ISG faculty, Christina Palmer and Janet Sinsheimer, along with ISG associate, Patrick Boudreault, and their colleagues, have published a paper titled “Using a social marketing framework to evaluate recruitment of a prospective study of genetic counseling and testing for the deaf community” in BMC Medical Research Methodology. ABSTRACT: Background Recruiting deaf and hard-of-hearing participants, particularly sign language-users, for genetics health service research…
ISG faculty Dr. Christopher Kelty co-edits the scholarly magazine, LIMN, devoted to outlining contemporary problems. For this issue, featuring ISG faculty Dr. Hannah Landecker, the topic is Sentinel Devices. Description: The polar ice cap rapidly recedes; colonies of honeybees collapse in alarming numbers; androgynous fish are detected in rivers and streams. These reports not only describe recent events, but also function as…
ISG professors Dr. Hannah Landecker and Dr. Aaron Panofsky have published a paper titled “From Social Structure to Gene Regulation, and Back: A Critical Introduction to Environmental Epigenetics for Sociology” in the Annual Review of Sociology. Abstract: Epigenetics is a burgeoning area of biomedical research into the mechanisms by which genes are regulated—how the activity of producing proteins is controlled. Although molecular epigenetic…
ISG faculty Patrick Allard published a paper, “A C. elegans Screening Platform for the Rapid Assessment of Chemical Disruption of Germline Function” scheduled to appear in the June edition of Environmental Health Perspectives. Abstract: Despite the developmental impact of chromosome segregation errors, we lack the tools to assess environmental effects on the integrity of the germline in animals. Here, we report the development of an…
ISG faculty Christina Palmer, Janet Sinsheimer, and Wayne Grody along with ISG associates Michelle Fox and Patrick Boudreault and their colleagues published a paper, “Deaf Genetic Testing and Psychological Well-Being in Deaf Adults” in February’s Journal of Genetic Counseling. Abstract: Limited data suggest that enhanced self-knowledge from genetic information related to non-medical traits can have a positive impact on psychological well-being. Deaf individuals undertake genetic testing for…
ISG Visiting Scholar, Melissa Hines, published the article, “Gonadal Hormone Influences on Human Neurobehavioral Development: Outcomes and Mechanisms” in the book Multiple Origins of Sex Differences in Brain edited by Donald Pfaff and Yves Christen. Abstract: Testosterone exposure during early development has enduring influences on mammalian behavior, increasing male-typical characteristics and decreasing female-typical characteristics. Research in non-human mammals indicates that…