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MESA SHARE Working Group on Psychosocial Factors and Gene-Environment Interactions Involving Social and Physical Environments

Principal Investigator

Ana Diez-Roux 

Co-Principal Investigator

Yan Sun 

Co-Investigators

Sharon Kardia, Kristin Tomey, Teresa Seeman 

Status

Current

About this Project

This working group collaborates with the MESA SHARE project to conduct research on genetic predictors of psychosocial factors and to investigate the presence of gene-by environment interactions involving social and psychosocial factors as well as various features of physical and social environments. Current projects include genetic predictors of psychsocial factors as well as investigations of interactions between neighborhood factors, socioeconomic position, and genes for cardiovascular risk factors.