Search Results - "Kathleen Mullan Harris"
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Genes, Gender Inequality, and Educational Attainment
Published in American sociological review (01-12-2019)“…Women’s opportunities have been profoundly altered over the past century by reductions in the social and structural constraints that limit women’s educational…”
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Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects
Published in American sociological review (01-08-2018)“…Sociologists interested in the effects of genes on complex social outcomes claim environmental conditions structure when and how genes matter, but they have…”
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Genome-wide stress sensitivity moderates the stress-depression relationship in a nationally representative sample of adults
Published in Scientific reports (13-10-2021)“…We re-evaluate the findings of one of the most cited and disputed papers in gene-environment interaction (GxE) literature. In 2003, a paper was published in…”
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Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis
Published in Demography (01-12-2023)“…Despite the prominence of the weathering hypothesis as a mechanism underlying racialized inequities in morbidity and mortality, the life course social and…”
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The Biosocial Approach to Human Development, Behavior, and Health Across the Life Course
Published in RSF : Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences (01-04-2018)“…Social and biological phenomena are widely recognized as determinants of human development, health, and socioeconomic attainments across the life course, but…”
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Acculturation and overweight-related behaviors among Hispanic immigrants to the US: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-12-2003)“…Little is known about the factors underlying the striking increase in overweight occurring between first and second generation US immigrants. Using data from…”
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Social Disparities in the Relationship Between Depression and Unintended Pregnancy During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Published in Journal of adolescent health (01-06-2017)“…Abstract Purpose We investigated the influence of depression on subsequent risk of unintended pregnancy and social disparities within this relationship, during…”
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Systolic Blood Pressure, Socioeconomic Status, and Biobehavioral Risk Factors in a Nationally Representative US Young Adult Sample
Published in Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. 1979) (01-08-2011)“…In the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a US longitudinal study of >15 000 young adults, we examined the extent to which socioeconomic status…”
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Depression, Stressful Life Events, and the Impact of Variation in the Serotonin Transporter: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
Published in PloS one (03-03-2016)“…The low transcriptionally efficient short-allele of the 5HTTLPR serotonin transporter polymorphism has been implicated to moderate the relationship between the…”
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Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the human life span
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-01-2016)“…Two decades of research indicate causal associations between social relationships and mortality, but important questions remain as to how social relationships…”
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Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness
Published in Journal of human genetics (01-06-2014)“…Comparing genetic and phenotypic similarity among unrelated individuals seems a promising way to quantify the genetic component of traits while avoiding the…”
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AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO HEALTH
Published in Demography (01-02-2010)“…In this article, I make the case for using an integrative approach to health, broadly defined as social, emotional, mental, and physical well-being; for…”
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Institutional Context Shapes the Physical Health of College Graduates Differently for U.S. White, Black, and Hispanic Adults
Published in Demography (01-06-2024)“…Greater educational attainment is generally associated with healthier and longer lives. However, important heterogeneity in who benefits from educational…”
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Childhood Family Instability and Young Adult Health
Published in Journal of health and social behavior (01-09-2018)“…American children live in a variety of family structures throughout their childhoods. Such instability in family arrangements is common and has important…”
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Population-based genetic effects for developmental stuttering
Published in HGG advances (13-01-2022)“…Despite a lifetime prevalence of at least 5%, developmental stuttering, characterized by prolongations, blocks, and repetitions of speech sounds, remains a…”
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Defining despair: Assessing the multidimensionality of despair and its association with suicidality and substance use in early to middle adulthood
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-03-2023)“…Despite considerable scientific interest in documenting growing despair among U.S. adults, far less attention has been paid to defining despair and identifying…”
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Cohort Profile: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
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Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (22-05-2020)“…The social environment, both in early life and adulthood, is one of the strongest predictors of morbidity and mortality risk in humans. Evidence from long-term…”
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New Evidence of Skin Color Bias and Health Outcomes Using Sibling Difference Models: A Research Note
Published in Demography (01-04-2019)“…In this research note, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to determine whether darker skin tone…”
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The reliability of in-home measures of height and weight in large cohort studies: Evidence from Add Health
Published in Demographic research (2015)“…With the emergence of obesity as a global health issue an increasing number of major demographic surveys are collecting measured anthropometric data. Yet…”
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