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Tonya Allen
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PRInformation
Spring 2005
Selected Publications
Akey, J.M., M.A. Eberle, M.J. Rieder, C.S. Carlson, M.D. Shriver, D.A. Nickerson and L. Kruglyak (2004). "Population History and Natural Selection Shape Patterns of Genetic Variation in 132 Genes." Public Library of Science - Biology 2(10):e286-.
Allaire, J.C. and K.E. Whitfield (2004). "Relationships Among Education, Age, and Cognitive Functioning in Older African Americans: The Impact of Desegregation." Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 11(4):443-449.
Almeida, D.M. (2004). "Using Daily Diaries to Assess Temporal Friction Between Work and Family." In Crouter, A.C. and A. Booth, Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and Their Children. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Almeida, D.M. and M.C. Horn (2004). "Is Daily Life More Stressful during Middle Adulthood?." In Brim, O.G., C.D. Ryff and R.C. Kessler, How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Amato, P.R. (2004). "Tension Between Institutional and Individual Views of Marriage." Journal of Marriage and Family 66(4):959-965.
Amato, P.R. and J. Cheadle (2005). "The Long Reach of Divorce: Divorce and Child Well-Being Across Three Generations." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):191-206.
Baker, D. and G.K. LeTendre (2005). National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Barsom, S.H., P.K. Mansfield, P.B. Koch, G. Gierach and S.G. West (2004). "Association between Psychological Stress and Menstrual Cycle Characteristics in Perimenopausal Women." Women's Health Issues 14(6):235-241.
Berkman, M. and E. Plutzer (2004). "Gray Peril or Loyal Support? The Effects of the Elderly on Educational Expenditures." Social Science Quarterly 85(5):1178-1192.
Bhandari, P. (2004). "Relative Deprivation and Migration in an Agricultural Setting of Nepal." Population and Environment 25(5):475-499.
Bierman, K.L., J.D. Coie, K.A. Dodge, E.M. Foster, M.T. Greenberg, J.E. Lochman, R.J. McMahon and E.E. Pinderhughes (2004). "The Effects of the Fast Track Program on Serious Problem Outcomes at the End of Elementary School." Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 33(4):650-661.
Bierman, K.L., J.D. Coie, K.A. Dodge, E.M. Foster, M.T. Greenberg, J.E. Lochman, R.J. McMahon, E.E. Pinderhughes and Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (2004). "The Fast Track Experiment: Translating the Developmental Model into a Prevention Design." In Children's Peer Relations: From Development to Intervention. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Blair, C., D. Gamson, S. Thorne and D. Baker (2005). "Rising Mean IQ: Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Education for Young Children, Population Exposure to Formal Schooling, and the Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex." Intelligence 33(1):93-106.
Blair, C., R. Peters and D.A. Granger (2004). "Physiological and Neuropsychological Correlates of Approach/Withdrawal Tendencies in Preschool: Further Examination of the Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Activation System Scales for Young Children." Developmental Psychobiology 45(3):113-124.
Blizard, D.A., D.J. Vandenbergh, A.L. Jefferson, C.D. Chatlos, G.P. Vogler and G.E. McClearn (2004). "Effects of Periadolescent Ethanol Exposure on Alcohol Preference in Two BALB Substrains." Alcohol 34(2-3):177-185.
Bonilla, C., L. Boxill, S.A. McDonald, T. Williams, N. Sylvester, E.J. Parra, S. Dios, H.L. Norton, M.D. Shriver and R.A. Kittles (2005). "The 8818G Allele of the Agouti Signaling Protein (ASIP) Gene is Ancestral and is Associated with Darker Skin Color in African Americans." Human Genetics 116(5):402-406.
Bronte-Tinkew, J. and G.F. De Jong (2004). "Children's Nutrition in Jamaica: Do Household Structure and Household Economic Resources Matter?" Social Science and Medicine 58(3):499-514.
Burton, L.M., D.M. Winn, H. Stevenson and S. Lawson Clark (2004). "Working with African American Clients: Considering the 'Homeplace' in Marriage and Family Therapy Practices." Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 30(4):397-410.
Cherlin, A.J., L.M. Burton, T. Hurt and D. Purvin (2004). "The Influence of Physical and Sexual Abuse on Marriage and Cohabitation." American Sociological Review 69(6):768-789.
Christensen, H., A.J. MacKinnon, A.F. Jorm, A.E. Korten, P.A. Jacomb, S.M. Hofer and A.S. Henderson (2004). "The Canberra Longitudinal Study: Design, Aims, Methodology, Outcomes, and Recent Empirical Investigations." Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition 11(2-3):169-195.
Cohen, J.H. (2005). "The Oaxaca-US Connection and Remittances." Migration Information Source, January.
Cohen, J.H. and L. Rodriguez (2004). "Consecuencias de las remesas en las zonas rurales de Oaxaca, México: retos, opciones, y oportunidades para los hogares de emigrantes." In Ochoa, J.A. and O.P. Rendón, Migración Internacional y Remesas en México-International Migration and Remittances in Mexico. Morelia, Michoacán: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo; Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales; y Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas.
Cohen, J.H. and L. Rodriguez (2005). "Remittance Outcomes in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico: Challenges, Options and Opportunities for Migrant Households." Population, Space and Place 11(1):49-63.
Cohen, J.H., R. Jones and D. Conway (2005). "Why Remittances Shouldn't be Blamed for Rural Under-Development in Mexico: A Collective Response to Leigh Binford." Critique of Anthropology 25(1):87-96.
Cohen, J.H., R. Jones and D. Conway (2004). "Why Remittances Shouldn't Be Blamed for Rural Under Development in Mexico." In Ochoa, J.A. and O.P. Rendón, Migración Internacional y Remesas en México-International Migration and Remittances in Mexico. Morelia, Michoacán: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo; Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales; y Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas.
Demuth, S. and D. Steffensmeier (2004). "Ethnicity Effects on Sentence Outcomes in Large Urban Courts: Comparisons among White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants." Social Science Quarterly 85(4):994-1011.
Eloundou-Enyegue, P.M. and C.S. Stokes (2004). "Teen Fertility and Gender Inequality in Education: A Contextual Hypothesis." Demographic Research 11(11):305-334.
Fernández, R., N. Guner and J.A. Knowles (2005). "Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality." Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(1):273-344.
Flanagan, C.A., L.S. Gallay and E. Elek-Fisk (2005). "Friends Don't Let Friends ... Or Do They? Developmental and Gender Differences in Intervening in Friends' ATOD Use." Journal of Drug Education 34(4):351-371.
Flanagan, C.A., L.S. Gallay, S. Gill, E.E. Gallay and N. Nti (2005). "What Does Democracy Mean? Correlates of Adolescents' Views." Journal of Adolescent Research 20(2):193-218.
Fletcher, K.L., C. Blair, M.S. Scott and K.E. Bolger (2004). "Specific Patterns of Cognitive Abilities in Young Children with Mild Mental Retardation." Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities 39(3):270-278.
Foster, E.M. and G.Y. Fang (2004). "Alternative Methods for Handling Attrition - An Illustration Using Data from the Fast Track Evaluation." Evaluation Review 28(5):434-464.
Foster, E.M. and T. Connor (2005). "Public Costs of Better Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents." Psychiatric Services 56(1):50-55.
Gottlieb, G. and C. Blair (2004). "How Early Experience Matters in Intellectual Development in the Case of Poverty." Prevention Science 5(4):245-252.
Grzywacz, J.G., D.M. Almeida, S.D. Neupert and S.L. Ettner (2004). "Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Micro-Level Analysis of Exposure and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45(1):1-16.
Hartman, T.J., D.J. Baer, L.B. Graham, W.L. Stone, E.W. Gunter, C.E. Parker, P.S. Albert, J.F. Dorgan, B.A. Clevidence, W.S. Campbell, K.B. Tomer, J.T. Judd and P.R. Taylor (2005). "Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Levels of Antioxidant Vitamins and Isoprostanes in Postmenopausal Women." European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 59(2):161-168.
Hartman, T.J., P.S. Albert, K. Snyder, M.L. Slattery, B. Caan, E. Paskett, F. Iber, J.W. Kikendall, J. Marshall, M. Shike, J. Weissfeld, B. Brewer, A. Schatzkin and E. Lanza (2005). "The Association of Calcium and Vitamin D with Risk of Colorectal Adenomas." Journal of Nutrition 135(2):252-259.
Hodgson, N., V.A. Freedman, D.A. Granger and A. Behel (2004). "Biobehavioral Correlates of Relocation in the Frail Elderly: Salivary Cortisol, Affect, and Cognitive Function." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 52(11):1856-1862.
Horvat-Gordon, M., D.A. Granger, E.B. Schwartz, V.J. Nelson and K.T. Kivlighan (2005). "Oxytocin is not a Valid Biomarker when Measured in Saliva by Immunoassay." Physiology and Behavior 84(3):445-448.
Johnson, M.D., C.L. Cohan, J. Davila, E. Lawrence, R.D. Rogge, B.R. Karney, K.T. Sullivan and T.N. Bradbury (2005). "Problem-Solving Skills and Affective Expressions as Predictors of Change in Marital Satisfaction." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 73(1):15-27.
Josseran, L., G. King, P. Guilbert, J. Davis and G. Brücker (2005). "Smoking by French General Practitioners: Behaviour, Attitudes and Practice." European Journal of Public Health 15(1):33-38.
King, G., A.P. Polednak, R.B. Bendel, M.C. Vilsaint and S.B. Nahata (2004). "Disparities in Smoking Cessation Between African Americans and Whites: 1990-2000." American Journal of Public Health 94(11):1965-1971.
King, G., R.K. Mallett, L.T. Kozlowski, R.B. Bendel and S.B. Nahata (2005). "Personal Space Smoking Restrictions among African Americans." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 28(1):33-40.
Kivlighan, K.T., D.A. Granger and E.B. Schwartz (2005). "Blood Contamination and the Measurement of Salivary Progesterone and Estradiol." Hormones and Behavior 47(3):367-370.
Kolanowski, A., D. Fick, J.L. Waller and D.G. Shea (2004). "Spouses of Persons with Dementia: Their Healthcare Problems, Utilization, and Costs." Research in Nursing & Health 27(5):296-306.
Kranz, S., D.C. Mitchell, A.M. Siega-Riz and H. Smiciklas-Wright (2005). "Dietary Fiber Intake by American Preschoolers is Associated with More Nutrient-Dense Diets." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 105(2):221-225.
Kranz, S., H. Smiciklas-Wright, A.M. Siega-Riz and D.C. Mitchell (2005). "Adverse Effect of High Added Sugar Consumption on Dietary Intake in American Preschoolers." The Journal of Pediatrics 146(1):105-111.
Lang, D.H., N.A. Sharkey, H.A. Mack, G.P. Vogler, D.J. Vandenbergh, D.A. Blizard, J.T. Stout and G.E. McClearn (2005). "Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis of Structural and Material Skeletal Phenotypes in C57BL/6J and DBA/2 Second-Generation and Recombinant Inbred Mice." Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 20(1):88-99.
Laufer, E.M., T.J. Hartman, D.J. Baer, E.W. Gunter, J.F. Dorgan, W.S. Campbell, B.A. Clevidence, E.D. Brown, D. Albanes, J.T. Judd and P.R. Taylor (2004). "Effects of Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Folate and Vitamin B-12 Status in Postmenopausal Women." European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 58(11):1518-1524.
Lavigne, J.A., D.J. Baer, H.H. Wimbrow, P.S. Albert, E.D. Brown, J.T. Judd, W.S. Campbell, C.A. Giffen, J.F. Dorgan, T.J. Hartman, J.C. Barrett, S.D. Hursting and P.R. Taylor (2005). "Effects of Alcohol on Insulin-Like Growth Factor I and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 in Postmenopausal Women." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 81(2):503-507.
Lee, B.A. and C.J. Schreck (2005). "Danger on the Streets: Marginality and Victimization Among Homeless People." American Behavioral Scientist 48(8):1055-1081.
Lee, B.A. and C.R. Farrell (2005). "The Sheltered Homeless in Metropolitan Neighborhoods: Evidence from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses." In Berube, A., B. Katz and R.E. Lang (Eds.), Redefining Urban and Suburban America, Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. (pp. 285-309)
Lindsay, B.G., D.R. Cox and S.P. Ellner (2004). "Statistical Distances as Loss Functions in Assessing Model Adequacy." In Taper, M.L. and S.R. Lele, The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lindsay, B.G., J. Kettenring and D.O. Siegmund (2004). "A Report on the Future of Statistics." Statistical Science 19(3):387-413.
Mansfield, P.K. and M.L. Stubbs (2004). "Tracking the Course of Menstrual Life: Contributions from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research." Women's Health Issues 14(6):174-176.
Mansfield, P.K., A.M. Voda and G. Allison (2004). "Validating a Pencil-and-Paper Measure of Perimenopausal Menstrual Blood Loss." Women's Health Issues 14(6):242-247.
Mansfield, P.K., M. Carey, A. Anderson, S.H. Barsom and P.B. Koch (2004). "Staging the Menopausal Transition: Data from the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health." Women's Health Issues 14(6):220-226.
Mao, C.X. and B.G. Lindsay (2004). "Estimating the Number of Classes in Multiple Populations: A Geometric Analysis." Canadian Journal of Statistics-Revue Canadienne De Statistique 32(3):303-314.
Matchock, R.L., E.J. Susman and F.M. Brown (2004). "Seasonal Rhythms of Menarche in the United States: Correlates to Menarcheal Age, Birth Age, and Birth Month." Women's Health Issues 14(6):184-192.
McDonald, D.A. and D.M. Almeida (2004). "The Interweave of Fathers' Daily Work Experiences and Fathering Behaviors." Fathering 2(3):235-251.
McHale, S.M., L. Shanahan, K.A. Updegraff, A.C. Crouter and A. Booth (2004). "Developmental and Individual Differences in Girls' Sex-Typed Activities in Middle Childhood and Adolescence." Child Development 75(5):1575-1593.
Messner, S.F., S. McHugh and R.B. Felson (2004). "Distinctive Characteristics of Assaults Motivated by Bias." Criminology 42(3):585-618.
Mortimer, J.T. and J.A. Staff (2004). "Early Work as a Source of Developmental Discontinuity during the Transition to Adulthood." Development and Psychopathology 16(4):1047-1070.
Nankhuni, F.J. and J.L. Findeis (2004). "Natural Resource-Collection Work and Children's Schooling in Malawi." Agricultural Economics 31(2-3):123-134.
Oropesa, R.S. and N.S. Landale (2004). "The Future of Marriage and Hispanics." Journal of Marriage and Family 66(4):901-920.
Oropesa, R.S. and N.S. Landale (2005). "Equal Access to Income and Union Dissolution among Mainland Puerto Ricans." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):173-190.
Parra, E.J., C.J. Hoggart, C. Bonilla, S. Dios, J.M. Norris, J.A. Marshall, R.F. Hamman, R.E. Ferrell, P.M. McKeigue and M.D. Shriver (2004). "Relation of Type 2 Diabetes to Individual Admixture and Candidate Gene Polymorphisms in the Hispanic American Population of San Luis Valley, Colorado." Journal of Medical Genetics 41(11):E116-.
Parra, E.J., R.A. Kittles and M.D. Shriver (2004). "Implications of Correlations between Skin Color and Genetic Ancestry for Biomedical Research." Nature Genetics 36(11):S54-S60.
Plutzer, E. and M. Berkman (2005). "The Graying of America and Support for Funding the Nation's Schools." Public Opinion Quarterly 69(1):66-86.
Post, D. (2004). "Family Resources, Gender, and Immigration: Changing Sources of Hong Kong Educational Inequality, 1971-2001." Social Science Quarterly 85(5):1238-1258.
Prescott, C.A., C.B. Caldwell, G. Carey, G.P. Vogler, S.L. Trumbetta and I.I. Gottesman (2005). "The Washington University Twin Study of Alcoholism." American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 134B(1):48-55.
Ruback, R.B. and N. Kohli (2005). "Territoriality at the Magh Mela: The Effects of Organizational Factors and Intruder Characteristics." Environment and Behavior 37(2):178-200.
Ruback, R.B., J. Pandey, H.A. Begum, N. Tariq and A. Kamal (2004). "Motivations for and Satisfaction with Migration: An Analysis of Migrants to New Delhi, Dhaka, and Islamabad." Environment and Behavior 36(6):814-838.
Schoen, R. (2005). "Intrinsically Dynamic Population Models." Demographic Research 12:51-76.
Schoen, R. (2004). "Timing Effects and the Interpretation of Period Fertility." Demography 41(4):801-819.
Serido, J., D.M. Almeida and E. Wethington (2004). "Chronic Stressors and Daily Hassles: Unique and Interactive Relationships with Psychological Distress." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45(1):17-33.
Short, P.F. (2004). "Counting and Characterizing the Uninsured." In McLaughlin, C., Health Policy and the Uninsured. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
Short, P.F., J. Vasey and K. Tunceli (2005). "Employment Pathways in a Large Cohort of Adult Cancer Survivors." Cancer 103(6):1292-1301.
Shriver, M.D., G.C. Kennedy, E.J. Parra, H.A. Lawson, V. Sonpar, J. Huang, J.M. Akey and K.W. Jones (2004). "The Genomic Distribution of Population Substructure in Four Populations Using 8,525 Autosomal SNPs." Human Genomics 1(4):274-286.
Sigfusdottir, I., G. Farkas and E. Silver (2004). "The Role of Depressed Mood and Anger in the Relationship between Family Conflict and Delinquent Behavior." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 33(6):509-522.
Silver, E. and B. Teasdale (2005). "Mental Disorder and Violence: An Examination of Stressful Life Events and Impaired Social Support." Social Problems 52(1):62-78.
Silver, E. and L.L. Miller (2004). "Sources of Informal Social Control in Chicago Neighborhoods." Criminology 42(3):551-583.
Skinner, D., S.A. Matthews and L.M. Burton (2005). "Combining Ethnography and GIS Technology to Examine Constructions of Developmental Opportunities in Contexts of Poverty and Disability." In Weisner, T., Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life. Chicago, IL: MacArthur Foundation: University of Chicago Press.
Sobolewski, J.M. and P.R. Amato (2005). "Economic Hardship in the Family of Origin and Children's Psychological Well-Being in Adulthood." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):141-156.
Staff, J.A., J.T. Mortimer and C. Uggen (2004). "Work and Leisure in Adolescence." In Steinberg, L. and R. Lerner, Handbook of Adolescent Psychology. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Steffensmeier, D. and J. Ulmer (2005). Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise. New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine-Transaction.
Swaminathan, H. and J.L. Findeis (2004). "Policy Intervention and Poverty in Rural America." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(5):1289-1296.
Takyi, B.K. and F.N. Dodoo (2005). "Gender, Lineage, and Fertility-Related Outcomes in Ghana." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):251-257.
Tubbs, C.Y., K.M. Roy and L.M. Burton (2005). "Family Ties: Constructing Family Time in Low-Income Families." Family Process 44(1):77-91.
Wang, H., S. Parry, G. Macones, M.D. Sammel, P.E. Ferrand, H. Kuivaniemi, G. Tromp, I. Halder, M.D. Shriver, R. Romero and J.F. Strauss (2004). "Functionally Significant SNP MMP8 Promoter Haplotypes and Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes (PPROM)." Human Molecular Genetics 13(21):2659-2669.
Wang, J.Z., B.G. Lindsay, J. Leebens-Mack, L. Cui, K. Wall, W.C. Miller and C.W. dePamphilis (2004). "EST Clustering Error Evaluation and Correction." Bioinformatics 20(17):2973-2984.
Weiss, K.M. (2004). "Perfume." Evolutionary Anthropology 13(6):205-210.
Weiss, K.M. (2005). "Cryptic Causation of Human Disease: Reading between the (Germ) Lines." Trends in Genetics 21(2):82-88.
Weiss, K.M. (2005). "The Phenogenetic Logic of Life." Nature Reviews Genetics 6(1):36-45.
Weiss, K.M. and A.V. Buchanan (2005). "'The' Genetic Code?" Evolutionary Anthropology 14(1):6-11.
Whitfield, K.E. (2004). "Behavioral Genetic Studies of Health." In Anderson, N.B. and M. Kemeny, Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior, Volumes 1 and 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Whitfield, K.E. (2004). "Twin Studies and Dementia. Theorizing Sibling Ties in Adulthood: Discussion and Debate." In Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research. Sage.
Whitfield, K.E. and G.E. McClearn (2005). "Genes, Environment, and Race: Quantitative Genetic Approaches." The American Psychologist 60(1):104-114.
Whitfield, K.E. and K.I. Jackson (2004). "Race and SES Differences in the Relationship between Religion and Health." In Schaie, K.W., N. Krause and S.L. Willis, Religion, Health and Well-being. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Whitfield, K.E., J.C. Allaire and S.A. Wiggins (2004). "Relationships among Health Factors and Everyday Problem Solving in African Americans." Health Psychology 23(6):641-644.
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