
Jennifer Ann Smith
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BIO
Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology, M.P.H. in Health Management and Policy, and M.A. in Statistics from the University of Michigan. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and is affiliated with the Center for Integrated Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD), the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA), and the Center for Midlife Science. Her research focuses on the “omic” epidemiology of chronic diseases and their risk factors. She is particularly interested in the impact of social and psychosocial factors on the genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic profiles underlying risk of dementia and cognitive decline.
- Wei Zhao, Lisha Lin, Kristen M. Kelly, Lauren A. Opsasnick, Belinda Needham, Yongmei Liu, Srijan Sen, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Epigenome-wide association study of perceived discrimination in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Epigenetics 20(1)
- Chaar, Dima L., Tu, Le , Moore, Kari, Du, Jiacong , Opsasnick, Lauren A, Ratliff, Scott M, Mosley, Thomas H, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Wei Zhao, Zhou, Xiang, Diez Roux, Ana V, Faruque, Fazlay S, Butler, Kenneth R, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Neighborhood environment associations with cognitive function and structural brain measures in older African Americans. BMC Medicine 23(1):1-20.
- Kira S Birditt, Angela Elizabeth Turkelson, Polenick, Courtney A, Cranford, James A, Jennifer Ann Smith, Erin Bakshis Ware, Blow, Frederic C. 2024. Alcohol Use and Mortality among Older Couples in the United States: Evidence of Individual and Partner Effects. The Gerontologist 64(2)
- Gao, Tao, Zheng, Yinan, Joyce, Brian T, Kho, Minjung, Terry, James G, Wang, Jun, Nannini, Drew, Carr, John Jeffrey, Nair, Sangeeta, Zhang, Kai, Wei Zhao, Jacobs, David R, Schreiner, Pamela J, Greenland, Philip, Lloyd-Jones, Donald, Jennifer Ann Smith, Hou, Lifang. 2024. Epigenetic Aging is Associated with Measures of Midlife Muscle Volume and Attenuation in CARDIA Study. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(3):glad261.
- Hao Mei, ..., Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2024. Multi-omics and pathway analyses of genome-wide associations implicate regulation and immunity in verbal declarative memory performance. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 16(14)
- Suzuki, Ken, ..., Jennifer Ann Smith, et al.. 2024. Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology. Nature 627(8003):347-357.
- Lauren A. Opsasnick, Wei Zhao, Lauren L. Schmitz, Scott M. Ratliff, Jessica Danielle Faul, Xiang Zhou, Belinda L. Needham, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2024. Epigenome-wide association study of long-term psychosocial stress in older adults. Epigenetics 19(1)
- Jessica I. Lundin, ..., Farah Ammous, Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2024. Methylation patterns associated with C-reactive protein in racially and ethnically diverse populations. Epigenetics 19(1)
- Lindsay A. Gallagher, Charles F. Schuler, Jonathan P. Troost, Ian F. Slack, Georgiana M. Sanders, James R. Baker, Jennifer Ann Smith, Kelly M. O'Shea. 2024. Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities Exist in Patients Pursuing Peanut Oral Immunotherapy. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice 12(8):P2102-2108.
- Hrytsenko, Yana, ..., Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2024. Machine learning models for predicting blood pressure phenotypes by combining multiple polygenic risk scores. Scientific Reports 14(1):1-17.