Tavalire, H., Christie, D., Leve, L. D., Ting, N., Cresko, W., & Bohannan, B. (2021). Shared environment and genetics shape the gut microbiome after infant adoption. mBio, 12, e00548-21.

by eca5042 | Sep 19, 2022

The composition of the human gut microbiome is highly variable and this variation 30 has been repeatedly tied to variation in human health. However, the sources of microbial 31 variation remain unclear, especially early in life. It is particularly important to...

Natsuaki, M. N., Stepanyan, S. T., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., & Leve, L. D. (2021). Do I look gawky? The association between pubertal asynchrony and peer victimization. Children, 8, 794. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8090794.

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Pubertal synchrony is defined as the degree of coherence to which puberty-related body changes (e.g., breast development, growth spurt, voice change, underarm hair growth) are coordinated. During the pubertal transition, youth’s body parts grow asynchronously, making...

Nagpal N., Ramos, A., M., Hajal, N., Massey, S. H., Leve, L. D., Shaw, D. S., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., & Neiderhiser, J. (2021). Psychopathology symptoms are associated with prenatal health practices in pregnant women with heavy smoking levels. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 25, 330-337.

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Purpose Smoking during pregnancy may be linked to other problematic prenatal health behaviors in women. We examined interrelationships among prenatal smoking, prenatal health behaviors and mental health. The objective of this study was to examine factors that may...

Dunlop, A.L., Essalmi A.G., Alvalos, L., Breton, C., Camargo, C.A., Cowell, W.J., et al. (2021) Racial and geographic variation in effects of maternal education and neighborhood-level measures of socioeconomic status on gestational age at birth: Findings from the ECHO cohorts. PLoS ONE 16(1):e0245064.

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Preterm birth occurs at excessively high and disparate rates in the United States. In 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to investigate the influence of early life exposures on...

Cree. R. A., Liu, C., Gueorguieva, R., Neiderhiser, J. M., Leve, L. D., Connell, C. M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., Ganiban, J. M., Beekman, C., Smith, M. V., & Reiss, D. (2021). Using an adoption design to test genetically based differences in risk for child behavior problems in response to home environmental influences. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 1229-1247.

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Differential susceptibility theory (DST) posits that individuals differ in their developmental plasticity: some children are highly responsive to both environmental adversity and support, while others are less affected. According to this theory, “plasticity” genes...