David R Weir
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Weir is a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and Director of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). He has led the transformation of the HRS into a world-leading biosocial survey combining its traditional excellence as a longitudinal survey with direct biological measures of health, genetics, linked medical and long-term care records from the Medicare system, and enriched psychological measurement. His research increasingly includes comparative analyses from the international family of HRS studies that now cover more than half the world’s population.
- , ..., Wei Zhao, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, et al.. 2025. Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals. Nature
- Lindsay Kobayashi, Brendan Q. O'Shea, Caroline Wixom, Richard N. Jones, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Jinkook Lee, Rebeca Wong, Alden L. Gross. 2024. Lifetime occupational skill and later-life cognitive function among older adults in the United States, Mexico, India, and South Africa. Alzheimer's & Dementia 20(3):1933-1943.
- Zhang, Yuan S, O'Shea, Brendan, Yu, Xuexin, Cho, Tsai-Chin, Zhang, Kelvin Pengyuan, Kler, Jasdeep, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Gross, Alden L, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Educational Attainment and Later-life Cognitive Function in High- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 79(5):gbae005.
- Leeanne O'Hara, Charlotte Neville, Calum Marr, Michael McAlinden, Frank Kee, David R Weir, Bernadette McGuinness. 2024. Investigating the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA): the Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) cross-sectional substudy. BMJ Open 14(1):e075672.
- Cupery, Tim, Bush, Evelyn, Turner, Robert W., Amanda J Sonnega, Rosales, Teri, Vissa, Kalpana, Whitfield, Keith E., James Jackson, David R Weir. 2023. Positive Effects of Religion and Social Ties on the Health of Former NFL Athletes. Journal of Religion and Health 62:1324-1342.
- Chen, Fang, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2023. Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing. Nature Genetics 55:291-300.
- Jessica Danielle Faul, Jung Ki Kim, Morgan E. Levine, Bharat Thyagarajan, David R Weir, Eileen M. Crimmins. 2023. Epigenetic-based age acceleration in a representative sample of older Americans: Associations with aging-related morbidity and mortality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(9):e2215840120.
- Benjamin W Domingue, Ryan Jay McCammon, Brady Thomas West, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Jessica Danielle Faul. 2023. The Mode Effect of Web-Based Surveying on the 2018 U.S. Health and Retirement Study Measure of Cognitive Functioning. Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(9):1466-1473.
- John W. R. Phillips, David R Weir. 2023. The Health and Retirement Study. The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing :474-485.
- Iain Mathieson, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2023. Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus. Nature Human Behaviour 7(5):790-801.