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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18. Over the years, Add Health has collected rich demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data from participants and their parents; a vast array of contextual data from participants’ schools, neighborhoods, and geographies of residence; and in-home physical and biological data from participants, including genetic markers, blood-based assays, anthropometric measures, and medications. Ancillary studies have added even more data over the years. Data from the project are available in various forms and have been analyzed in thousands of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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September 5, 2014
Add Health Study: A longitudinal study of paternal mental health during transition to fatherhood as young adults
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a research team from Northwestern University, University of California-Irvine, and Boston College, studied the effect...
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September 3, 2014
Add Health Study: Long-term effects of birth weight and breastfeeding duration on inflammation in early adulthood
#464645465 / gettyimages.com Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a research team from Northwestern University, Washington University in St....
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September 3, 2014
Simple Sequence Repeats in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: An Ethnically Diverse Resource for Genetic Analysis of Health and Behavior
Published in Behavior Genetics (June 2014). doi: 10.1007/s10519-014-9662-x #127871273 / gettyimages.com Abstract: Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are one of the earliest available forms of...
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