Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative longitudinal study of persons over age 50, this project will use genetic data and state-of-the art analytic methods to investigate the relationship between genes, early and midlife socioeconomic status, and episodic memory. Understanding the underlying genetic and gene-environment interactions associated with age-related memory decline may help to reveal the mechanisms of disease, and may also provide targets for potential intervention, treatment, and prevention.
Funding:
Health and Human Services, Department of-National Institutes of Health
Funding Period:
09/30/2014 to 05/31/2017