Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求两年的资金支持将于2011年和2012年夏季在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校举行的题为“整合遗传学与社会科学”（IGSS）的会议。这个为期两天的会议将展示社会科学家在基因-环境相互作用方面的新经验工作，并将努力定义这个新的和令人兴奋的领域的轮廓。2010年的会议得到了美国人口协会、NICHD资助的科罗拉多大学人口中心（CUPC）和科罗拉多大学社会学系的资助。这项提议的目的是请求资金，使这个会议再延长两年。我们已经获得了行为科学研究所、行为遗传学研究所、科罗拉多大学人口中心和社会学系的支持，将本次会议延长两年。这次会议将建立在之前在中国政法大学举办的短期课程的基础上，其明确的目标是发表所提出的研究结果。《生物人口与社会生物学》杂志已经同意在人口研究中的基因环境问题特刊上发表2010年会议的论文选集，我们预计2011年和2012年也会有类似的结构。本提案的目标是：(1)为基因-环境相互作用领域的领导者提供一个场所，以便彼此分享他们的理论，方法和实质性知识；(2)在基因-环境相互作用领域发表新的跨学科出版物；(3)找出迄今为止在该领域尚未得到充分研究的新问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests two years of funding to support a conference entitled Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences (IGSS) to be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder during the summers of 2011 and 2012. This two day conference will showcase new empirical work on gene-environment interplay among social scientists and will strive to define the contours of this new and exciting area. The 2010 conference has received funding from the Population Association of America, the NICHD funded University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC), and the department of sociology at the University of Colorado. The purpose of this proposal is to request funds to continue this conference for an additional two years. We have secured support from the Institute of Behavioral Science, the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, the CU Population Center, and the Department of Sociology for the continuation of this conference for an additional two years. This conference will build upon a previous short course at the CUPC and it will have the explicit goal of publishing the findings that are presented. The journal Biodemography and Social Biology has agreed to publish a selection of the papers from the 2010 conference in a special issue dedicated to gene-environment issues within demographic research and we anticipate a similar structure in 2011 and 2012. The goals of this proposal are: (1) to provide a venue for the leaders in the area of gene-environment interplay to share their theoretical, methodological, and substantive knowledge with one another; (2) to produce new and interdisciplinary publications in the area of gene-environment interplay; and (3) to identify new issues that are, to date, understudied in this area. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The conference has a substantive focus on health, health behaviors, morbidity, and mortality. This conference will bridge genetic and social epidemiology to provide new insights into long standing public health issues. We anticipate a section of the conference to be dedicated to the policy implications of this work.