Integrating DNA methylation measures of biological aging into social determinants of health research

L Raffington, DW Belsky - Current Environmental Health Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Acceleration of biological processes of aging is hypothesized to
drive excess morbidity and mortality in socially disadvantaged populations. DNA methylation …

Examining the shared etiology of psychopathology with genome-wide association studies

TT Mallard, AD Grotzinger… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have ushered in a new era of reproducible
discovery in psychiatric genetics. The field has now identified hundreds of common genetic …

Wrestling with social and behavioral genomics: risks, potential benefits, and ethical responsibility

MN Meyer, PS Appelbaum, DJ Benjamin… - Hastings Center …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this consensus report by a diverse group of academics who conduct and/or are concerned
about social and behavioral genomics (SBG) research, the authors recount the often‐ugly …

Salivary epigenetic measures of body mass index and social determinants of health across childhood and adolescence

L Raffington, L Schneper, T Mallard, J Fisher… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Children who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for
high body mass index (BMI) and multiple diseases in adulthood. The developmental origins …

The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay

P Biroli, TJ Galama, S von Hinke… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's
genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now …

Combined polygenic risk scores of different psychiatric traits predict general and specific psychopathology in childhood

A Neumann, A Jolicoeur‐Martineau… - Journal of Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) operationalize genetic propensity toward a
particular mental disorder and hold promise as early predictors of psychopathology, but …

The interplay between maternal smoking and genes in offspring birth weight

RD Pereira, CA Rietveld… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - jhr.uwpress.org
It is well-established that birth weight is affected by the child's genetic endowments and
maternal smoking during pregnancy. Here, we investigate whether an interaction between …

[HTML][HTML] Gene-environment interplay in the development of overweight

M de Roo, C Hartman, R Veenstra, IM Nolte… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Overweight in youth is influenced by genes and environment. Gene-environment
interaction (G× E) has been demonstrated in twin studies and recent developments in …

Normalizing race in (gifted) education: genomics and spaces of White exceptionalism

DO Martschenko - Critical studies in education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper utilizes the concept of 'discriminate biopower'to explore how advancements in
social and behavioral genomics might inform the racially exclusionary nature of one of the …

What maternal educational mobility tells us about the mother's parenting routines, offspring school achievement and intelligence

NT Martinez, F Serdarevic, E Tahirovic… - Social Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Educational mobility at the macro-level is a common measure of social
inequality. Nonetheless, the correlates of mobility of education at the individual level are less …