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Understanding how the environment and genetics contribute to the link between personality and metabolic health
New research is furthering our understanding of how individual personality traits in midlife, influenced by both genetics and environmental factors, are linked to metabolic health outcomes in late-life, such as BMI, waist circumference, cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood sugar levels.
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Xiao Dong
Dr. Xiao Dong’s research focuses on developing novel sequencing technologies to analyze mutations and epimutations in normal, noncancerous cells, and applying the technologies to understand how this impacts aging. Dr. Dong has contributed to the development of experimental and computational methods in single-cell whole-genome sequencing and bisulfite sequencing.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the University of Minnesota Life Course Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging (P30AG066613), funded through a grant from the National Institute on Aging.
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Grant number P30AG066613