Genetics and Twins

- Number of publications: 147

Allen, T. D., Regina, J., Wiernik, B. M., & Waiwood, A. M. (2023). Toward a better understanding of the causal effects of role demands on work-family conflict: A genetic modeling approach. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(3), 520-539.
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Amaral, W. Z., Krueger, R. F., Ryff, C. D., & Coe, C. L. (2015). Genetic and environmental determinants of population variation in interleukin-6, its soluble receptor and C-reactive protein: Insights from identical and fraternal twins. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 49, 171-181.
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Amin, V., Behrman, J. R., Kohler, H.-P., Xiong, Y., & Zhang, J. (2015). Causal inferences: Identical twins help and clarity about necessary assumptions is critical. Social Science & Medicine, 127, 201-202.
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Andersson, M. A. (2018). A discordance weighting approach estimating occupational and income returns to education. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 21(3), 191-202.
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Apsley, A. T., Lee, S. A., Bhat, A. C., Rush, J., Almeida, D. M., Cole, S. W., & Shalev, I. (2024). Affective reactivity to daily stressors and immune cell gene expression in the MIDUS study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 115, 80-88.
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Archontaki, D., Lewis, G. J., & Bates, T. C. (2013). Genetic influences on psychological well-being: A nationally representative twin study. Journal of Personality, 81(2), 221-230.
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Bartels, M. (2015). Genetics of wellbeing and its components satisfaction with life, happiness, and quality of life: A review and meta-analysis of heritability studies. Behavior Genetics, 45(2), 137-156.
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Bates, T. C. (2015). The glass is half full and half empty: A population-representative twin study testing if optimism and pessimism are distinct systems. The Journal of Positive Psychology. Advance online publication.
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Beam, C. R., Marcus, K., Turkheimer, E., & Emery, R. E. (2018). Gender differences in the structure of marital quality. Behavior Genetics, 48(3), 209-223.
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Bhai, M. (2016). Double take: The effect of sibling sex composition on women's schooling, earnings, and labor supply. Economics Letters, 146, 42-46.
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Bhai, M. (2020). The earning losses of smokers. IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 9(1), Article 20200001.
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Boardman, J. D., & Fletcher, J. M. (2015). To cause or not to cause? That is the question, but identical twins might not have all of the answers. Social Science & Medicine, 127, 198-200.
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Boardman, J.D., & Blalock, C.L., & Pampel, F. C. (2010). Trends in the genetic influence on smoking. Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 51(1), 108-123.
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Boardman, J.D., Blalock, C.L., & Button, T.M. (2008). Sex differences in the heritability of resilience. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 11(1), 12-27.
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Boehm, J. K. (2018). The road to positive health: Behavioral and biological pathways linking positive psychological functioning with health outcomes. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Bradshaw, M., & Ellison, C. G. (2008). Do genetic factors influence religious life? Findings from a behavior genetic analysis of twin siblings. Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion, 47(4), 529-544.
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Briley, D. A., Tropf, F. C., & Mills, M. C. (2017). What explains the heritability of completed fertility? Evidence from two large twin studies. Behavior Genetics, 47, 36-51.
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Briley, D., Harden, K. P., & Tucker-Drob, E. (2015). Genotype x cohort interaction on completed fertility and age at first birth. Behavior Genetics. Behavior Genetics, 45(1), 71-83.
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Charles, S.T., & Almeida, D.M. (2007). Genetic and environmental effects on daily life stressors: More evidence for greater variation in later life. Psychology and Aging, 22, 331-340.
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Christensen, R. K., Moon, K.-K., & Whitford, A. B. (2021). Genetics and sector of employment. International Public Management Journal, 24(5), 585-595.
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Cleveland, H. H., & Almeida, D. M. (2013). A behavioral genetic investigation of weekend drinking among an adult sample. Substance Use and Misuse, 48(5), 359-370.
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Coyle, T. R., Woodley of Menie, M. A., Penaherrera-Aguirre, M., Madison, G., & Sarraf, M. A. (2023). The heritability of ability tilts. Personality and Individual Differences, 213, Article 112187.
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Cuevas, A. G., Cole, S. W., Belsky, D. W., McSorley, A.-M., Shon, J. M., & Chang, V. W. (2024). Multi-discrimination exposure and biological aging: Results from the Midlife in the United States study. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 39, Article 100774.
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Cuevas, A. G., Freilich, C. D., Mann, F. D., Cole, S. W., & Krueger, R. F. (2023). Intersectional vulnerability in the relationship between discrimination and inflammatory gene expression. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 27, Article 100580.
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Cuevas, A. G., Mann, F. D., Williams, D. R., & Krueger, R. F. (2021). Discrimination and anxiety: Using multiple polygenic scores to control for genetic liability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(1), e2017224118.
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Dunkel, C. S., Nedelec, J. L., & van der Linden, D. (2018). Using monozygotic twin differences to examine the relationship between parental affection and personality: A life history account. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(1), 52-58.
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Eaton, N. R., Krueger, R. F., South, S. C., Gruenewald, T. L., Seeman, T. E., & Roberts, B. W. (2012). Genes, environments, personality, and successful aging: Toward a comprehensive developmental model in later life. ournals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 67(5), 480-488.
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Fassbender, K., Wiebe, A., & Bates, T. C. (2019). Physical and cultural inheritance enhance agency, but what are the origins of this concern to establish a legacy? A nationally-representative twin study of Erikson's concept of generativity. Behavior Genetics, 49(2), 244-257.
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Felson, J (2014). What can We learn from twin studies? A comprehensive evaluation of the Equal Environments Assumption. Social Science Research, 43, 184-199.
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Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2021). Fertility outcomes, heritability and genomic associations of in-group preference and in-group marriage. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 24(5), 264-272.
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Figueredo, A. J., & Rushton, J. P. (2009). Evidence for shared genetic dominance between the general factor of personality, mental and physical health, and life history traits. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 12(6), 555-563.
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Figueredo, A. J., Vasquez, G., Brumbach, B. H., & Schneider, S. M. (2004). The heritability of life history strategy: The K-factor, covitality, and personality. Soc Biol, 51(3-4), 121-143.
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Figueredo, A., Cabeza De Baca, T., & Richardson, G. (2021). Hybrid behavior-genetic models of the confounding gene-environment correlations in the development of life history strategy: Two convergent approaches. Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 11, 1-24.
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Finegood, E. D., Briley, D. A., Turiano, N. A., Freedman, A., South, S. C., Krueger, R. F., Chen, E., Mroczek, D. K., & Miller, G. E. (2021). Association of wealth with longevity in US adults at midlife. JAMA Health Forum, 2(7), Article e211652.
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Finkel, D., Franz, C., Horwitz, B., Christensen, K., Gatz, M., Johnson, W., Kaprio, J., Korhonen, T., Niederheiser, J., Petersen, I., Rose, R., & Silventoinen, K. (2016). Gender differences in marital status moderation of genetic and environmental influences on subjective health. Behavior Genetics, 46(1), 114-123.
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Fletcher, J. (2011). The effects of teenage childbearing on the short- and long-term health behaviors of mothers. Journal of Population Economics, 25(1), 201-218.
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Franz, C. E., Finkel, D., Panizzon, M. S., Spoon, K., Christensen, K., Gatz, M., Kremen, W. S., Krueger, R., Neiderhiser, J., Reynolds, C., & Pedersen, N. L. (2017). Facets of subjective health from early adulthood to old age. Journal of Aging and Health, 29(1), 149-171.
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Freilich, C. D., Mann, F. D., South, S. C., & Krueger, R. F. (2022). Comparing phenotypic, genetic, and environmental associations between personality and loneliness. Journal of Research in Personality, 101, Article 104314.
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Freilich, C. D., Markon, K. E., Cole, S. W., & Krueger, R. F. (2024). Loneliness, epigenetic age acceleration, and chronic health conditions. Psychology and Aging, 39(4), 337-349.
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Fujiwara, T., & Kawachi, I. (2008). Social capital and health. A study of adult twins in the U.S. American journal of preventive medicine, 35(2), 139-144.
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Fujiwara, T., & Kawachi, I. (2009). Is education causally related to better health? A twin fixed-effect study in the USA. International Journal of Epidemiology, 38(5), 1310-1322.
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Fujiwara, T., & Ryff, C. D. (2018). Social capital, altruistic behavior, and mental health. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Gunes, P. M. (2016). The effects of teenage childbearing on long-term health in the US: A twin-fixed-effects approach. Review of Economics of the Household, 14(4), 891-920.
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Gustavson, D. E., Panizzon, M. S., Kremen, W. S., Reynolds, C. A., Pahlen, S., Nygaard, M., Wod, M., Catts, V. S., Lee, T., Gatz, M., & Franz, C. E. (2021). Genetic and environmental influences on semantic verbal fluency across midlife and later life. Behavior Genetics, 51, 99-109.
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Hamdi, N. R., Krueger, R. F., & South, S. C. (2015). Socioeconomic status moderates genetic and environmental effects on the amount of alcohol use. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39(4), 603-610.
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Hamdi, N. R., South, S. C., & Krueger, R. F. (2016). Does education lower allostatic load? A co-twin control study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 56, 221-229.
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Hansen, J. L., Carroll, J. E., Seeman, T. E., Cole, S. W., & Rentscher, K. E. (2024). Lifetime chronic stress exposures, stress hormones, and biological aging: Results from the midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 123, 1159-1168.
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Hardie, T. L., Moss, H. B., & Lynch, K. G. (2008). Sex differences in the heritability of alcohol problems. American Journal on Addictions, 17, 319-327.
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Hobbs, K. A., Mann, F. D., Cole, S. W., & Krueger, R. F. (2020). Big Five personality and CTRA gene expression: Lack of association in a midlife sample of US adults (MIDUS-refresher). Personality and Individual Differences, 169, Article 109908.
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Horwitz, B. N., Reynolds, C. A., & Charles, S. T. (2015). Understanding associations among family support, friend support, and psychological distress. Personal Relationships, 22(1), 79-91.
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Hoy, N., Lynch, S. J., Waszczuk, M. A., Reppermund, S., & Mewton, L. (2023). Transdiagnostic biomarkers of mental illness across the lifespan: A systematic review examining the genetic and neural correlates of latent transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology in the general population. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, Article 105431.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2004). Genetic and environmental structure of adjectives describing the domains of the big five model of personality: A nationwide US twin study. Journal of Research in Personality, 38(5), 448-472.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Higher perceived life control decreases genetic variance in physical health: Evidence from a national twin study. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 88(1), 165-173.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Predictors of physical health: Toward an integrated model of genetic and environmental antecedents. Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 60B(1), 42-52.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Genetic effects on physical health: Lower at higher income levels. Behavior Genetics, 35(5), 579-590.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2006). How money buys happiness: Genetic and environmental processes linking finances and life satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 680-691.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R.F. (2007). The psychological benefits of vigorous exercise: A study of discordant MZ twin pairs. Twin Research & Human Genetics, 10(2), 275-283.
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Jokela, M. (2022). Religiosity, psychological distress, and well-being: Evaluating familial confounding with multicohort sibling data. American Journal of Epidemiology, 191(4), 584-590.
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Jokela, M., Berg, V., Silventoinen, K., Batty, G. D., Singh-Manoux, A., Kaprio, J., Davey Smith, G., & Kivimaki, M. (2016). Body mass index and depressive symptoms: Testing for adverse and protective associations in two twin cohort studies. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(4), 306-311.
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Kendler, K. S., Myers, J. M., Maes, H. H., & Keyes, C. L. M. (2011). The relationship between the genetic and environmental influences on common internalizing psychiatric disorders and mental well-being. Behavior Genetics, 41(5), 641-650.
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Kendler, K. S., Thorton, L. M., Gilman, S. E., & Kessler, R. C. (2000). Sexual orientation in a U.S. national sample of twin and nontwin sibling pairs. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 1843-1846.
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Kessler, R. C., Gilman, S. E., Thornton, L. M., & Kendler, K. S. (2004). Health, well-being, and social responsibility in the MIDUS twin and sibling subsamples. In O. G. Brim, C. D. Ryff, & R. C. Kessler (Eds.), How healthy are we?: A national study of well-being at midlife (pp. 124-152). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Keyes, C. L. M., Kendler, K. S., Myers, J. M., & Martin, C. C. (2015). The genetic overlap and distinctiveness of flourishing and the big five personality traits. Journal of Happiness Studies, 16(3), 655-668.
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Keyes, C.L.M., Myers, J.M., & Kendler, K.S. (2010). The structure of the genetic and environmental influences on mental well-being. American Journal of Public Health, 100(12), 2379-2384.
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Kirzinger, A. E., Weber, C., & Johnson, M. (2010). Genetic and environmental influences on media use and communication behaviors. Human Communication Research, 38(2), 144-171.
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Kornadt, A. E., & Kandler, C. (2017). Genetic and environmental sources of individual differences in views on aging. Psychology and Aging, 32(4), 388-399.
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Krizan, Z., Freilich, C., Krueger, R. F., & Mann, F. D. (2024). Linking genetic foundations of sleep disturbances to personality traits: A study of mid-life twins. Journal of Sleep Research, 33(1), Article e13903.
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Krueger, R. F., & South, S. C. (2018). The roles of twin studies and modern genomic technologies in integrative health science. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Lewis, G. J., & Bates, T. C. (2013). Common genetic influences underpin religiosity, community integration, and existential uncertainty. Journal of Research in Personality, 47(4), 398-405.
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Lewis, G. J., & Bates, T. C. (2014). Common heritable effects underpin concerns over norm maintenance and in-group favoritism: Evidence from genetic analyses of right-wing authoritarianism and traditionalism. Journal of Personality, 82(4), 297-309.
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Li, W.-D., Zhang, Z., Song, Z., & Arvey, R. D. (2016). It is also in our nature: Genetic influences on work characteristics and in explaining their relationships with well-being. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37(6), 868-888.
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Lin, F., Friedman, E., Quinn, J., Chen, D.-G., & Mapstone, M. (2012). Effect of leisure activities on inflammation and cognitive function in an aging sample. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 54(3), e398-e404.
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Littvay, L., Popa, S. A., & Fazekas, Z. (2013). Validity of survey response propensity indicators: A behavior genetics approach. Social Science Quarterly, 94(2), 569-589.
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Littvay, L., Weith, P. T., & Dawes, C. T. (2011). Sense of control and voting: A genetically-driven relationship. Social Science Quarterly, 92(5), 1236-1252.
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Longley, K. E., Smith, A. M., & Grzywacz, J. G. (2018). Promoting healthy practices in the work place: Making worker's health a priority before it becomes a problem. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Luczak, S. E., Beam, C. R., Pahlen, S., Lynch, M., Pilgrim, M., Reynolds, C. A., Panizzon, M. S., Catts, V. S., Christensen, K., Finkel, D., Franz, C. E., Kremen, W. S., Lee, T., McGue, M., Nygaard, M., Plassman, B. L., Whitfield, K. E., Pedersen, N. L., (2023). Remember this: Age moderation of genetic and environmental contributions to verbal episodic memory from midlife through late adulthood. Intelligence, 99, Article 101759.
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Lundborg, P. (2013). The health returns to schooling- what can we learn from twins? Journal of Population Economics, 26(2), 673-701.
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Luo, J., Derringer, J., Briley, D. A., & Roberts, B. W. (2017). Genetic and environmental pathways underlying personality traits and perceived stress: Concurrent and longitudinal twin studies. European Journal of Personality, 31(6), 614-629.
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Mann, F. D., Cuevas, A. G., & Krueger, R. F. (2021). Cumulative stress: A general "s" factor in the structure of stress. Social Science and Medicine, 289, Article 114405.
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Mann, F. D., DeYoung, C. G., Tiberius, V., & Krueger, R. F. (2019). Social-relational exposures and well-being: Using multivariate twin data to rule-out heritable and shared environmental confounds. Journal of Research in Personality, 83, Article 103880.
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Mann, F. D., Krueger, R. F., Clouston, S., & Cole, S. (2021). Demographic correlates of inflammatory and antiviral gene expression in the study of Midlife in the United States (MIDUS). Biodemography and Social Biology, 66(3-4), 236-249.
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Markon, K. E., Mann, F., Freilich, C., Cole, S., & Krueger, R. F. (2024). Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status. Social Science and Medicine, 352, Article 116990.
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