NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting
- Agenda
- Attendees
- Epigenetics and Aging
- Biomarker Measurements and Results
- Duncan Thomas: HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin Using Dried Blood Spots Collected Under Adverse Field Conditions
- Courtney Boen: Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Biological Aging in Late Life
- Genetics
- Robbee Wedow: The Genetics of Sexual Behavior and Orientation
- Colter Mitchell: Application of Late Life Cognition Genes to Early Life Cognitive Development o Jason Fletcher: Early Life Exposures, Gene-Environment Interactions, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age
- State of the Field: Research on Gene-Environment Interaction
- Jonathan Daw: Reviews of “Social by Nature” and “The Genome Factor”
- Domments: Colter Mitchell, Jason Fletcher
- Biomarkers and Health Outcomes
- Christopher Coe: Lessons from 10 Years of Biomarker Testing to Assess the Biology of Aging and Health in Two Countries
- Yuan Zhang: Early Life Conditions and Later Life Biological Risk: Evidence from the Chinese Longitudinal Study of Aging (CHARLS)
- Telomere Length
- Amy Thierry: Telomere Length and Neighborhood Characteristics: Race and Regional Differences in US Midlife and Older Adults
- Jessica Faul: The Effects of Collection Procedures on Telomere Length Measurement in Population-based Surveys of Aging
- Will Dow: Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): Correlates, Measurement Issues, Longitudinal Change, and Prospective Mortality
- Judith Carroll: Telomere length measurement concerns: Cell sources, sample handling, and repeated assessments
- Colter Mitchell: Report from NIA/NIEHS Meeting: Telomeres as Sentinels for Environmental Exposures, Psychosocial Stress, and Disease Susceptibility