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.). |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, |
| Description | xiii, 414 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Weinstein, Maxine. |
| Other author/creator | Vaupel, James W. |
| Other author/creator | Wachter, Kenneth W. |
| Other author/creator | National 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Also available online. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007939988 |
| ISBN | 9780309108676 (book) |
| ISBN | 0309108675 (book) |
| ISBN | 9780309108683 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 0309108683 (pdf) |
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