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.
- 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.
- Huichun Xu, ..., Wei Zhao, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, et al.. 2023. Exome Array Analysis of 9721 Ischemic Stroke Cases from the SiGN Consortium. Genes 14(1):61.
- Yordi J. van de Vegte, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, Wei Zhao, et al.. 2023. Genetic insights into resting heart rate and its role in cardiovascular disease. Nature Communications 14(1):1-21.
- Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Halpern, Scott D, David R Weir, Baum, Micah Y, Nolan, Marie, Gallo, Joseph, Kenneth M Langa. 2023. Decision-making for patients with severe dementia versus normal cognition near the end-of-life. Innovation in Aging
- Briceño, Emily M., Arce Rentería, Miguel, Gross, Alden L., Jones, Richard N., Gonzalez, Christopher, Wong, Rebeca, David R Weir, Kenneth M Langa, Manly, Jennifer J.. 2022. A cultural neuropsychological approach to harmonization of cognitive data across culturally and linguistically diverse older adult populations. Neuropsychology 37(3):247-257.