Diane Gilbert-Diamond
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Epidemiology
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences
Biography
My research focuses on how genetic factors predispose some individuals to gain excess weight in our current obesogenic environment.
Education
AB, Biology, Dartmouth College
ScD, Nutritional Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Taught Courses
Publications
Renier TJ, Yeum D, Emond JA, Lansigan R, Ballarino G, Carlson D, Loos R, Gilbert-Diamond D. (2023) Elucidating pathways to pediatric obesity: A study evaluating obesity polygenic risk scores related to appetitive traits in children. International Journal of Obesity. doi:10.1038/s41366-023-01385-3
Brand J, Masterson TD, Emond JA, Lansigan RK, Gilbert-Diamond D. (2020) Measuring attentional bias to food cues in young children using a visual search task: an eye-tracking study. Appetite. 148: 104610. PMCID: PMC7995328.
Gilbert-Diamond D, Emond JA, Lansigan RK, Kelley W, Heatherton TF, Sargent JD. (2016) Television food advertisement exposure and FTO rs9939609 genotype in relation to excess consumption in children. Int J Obesity. 41(1): 23-29. PMCID: PMC5209258.
Rapuano KM, Zieselman AL, Kelley WM, Sargent JD, Heatherton TF, Gilbert-Diamond D. (2017) Genetic risk for obesity predicts nucleus accumbens size and responsivity to real-world food cues. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 114(1): 160-165. PMCID: PMC5224347
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