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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Contributors
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Contributors
Pages 401-414
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Her main research fields are twin studies and genetic research on aging-related phenotypes in order to estimate the impact of genes on aging.
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His research interests include functional organization of brain mechanisms underlying behavioral and affective processes, multiple levels of organization and analysis in neurobehavioral systems, bottom-up and top-down processes in autonomic regulation, and the social neuroscience of health and disease.
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Shah Ebrahim is an epidemiologist with a clinical background in geriatric medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research spans interests in the use of genetic polymorphisms to test the effects of environmental exposures (termed Mendelian randomization)
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Noreen Goldman is the Hughes-Rogers professor of demography and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and acting director of the Office of Population of Research at Princeton University. She conducts research in areas of demography and epidemiology, and her current research examines the role of social and economic factors on adult health and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate.
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He worked for nine years as a senior research fellow at the Centre for Genetics of Cardiovascular Disorders at the University College London School of Medicine. For the past seven years, he has worked on obtaining detailed and extensive phenotypes in large population-based samples to study genetic contributions to traits of common complex chronic diseases.
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This includes identification of novel risk factors and design of studies involving biomarkers, selected polymorphisms, and exploration of gene/environment interactions. The section has been particularly active in devising methods to integrate promising molecular or imaging techniques in ways that begin to explore the physiology underlying epidemiological associations, including adaptation of imaging protocols to epidemiological studies.
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She is one of the principal investigators on the Age Gene Environment Susceptibility–Reykjavik Study and principal investigator of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes: Memory in Diabetes trial, which is investigating the effects on the brain of standard versus intensive treatment of cardiovascular risk factors. She also collaborates closely on the Honolulu Asia Aging Study.
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Her primary interest is deciphering the biological pathways linking sexual relationships to health, particularly in the context of aging and illness. She is one of the principal investigators of the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, which has collected detailed questionnaire data in respondents' homes in conjunction with a unique panel of minimally invasive biophysiological data.
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John Milner is chief of the Nutritional Science Research Group in the Division of Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His current research focuses on substances in foods and cancer prevention and the molecular mechanism by which bioactive food constituents influence cancer risk and tumor behavior.
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He is also director of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Their Children and of the Medical Research Council's Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology. His main research interests relate to how socially patterned exposures acting over the entire life course shape health of individuals and populations and also influence long-term trends in health.
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His research involves statistical computation, the design and analysis of clinical trials and epidemiologic studies, and development of new computational and statistical methods. He is a past editor of the Current Index to Statistics and was associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
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His research interests include genetic epidemiology of complex traits, quantitative trait loci mapping, cardiovascular disease, methodological issues in genetic models and structural equation models, and behavioral moderation of expression of biological traits. His applied interests span human development, with interests in childhood development of cognitive abilities, substance use and abuse in adolescence, cardiovascular risk factors in adulthood, and maintenance of functional abilities in aging.
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He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, past chair of its Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and current chair of its Board on Military and Veterans Health. He is the author or coauthor of numerous publications and book chapters and has been the editor of four books, including the current edition of Maxcy-Rosenau-Last's Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
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. Her research interests include fieldwork on the social behavior of tropical wasps, the evolution of social behavior, kin selection theory, sexual and social selection, speciation, and developmental plasticity and evolution.
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