster MW. 2002. Community involvement in the ethical review of genetic research: lessons from American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Environmental Health Perspectives. 110:145-148. 

Sharp RR, Foster MW. 2002. An analysis of research guidelines on the collection and use of human biological materials from American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. Jurimetrics. 42:165-186. 

Foster MW, Sharp RR. Jun 2002. Race, ethnicity, and genomics: social classifications as proxies of biological heterogeneity. Genome Research. 12:844-50. 

Foster MW, Aston CE. 2003. A practice approach for identifying previously unsuspected environmental contributors to SLE and other complex diseases. Environmental Health Perspectives 111(4): 593-597.

Foster MW. 2003. Pharmacogenomics and the social construction of identity. In Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacy Practice in Pharmacogenomics: Social, Ethical and Clinical Dimensions. Mark A. Rothstein (ed. ); New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Foster MW, Sharp RR. 2004. Genetic research with minority populations. In Race and Research in Focus: Perspectives of Minority Participation in Health Research, Bettina M. Beech and Maurine Goodman (editors), American Public Health Association Monograph Series.

Foster MW. 2003. Human Genome Diversity Project in North America. In Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. Nature Publishing.

International HapMap Consortium (Bentley DR, Foster MW corresponding authors) 2003. The International HapMap Project. Nature 426: 789-796.

Wang N, Zhou X, Tan FK, Foster MW, Arnett FC, Chakraborty R. 2004. Genetic signatures of pre-expansion bottleneck in the Choctaw population of Oklahoma. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124: 373-379.

International HapMap Consortium (Foster MW corresponding author) 2004. Integrating ethics and science in the International HapMap Project. Nature Reviews Genetics 5(6): 467-475.

Foster MW, Sharp RR. 2004. Beyond race: towards a whole genome perspective on human populations and genetic variation. Nature Reviews Genetics 5 (10): 790-796.

Foster MW, Sharp RR. 2005. Will investments in biobanks, prospective cohorts, and markers of common patterns of variation benefit other populations for drug response and disease susceptibility gene discovery? The Pharmacogenetics Journal 5: 75-80.

Foster MW, Sharp RR. 2005. Will investments in large-scale prospective cohorts and biobanks limit our ability to discover weaker, less common genetic and environmental contributors to complex diseases? Environmental Health Perspectives 113: 119-122.

International HapMap Consortium. 2005. A haplotype map of the human genome. Nautre 437:1299-1320.