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Overview

Renate Houts is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on areas such as Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Molecular Biology, and General Health Professions. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in the range and depth of their work.

Houts's research topics include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate a sustained focus on longitudinal studies, biological aging, and DNA methylation as biomarkers for health outcomes. Notable recent papers include:

  • Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Comorbidities Across 4 Decades Among Participants in the Dunedin Birth Cohort Study (2020), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm (2020), published in eLife
  • Disparities in the pace of biological aging among midlife adults of the same chronological age have implications for future frailty risk and policy (2021), published in Nature Aging
  • Patterns of Reliability: Assessing the Reproducibility and Integrity of DNA Methylation Measurement (2020), published in Patterns
  • Association of Pace of Aging Measured by Blood-Based DNA Methylation With Age-Related Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (2022), published in Neurology

Houts collaborates extensively with several notable researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Avshalom Caspi
  • Terrie E. Moffitt
  • Richie Poulton
  • Sandhya Ramrakha
  • Karen Sugden

The main venues publishing Houts's work are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Best Publications

  • A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Louise Arseneault;Daniel Belsky;Nigel Dickson

  • The p Factor: One General Psychopathology Factor in the Structure of Psychiatric Disorders?

    Avshalom Caspi;Renate M. Houts;Daniel W. Belsky;Sidra J. Goldman-Mellor

  • Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife

    Madeline H. Meier;Avshalom Caspi;Antony Ambler;Antony Ambler;Hona Lee Harrington

  • Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity from ages 9 to 15 years.

    Philip R. Nader;Robert H. Bradley;Renate M. Houts;Susan L. McRitchie

  • Identifying risk for obesity in early childhood.

    Philip R. Nader;Philip R. Nader;Marion O'Brien;Renate Houts;Robert Bradley

  • Quantification of biological aging in young adults.

    Daniel W. Belsky;Avshalom Caspi;Renate Houts;Harvey J. Cohen

  • The connubial crucible: Newlywed years as predictors of marital delight, distress, and divorce.

    Ted L. Huston;John P. Caughlin;Renate M. Houts;Shanna E. Smith

  • Classroom Effects on Children’s Achievement Trajectories in Elementary School

    Robert C. Pianta;Jay Belsky;Nathan Vandergrift;Renate Houts

  • Is Adult ADHD a Childhood-Onset Neurodevelopmental Disorder? Evidence From a Four-Decade Longitudinal Cohort Study

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Renate Houts;Philip Asherson;Daniel W. Belsky

  • Static and dynamic cognitive deficits in childhood preceding adult schizophrenia: a 30-year study.

    Abraham Reichenberg;Avshalom Caspi;HonaLee Harrington;Renate Houts

  • Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test: The DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm

    Daniel W W Belsky;Avshalom Caspi;Louise Arseneault;Andrea Baccarelli

  • Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Comorbidities Across 4 Decades Among Participants in the Dunedin Birth Cohort Study

    Avshalom Caspi;Renate M. Houts;Antony Ambler;Antony Ambler;Andrea Danese

  • Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age: a longitudinal study

    I. Shalev;Terrie Moffitt;Karen Sugden;Benjamin Williams

  • Advance Directives as Acts of Communication A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Peter Ditto;Joseph Danks;William Smucker;J. Bookwala

  • How does personality matter in marriage? An examination of trait anxiety, interpersonal negativity, and marital satisfaction

    John P. Caughlin;Ted L. Huston;Renate M. Houts

  • Specificity of childhood psychotic symptoms for predicting schizophrenia by 38 years of age: a birth cohort study

    H.L. Fisher;A. Caspi;R. Poulton;M.H. Meier

  • Opportunities to Learn in America's Elementary Classrooms

    Robert C. Pianta;Jay Belsky;Renate Houts;Fred Morrison

  • Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study

    Helen L Fisher;Terrie E Moffitt;Renate M Houts;Daniel W Belsky

  • A longitudinal study of epigenetic variation in twins

    Chloe Chung Yi Wong;Avshalom Caspi;Benjamin Williams;Ian W. Craig

  • Family rearing antecedents of pubertal timing.

    Jay Belsky;Laurence D. Steinberg;Renate M. Houts;Sarah L. Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Louise Arseneault
Louise Arseneault King's College London
Andrea Danese
Andrea Danese King's College London
Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University
Robert H. Bradley
Robert H. Bradley Arizona State University
Sarah L. Friedman
Sarah L. Friedman George Washington University
Jonathan Mill
Jonathan Mill University of Exeter
Robert C. Pianta
Robert C. Pianta University of Virginia

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