• Author: Lauren P. Hair
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Accelerated epigenetic aging and prospective morbidity and mortality among U.S. Veterans

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Epigenetic aging measures have promise as surrogate health outcomes in randomized control trials and observational cohort studies. The value of these …

Demographic Characteristics and Epigenetic Biological Aging Among Post-9/11 Veterans: Associations of DunedinPACE with Sex, Race, and Age

Abstract: Measures of epigenetic aging derived from DNA methylation (DNAm) have enabled the assessment of biological aging in new populations and cohorts. In the present study, we …

High dimensional predictions of suicide risk in 4.2 million US Veterans using ensemble transfer learning

Abstract: We present an ensemble transfer learning method to predict suicide from Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic medical records (EMR). A diverse set of base models was trained …