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The Challenges and Opportunities of Interdisciplinary Research: The Case of Genetics and Demography

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Air date:	Friday, November 20, 2009, 3:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 90 * This only includes stats from October 2011 and forward.
Category:	BSSR - Behavioral and Social Sciences
Runtime:	00:50:50
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Description:	In the past decade, there have been substantial advances in our understanding of the genetic etiology of disease including genetic influences on health-related behaviors. Some of the emerging research has emphasized the interplay between genetic and environmental influences as concomitant forces. To date, most of this work has emphasized micro-level measures of the environment such as stressful live events or the experience of trauma. Less work has attempted to situate these influences within a broader social demographic and social historical context. In this presentation, I demonstrate the usefulness of a more broadly defined environmental perspective in the gene-environment interplay framework and I apply this perspective to a relatively complex behavior: smoking. I conclude by sketching out a conceptual model that will facilitate an interdisciplinary approach that, to date, has been absent in this body of work. This lecture is an installment of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Lecture Series sponsored by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and organized by the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee. The Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR CC), with support from the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), convenes a series of guest lectures and symposia on selected topics in the behavioral and social sciences. These presentations by prominent behavioral and social scientists provide the NIH community with overviews of current research on topics of scientific and social interest. The lectures and symposia are approximately 50 minutes in length, with additional time for questions and discussion. All seminars are open to NIH staff and to the general public.

NLM Title:	The challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary research : the case of genetics and demography / Jason D. Boardman.
Author:	Boardman, Jason D. National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
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Abstract:	(CIT): In the past decade, there have been substantial advances in our understanding of the genetic etiology of disease including genetic influences on health-related behaviors. Some of the emerging research has emphasized the interplay between genetic and environmental influences as concomitant forces. To date, most of this work has emphasized micro-level measures of the environment such as stressful live events or the experience of trauma. Less work has attempted to situate these influences within a broader social demographic and social historical context. In this presentation, I demonstrate the usefulness of a more broadly defined environmental perspective in the gene-environment interplay framework and I apply this perspective to a relatively complex behavior: smoking. I conclude by sketching out a conceptual model that will facilitate an interdisciplinary approach that, to date, has been absent in this body of work.
Subjects:	Demography Genetics Interdisciplinary Communication Research Design
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast
NLM Classification:	QU 450
NLM ID:	101522162
CIT Live ID:	7837
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=7837

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