Jennifer Ann Smith
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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.
- Li, Xihao, ..., Jennifer Ann Smith, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2025. A statistical framework for multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies. Nature Computational Science
- Lisha Lin, Wei Zhao, Zheng Li, Scott M. Ratliff, Yi Zhe Wang, Colter Mitchell, Jessica Danielle Faul, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Kira S Birditt, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Poly-epigenetic scores for cardiometabolic risk factors interact with demographic factors and health behaviors in older US Adults. Epigenetics
- Roselli, Carolina, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Wei Zhao, Jennifer Ann Smith, Et al.. 2025. Meta-analysis of genome-wide associations and polygenic risk prediction for atrial fibrillation in more than 180,000 cases. Nature Genetics
- Robinette, Jennifer W., Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Accelerated molecular aging in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods: A racial/ethnic comparison. Health & Place 93:103446.
- Shehabaldin Alqalyoobi, Jennifer Ann Smith, Manoj V. Maddali, Janelle Vu Pugashetti, Chad A. Newton, John S. Kim, Angela L Linderholm, Ching-Hsien Chen, Shwu-Fan Ma, Swaraj Bose, Susan Murray, Ayodeji Adegunsoye, Mary E. Strek, Christine Kim Garcia, Paul J Wolters, Fernando J. Martinez, Imre Noth, Justin M. Oldham. 2025. Proteomic Biomarkers of Survival in Non-IPF Interstitial Lung Disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas, ..., Wei Zhao, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, et al.. 2025. Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals. Nature
- Yao Hu, ..., Jennifer Ann Smith, et al.. 2025. Methylome-wide association analyses of lipids and modifying effects of behavioral factors in diverse race and ethnicity participants. Clinical Epigenetics 17(1):1-10.
- Opsasnick, Lauren A., Wei Zhao, Schmitz, Lauren L., Ratliff, Scott M., Jessica Danielle Faul, Zhou, Xiang, Belinda Needham, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Depressive symptoms partially mediate the relationship between psychosocial factors and epigenetic age acceleration in a multi-racial/ethnic sample of older adults. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 45:100994.