Biosocial surveys / Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys ; Maxine Weinstein, James W. Vaupel, and Kenneth W. Wachter, editors ; Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Author/creator National Research Council (U.S.).
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Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : National Academies Press,
Descriptionxiii, 414 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Other author/creatorWeinstein, Maxine.
Other author/creatorVaupel, James W.
Other author/creatorWachter, Kenneth W.
Other author/creatorNational Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population.
Contents Introduction / James W. Vaupel, Kenneth W. Wachter, Maxine Weinstein -- Biological indicators and genetic information in Danish twin and oldest-old surveys / Kaare Christensen, Lisa Bathum, Lene Christiansen -- Whitehall II and ELSA: integrating epidemiological and psychobiological approaches to the assessment of biological indicators / Michael Marmot, Andrew Steptoe -- The Taiwan biomarker project / Ming-Cheng Chang ... [et al.] -- Elastic powers: the integration of biomarkers into the health and retirement study / David Weir -- An overview of biomarker research from community and population-based studies on aging / Jennifer R. Harris, Tara L. Gruenewald, Teresa Seeman -- The women's health initiative: lessons for the population study of biomarkers / Robert B. Wallace -- Comments on collecting and utilizing biological indicators in social science surveys / Duncan Thomas, Elizabeth Frankenberg -- Biomarkers in social science research on health and aging: a review of theory and practice / Douglas C. Ewbank -- Are genes good markers of biological traits? / Mary Jane West-Eberhard -- Genetic markers in social science research: opportunities and pitfalls / George P. Vogler, Gerald E. McClearn -- Comments on the utility of social science surveys for the discovery and validation of genes influencing complex traits / Harald H.H. Göring -- Overview thoughts on genetics: walking the line between denial and dreamland, or genes are involved in everything, but not everything is "genetic" / Kenneth M. Weiss -- Minimally invasive and innovative methods for biomeasure collection in population-based research / Stacy Tessler Lindau, Thomas W. McDade -- Nutrigenomics / John Milner ... [et al.] -- Genoeconomics / Daniel J. Benjamin ... [et al.] -- Mendelian randomization: genetic variants as instruments for strengthening casual inference in observational studies / George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim -- Multilevel investigations: conceptual mappings and perspectives / John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson, Ronald A. Thisted -- Genomics and beyond: improving understanding and analysis of human (social, economic, and demographic) behavior / John Hobcraft.
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