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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2013

Conceptual shifts needed to understand the dynamic interactions of genes, environment, epigenetics, social processes, and behavioral choices.

Fatimah L C Jackson, Mihai D Niculescu, Robert T Jackson

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Article in American journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Revisiting Epigenetics Fundamentals and Its Biomedical Implications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  6. Health Disparities and the Microbiome.Trends in microbiology · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fatimah L C JacksonFatimah L. C. Jackson, and Mihai D. Niculescu are with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Robert T. Jackson is with the University of Maryland at College Park.
Mihai D Niculescu
Robert T Jackson

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social and behavioral research in public health is often intimately tied to profound, but frequently neglected, biological influences from underlying genetic, environmental, and epigenetic events. The dynamic interplay between the life, social, and behavioral sciences often remains underappreciated and underutilized in addressing complex diseases and disorders and in developing effective remediation strategies. Using a case-study format, we present examples as to how the inclusion of genetic, environmental, and epigenetic data can augment social and behavioral health research by expanding the parameters of such studies, adding specificity to phenotypic assessments, and providing additional internal control in comparative studies. We highlight the important roles of gene-environment interactions and epigenetics as sources of phenotypic change and as a bridge between the life and social and behavioral sciences in the development of robust interdisciplinary analyses.

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Behavioral SciencesChoice BehaviorEpigenomicsGene-Environment InteractionSocial SciencesBehavioral ResearchDiseaseEnvironmentHumansPhenotypePsychologyResearch DesignSocial Environment

Identifiers

PMID23927503
PMCPMC3786753

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