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, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Introduction--James W. Vaupel, Kenneth W. Wachter, and Maxine Weinstein; 3 Part I: What We've Learned So Far; 4 1 Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Danish Twin and Oldest-Old Surveys--Kaare Christensen, Lise Bathum, and Lene Christiansen; 5 2 Whitehall II and ELSA: Integrating Epidemiological and Psychobiological Approaches to the Assessment of Biological Indicators--Michael Marmot and Andrew Steptoe; 6 3 The Taiwan Biomarker Project--Ming-Cheng Chang, Dana A. Glei, Noreen Goldman, and Maxine Weinstein; 7 4 Elastic Powers: The Integration of Biomarkers into the Health and Retirement Study--David Weir; 8 5 An Overview of Biomarker Research from Community and Population-Based Studies on Aging--Jennifer R. Harris, Tara L. Gruenewald, and Teresa Seeman; 9 6 The Women's Health Initiative: Lessons for the Population Study of Biomarkers--Robert B. Wallace; 10 7 Comments on Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators in Social Science Surveys--Duncan Thomas and Elizabeth Frankenberg; 11 8 Biomarkers in Social Science Research on Health and Aging: A Review of Theory and Practice--Douglas C. Ewbank; 12 Part II: The Potential and Pitfalls of Genetic Information; 13 9 Are Genes Good Markers of Biological Traits?--Mary Jane West-Eberhard; 14 10 Genetic Markers in Social Science Research: Opportunities and Pitfalls--George P. Vogler and Gerald E. McClearn; 15 11 Comments on the Utility of Social Science Surveys for the Discovery and Validation of Genes Influencing Complex Traits--Harald H.H. Goring; 16 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; 17 Part III: New Ways of Collecting, Applying, and Thinking About Data; 18 13 Minimally Invasive and Innovative Methods for Biomeasure Collection in Population-Based Research--Stacy Tessler Lindau and Thomas W. McDade; 19 14 Nutrigenomics--John Milner, Elaine B. Trujillo, Christine M. Kaefer, and Sharon Ross; 20 15 Genoeconomics--Daniel J. Benjamin, Christopher F. Chabris, Edward L. Glaeser, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamara B. Harris, David I. Laibson, Lenore J. Launer, and Shaun Purcell; 21 16 Mendelian Randomization: Genetic Variants as Instruments for Strengthening Causal Inference in Observational Studies--George Davey Smith and Shah Ebrahim; 22 17 Multilevel Investigations: Conceptual Mappings and Perspectives--John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson, and Ronald A. Thisted; 23 18 Genomics and Beyond: Improving Understanding and Analysis of Human (Social, Economic, and Demographic) Behavior--John Hobcraft; 24 Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Contributors