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Overview

Brett C. Haberstick is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans topics primarily related to health, genetics, and adolescent development. The scientist has contributed to studies in genetics and clinical psychology, with a focus on child and adolescent health and psychosocial development.

Their recent work includes publications centered on genetic influences, behavioral health, and epidemiological data analyses. Key papers authored or co-authored by Brett C. Haberstick include:

  • Genetic Sensitivity to Peer Behaviors: 5HTTLPR, Smoking, and Alcohol Consumption (2021), published in UNC Libraries
  • Is the Gene-Environment Interaction Paradigm Relevant to Genome-Wide Studies? The Case of Education and Body Mass Index (2020), published in UNC Libraries
  • The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Sibling Pairs Data (2020), published in UNC Libraries
  • Population Frequencies of the Triallelic 5HTTLPR in Six Ethnically Diverse Samples from North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa (2020), published in UNC Libraries
  • Genetic Heterogeneity in Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms in Response to Victimization (2020), published in UNC Libraries

Their work frequently appears in the venue UNC Libraries, with a total of eleven publications, and they also have contributions in the Journal of Translational Genetics and Genomics.

Brett C. Haberstick has collaborated with several researchers, often co-authoring papers with:

  • Andrew Smolen (11 co-authored works)
  • Kathleen Mullan Harris (8 co-authored works)
  • Jason D. Boardman (6 co-authored works)
  • Carolyn Tucker Halpern (4 co-authored works)
  • Redford B. Williams (3 co-authored works)

The scientist's research interests fall under multiple subfields including general health professions, health, clinical psychology, genetics, and toxicology/mutagenesis. Key topics in their body of work cover:

  • Child and adolescent health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Nutrition, genetics, and disease
  • Food security and health in diverse populations
  • Health, environment, cognitive aging
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Best Publications

  • Behavioral disinhibition: liability for externalizing spectrum disorders and its genetic and environmental relation to response inhibition across adolescence.

    Susan E. Young;Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Erik G. Willcutt

  • Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) and antisocial behaviors in the presence of childhood and adolescent maltreatment.

    Brett C. Haberstick;Jeffrey M. Lessem;Christian J. Hopfer;Andrew Smolen

  • Greater Attention Problems During Childhood Predict Poorer Executive Functioning in Late Adolescence

    Naomi P. Friedman;Brett C. Haberstick;Erik G. Willcutt;Akira Miyake

  • Childhood Maltreatment, Subsequent Antisocial Behavior, and the Role of Monoamine Oxidase A Genotype

    David Huizinga;Brett C. Haberstick;Andrew Smolen;Scott Menard

  • Interaction between MAO-A genotype and maltreatment in the risk for conduct disorder: failure to confirm in adolescent patients

    Susan E Young;Andrew Smolen;John K Hewitt;Brett C Haberstick

  • The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) twin data.

    Kathleen Mullan Harris;Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Andrew Smolen;Brett C. Haberstick

  • Prevalence and correlates of alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the United States: Results from the national longitudinal study of adolescent health

    Brett C. Haberstick;Susan E. Young;Joanna S. Zeiger;Jeffrey M. Lessem

  • Progression from marijuana use to daily smoking and nicotine dependence in a national sample of U.S. adolescents

    David S. Timberlake;Brett C. Haberstick;Christian J. Hopfer;Josh Bricker

  • Relationship between Adolescent Marijuana Use and Young Adult Illicit Drug Use

    Jeffrey M. Lessem;Christian J. Hopfer;Brett C. Haberstick;David Timberlake

  • Colorado Twin Registry.

    Sally-Ann Rhea;Andy A. Gross;Brett C. Haberstick;Robin P. Corley

  • College attendance and its effect on drinking behaviors in a longitudinal study of adolescents.

    David S. Timberlake;David S. Timberlake;Christian J. Hopfer;Soo Hyun Rhee;Naomi P. Friedman

  • Family-based association test of the 5HTTLPR and aggressive behavior in a general population sample of children.

    Brett C. Haberstick;Andrew Smolen;John K. Hewitt

  • The moderating effects of religiosity on the genetic and environmental determinants of smoking initiation.

    David S. Timberlake;Soo Hyun Rhee;Brett C. Haberstick;Christian Hopfer

  • The neuronal nicotinic receptor subunit genes (CHRNA6 and CHRNB3) are associated with subjective responses to tobacco

    Joanna S. Zeiger;Brett C. Haberstick;Isabel Schlaepfer;Allan C. Collins

  • Genetic influences on quantity of alcohol consumed by adolescents and young adults.

    Christian J. Hopfer;David Timberlake;Brett Haberstick;Jeffrey M. Lessem

  • MAOA Genotype, Childhood Maltreatment, and Their Interaction in the Etiology of Adult Antisocial Behaviors

    Brett C. Haberstick;Jeffrey M. Lessem;John K. Hewitt;Andrew Smolen

  • Contributions of genes and environments to stability and change in externalizing and internalizing problems during elementary and middle school.

    Brett C. Haberstick;Stephanie Schmitz;Susan E. Young;John K. Hewitt

  • Colorado Twin Registry: an update.

    Sally-Ann Rhea;Andy A. Gross;Brett C. Haberstick;Robin P. Corley

  • Genes, time to first cigarette and nicotine dependence in a general population sample of young adults.

    Brett C. Haberstick;David Timberlake;Marissa A. Ehringer;Jeffrey M. Lessem

  • The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) sibling pairs data.

    Kathleen Mullan Harris;Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Brett C. Haberstick;Andrew Smolen

  • Dopamine in the Brain: Hypothesizing Surfeit or Deficit Links to Reward and Addiction.

    Kenneth Blum;Peter K Thanos;Marlene Oscar-Berman;Marcelo Febo

  • Depression, Stressful Life Events, and the Impact of Variation in the Serotonin Transporter: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)

    Brett C. Haberstick;Jason D. Boardman;Brandon Wagner;Andrew Smolen

Frequent Co-Authors

John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Soo Hyun Rhee
Soo Hyun Rhee University of Colorado Boulder
Michael C. Stallings
Michael C. Stallings University of Colorado Boulder
Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Carolyn Tucker Halpern University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ilene C. Siegler
Ilene C. Siegler Duke University
Redford B. Williams
Redford B. Williams Duke University
Rand D. Conger
Rand D. Conger University of California, Davis
Vangie A. Foshee
Vangie A. Foshee University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University

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