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Boardman, Jason D

Professor

Positions

Professor, Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS)
Faculty Director, Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS)
Professor, Sociology

Research Areas

Research

research overview

My work attempts to build inroads between social epidemiology and genetic epidemiology. I am interested in the social structures that limit or enable genetic factors to influence health related behaviors. I am primarily interested in normative and institutional factors that clarify the extent to which genes may be influencing health and health behaviors.

keywords

Social and genetic epidemiology

Publications

selected publications

chapter
- The Oxford Handbook of Integrative Health Science 2018
- Weight identity among older adults in the United States: Genetic and environmental influences 2018
- Gene–Environment Interplay. 825-833. 2015
- Is gene-environment interplay relevant to the study of political behaviors and attitudes?. 185-206. 2011
- Genetics and behavior in the life course: A promising frontier. 215-235. 2009
- Genetic influences in early life 2008
conference proceeding
- Investigating heterogenous genetic effects contributing to smoking behavior using the UK Biobank. Behavior Genetics. 454-455. 2020
- Diabetes and cognitive aging: the role of social and genetic predictors. Behavior Genetics. 504-504. 2019
- Polygenic associations with mathematics coursetaking in US high schools. Behavior Genetics. 526-527. 2019
- The changing influence of education and genetics on the choice to continue smoking in the United States. Behavior Genetics. 692-693. 2015
journal article
- Local crime and substance use disorders: A comparison of midlife adults in the 1990s and 2000s. SSM: Population Health. 101719-101719. 2024
- Pathways between a polygenic index for education and years of completed schooling: the presentation of self and assessment of others. Biodemography and Social Biology. 102-109. 2024
- Parental imprisonment, delinquent behavior, and BMI gain in a US nationally representative cohort study of adolescents and adults ages 12-32. SSM: Population Health. 2023
- Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders 2023
- Cognition and Diabetes: Examining Sex Differences Using a Longitudinal Sample of Older Adults. Research on Aging. 161-172. 2023
- Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use. Nature. 720-+. 2022
- Does crime trigger genetic risk for type 2 diabetes in young adults? A G x E interaction study using national data. Social Science and Medicine. 2022
- Exploring Rural-Urban Differences in Polygenic Associations for Health among Older Adults in the United States.. Journal of Rural Social Sciences. 2022
- Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour. 1717-+. 2021
- Genome-wide stress sensitivity moderates the stress-depression relationship in a nationally representative sample of adults. Scientific Reports. 2021
- Evaluating the Continued Integration of Genetics into Medical Sociology. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 404-418. 2021
- Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites. Social Science and Medicine. 2021
- Utilizing genome wide data to highlight the social behavioral pathways to health: The case of obesity and cardiovascular health among older adults. Social Science and Medicine. 2021
- Mortality and Obesity Among US Older Adults: The Role of Polygenic Risk. Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 343-347. 2021
- Genes Related to Education Predict Frailty Among Older Adults in the United States. Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 173-183. 2021
- Hearing Impairment, Household Composition, Marital Status, and Mortality Among US Adults. Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 201-208. 2021
- Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies. Addiction Biology. 2021
- A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder. The Lancet Psychiatry. 1032-1045. 2020
- Genetic associations with mathematics tracking and persistence in secondary school. npj Science of Learning. 2020
- Individual and Social Genomic Contributions to Educational and Neighborhood Attainments: Geography, Selection, and Stratification in the United States. Sociological Science. 580-608. 2019
- Diabetes and cognitive aging: The role of social and genetic predictors. Behavior Genetics. 2019
- Polygenic associations with mathematics coursetaking in US high schools. Behavior Genetics. 526-527. 2019
- Implications of gendered behaviour and contexts for social mobility in the USA: a nationally representative observational study. The Lancet Planetary Health. E420-E428. 2019
- Association of Adolescent Sport Participation With Cognition and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adulthood. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine. 2019
- A mutation associated with stress resistance in mice is associated with human grip strength and mortality. Biodemography and Social Biology. 245-256. 2019
- Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness (vol 59, pg 342, 2014). Journal of Human Genetics. 597-598. 2019
- Differential vulnerability to neighbourhood disorder: a genexenvironment interaction study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 388-392. 2019
- Evidence of causal effect of major depression on alcohol dependence: findings from the psychiatric genomics consortium. Psychological Medicine. 1218-1226. 2019
- Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use. Nature Genetics. 237-+. 2019
- Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences. Nature Genetics. 245-+. 2019
- Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and cardiometabolic risk: a gene x environment study. Biodemography and Social Biology. 1-15. 2019
- Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders. Nature Neuroscience. 1656-+. 2018
- Provider bias as a function of patient genotype: polygenic score analysis among diabetics from the Health and Retirement Study. Obesity Science & Practice. 448-454. 2018
- Schools as Moderators of Genetic Associations with Life Course Attainments: Evidence from the WLS and Add Heath. Sociological Science. 513-540. 2018
- Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects. American Sociological Review. 802-832. 2018
- Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States. Demography. 1245-1267. 2018
- Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. Nature Genetics. 1112-+. 2018
- Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. E7275-E7284. 2018
- A sibling method for identifying vQTLs. PLoS ONE. 2018
- Geographic Clustering of Polygenic Scores at Different Stages of the Life Course. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 137-149. 2018
- Body size reference norms and subjective weight status: A gender and life course approach. Social Forces. 1377-1409. 2018
- The social genome of friends and schoolmates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 702-707. 2018
- Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and cardiometabolic risk: a gene x environment study. Biodemography and Social Biology. 173-186. 2018
- Racial disparities in health conditions among prisoners compared with the general population. SSM: Population Health. 487-496. 2017
- Parenting and adolescents' psychological adjustment: Longitudinal moderation by adolescents' genetic sensitivity. Development and Psychopathology. 1289-1304. 2017
- Family-based association analysis identifies variance-controlling loci without confounding by genotype-environment correlations 2017
- Mortality selection in a genetic sample and implications for association studies. International Journal of Epidemiology. 1285-1294. 2017
- The Social Genome of Friends and Schoolmates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health 2017
- Gender and genetic contributions to weight identity among adolescents and young adults in the US. Social Science and Medicine. 99-107. 2016
- Growing Old Behind Bars: Health Profiles of the Older Male Inmate Population in the United States. Journal of Aging and Health. 935-956. 2016
- The relationship between education and health among incarcerated men and women in the United States. BMC Public Health. 2016
- THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE MAOA 2R GENOTYPE AND DELINQUENCY OVER TIME AMONG MEN The Interactive Role of Parental Closeness and Parental Incarceration. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 1076-1094. 2016
- Changing Polygenic Penetrance on Phenotypes in the 20th Century Among Adults in the US Population. Scientific Reports. 2016
- Parental and adolescent health behaviors and pathways to adulthood. Social Science Research. 227-242. 2016
- Assortative mating and differential fertility by phenotype and genotype across the 20th century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 6647-6652. 2016
- 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). PLoS ONE. 2016
- Genome-Wide Estimates of Heritability for Social Demographic Outcomes. Biodemography and Social Biology. 1-18. 2016
- Cohort Effects in the Genetic Influence on Smoking. Behavior Genetics. 31-42. 2016
- Growing old behind bars: Health profiles of the older male inmate population in the United States. Journal of Aging and Health. 935-956. 2016
- The association between the MAOA 2R genotype and delinquency over time among men: The interactive role of parental closeness and parental incarceration. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 1076-1094. 2016
- Breastfeeding is associated with waist-to-height ratio in young adults. BMC Public Health. 2015
- Life events, genetic susceptibility, and smoking among adolescents. Social Science Research. 221-232. 2015
- Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment: New Evidence From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. AERA Open. 2015
- Postmortem Presence of Drugs and Method of Violent Suicide. Journal of Drug Issues. 249-262. 2015
- Drinking problems and mortality risk in the United States. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 38-46. 2015
- Prevention, Use of Health Services, and Genes: Implications of Genetics for Policy Formation. Journal of policy analysis and management. 519-U228. 2015
- Special Section on Policy Analysis and Genetics. Journal of policy analysis and management. 493-496. 2015
- The Sequencing of a College Degree during the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for Obesity. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 281-295. 2015
- Gendered Contexts: Variation in Suicidal Ideation by Female and Male Youth across US States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 114-130. 2015
- Population Frequencies of the Triallelic 5HTTLPR in Six Ethnicially Diverse Samples from North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Behavior Genetics. 255-261. 2015
- To cause or not to cause? That is the question, but identical twins might not have all of the answers. Social Science and Medicine. 198-200. 2015
- What can genes tell us about the relationship between education and health?. Social Science and Medicine. 171-180. 2015
- Is the Effect of Parental Education on Offspring Biased or Moderated by Genotype?. Sociological Science. 82-105. 2015
- The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) Sibling Pairs Genome-Wide Data. Behavior Genetics. 12-23. 2015
- The interactive effect of neighborhood peer cigarette use and 5HTTLPR genotype on individual cigarette use. Addictive Behaviors. 1804-1810. 2014
- Replicability and Robustness of Genome-Wide-Association Studies for Behavioral Traits. Psychological Science. 1975-1986. 2014
- Reply to Abdellaoui et al.: Interpreting GAM. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. E4138-E4138. 2014
- Norms as Group-Level Constructs: Investigating School-Level Teen Pregnancy Norms and Behaviors. Social Forces. 241-267. 2014
- Polygenic Risk Predicts Obesity in Both White and Black Young Adults. PLoS ONE. 2014
- The Long Arm of Adolescence: School Health Behavioral Environments, Tobacco and Alcohol Co-Use, and the 5HTTLPR Gene. Biodemography and Social Biology. 117-136. 2014
- Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 7996-8000. 2014
- Genes in the Dopaminergic System and Delinquent Behaviors Across the Life Course The Role of Social Controls and Risks. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 713-731. 2014
- Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness. Journal of Human Genetics. 342-345. 2014
- Understanding multiple levels of norms about teen pregnancy and their relationships to teens' sexual behaviors. ADVANCES IN LIFE COURSE RESEARCH. 1-15. 2014
- Is the Gene-Environment Interaction Paradigm Relevant to Genome-Wide Studies? The Case of Education and Body Mass Index. Demography. 119-139. 2014
- Genes in the dopaminergic system and delinquent behaviors across the life course: The role of social controls and risks. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 713-731. 2014
- MAOA Genotype, Childhood Maltreatment, and Their Interaction in the Etiology of Adult Antisocial Behaviors. Biological Psychiatry. 25-30. 2014
- Defining the Environment in Gene-Environment Research: Lessons From Social Epidemiology. American Journal of Public Health. 64-72. 2013
- Gender differences in the presence of drugs in violent deaths. Addiction. 547-555. 2013
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BREASTFEEDING DURATION AND WAIST-HEIGHT RATIO IN ADULTHOOD. American Journal of Epidemiology. S8-S8. 2013
- Gender differences in the presence of drugs in violent deaths (vol 108, pg 547, 2013). Addiction. 1176-1176. 2013
- Changing patterns of tobacco and alcohol co-use by gender in the United States, 1976-2010. Demographic Research. 637-648. 2013
- Gender differences in the presence of drugs in violent deaths. Addiction. 547-555. 2013
- Genetic Sensitivity to Peer Behaviors: 5HTTLPR, Smoking, and Alcohol Consumption. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 92-108. 2013
- Racial Threat and White Opposition to Bilingual Education in Texas. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 85-102. 2013
- Increasing Use of Nonmedical Analgesics Among Younger Cohorts in the United States: A Birth Cohort Effect. Journal of Adolescent Health. 35-41. 2013
- Integrating Work from Genetics and the Social Sciences: An Introduction. Biodemography and Social Biology. 1-3. 2013
- How social and genetic factors predict friendship networks (vol 109, pg 17377, 2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 21553-21553. 2012
- SOCIAL DISORDER, APOE-E4 GENOTYPE, AND CHANGE IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION AMONG OLDER ADULTS. The Gerontologist. 414-414. 2012
- How social and genetic factors predict friendship networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 17377-17381. 2012
- A life course model of self-rated health through adolescence and young adulthood. Social Science and Medicine. 1311-1320. 2012
- The association between parent's health and the educational attainment of their children. Social Science and Medicine. 932-939. 2012
- Gene-environment interactions related to body mass: School policies and social context as environmental moderators. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 370-388. 2012
- Social disorder, APOE-E4 genotype, and change in cognitive function among older adults. American Journal of Epidemiology. S1-S1. 2012
- Social disorder, APOE-E4 genotype, and change in cognitive function among older adults living in Chicago. Social Science and Medicine. 1584-1590. 2012
- Parental Incarceration and Gender-based Risks for Increased Body Mass Index: Evidence From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology. 636-644. 2012
- Population Composition, Public Policy, and the Genetics of Smoking. Demography. 1517-1533. 2011
- Gene-Environment Interplay in Common Complex Diseases: Forging an Integrative Model-Recommendations From an NIH Workshop. Genetic Epidemiology. 217-225. 2011
- Stress trajectories, health behaviors, and the mental health of black and white young adults. Social Science and Medicine. 1659-1666. 2011
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences. Biodemography and Social Biology. 1-2. 2011
- Stressful Life Events and Depression among Adolescent Twin Pairs. Biodemography and Social Biology. 53-66. 2011
- Using trajectory analyses to refine phenotype for genetic association: conduct problems and the serotonin transporter (5HTTLPR). Psychiatric Genetics. 199-206. 2010
- Stable Genes and Changing Environments: Body Mass Index Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Behavior Genetics. 495-504. 2010
- Trends in the Genetic Influences on Smoking. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 108-123. 2010
- Ethnicity, Body Mass, and Genome-Wide Data. Biodemography and Social Biology. 123-136. 2010
- US religious congregations and the sponsorship of health-related programs. Social Science and Medicine. 2231-2239. 2009
- State-Level Moderation of Genetic Tendencies to Smoke. American Journal of Public Health. 480-486. 2009
- Perceived peer delinquency and the genetic predisposition for substance dependence vulnerability. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 1-8. 2009
- Proximate industrial activity and psychological distress. Population and Environment. 3-25. 2008
- Do schools moderate the genetic determinants of smoking?. Behavior Genetics. 234-246. 2008
- Sex differences in the heritability of resilience. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 12-27. 2008
- Weight overestimation as an indicator of disordered eating behaviors among young women in the United States. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 441-445. 2007
- Population growth in high-amenity rural areas: Does it bring socioeconomic benefits for long-term residents?. Social Science Quarterly. 366-381. 2007
- Self-rated health among US adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health. 401-408. 2006
- The association between natural amenities, rural population growth, and long-term residents' economic well-being. Rural Sociology. 452-469. 2005
- Race differentials in obesity: The impact of place. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 229-243. 2005
- Neighborhoods and adolescent development. 138-164. 2005
- Health pessimism among black and white adults: the role of interpersonal and institutional maltreatment. Social Science and Medicine. 2523-2533. 2004
- Race/ethnic and sex differentials in body mass among us adults. Ethnicity and Disease. 389-398. 2004
- Stress and physical health: the role of neighborhoods as mediating and moderating mechanisms. Social Science and Medicine. 2473-2483. 2004
- Body mass, smoking, and overall and cause-specific mortality among older US adults. Research on Aging. 82-107. 2004
- Low birth weight, social factors, and developmental outcomes among children in the United States. Demography. 353-368. 2002
- Low birth weight, social factors, and developmental outcomes among children in the United States. Demography. 353-368. 2002
- Is the Mexican American "epidemiologic paradox" advantage at birth maintained through early childhood?. Social Forces. 1101-1123. 2002
- Spatial mismatch and race differentials in male joblessness: Cleveland and Milwaukee, 1990. Sociological Quarterly. 237-255. 2002
- Church-based social support and religious coping. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 637-656. 2001
- Religious involvement, stress, and mental health: Findings from the 1995 Detroit Area Study. Social Forces. 215-249. 2001
- Neighborhood disadvantage, stress, and drug use among adults. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 151-165. 2001
- Race/ethnic differences in respiratory problems among a nationally-representative cohort of young children in the United States. Population Research and Policy Review. 187-206. 2001
- Contextual effects of acculturation on perinatal substance exposure among immigrant and native-born Latinas. Social Science Quarterly. 421-438. 2000
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status and perceptions of self-efficacy. Sociological Perspectives. 117-136. 2000

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin 2002
M.A., University of Texas at Austin 1998
B.A., University of California-Berkeley 1992

awards and honors

BFA Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2024
Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement, conferred by Population Association of America, 2020
Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured Faculty, conferred by Academic Affairs, 2012
PAA Early Achievement Award, conferred by Population Association of America, 2012
Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Pre-Tenure Faculty, conferred by Academic Affairs, 2007

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ORCID iD

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ResearchGate

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