A L Non
Biographic Data
| ID | 58715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Non |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Non |
| SIGNATURE | NON A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9781-2985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Obstetric views on reduced preterm birth rates early in the Covid-19 pandemic
A significant decrease in preterm births occurred during the first few months of the COVID-19 lockdown across the U.S. and in other high-income countries, particularly among medically induced births, or artificially initiated births. This unexpected phenomenon raised speculation that the reduction was influenced by changes in obstetric care or hospital policy shaped by the pandemic. Reductions in spontaneous preterm births also occurred and may h…
Sex Ratio at Birth in Northern Ireland During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic: A Comparison With Published Data From the Republic of Ireland, England and Wales
OBJECTIVES: The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked in several countries to fluctuations in the proportion of male live births/total live births, known as the sex ratio at birth (SRB). This study investigates how the pandemic influenced SRB patterns in Northern Ireland compared to published data from neighboring regions, including the Republic of Ireland with which it shares an open land border, and England and Wales, across the sea. METHODS: Month…
The Impact of the Covid ‐19 Pandemic on the Sex Ratio at Birth in Ireland
OBJECTIVES: The sex ratio at birth (SRB), calculated as male divided by total live births, is an important indicator of population health. Typically, male live births slightly outnumber female live births. Population events, including pandemics, can alter the SRB, with effects sometimes evident 9 months post-event, potentially due to changes in sexual behavior and/or stress levels. This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on th…
Clinicians' perspectives on race-specific guidelines for hypertensive treatment
Were fewer boys born in the United States during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic? A test of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis
The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that mammalian parents in poor environmental conditions will favor the offspring sex with more reliable chance of reproductive success, which in humans is females. Three months following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, England, and Wales, there were significant decreases in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) (male births/total live births). We analyzed this ratio with a seasonal autoregressive…
Covid-19-Related Risk, Resilience, and Mental Health Among Mexican American Mothers Across the First Year of the Pandemic
BACKGROUND: Latina mothers have been especially affected by the pandemic and historically exhibit high rates of depression and anxiety. However, few longitudinal studies have assessed the effect of the pandemic on this vulnerable population. We hypothesized that COVID-19-related stressors would associate with psychological distress among Latina mothers across the first year of the pandemic. METHODS: We investigated COVID-19-related impact, stigma…
Recommendations for Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy to Address the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Anxiety Symptoms in Immigrant and U.S.-Born Latina Mothers
Precarious Work and Parenting Stress among Mexican Immigrant Women in the United States
Objective To qualitatively examine how precarious work contributes to parenting stress among Mexican immigrant women. Background Mexican immigrants tend to be employed in low‐wage occupations with nonstandard work arrangements and schedules. Besides common strains associated with balancing work and family, they experience immigrant‐specific stressors due to their unique positions in society and differences in structural resources and cultural val…
Epigenetics as a Mechanism of Developmental Embodiment of Stress, Resilience, and Cardiometabolic Risk Across Generations of Latinx Immigrant Families
Psychosocial stressors can become embodied to alter biology throughout the life course in ways that may have lasting health consequences. Immigrants are particularly vulnerable to high burdens of stress, which have heightened in the current sociopolitical climate. This study is an investigation of how immigration-related stress (IRS) may impact the cardiometabolic risk and epigenetic markers of Latinx immigrant mothers and children in Nashville, …
State vs. Academy: The Academy Under Surveillance
This article mainly examines the authoritarian shift of Turkish state which has dramatically escalated after July 15, the failed coup attempt. While analyzing how state power in Turkey attempts to suppress dissident and opposite voices, I will particularly focus on the exercises of state in order to control the realm of knowledge production. The state surveillance in Turkey is a complex mixture of the sovereign power, disciplinary mechanisms, and…
Stress across generations: A qualitative study of stress, coping, and caregiving among Mexican immigrant mothers
These results highlight the importance of developing new questionnaires to elicit stress exposures for Mexican immigrant mothers. Findings also suggest the value of intervention strategies and social policies that would ultimately improve maternal and child health in this marginalized population
Early childhood social disadvantage is associated with poor health behaviours in adulthood
These findings suggest childhood social disadvantage may contribute to adult cardiometabolic disease by predisposing children to adopt certain unhealthy behaviours. If replicated, such findings may support intervention strategies that target social environmental factors and behavioural pathways that are established early in life
DNA methylation at stress‐related genes is associated with exposure to early life institutionalization
OBJECTIVES: Differences in DNA methylation have been associated with early life adversity, suggesting that alterations in methylation function as one pathway through which adverse early environments are biologically embedded. This study examined associations between exposure to institutional care, quantified as the proportion of time in institutional care at specified follow-up assessment ages, and DNA methylation status in two stress-related gen…
Epigenetics for anthropologists: An introduction to methods
The study of epigenetics, or chemical modifications to the genome that may alter gene expression, is a growing area of interest for social scientists. Anthropologists and human biologists are interested in epigenetics specifically, as it provides a potential link between the environment and the genome, as well as a new layer of complexity for the study of human biological variation. In pace with the rapid increase in interest in epigenetic resear…
The Genetic Anthropologist's Contribution to Understanding Race and Racial Health Disparities
The Genetic Anthropologist’s Contribution to Understanding Race and Racial Health Disparities Abigail W. Bigham and Amy Non The study of “race” has a deep and contentious history within biological anthropology, where it was once the central theoretical concept of the field (Caspari 2003). Building off of typological models of human variation put forth by scholars such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Samuel George Morton, essentialist ideas abo…
Biology and Culture Beyond the Genome: Race, Racism, and Health
Over the past few decades, anthropologists have increasingly used genetic approaches in their efforts to understand humans and their primate relatives.Technological and theoretical developments in recent years have enabled anthropological geneticists to expand their field of inquiry far beyond what was thought possible even a few years ago (Crawford 2000).Most importantly, the cost of collecting large genetic data sets has dropped dramatically, a…
Anthropological Genetics
Over the past few decades, anthropologists have increasingly used genetic approaches in their efforts to understand humans and their primate relatives.Technological and theoretical developments in recent years have enabled anthropological geneticists to expand their field of inquiry far beyond what was thought possible even a few years ago (Crawford 2000).Most importantly, the cost of collecting large genetic data sets has dropped dramatically, a…
Anthropology Meets Epigenetics: Current and Future Directions
Anthropologists are interested in understanding patterns of human variation, whether assessed along cultural, biological, linguistic, or material metrics. Epigenetics, the study of heritable chemical modifications to DNA, is an emerging approach that could enrich modern anthropological research. Epigenetic marks can change in response to many of the processes anthropologists study-for example, migration, nutritional stress, psychosocial stress, a…
Childhood Adversity, Adult Neighborhood Context, and Cumulative Biological Risk for Chronic Diseases in Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between childhood adversity and cumulative biological risk for a variety of chronic diseases in adulthood, and whether this association varied by neighborhood affluence. METHODS: Data were drawn from the Chicago Community Adult Health Study (2001-2003), a cross-sectional probability sample that included interviews and blood collection (n = 550 adults). A childhood adversity score was calculated from eight it…
Education, Genetic Ancestry, and Blood Pressure in African Americans and Whites
Objectives. We assessed the relative roles of education and genetic ancestry in predicting blood pressure (BP) within African Americans and explored the association between education and BP across racial groups. Methods. We used t tests and linear regressions to examine the associations of genetic ancestry, estimated from a genomewide set of autosomal markers, and education with BP variation among African Americans in the Family Blood Pressure Pr…
Mitochondrial DNA reveals distinct evolutionary histories for Jewish populations in Yemen and Ethiopia
Southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa are important geographic centers for the study of human population history because a great deal of migration has characterized these regions since the first emergence of humans out of Africa. Analysis of Jewish groups provides a unique opportunity to investigate more recent population histories in this area. Mitochondrial DNA is used to investigate the maternal evolutionary history and can be combined with h…
Anthropology Meets Epigenetics: Current and Future Directions
Anthropologists are interested in understanding patterns of human variation, whether assessed along cultural, biological, linguistic, or material metrics. Epigenetics, the study of heritable chemical modifications to DNA, is an emerging approach that could enrich modern anthropological research. Epigenetic marks can change in response to many of the processes anthropologists study-for example, migration, nutritional stress, psychosocial stress, a…
Education, Genetic Ancestry, and Blood Pressure in African Americans and Whites
Objectives. We assessed the relative roles of education and genetic ancestry in predicting blood pressure (BP) within African Americans and explored the association between education and BP across racial groups. Methods. We used t tests and linear regressions to examine the associations of genetic ancestry, estimated from a genomewide set of autosomal markers, and education with BP variation among African Americans in the Family Blood Pressure Pr…
DNA methylation at stress‐related genes is associated with exposure to early life institutionalization
OBJECTIVES: Differences in DNA methylation have been associated with early life adversity, suggesting that alterations in methylation function as one pathway through which adverse early environments are biologically embedded. This study examined associations between exposure to institutional care, quantified as the proportion of time in institutional care at specified follow-up assessment ages, and DNA methylation status in two stress-related gen…
Biology and Culture Beyond the Genome: Race, Racism, and Health
Over the past few decades, anthropologists have increasingly used genetic approaches in their efforts to understand humans and their primate relatives.Technological and theoretical developments in recent years have enabled anthropological geneticists to expand their field of inquiry far beyond what was thought possible even a few years ago (Crawford 2000).Most importantly, the cost of collecting large genetic data sets has dropped dramatically, a…
Were fewer boys born in the United States during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic? A test of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis
The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that mammalian parents in poor environmental conditions will favor the offspring sex with more reliable chance of reproductive success, which in humans is females. Three months following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, England, and Wales, there were significant decreases in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) (male births/total live births). We analyzed this ratio with a seasonal autoregressive…
Anthropological Genetics
Over the past few decades, anthropologists have increasingly used genetic approaches in their efforts to understand humans and their primate relatives.Technological and theoretical developments in recent years have enabled anthropological geneticists to expand their field of inquiry far beyond what was thought possible even a few years ago (Crawford 2000).Most importantly, the cost of collecting large genetic data sets has dropped dramatically, a…
Clinicians' perspectives on race-specific guidelines for hypertensive treatment
State vs. Academy: The Academy Under Surveillance
This article mainly examines the authoritarian shift of Turkish state which has dramatically escalated after July 15, the failed coup attempt. While analyzing how state power in Turkey attempts to suppress dissident and opposite voices, I will particularly focus on the exercises of state in order to control the realm of knowledge production. The state surveillance in Turkey is a complex mixture of the sovereign power, disciplinary mechanisms, and…
Stress across generations: A qualitative study of stress, coping, and caregiving among Mexican immigrant mothers
These results highlight the importance of developing new questionnaires to elicit stress exposures for Mexican immigrant mothers. Findings also suggest the value of intervention strategies and social policies that would ultimately improve maternal and child health in this marginalized population
The Genetic Anthropologist's Contribution to Understanding Race and Racial Health Disparities
The Genetic Anthropologist’s Contribution to Understanding Race and Racial Health Disparities Abigail W. Bigham and Amy Non The study of “race” has a deep and contentious history within biological anthropology, where it was once the central theoretical concept of the field (Caspari 2003). Building off of typological models of human variation put forth by scholars such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Samuel George Morton, essentialist ideas abo…
Mitochondrial DNA reveals distinct evolutionary histories for Jewish populations in Yemen and Ethiopia
Southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa are important geographic centers for the study of human population history because a great deal of migration has characterized these regions since the first emergence of humans out of Africa. Analysis of Jewish groups provides a unique opportunity to investigate more recent population histories in this area. Mitochondrial DNA is used to investigate the maternal evolutionary history and can be combined with h…
Education, Genetic Ancestry, and Blood Pressure in African Americans and Whites
Objectives. We assessed the relative roles of education and genetic ancestry in predicting blood pressure (BP) within African Americans and explored the association between education and BP across racial groups. Methods. We used t tests and linear regressions to examine the associations of genetic ancestry, estimated from a genomewide set of autosomal markers, and education with BP variation among African Americans in the Family Blood Pressure Pr…
Childhood Adversity, Adult Neighborhood Context, and Cumulative Biological Risk for Chronic Diseases in Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between childhood adversity and cumulative biological risk for a variety of chronic diseases in adulthood, and whether this association varied by neighborhood affluence. METHODS: Data were drawn from the Chicago Community Adult Health Study (2001-2003), a cross-sectional probability sample that included interviews and blood collection (n = 550 adults). A childhood adversity score was calculated from eight it…
Epigenetics for anthropologists: An introduction to methods
The study of epigenetics, or chemical modifications to the genome that may alter gene expression, is a growing area of interest for social scientists. Anthropologists and human biologists are interested in epigenetics specifically, as it provides a potential link between the environment and the genome, as well as a new layer of complexity for the study of human biological variation. In pace with the rapid increase in interest in epigenetic resear…
The Genetic Anthropologist's Contribution to Understanding Race and Racial Health Disparities
The Genetic Anthropologist’s Contribution to Understanding Race and Racial Health Disparities Abigail W. Bigham and Amy Non The study of “race” has a deep and contentious history within biological anthropology, where it was once the central theoretical concept of the field (Caspari 2003). Building off of typological models of human variation put forth by scholars such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Samuel George Morton, essentialist ideas abo…
Biology and Culture Beyond the Genome: Race, Racism, and Health
Over the past few decades, anthropologists have increasingly used genetic approaches in their efforts to understand humans and their primate relatives.Technological and theoretical developments in recent years have enabled anthropological geneticists to expand their field of inquiry far beyond what was thought possible even a few years ago (Crawford 2000).Most importantly, the cost of collecting large genetic data sets has dropped dramatically, a…
Anthropological Genetics
Over the past few decades, anthropologists have increasingly used genetic approaches in their efforts to understand humans and their primate relatives.Technological and theoretical developments in recent years have enabled anthropological geneticists to expand their field of inquiry far beyond what was thought possible even a few years ago (Crawford 2000).Most importantly, the cost of collecting large genetic data sets has dropped dramatically, a…
Anthropology Meets Epigenetics: Current and Future Directions
Anthropologists are interested in understanding patterns of human variation, whether assessed along cultural, biological, linguistic, or material metrics. Epigenetics, the study of heritable chemical modifications to DNA, is an emerging approach that could enrich modern anthropological research. Epigenetic marks can change in response to many of the processes anthropologists study-for example, migration, nutritional stress, psychosocial stress, a…
Early childhood social disadvantage is associated with poor health behaviours in adulthood
These findings suggest childhood social disadvantage may contribute to adult cardiometabolic disease by predisposing children to adopt certain unhealthy behaviours. If replicated, such findings may support intervention strategies that target social environmental factors and behavioural pathways that are established early in life
DNA methylation at stress‐related genes is associated with exposure to early life institutionalization
OBJECTIVES: Differences in DNA methylation have been associated with early life adversity, suggesting that alterations in methylation function as one pathway through which adverse early environments are biologically embedded. This study examined associations between exposure to institutional care, quantified as the proportion of time in institutional care at specified follow-up assessment ages, and DNA methylation status in two stress-related gen…
State vs. Academy: The Academy Under Surveillance
This article mainly examines the authoritarian shift of Turkish state which has dramatically escalated after July 15, the failed coup attempt. While analyzing how state power in Turkey attempts to suppress dissident and opposite voices, I will particularly focus on the exercises of state in order to control the realm of knowledge production. The state surveillance in Turkey is a complex mixture of the sovereign power, disciplinary mechanisms, and…
Stress across generations: A qualitative study of stress, coping, and caregiving among Mexican immigrant mothers
These results highlight the importance of developing new questionnaires to elicit stress exposures for Mexican immigrant mothers. Findings also suggest the value of intervention strategies and social policies that would ultimately improve maternal and child health in this marginalized population
Recommendations for Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy to Address the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Anxiety Symptoms in Immigrant and U.S.-Born Latina Mothers
Precarious Work and Parenting Stress among Mexican Immigrant Women in the United States
Objective To qualitatively examine how precarious work contributes to parenting stress among Mexican immigrant women. Background Mexican immigrants tend to be employed in low‐wage occupations with nonstandard work arrangements and schedules. Besides common strains associated with balancing work and family, they experience immigrant‐specific stressors due to their unique positions in society and differences in structural resources and cultural val…
Epigenetics as a Mechanism of Developmental Embodiment of Stress, Resilience, and Cardiometabolic Risk Across Generations of Latinx Immigrant Families
Psychosocial stressors can become embodied to alter biology throughout the life course in ways that may have lasting health consequences. Immigrants are particularly vulnerable to high burdens of stress, which have heightened in the current sociopolitical climate. This study is an investigation of how immigration-related stress (IRS) may impact the cardiometabolic risk and epigenetic markers of Latinx immigrant mothers and children in Nashville, …
Covid-19-Related Risk, Resilience, and Mental Health Among Mexican American Mothers Across the First Year of the Pandemic
BACKGROUND: Latina mothers have been especially affected by the pandemic and historically exhibit high rates of depression and anxiety. However, few longitudinal studies have assessed the effect of the pandemic on this vulnerable population. We hypothesized that COVID-19-related stressors would associate with psychological distress among Latina mothers across the first year of the pandemic. METHODS: We investigated COVID-19-related impact, stigma…
The Impact of the Covid ‐19 Pandemic on the Sex Ratio at Birth in Ireland
OBJECTIVES: The sex ratio at birth (SRB), calculated as male divided by total live births, is an important indicator of population health. Typically, male live births slightly outnumber female live births. Population events, including pandemics, can alter the SRB, with effects sometimes evident 9 months post-event, potentially due to changes in sexual behavior and/or stress levels. This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on th…
Clinicians' perspectives on race-specific guidelines for hypertensive treatment
Were fewer boys born in the United States during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic? A test of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis
The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts that mammalian parents in poor environmental conditions will favor the offspring sex with more reliable chance of reproductive success, which in humans is females. Three months following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, England, and Wales, there were significant decreases in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) (male births/total live births). We analyzed this ratio with a seasonal autoregressive…
Sex Ratio at Birth in Northern Ireland During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic: A Comparison With Published Data From the Republic of Ireland, England and Wales
OBJECTIVES: The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked in several countries to fluctuations in the proportion of male live births/total live births, known as the sex ratio at birth (SRB). This study investigates how the pandemic influenced SRB patterns in Northern Ireland compared to published data from neighboring regions, including the Republic of Ireland with which it shares an open land border, and England and Wales, across the sea. METHODS: Month…
Obstetric views on reduced preterm birth rates early in the Covid-19 pandemic
A significant decrease in preterm births occurred during the first few months of the COVID-19 lockdown across the U.S. and in other high-income countries, particularly among medically induced births, or artificially initiated births. This unexpected phenomenon raised speculation that the reduction was influenced by changes in obstetric care or hospital policy shaped by the pandemic. Reductions in spontaneous preterm births also occurred and may h…
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