In this recent publication, Margaret T. Hicken, John Dou, Kiarri N. Kershaw, Yongmei Liu, Anjum Hajat, and Kelly M. Bakulski use the MESA study to suggest that neighborhood social context may be associated with an underlying biological age acceleration at the epigenomic level.
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation and Monocyte DNA Methylation Age Acceleration
What’s one common misconception about your area of research that you’d like to dispel? This research is about going deeper and combining a wealth of knowledge to understand and identify the root of the population health disparities we already know about.
In this recent publication, Margaret T. Hicken, Devon Payne-Sturges, and Ember McCoy build on recent discussions in the epidemiology and environmental epidemiology literature more specifically, to provide a detailed discussion of the meaning of race, the race variables, and the cultural and structural racism that some argue are proxied by race variables.
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At the 2022 University of Michigan Epidemiology Poster Session, Victoria Fisher presented preliminary results from her study of the association between residential racial segregation and accelerated epigenetic aging.