Erin Dunn
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Contact Information Email: erindunn@purdue.edu Office: MRGN 146 Map Phone: 765-496-8206 Homepage: Homepage |
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Education
ScD Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2011
Research Interests
genetics, epigenetics, childhood adversity, and statistical approaches to analyze lifecourse data
Grants
2024 - One Child Every Child Strategic Catalyst Award
2023 - Anonymous Foundation
2023 - National Institute of Mental Health (2)
2023 - National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
2023 - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
2022 - National Institute of Mental Health (2)
2022 - New Frontiers in Research Fund
2020 - National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities
2020 - National Institute of Mental Health (2)
2019 - National Institute of Mental Health
2019 - Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General Neuroscience
2019 - Charles & Margery Brancik Foundation
2019 - Center on the Developing Child
2019 - Jacobs Foundation
2019 - Harvard Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative
Selected Publications
Schuurmans, I.K., Dunn, E.C., Lussier, A.A. (in press) DNA methylation as a possible causal mechanism linking childhood adversity and health: Results from a two-sample mendelian randomization study. American Journal of Epidemiology.
Lopez-Lopez, J.A., Tilling, K., Pearson, R.M., Fazel, M.S., Washbrook, E., Zhu, Y., Smith, B.S., Dunn, E.C., Smith, A.D.A.C. (in press). Depressive symptoms in adolescence and adult educational and employment outcomes: a structured life course analysis. Psychological Medicine.
Le Luyer, M., Boll, M.E., Lemmers, S.A.M., Stoll, S.J., Hoffnagle, A.G., Smith, A.D.A.C., Dunn, E.C. (in press). How well do parents identify their child's baby teeth? Engagement and accuracy of parent-reported information on a tooth checklist survey. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12971
Dunn, E.C., Ernst, S.C., Nishimi, K., Choi, K. R. (in press). The prevalence, predictors, and health consequences of disagreement in reports of child maltreatment exposure. Child Psychiatry & Human Development.
Michael, C., Gard, A. M., Tillem, S., Hardi, F. A., Dunn, E. C., Smith, A. D. A. C., McLoyd, V. C., Brooks-Gunn, J., Mitchell, C., Monk, C. S., & Hyde, L. W. (in press). Developmental timing of associations among parenting, brain architecture, and mental health. JAMA Pediatrics.
Choi, K. R., Bravo, L., La Charite, J., Cardona, E., Elliott, T., James, K.F., Wisk, L.E., Dunn, E. C., Saadi, A. (in press). Associations between positive childhood experiences (PCE's), discrimination, and internalizing/externalizing in pre-adolescents. Academic Pediatrics.
Meng, X., Navoly, G, Giannakopoulou, O., Levey,. D.F., Koller, D., Pathak, G.A., Koen, N. Lin, K. Adams, M.J., ...PGC MDD Working Group, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, the 23andMe Research Team, Genes & Health Research Team, BioBank Japan Project, Sofer, T, Walters, R.G., McIntosh, A.M., Polimanti, R., Dunn, E.C., Stein, M.B., Gelernter, J., Lewis, C.M., & Kuchenbaecker, K. (2024). Multi-ancestry GWAS of major depression aids locus discovery, fine-mapping, gene prioritization, and causal inference. Nature Genetics, 56(2), 222-233.
Parsons, C. L. B., Mountain, R. V., Jacobsson, K., Bidlack, F. B., Lehmann, L. S., & Dunn, E. C. (2024). Cultural diversity of traditions for the disposal of exfoliated teeth: Implications for researchers. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 52(2), 139-149.
Lussier, A.A., Zhu, Y., Smith, B.J., Cerutti, J., Fisher, J., Melton, P.E., Wood, N.M., Cohen-Woods, S., Huang, R.C., Mitchell, C., Schneper, L., Notterman, D.A., Simpkin, A.J., Smith, A.D.A.C., Suderman, M.J., Walton, E., Relton, C.L., Ressler, K.J., & Dunn, E.C. (2023). Association between the timing of childhood adversity and epigenetic patterns across childhood and adolescence: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) prospective cohort. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 7(8), 532-543.
Liu, J., Cerutti, J., Lussier, A.A., Zhu, Y., Smith, B.J., Smith, A.D.A.C., & Dunn, E.C. (2023). Socioeconomic changes predict genome-wide DNA methylation in childhood. Human Molecular Genetics, 32 (5), 709-719. PMID: 35899434.