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Factors Influencing the Health Behavior of Young African American Adults (ICPSR 36025)
Released/updated on: 2015-06-22
Geographic coverage: United States
The project expands data collection for the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS), which includes approximately 900 African American families. Four waves of data have already been collected, focusing on family interaction, community context, racial discrimination, disposition (e.g., temperament, self-control), and adolescents' health behaviors, including their substance use and sexual behavior. Each wave included interviews with a target child (target; age 10/11 at Wave 1) and the target's primary caregiver (PC); plus a secondary caregiver (SC) and an older sibling (sib; age 13/14 at Wave 1), when they were available. Waves 5 and 6 take the targets and sibs into a developmental period emerging adulthood (EA), collecting data on factors that influence their substance use and abuse habits and their risky sexual behavior. Data are collected from their romantic partners and best friends about the same issues, and genetic data are also collected from targets.
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Genetic by Context Influence on Trajectories of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors (ICPSR 35961)
Released/updated on: 2015-06-17
Geographic coverage: United States
This study uses existing data from a seven-wave prospective cohort study (N=4,000) for measuring the health risk behaviors and contextual variables from ages 11 through 19. It also uses United States Census data at the block group level (N=58) and adolescent and parent self-reports to measure neighborhood context. This study collects and genotypes whole blood from the young adults.
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Reciprocal Genetic-environmental Interactions During Childhood and Adolescence (ICPSR 35976)
Released/updated on: 2015-06-17
Geographic coverage: United States
This study examines levels of and changes in telomere length and DNA methylation among child and adolescent participants in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and to identify early social environmental predictors of these variable genetic characteristics. The study strengthens the mode experiment in the NICHD-funded 15-year Fragile Families survey by conducting an additional 250 in-person adolescent interviews. The dataset combines a population-based design, richly detailed longitudinal data on the child since birth, a sample with especially large exposure to harsh environments, DNA markers, telomere length and DNA methylation measures at two time points. The data gathered in this study allow for several new explorations into the interplay of genes, environment, and health.
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Twin Studies of the Marriage Benefit: Parsing Selection from Causation (ICPSR 35891)
Released/updated on: 2015-05-14
Geographic coverage: Sweden, United States, Australia
This project collects data from five samples of twins in the United States, Australia, and Sweden. The study uses genetic data and its connection to relationship behaviors, as well as mental and physical health. Finally, the project interviews identical twins about how marriage, romantic relationships, and relationship dissolution may alter the life course.