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80
Citations
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World Ranking
371
National Ranking
175

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Kathleen Mullan Harris is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research work spans multiple intersecting domains, focusing extensively on health disparities, genetics, and sociological factors influencing health outcomes.

The scientist has contributed to the fields of genetics, health, sociology and political science, general health professions, and public health, environmental, and occupational health. These subfields inform a broad, interdisciplinary approach to understanding human development and health.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Birth, development, and health
  • Obesity, physical activity, diet
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Health, environment, cognitive aging
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development

They have published extensively, with frequent publication venues including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • JAMA Network Open

Prominent recent papers by Kathleen Mullan Harris include:

  • Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals, 2020, Science
  • Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use, 2022, Nature
  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Investigating the genetic architecture of noncognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction, 2021, Nature Genetics

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Allison E. Aiello
  • Lauren Gaydosh
  • Daniel W. Belsky
  • Jason D. Boardman
  • Carolyn Tucker Halpern

Their work intersects broadly across health, genetics, and social sciences, blending epidemiological methods with genetic analysis to explore complex health outcomes and development processes.

Kathleen Mullan Harris has been recognized by election to several prestigious organizations, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014

Best Publications

  • Protecting adolescents from harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health.

    Michael D Resnick;Peter S. Bearman;Robert Wm Blum;Karl E. Bauman

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • The Mechanisms Mediating the Effects of Poverty on Children's Intellectual Development *

    Guang Guo;Kathleen Mullan Harris

  • Acculturation and overweight-related behaviors among Hispanic immigrants to the US: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

    Penny Gordon-Larsen;Kathleen Mullan Harris;Dianne S Ward;Barry M Popkin

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the human life span

    Yang Claire Yang;Courtney Boen;Karen Gerken;Ting Li

  • Prevalence of chlamydial and gonococcal infections among young adults in the United States.

    William C. Miller;Carol A. Ford;Martina Morris;Mark S. Handcock

  • Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

    Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters;Renato Polimanti;Emma C. Johnson;Jeanette N. McClintick

  • Fathers, sons, and daughters: Differential paternal involvement in parenting.

    Kathleen Mullan Harris;S. Philip Morgan

  • Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals

    Noah Snyder-Mackler;Joseph Robert Burger;Lauren Gaydosh;Daniel W. Belsky

  • Paternal involvement with adolescents in intact families: The influence of fathers over the life course

    Kathleen Mullan Harris;Frank F. Furstenberg;Jeremy K. Marmer

  • Work and welfare among single mothers in poverty

    Kathleen Mullan Harris

  • Life after welfare: Women, work, and repeat dependency

    Kathleen Mullan Harris

  • Longitudinal trends in race/ethnic disparities in leading health indicators from adolescence to young adulthood.

    Kathleen Mullan Harris;Penny G Gordon-Larsen;Kim Chantala;J. Richard Udry

  • Making It in America: High School Completion by Immigrant and Native Youth

    Krista M. Perreira;Kathleen Mullan Harris;Dohoon Lee

  • The Add Health Study: Design and Accomplishments

    Kathleen Mullan Harris

  • Cohort Profile: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)

    Kathleen Mullan Harris;Carolyn Tucker Halpern;Eric A Whitsel;Jon M Hussey

  • Evaluating the Role of “Nothing to Lose” Attitudes on Risky Behavior in Adolescence

    Kathleen Mullan Harris;Greg J. Duncan;Johanne Boisjoly

  • Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot;Yingchang Lu;Yingchang Lu;Heather M Highland;Heather M Highland;Claudia Schurmann

  • What Are We Measuring? An Evaluation of the CES-D Across Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Generation

    Krista M. Perreira;Natalia Deeb-Sossa;Kathleen Mullan Harris;Kenneth A. Bollen

  • Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Nonresident Father Involvement

    Valarie King;Kathleen Mullan Harris;Holly E. Heard

  • Protecting adolescent's from harm

    Michael D Resnick;Peter S. Bearman;Robert Wm Blum;Karl E. Bauman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason D. Boardman
Jason D. Boardman University of Colorado Boulder
Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Carolyn Tucker Halpern University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Daniel W. Belsky
Daniel W. Belsky Columbia University
Tune H. Pers
Tune H. Pers University of Copenhagen
Dalton Conley
Dalton Conley Princeton University
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University
Andrew Smolen
Andrew Smolen University of Colorado Boulder
John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder

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