NACDA Podcast 2 - Dr. Margaret Gatz and Research on Twins
January 28, 2021
This 28 minutes podcast features Dr. Margaret Gatz
- Professor of Psychology, Gerontology, and Preventive Medicine at University of Southern California Leonard Davis. She’s also on our steering committee and is the P.I. of Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins and the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Twin Registry (NAS-NRC). In this interview, she answers the following questions:
- How would you encourage people to use the Twins studies data?
- Have you seen any publications from other researchers using these data (the twins studies data) that you thought were particularly interesting for secondary analysis?
- Can the Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins and the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Twin Registry (NAS-NRC Twin Registry) be used together or with any other studies?
- The Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins and the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Twin Registry (NAS-NRC Twin Registry) each have several datasets; which datasets within these studies do you think work particularly well together?
Links and resources:
- Access SATSA data (ICPSR study 3843)
- Access NAS-NRC data (ICPSR study 36234)
- Access SALZA data (ICPSR study 25963)
- Access MIDUS data (ICPSR series 203)
- Twin Research and Human Genetics Journal
- Margy (Text) Researcher Interview (pdf)