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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 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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August 18, 2014
Explaining Asian Americans’ academic advantage over whites
Add Health research featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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May 5, 2014
Register now for the 2014 Add Health Users Conference
2014 Add Health Users Conference Celebrating 20 Years of Add Health! We invite you to register for the eleventh Add Health Users Conference to be...
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