Publications

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2025

1. Kwon D, Paul KC, O’Sharkey K, Paik SA, Yu Y, Bronstein JM, Ritz B. "Challenges in studying air pollution to neurodegenerative diseases." Environmental Research. 2025; 278:121597.

2. Kwon D, Paul KC, Kusters C, Wu J, Bronstein JM, Lill CM, Ketzel M, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Hansen J, Ritz B. "Interaction Between Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Parkinson Disease Polygenic Risk Score." JAMA Network Open. 2025; 8(3):e250854.

3. Fox MM, Hassan A, Wiley KS, Kwon D, Knorr DA. "Regulatory T-Cells During Pregnancy Relate to Women's Own Childhood History of Microbial Exposure." American Journal of Human Biology. 2025; 37(3):e70013.

4. Wiley KS, Martínez LE, Kwon D, Knorr DA, Epeldegui M, Fox MM. "Regulatory B-Cells Are Associated Negatively With Regulatory T-Cells and Positively With Cytokines in Peripheral Blood of Pregnant Women." American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 2025; 93(2):e70027. 

2024

5. Kwon D, Knorr DA, Wiley KS, Young SL, Fox MM. "Association of pica with cortisol and inflammation among Latina pregnant women." American Journal of Human Biology. 2024; 36(5):e24025.

6. Kwon D, Paul KC, Yu Y, Zhang K, Folle AD, Wu J, Bronstein JM, Ritz B. "Traffic-related air pollution and Parkinson's disease in central California." Environmental Research. 2024; 240(Pt 1):117434.

7. Wiley KS, Kwon D, Knorr DA, Fox MM. Knorr DA, Fox MM. "Regulatory T-cell phenotypes in prenatal psychological distress." Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 2024; 116:62-9.

8. Kwon D, Zhang K, Paul KC, Folle AD, Del Rosario I, Jacobs JP, Keener AM, Bronstein JM, Ritz B. "Diet and the gut microbiome in patients with Parkinson's disease." npj Parkinson's Disease. 2024; 10(1):89.

9. Cardoso BR, Liu J, Machado P, Kwon D, Belsky DW, Martinez Steele E. "Association between ultra-processed food intake and biological ageing in US adults: findings from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2010." Age and Ageing. 2024; 53(12).

2023

10. Kwon D, Folle AD, Del Rosario I, Zhang K, Paul KC, Keener AM, Bronstein JM, Ritz B. "Diet quality and Parkinson's disease: Potential strategies for non-motor symptom management." Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2023; 115:105816. 

11. Fox MM, Knorr DA, Kwon D, Wiley KS, Parrish MH. "How prenatal cortisol levels relate to grandmother-mother relationships among a cohort of Latina women." American Journal of Human Biology. 2023; 35(7):e23883.

12. Boen CE, Yang YC, Aiello AE, Dennis AC, Mullan Harris K, Kwon D, Belsky DW. "Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black-White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis." Demography. 2023; 60(6):1815-41. 

13. Graf GH, Li X, Kwon D, Belsky DW, Widom CS. "Biological aging in maltreated children followed up into middle adulthood." Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2022; 143:105848.

2022

14. Kwon D, Choe YJ, Kim SY, Chun BC, Choe SA. "Ambient Air Pollution and Kawasaki Disease in Korean Children: A Study of the National Health Insurance Claim Data." Journal of the American Heart Association. 2022; 11(9):e024092.

15. Graf GH, Zhang Y, Domingue BW, Harris KM, Kothari M, Kwon D, Muennig P, Belsky DW. "Social mobility and biological aging among older adults in the United States." PNAS Nexus. 2022; 1(2):pgac029.

16. Graf GH, Crowe CL, Kothari M, Kwon D, Manly JJ, Turney IC, Valeri L, Belsky DW. "Testing Black-White Disparities in Biological Aging Among Older Adults in the United States: Analysis of DNA-Methylation and Blood-Chemistry Methods." American Journal of Epidemiology. 2022; 191(4):613-25.

17. Belsky DW, Caspi A, Corcoran DL, Sugden K, Poulton R, Arseneault L, Baccarelli A, Chamarti K, Gao X, Hannon E, Harrington HL, Houts R, Kothari M, Kwon D, Mill J, Schwartz J, Vokonas P, Wang C, Williams BS, Moffitt TE. "DunedinPACE, a DNA methylation biomarker of the pace of aging." Elife. 2022; 11. 

18. Erdenetuya B, Kwon D, Choi S, Choe SA. "Alcohol use during pregnancy: findings from a gender-based violence survey in Mongolia." Archives of Women's Mental Health. 2022; 25(4):789-95.

2021

19. Crowe CL, Domingue BW, Graf GH, Keyes KM, Kwon D, Belsky DW. "Associations of Loneliness and Social Isolation With Health Span and Life Span in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study." Journals of Gerontology: Series A. 2021; 76(11):1997-2006.

20. Kwon D, Belsky DW. "A toolkit for quantification of biological age from blood chemistry and organ function test data: BioAge." GeroScience. 2021; 43(6):2795-808.

2020

21. Belsky DW, Caspi A, Arseneault L, Baccarelli A, Corcoran DL, Gao X, Hannon E, Harrington HL, Rasmussen LJH, Houts R, Huffman K, Kraus WE, Kwon D, Mill J, Pieper CF, Prinz JA, Poulton R, Schwartz J, Sugden K, Vokonas P, Williams BS, Moffitt TE. "Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm." Elife. 2020; 9.