Very happy to learn the systematic knowledge of genomics in combination with social science, become familiar with #HRSData and #AddHealthData, and connect with many researchers from the US who focus on this area. #GeSS #MSCA #ESSGN #ResearchImpactEU

A few points of context on the recent study of genetic "underachievers", which speculates (twice!) that genetically targeted early interventions may be more effective by "going with the genetic flow rather than swimming upstream". 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4153…

I'm very excited to share our new preprint, where we explore indirect assortative mating on educational attainment. We develop a new framework, and use partners of twins to find that partners are likely sorting on associated environmental factors. 🧵doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

First time attending #BGA2024. Completed the first day with so many amazing and inspiring talks. I am grateful to everyone who came by my poster with good questions and suggestions. Looking forward to the next two days of BGA streams! Behavior Genetics Association #ESSGN #MSCA

Massive congratulations to @RosaCheesman (also a TEDS twin!) and Olakunle Oginni for winning the 2024 early career award from Behavior Genetics Association association. So well deserved 👏👏👏 SGDP Centre KCL

Some new within-family heritability estimates from MOBA. Large indirect components for attention, hyperactivity, and restrictive and repetitive behaviors. Negative parental/child covariance observed in several cases 🤔 . [medrxiv.org/content/10.110…]

I wrote about the latest attempt to sell genetic IQ prediction and why it is snake oil. A short 🧵:

Fresh article on stability and change in maternal #wellbeing and #mentalhealth! Amazing Lilian Mayerhofer with Dr. Ziada Ayorech (she/her) 🌈 Espen Røysamb and Eivind Ystrøm PROMENTA UiO uses #moba data from 83,124 mothers to examine (co)development in key aspects of wellbeing: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Glad that my first paper is now online! Department of Government, Uppsala University There are many ways of investigating the typically observed strong relationship between educational attainment and attitudes toward immigration. Here, I use three natural experiments with Swedish twin data 👇

Personality and fertility dynamics in Norway across four decades New study with Morten Blekesaune and Hans Fredrik Sunde sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very excited to share our new preprint describing a framework for the analysis of PGS in case-parent trios. It allows simultaneous estimation of direct, indirect, and PGSxE interaction effects. Nilanjan Chatterjee medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Zijie Zhao's paper on controlling for polygenic genetic confounding is published PNASNews. Many papers control for PGS in regression analysis to remove genetic confounding. We show that this doesn't do anything and provide a solution named PENGUIN pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432782/

🚨New IZA DP: Does the timing of school entry affect personality development? Spoiler: It does - and some effects are quite persistent! Joint with Anton Barabasch and Kamila Cygan-Rehm, available here 👉 docs.iza.org/dp17387.pdf Details below ⬇️

REGENIE v4.0 is live!🎉 You can now analyze time-to-event phenotypes, leveraging power gains with case-control phenotypes where time-to-event information is available. github.com/rgcgithub/rege…

(1/10) Check out our new paper in Nature Communications! “Non-random mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health”. In the paper, we study partner similarities before they (were likely to have) met. nature.com/articles/s4146…

I was interviewed about our research into partner similarity and social differences by one of the main Norwegian science news sites: forskning.no/penger-og-priv…

Save the date if you're interested in exploring cutting-edge twin research in a stunning island setting! 🌴 🗓 August 10-12, 2025 📍 Colombo, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Join us for the 8th World Congress on Twin Pregnancy & 20th ISTS Congress!

Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc Universitetet i Oslo! You will be using MoBa Study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using Behavior Genetics Association and PGC Consortium approaches. Please share! jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Neat study, and interesting that the (very small) non-Education component of income becomes effectively uncorrelated with healthy lifestyle habits and outcomes (smoking, BMI, etc) but not psychiatric conditions (schizophrenia, ASD, OCD).

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in Nature Human Behaviour 💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽