Causes behind childhood mental health problems classed as internalizing (e.g., anxiety, depression) or externalizing (aggression, ADHD) aren't fully known, but epigentics may play a role. A new scoping review looks at how DNAm summary measures relate to these traits: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🧪A new study from @pngumich.bsky.social finds Black teens with police contact show heightened #amygdala activity in response to neutral faces. This form of #RacializedAdversity is important to consider when elucidating #neurobiology in marginalized youth myumi.ch/R3en8

Only four days left to apply for our virtual Epigenetics workshop this January! myumi.ch/P3QAe

🧪Researchers with SRC's @pngumich.bsky.social & @um-psc.bsky.social developed a novel DNAm biomarker of pubertal age that was consistently associated with earlier age at menarche across three adolescent cohorts myumi.ch/Nr5J3

Along with a brand new website - src.isr.umich.edu - we are launching a quarterly newsletter that will share Survey Research Center research, media mentions, and publications. Sign up here: myumi.ch/G2pXR

"Dementia and cognitive impairment are prevalent conditions, and susceptibility likely begins years before symptoms. Early life has not been comprehensively tested for potential risk factors for dementia"

Exposures and conditions prior to age 16 are associated with incidence of dementia status among adults in the United States Health and Retirement Study myumi.ch/jJ6PN

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Kelly Marie Bakulski @erinware.bsky.social in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Calling all former #GeSS participants! We are hosting our NIA sponsored Genomics for Social Scientists- Epigenetics workshop January 20-23, 2026 VIRTUALLY🎉 Applications are now open through 10/31, so dust off your CV & please share with your colleagues: myumi.ch/P3QAe

myumi.ch/5kjNA "Research utilizing epigenetic clocks has accelerated in recent years, but it is largely unknown how consistently these measures perform across country and cultural contexts, and thus, how useful they are for understanding the large differences in health outcomes across countries."

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social affiliates @colterm.bsky.social Jessica Faul in Social Science & Medicine Remarkable concordance in associations between epigenetic clocks and health behaviors across three countries

🧪Jennifer A. Smith was part of a team that generated whole-genome sequences from 2,762 individuals in India, which is underrepresented in genomic surveys, capturing the genetic diversity across most geographic regions, linguistic groups, and historically underrepresented communities myumi.ch/15gZJ

🧪Using @ffcws.bsky.social‬, @colterm.bsky.social‬ & coauthors find that educational effort is consistently protective for depressive symptoms in adolescents, but is linked to accelerated epigenic aging among disadvantaged Hispanic youth myumi.ch/79Jzr #epigenetics #education

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate @helenmeier.bsky.social Compositional analysis of lymphocytes and their relationship with health outcomes: findings from the health and retirement study myumi.ch/z91Ad

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Jessica Faul in The Journals of Gerontology Epigenetic Clocks Relate to Four Age-Related Health Outcomes Similarly across Three Countries myumi.ch/79eN1

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umichmedicine @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Kenneth M. Langa in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care

Another #DemographyMinute from #PAA2025: Farah Ammous of @um-src.bsky.social describes Health and Retirement Study research demonstrating that physical activity is associated with reduced risk of chronic disease in older adults. With Helen Meier, @colterm.bsky.social and Jessica Faul

🧪By mapping novel and reported CpG sites to genes, Jennifer A Smith et al. identified enriched pathways directly linked to lipid metabolism as well as ones spanning various biological functions. myumi.ch/kPxJm

Farah Ammous, an SRC affiliate, provides insight into her poster at #PAA2025 describing physical activity and reduced health risks.

📢 Join our virtual AND in-person Monitoring the Future @icpsrsummer.bsky.social workshops this summer! The workshops will provide an overview of the MTF Cross-sectional & Panel studies, focusing on the public-use & restricted-use data available from @icpsr.bsky.social & @nahdap.bsky.social

📢 Join our #PNGresearch team on 4/11 at 8:30! #PAA2025

🌸 🧬 Childhood poverty is associated with poor health across the lifespan, but how do early-life socioeconomic conditions become biologically embedded? Joshua Goode, Trey Smith, Jessica Faul, @colterm.bsky.social, and Daniel Notterman present at #PAA2025. @um-src.bsky.social myumi.ch/qZk4m 🧪

🧪 Using the #HealthAndRetirementStudy, Ken Langa, @helenmeier.bsky.social, Grace Noppert et al. constructed a hierarchical tree structure to map relationships among T and B lymphocyte subsets myumi.ch/R3kR4