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September 23, 2014
Add Health funded for Wave V
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $28 million grant as a program project that will enable Add Health to follow the original adolescent cohort into their 30s with a fifth interview wave. The new funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...
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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 of fatherhood on paternal mental health. The research team of Craig F. Garfield, Greg Duncan, Joshua Rutsohn, Thomas W. McDade, Emma K. Adam, Rebekah Levine...
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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. Louis, and the University of California-Irvine studied the effect of birth weight and breastfeeding on early adulthood inflammation. The research team of Thomas W. McDade,...
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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 genetic variation available for analysis and have been utilized in studies of neurological, behavioral, and health phenotypes. Although findings from these studies have been suggestive,...
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