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Erin Bakshis Ware

Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Ware has a doctoral degree in epidemiology and master’s degrees in statistics and public health. Dr. Ware’s work for has been focused on health disparities in psychiatric epidemiology and high throughput statistical analysis of genomic data and its relationship to outcomes that show marked disparities across race/ethnic groups, socioeconomic groups and sexes. She also has experience in exploring the relationships among genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenetic data and their interactions with behavioral and socioeconomic risk factors as determinants of chronic disease phenotypes that disproportionately affect minorities using cutting-edge computational methods. She is currently a research assistant professor in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group in the Survey Research Center integrating biological and social data on a large scale. She has worked and published on the Health and Retirement Study, the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy, and the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members. She teaches statistics, statistical programming, and epidemiology and is particularly skilled at relaying complex computational, statistical and genetic concepts to social scientists and lay persons.
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- Tejera, César Higgins , Erin Bakshis Ware, Kobayashi,Lindsay, Fu,Mingzhou, Margaret Takako Hicken, Zawistowski, Matthew, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Bakulski, Kelly M.. 2023. Decomposing interaction and mediating effects of race/ethnicity and circulating blood levels of cystatin C on cognitive status in the United States health and retirement study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 17
- Allison Reiner, Kelly M. Bakulski, Fisher,Jonah, John F Dou, Lisa Schneper, Colter Mitchell, Daniel A. Notterman, Matthew Zawistowski, Erin Bakshis Ware. 2023. Sex-specific DNA methylation in saliva from the multi-ethnic Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Epigenetics 18(1)
- Birditt,Kira S, Turkelson,Angela Elizabeth, Polenick, Courtney A, Cranford, James A, Smith,Jennifer Ann, Erin Bakshis Ware, Blow, Frederic C. 2023. Alcohol Use and Mortality among Older Couples in the United States: Evidence of Individual and Partner Effects. The Gerontologist
- Anna R. Docherty, ..., Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2023. GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors. American Journal of Psychiatry 180(10):723-738.
- Lauren Y. M. Middleton, John Dou, Jonah Fisher, Jonathan A. Heiss, Vy K. Nguyen, Allan C. Just, Faul,Jessica Danielle, Erin Ware, Colter Mitchell, Justin A. Colacino, Kelly M. Bakulski. 2022. Saliva cell type DNA methylation reference panel for epidemiological studies in children. Epigenetics 17(2):161-177.
- Kolli, Ajay, Zhou, Yunshu, Chung, Grace, Erin Bakshis Ware, Langa,Kenneth M, Josh Ehrlich. 2022. Interactions between the apolipoprotein E4 gene and modifiable risk factors for cognitive impairment: a nationally representative panel study. BMC Geriatrics 22:938.
- Niamh Mullins, ..., Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2022. Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors. Biological Psychiatry 91(3):313-327.
- Freida A. Blostein, Fisher,Jonah, John Dou, Lisa Schneper, Erin Bakshis Ware, Daniel A. Notterman, Colter Mitchell, Kelly M. Bakulski. 2022. Polymethylation scores for prenatal maternal smoke exposure persist until age 15 and are detected in saliva in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing cohort. Epigenetics 17(13):2223-2240.
- Kelly M. Bakulski, Vadari,Harita Shree, Faul,Jessica Danielle, Heeringa,Steven G, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Langa,Kenneth M, Smith,Jennifer Ann, Jennifer J. Manly, Colter Mitchell, Kelly S. Benke, Erin Ware. 2021. Cumulative Genetic Risk and APOE ε4 Are Independently Associated With Dementia Status in a Multiethnic, Population-Based Cohort. Neurology Genetics 7(2):e576.
- Gard, Arianna Morgan, Erin Ware, Luke Hyde, Schmitz,Lauren Lucia, Faul,Jessica Danielle, Colter Mitchell. 2021. Phenotypic and genetic markers of psychopathology in a population-based sample of older adults. Translational Psychiatry 11:239.