![DNA strand and data](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170126001816im_/https://agingcenters.org/img/feature/Rec-1830.jpg)
Kaare Christensen (Duke) searches for genes/variants associated with healthy aging phenotypes in all surviving participants of the Long Life Family Study.
![Group of older immigrants becoming citizens](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170126001816im_/https://agingcenters.org/img/feature/Rec-1831.jpg)
Michel Guillot (U-Penn) evaluates potential explanations for the migrant mortality advantage found in prior studies, including methodological pitfalls.
![Older woman swipes food stamp card.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170126001816im_/https://agingcenters.org/img/feature/Rec-1832.jpg)
Sanjay Basu (Stanford) develops 'cohort filtering models' to link health outcomes and social program participation data at the individual level over decades.
![Rhesus macaques fight for social dominance](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170126001816im_/https://agingcenters.org/img/feature/Rec-1829.jpg)
Jenny Tung (Duke) and colleagues examine the relationship between chronic social stress and gene expression in immune cells among female macaques.
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Using vital records, decennial census, Social Security, and Medicare data, William Dow (UC-Berkeley) is constructing state-level estimates of all-cause mortality by age, sex and year, 1933-2007.