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Erin Bakshis Ware
Research Associate 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 associate 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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- Murray B. Stein, ..., Erin Bakshis Ware, et al.. 2024. Polygenic risk for suicide attempt is associated with lifetime suicide attempt in US soldiers independent of parental risk. Journal of Affective Disorders 351:671-682.
- Stoldt, Meike, Ammous,Farah, Lin,Lisha, Ratliff, Scott M, Erin Bakshis Ware, Faul,Jessica Danielle, Zhao,Wei, Kardia, Sharon L R, Smith,Jennifer Ann. 2024. DNA Methylation at CRP-Associated CpG Sites May Mediate the Pathway between Educational Attainment and Cognition. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(8):glae159.
- Kyle A. Campbell, Mingzhou Fu, Elizabeth MacDonald, Matthew Zawistowski, Kelly M. Bakulski, Erin Bakshis Ware. 2024. Relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia with Mendelian randomization approaches among older adults in the United States. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 16(2):e12598.
- Higgins Tejera, César, Erin Bakshis Ware, Margaret Takako Hicken, Kobayashi,Lindsay, Wang, Herong, Blostein, Freida, Zawistowski, Matthew, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Bakulski, Kelly M.. 2024. The mediating role of systemic inflammation and moderating role of racialization in disparities in incident dementia. Communications Medicine 4(1):1-14.
- Stoldt, Meike, Ammous,Farah, Lin, Lisha, Ratliff, Scott M, Erin Bakshis Ware, Faul,Jessica Danielle, Zhao,Wei, Kardia, Sharon L R, Smith,Jennifer Ann. 2024. DNA Methylation at C-Reactive Protein-Associated CpG Sites May Mediate the Pathway Between Educational Attainment and Cognition. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(8)
- Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn, Emily Wolfson, Miles Berger, Jacqueline Leung, Erin Bakshis Ware, Andrea Baccarelli, Richard N. Jones, Long H. Ngo, Edward R. Marcantonio, Sharon K. Inouye, Amy J. H. Kind. 2024. Multi‐level social determinants of health, inflammation, and postoperative delirium in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- 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.