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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys.

Contributor:

Weinstein, Maxine.

Vaupel, James W.

Wachter, Kenneth W.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population, 2006-2007.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Medical genetics.

Demography.

Physical Description:

xiii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2008]

Contents:

Part I What We've Learned so Far

1 Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Danish Twin and Oldest-Old Surveys / Kaare Christensen, Lise Bathum, Lene Christiansen 15

2 Whitehall II and ELSA: Integrating Epidemiological and Psychobiological Approaches to the Assessment of Biological Indicators / Michael Marmot, Andrew Steptoe 42

3 The Taiwan Biomarker Project / Ming-Cheng Chang, Dana A. Glei, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein 60

4 Elastic Powers: The Integration of Biomarkers into the Health and Retirement Study / David Weir 78

5 An Overview of Biomarker Research from Community and Population-Based Studies on Aging / Jennifer R. Harris, Tara L. Gruenewald, Teresa Seeman 96

6 The Women's Health Initiative: Lessons for the Population Study of Biomarkers / Robert B. Wallace 136

7 Comments on Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators in Social Science Surveys / Duncan Thomas, Elizabeth Frankenberg 149

8 Biomarkers in Social Science Research on Health and Aging: A Review of Theory and Practice / Douglas C. Ewbank 156

Part II The Potential and Pitfalls of Genetic Information

9 Are Genes Good Markers of Biological Traits? / Mary Jane West-Eberhard 175

10 Genetic Markers in Social Science Research: Opportunities and Pitfalls / George P. Vogler, Gerald E. McClearn 194

11 Comments on the Utility of Social Science Surveys for the Discovery and Validation of Genes Influencing Complex Traits / Harald H.H. Goring 208

12 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 231

Part III New Ways of Collecting, Applying, and Thinking About Data

13 Minimally Invasive and Innovative Methods for Biomeasure Collection in Population-Based Research / Stacy Tessler Lindau, Thomas W. McDade 251

14 Nutrigenomics / John Milner, Elaine B. Trujillo, Christine M. Kaefer, Sharon Ross 278

15 Genoeconomics / Daniel J. Benjamin, Christopher F. Chabris, Edward L. Glaeser, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamara B. Harris, David I. Laibson, Lenore J. Launer, Shaun Purcell 304

16 Mendelian Randomization: Genetic Variants as Instruments for Strengthening Causal Inference in Observational Studies / George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim 336

17 Multilevel Investigations: Conceptual Mappings and Perspectives / John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson, Ronald A. Thisted 367

18 Genomics and Beyond: Improving Understanding and Analysis of Human (Social, Economic, and Demographic) Behavior / John Hobcraft 381

Appendix Biographical Sketches of Contributors 401.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-400).

ISBN:

0309108675

9780309108676

OCLC:

180691095