45th annual meeting of the behavior genetics...

he 45th Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics

Association

Wednesday, June 17:

Opening Reception

Thursday, June 18:

Meeting

Poster Session

Friday, June 19:

Meeting

Saturday, June 20:

Meeting

Conference Banquet

Awards Ceremony

San Diego, C une 17th through June 20th

2015

Jim

Stamp

Behavior Genetics Association 2015, San Diego, CA

Behavior Genetics Association

The purpose of the Behavior Genetics Association is to promote the scientific study of the interrelationship of genetic mechanisms and behavior, both human and animal; to encourage and aid the education and training of research workers in the field of behavior genetics; and to aid in the dissemination and interpretation to the general public of knowledge concerning the interrelationship of genetics and behavior, and its implications for health and human development and education.

For additional information about the Behavior Genetics Association, please contact the Secretary, Valerie Knopik ([email protected]) or visit the website (www.bga.org).

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Position 2014-2015 2015-2016

President Paul Lichtenstein Jaakko Kaprio President-Elect Jaakko Kaprio Hermine Maes Past President Carol Prescott Paul Lichtenstein

Secretary Valerie Knopik Valerie Knopik Treasurer Kelly Klump Kelly Klump

Member-at-Large Sarah Med land Sarah Med land Member-at-Large Benjamin Neale Rohan Palmer Member-at-Large Matthew Keller Matthew Keller

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2015 MEETING INFORMATION

June 17 - 20, 2015

Conference Sessions: The Omni Gaslamp Hotel, 4th Floor 675 L Street San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 231-6664 www.omnihotels.com/hotels/san-diego

Opening Reception: June 17, Wednesday evening 7-9 p.m.

Location: Omni Hotel, Palm Terrace, 6th floor Note: Registration will move from the Grand Ballroom Foyer North to the Palm Terrace from 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Poster Session: June 18, Thursday evening 5:00-7:30 p.m.

Location: Omni Hotel, Grand Ballroom Salons DE, 4th Floor

The Conference Banquet and Awards Ceremony June 20, Saturday 6:30-10:30 p.m.

Cocktail reception (cash bar): 6:30-7 p.m.

Dinner: 7-10:30 p.m.

Location: Omni Hotel, Grand Ballroom Salons CDE, 4th Floor

Local Hosts: William Kremen and Carol Franz

University of California, San Diego

We thank the following generous contributors to the 2014 student bursaries:

Sally Manson Anderson, Michael C. Stallings, Pierre L. Robertoux, Dorret I. Boomsma, James R. Wilson, Anonymous

ONLINE PROGRAM- http://editorialexpress.com/conference/BGA2015/propram/BGA2015 html

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Meeting Quick Overview

Wednesday, June 17 (Registration opens: 2 p.m. Grand Ballroom Foyer, 4th Floor

3:00 BGA Executive Committee (invitation only) Boardroom 1

7:00 Welcome Reception:Registration moves to terrace 6:30-8 pm Palm Terrace

Thursday, June 18 (Registration open: 8:00-11:30 a.m.*)

8:00 Registration

Coffee/Tea and Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom

Foyer (GBF) North 8:45 Welcome to 2015 BGA Meeting Salon ABC

9:00 Dobzhansky Lecture: Nancy Pedersen Salon ABC

10:00 Coffee / Tea Break GBF North

10:30

Broken down by age and sex? Gene-environment interplay for health and well-being

Salon AB

Personality Salon C

Physical activity and BMI Gaslamp Room 2

11:45 Lunch on your own

1:00 Plenary: Larry Smarr Salon ABC

2:00 Quantitative genetic modeling Salon ABC

Addictions Gaslamp Room 2

3:15 Afternoon Break GBF North

3:45

Schizophrenia Salon AB

Tobacco and Cannabis Salon C

Parenting Gaslamp Room 2

5:00 Poster Session Salon DE

Friday, June 19 (Registration open: 8:00-11:30 a.m.)

8:00 Registration

Coffee/Tea and Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom

Foyer North

8:45

Determinants and correlates of physical (in- )activity, part I Salon AB

Methods of genome wide analyses Salon C

Internalizing Gaslamp Room 2

9:45 Coffee / Tea Break GBF North

10:15 Plenary: Eco de Geus Salon ABC

11:15 Determinants and correlates of physical (in-) activity, part II Salon ABC

Childhood development Gaslamp Room 2

12:15 Lunch (provided)

BGA Business Meeting Salon ABC

1:15 Plenary: Dr. Felix Frueh Salon ABC

2:15 50 years of twin studies Salon ABC

Traumatic experiences and stress Gaslamp Room 2

3:30 Afternoon Break GBF North

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The Behavior Genetics Association gratefully acknowledges the contributions of members of the Executive Committee. Year

2014-2015

President-Elect

Jaakko Kaprio

President

Paul Lichtenstein

Past-President Secretary

Valerie Knopik

Treasurer

Kelly Klump Benjamin Neale

Members-at-Large

Matthew Keller Sarah Medland Carol Prescott

2013-2014 Paul Lichtenstein Carol Prescott Eric Turkheimer Valerie Knopik Soo Rhee Benjamin Neale Matthew Keller Marleen de Moor

2012-2013 Carol Prescott Eric Turkheimer Michael Pogue-Geile Arpana Agrawal Soo Rhee Benjamin Neale Timothy Bates Marleen de Moor

2011-2012 Eric Turkheimer Michael Pogue-Geile Irwin Waldman Arpana Agrawal Soo Rhee Angelica Ronald Timothy Bates Marleen de Moor

2010-2011 Michael Pogue-Geile Irwin Waldman Michael Neale Arpana Agrawal Chandra Reynolds Angelica Ronald Timothy Bates Meike Bartels

2009-2010 Irwin Waldman Michael Neale Dorret Boomsma Danielle Dick Chandra Reynolds Angelica Ronald Yoon-Mi Ilur Meike Bartels

2008-2009 Michael Neale Dorret Boomsma Pierre Roubertoux Danielle Dick Chandra Reynolds Danielle Posthuma Yoon-Mi Hur Meike Bartels

2007-2008 Dorret Boomsma Pierre Roubertoux Laura Baker Danielle Dick Stacey Cherry Danielle Posthuma Yoon-Mi I lur Juko Ando

2006-2007 Pierre Roubertoux Laura Baker Ili 11 Goldsmith Michael Stallings Stacey Cherny Danielle Posthuma Jenae Neiderhiser Juko Ando

2005-2006 Laura Baker I lill Goldsmith Michele Carlier Michael Stallings Stacey Cherny Danielle Dick Jenae Neiderhiser Juko Ando

2004-2005 11111 Goldsmith Michele Carlier Nancy Pedersen Michael Stallings Deborah Finkel Danielle Dick Jenae Neiderhiser Stacey Cherny

2003-2004 Michele Carlier Nancy Pedersen Andrew Heath Michael Pogue-Geile Deborah Finkel Danielle Dick Caroline Van Baal Stacey Cherry

2002-2003 Nancy Pedersen Andrew Heath Matt McGue Michael Pogue-Geile Deborah Finkel Carol Prescott Caroline Van Baal Stacey Cherry

2001-2002 Andrew Heath Matt McGue John Hewitt Michael Pogue-Geile Pam Madden Carol Prescott Caroline Van Baal Jennifer Harris

2000-2001 Matt McGue John I lem, itt Richard Rose Hermine Maes Pam Madden Carol Prescott 11-\\ in Waldman Jennifer Harris

1999-2000 John Hewitt Richard Rose Norm Henderson Hermine Maes Pam Madden Deborah Finkel Irwin Waldman Jennifer Harris

1998-1999 Richard Rose Norm Henderson Nicholas Martin Hermine Maes Matt McGue Deborah Finkel Irwin Waldman Nancy Pedersen

1997-1998 Norm Henderson Nicholas Martin James Wilson Andrew Heath Matt McGue Deborah Finkel Linda Dixon Nancy Pedersen

1996-1997 Tony Vernon Nicholas Martin James Wilson Andrew Heath Matt McGue Larry Rodriguez Linda Dixon Nancy Pedersen

1995-1996 Pierre Roubertoux James Wilson Glayde Whitney Andrew Heath Sherri Berenbaum Wim Crusio Linda Dixon Lon Cardon

1994-1995 James Wilson Glayde Whitney Thomas Bouchard George Vogler Sherri Berenbaum Wim Crusio Tamara Phillips Lon Cardon

1993-1994 Glayde Whitney Thomas Bouchard David Blizard George Vogler Sherri Berenbaum Wim Crusio Tamara Phillips Joanne Meyer

1992-1993 Thomas Bouchard David Blizard Lindon Eaves George Vogler Laura Baker Peter Driscoll Tamara Phillips Joanne Meyer

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1991-1992 David Blizard Lindon Eaves Carol Lynch John Hewitt Laura Baker Peter Driscoll George Vogler Joanne Meyer

1990-1991 Lindon Eaves Carol Lynch Robert Plomin John Hewitt Laura Baker Peter Driscoll George Vogler Dorret Boomsma

1989-1990 Carol Lynch Robert Plomin Leonard Heston John Hewitt Gregory Carey Nicholas Martin George Vogler Dorret Boomsma

1988-1989 Robert Plomin Leonard Heston Peter Parsons James Wilson Gregory Carey Nicholas Martin Pierre Roubertoux Dorret Boomsma

1987-1988 Leonard Heston Peter Parsons Ronald Wilson James Wilson Gregory Carey Nicholas Martin Pierre Roubertoux Vicki Pollock

1986-1987 Peter Parsons Ronald Wilson Sandra Scarr James Wilson Thomas Bouchard JHF van Abeleen Pierre Roubertoux Vicki Pollock

1985-1986 Ronald Wilson Sandra Scarr Steven Vandenberg Robert Plomin Thomas Bouchard JHF van Abeleen Richard Rose Vicki Pollock

1984-1985 Sandra Scarr Steven Vandenberg David Fulker Robert Plomin Thomas Bouchard JHF van Abeleen Richard Rose Laura Baker

1983-1984 Steven Vandenberg David Fulker John DeFries Robert Plomin Joseph Horn Peter Parsons Richard Rose Laura Baker

1982-1983 David Fulker John DeFries Norman Henderson Joseph Hegmann Joseph Horn Peter Parsons David Blizard Laura Baker

1981-1982 John DeFries Norman Henderson John Loehlin Joseph Hegmann Joseph Horn, Peter Parsons David Blizard Susan Resnick

1980-1981 Norman Henderson John Loehlin Elving Anderson Joseph Hegmann Glayde Whitney Carol Lynch Susan Resnick

1979-1980 John Loehlin V. Elving Anderson Lee Ehrman Arthur Falek Glayde Whitney Carol Lynch Barbara Cornblatt

1978-1979 Elving Anderson Lee Ehrman W.R. Thompson Arthur Falek Glayde Whitney Gilbert Omenn Barbara Cornblatt

1977-1978 Lee Ehrman W.R. Thompson Irving Gottesman Arthur Falek Norman Henderson Gilbert Omenn Sonja Haber

1976-1977 W.R. Thompson Irving Gottesman J.P. Scott John. Defries Norman Henderson Lissy Jarvik Sonja Haber

1975-1976 Irving Gottesman J.P. Scott Gerald McClearn John. Defries Norman Henderson Lissy Jarvik Daniel Hanson

1974-1975 J.P. Scott Gerald McClearn John L. Fuller John. Defies John Loehlin Sandra Scarr Daniel Hanson

1973-1974 Gerald McClearn John L. Fuller Th. Dobzhansky Elving Anderson John Loehlin Sandra Scarr L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling

1972-1973 John L. Fuller Richard Osborne

Th. Dobzhansky Elving Anderson John Loehlin Seymour Kessler L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling

Note: Members of the BGA Executive Committee were identified from archival records for several of the early years. If you see an error, please notify the BGA

Secretary, Valerie Knopik (valerie [email protected]).

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Awardees (cont'd)

Year Dobzhansky Thompson Fulker Fuller/Scott Rowe 2002 Robert Plomin Meike Bartels &

Michael Galsworthy

Sathees Chandra et al.

2003 Norman Henderson

Arpana Agrawal Edwin van den Oord & Harold Snieder

2004 Sandra Scarr Jennifer Lau Nathan Gillespie et al.

Frank Spinath

2005 Nick Martin Heather Gelhorn Norman Henderson et al.

Danielle Posthuma

2006 Jerry Hirsch David Bard &

Angelica Ronald Michael Galsworthy et al.

Danielle Dick

_ 2007 Richard Rose Jane Mend le &

Paige Harden Carol Prescott et al.

Valerie Knopik

2008 John Hewitt Mar leen de Moor & Kees Jan Kan

Danielle Dick et al.

Meike Bartels

2009 David Blizard Thomas Frisell Douglas Matthews et al.

Alexandra Burt

2010 Andrew Heath Ben Neale, Jaime Derringer &

Lannie Ligthart

Jonas Olofsson et al.

Arpana Agrawal

2011 Matt McGue Roseann Peterson &

Claire Coyne

Matthew Keller et al.

Sarah Med land & Brian D'Onofrio

2012 -

Kenneth Kendler Scott Vrieze Brian Hicks et al.

Mark Adams et al.

Matt Keller & Christel Middeldorp

2013 Dorret Boomsma Jenny van Dongen &

Maciej

Trzaskowski

Henrik Larsson Stephane Paquin

2014 Nancy Pedersen Raymond Walters

Maciej

Trzaskowski et al

Brian Hicks Callie Little

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Previous Meetings

Year President-Elect Local Host 1971 R Osborne/B Ginsburg - Storrs, CT, USA

1972 Th. Dobzhansky GE McClearn - Boulder, CO, USA

1973 John Fuller WS Pollitzer -Chapel Hill, NC, USA

1974 Gerald McClearn S Scarr - Minneapolis, MN, USA

1975 J. P. Scott J Bruell -Austin, TX, USA

1976 Irving Gottesman JC De Fries - Boulder, CO, USA

1977 W. R. Thompson R Wilson - Louisville, KY, USA

1978 Lee Ehrman T Klein - Davis, CA, USA

1979 Elving Anderson C Lynch - Middletown, CT, USA

1980 John Loehlin RD Bock - Chicago, IL, USA

1981 Norm Henderson L Erhman - Purchase, NY, USA, Rose/Guttman/Guttman -

Jerusalem, Israel 1982 John De Fries D Nash -Ft Collins, CO, USA

1983 David Fulker D Fulker - London, UK

1984 Steven Vandenberg R Rose -Bloomington, IN, USA

1985 Sandra Scarr G McClearn - State College, PA, USA

1986 Ronald Wilson G Ashton/R Johnson - Honolulu, HI, USA

1987 Peter Parsons L Heston -Minneapolis, MN, USA

1988 Leonard Heston S Kerbusch -Nijmegen, the Netherlands 1989 Robert Plomin S Scarr - Charlottesville, VA, USA

1990 Carol Lynch P Roubertoux - Aussois, France 1991 Lindon Eaves G Vogler - St Louis, MO, USA

1992 David Blizard J Wilson - Boulder, CO, USA

1993 Tom Bouchard N Martin -Sydney, Australia 1994 Glayde Whitney A Fernandez Teruel/RM Escorihuela/A Tobena - Barcelona,

Spain

1995 James Wilson J Meyer/L Eaves -Richmond, VA, USA

1996 Nicholas Martin G McClearn/G Vogler/D Blizard/B Jones - Pittsburgh, PA, USA

1997 Nicholas Martin T Vernon -Toronto, Canada 1998 Norm Henderson N Pedersen - Stockholm, Sweden 1999 Richard Rose K Jang - Vancouver, Canada

2000 John Hewitt J Hudziak - Burlington, VT, USA

2001 Matt McGue T Eley - Cambridge, UK

2002 Nancy Pedersen M Wamboldt -Keystone, CO, USA

2003 Andrew Heath A Heath - Chicago, IL, USA

2004 Michele Carlier P Roubertoux/M Carlier - Aix-en-Provence, France

2005 Hill Goldsmith C Reynolds / L Baker - Hollywood, CA, USA

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Previous Meetings (cont'd)

Year President-Elect Local Host

2006 Laura Baker S Maxson - Storrs, CT, USA

2007 Pierre Roubertoux D Boomsma - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008 Dorret Boomsma D Finkel - Louisville, KY USA

2009 Michael Neale M McGue - Minneapolis, USA

2010 Irwin Waldman Y-M Hur- Seoul, Korea _

2011 Michael Pogue-Geile V Knopik - Newport, RI, USA _

2012 Eric Turkheimer T Bates - Edinburgh, Scotland

2013 Carol Prescott M Carlier/P Roubertoux - Marseille, France _

2014 Paul Lichtenstein E Turkheimer - Charlottesville, VA, USA _

2015 Jaakko Kaprio W Kremen & C Franz - San Diego, CA, USA

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Wednesday June 17 3:00-6:00

BGA Executive Committee (invitation only) Boardroom 1

7:00-9:00 Welcome Reception Palm Terrace

8:00-11:30

Thursday June 18 Grand Ballroom

Foyer (GBF) North Registration

8:30-8:45 Continental Breakfast GBF North 8:45-9:00 Welcome to 2015 BGA Meeting and San Diego, California

BGA President: Paul Lichtenstein President Elect and Program Chair: Jaakko Kaprio Local Hosts: William Kremen and Carol Franz

Salon A/B/C

9:00-10:00 Dobzhansky Lecture by 2014 Dobzhansky Awardee: Nancy Pedersen Research Professor, University of Southern California, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Vice Dean of Research, Karolinska Institutet

Chair: Jaakko Kaprio

Salon A/B/C

10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea Break GBF North

10:30-11:45 Symposium: Broken down by age and sex? Gene- environment interplay for health and well-being Chair: Nancy Pedersen

Salon A/B

10:30 Age moderation of individual differences in chronic medical illness burden

Margaret Gatz, Andrew Petkus, Carol Franz, Jaakko Kaprio, Kaare Christensen 10:45 Smoking moderates the importance of genetic and environmental influences on lung

function

Terrie Vasilopoulos, Carol Franz, Deborah Finkel, Matthew McGue, Jaakko Kaprio, Nancy Pedersen

11:00 Testing for Age Moderation of Heritability of Loneliness across Adulthood

Dianna Phillips (Thompson Award Candidate), Andrew Petkus, Matthew McGue, Chandra Reynolds

11:15 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Marital Quality: Examining Age, Country, and Construct Differences

Briana Horwitz, Kristine Marceau, Jenae Neiderhiser, iGEMS Consortium 11:30 Discussant: Jennifer Harris _

10:30-11:45 Paper Session: Personality Chair: Dorret Boomsma

Salon C

10:30 Rapid genetic (co) variance estimation based on measured SNPs applied to item level data

Michel Nivard (Thompson Award Candidate), Conor Dolan, Wouter Peyrot, Abdel Abdellaoui, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Christel Middeldorp, Dorret Boomsma _

10:45 Prediction from polygenic scores based on GWA of Neuroticism to psychiatric and lifestyle traits

Dorret Boomsma, Stephanie van den Berg, Abdel Abdellaoui, Eco de Geus, Gonneke Willemsen, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Christel Middeldorp, Yuri Milaneschi, Michel Nivard,

Jacqueline Vink, Meike Bartels, Gerard Van Grootheest, Brenda Penninx, Mar leen de Moor

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11:00 Genetic and Environmental Correlations among Five Factor Model Personality Traits and Marital Quality

Amber Jarnecke (Thompson Award Candidate), Susan South

11:15 Genome-wide Association Meta-Analyses for Happiness, Satisfaction with Life and Wellbeing; The Sequel

Meike Bartels, Aysu Okbay, Jaime Derringer, Bart Baselmans, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,

Cornelius Rietveld, David Cesarini, Bob Krueger, Daniel Benjamin, Philipp Koellinger

11:30 Individual differences in personality masculinity-femininity: Examining the effects of genes, environment, and prenatal hormone transfer

Karin Verweij, Miriam Mosing, Fredrik Ul len, Guy Madison

10:30-11:45 Paper Session: Physical Activity and BMI

Chair: Karri Silventoinen

Gas lamp Room 2

10:30 Changing genetic architecture of BMI from early childhood until the onset of adulthood

Karri Silventoinen

10:48 Cohort Differences in the Etiology of BMI Across the Adult Life Span

Chandra Reynolds, Anna Dahl As Ian, Tove Fall, Patrik Magnusson, Nancy Pedersen

11:06 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Motives for Leisure-Time Physical Activity in Finnish Twins

Sari Aaltonen, Urho Kujala, Eero Vuoksimaa, Jaakko Kaprio, Karri Silventoinen

11:24 A new hybrid line may break a selection limit on voluntary wheel running in mice

Lay la Hiramatsu (Thompson Award Candidate), Theodore Garland

11:45-1:00 Lunch on your own

1:00-2:00 Plenary: Measuring the Human Brain-Gut Microbiome- Immune System Dynamics: a Big Data Challenge Larry Smarr UC San Diego Harry E. Gruber Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego Founding director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Chair: William Kremen

Salon A/B/C

2:00-3:15 Paper Session: Quantitative genetic modeling

Chair: Gitta Lubke

Salon A/B/C

2:00 Using pairwise distances as phenotypes in twin-based heritability analyses

Gitta Lubke, Dorret Boomsma, Michael Neale

2:15 Nonparametric Gene x Environment Estimation: Local Structural Equation Modeling

Daniel Briley (Thompson Award Candidate), Kathryn Harden, Timothy Bates, Elliot Tucker-Drob

2:30 Combining Genomic-Relatedness-Matrix Restricted Maximum Likelihood (GREML) with Structural Equation Modeling in Open Mx

Robert Kirkpatrick, Michael Neale

2:45 A note on moderating covariation between two phenotypes

Erin Horn (Thompson Award Candidate), Eric Turkheimer

3:00 Polyphenotype Multilevel Behavior Genetics Modeling: A step toward unification

Michael Hunter, David Bard

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2:00-3:15 Paper Session: Addictions Chair: Wendy Slutske

Gaslamp Room 2

2:00 Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and the Development of

Adolescent Alcohol Problems: A Prospective, Population-Based Study of Swedish Twins

Patrick Quinn, Erik Petterson, Sebastian Lundstrom, Henrik Anckarsater, Niklas Langstrom,

Clara Hellner Gumpert, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein, Brian D'Onofrio

2:18 A discordant twin model of the development of alcohol tolerance and problematic use from

alcohol initiation over adolescence and young adulthood.

Arielle Deutsch, Andrew Heath, Michael Lynskey, Nick G. Martin, Wendy Slutske

2:36 The Changing Influence of Education and Genetics on the Choice to Continue Smoking in the

United States

Robbee Wedow, Brooke Huibregtse, Jason Boardman

3:54 Neighborhood Disadvantage and Gambling Involvement and Disorder: Evidence for Gene-

Environment Correlation and Interaction

Wendy Slutske, Arielle Deutsch, Dixie Statham, Nicholas Martin

3:15 -3:45 I NI 6 Afternoon break GBF North

3:45-5:00 Paper Session: Schizophrenia

Chair: Michael Pogue-Geile

Salon AM

3:45 Do self-report personality measures tap genetic risk for schizophrenia?

Dorian Mitchem (Thompson Award Candidate), Bridget Carey, Scott Vrieze, Wendy Slutske,

Nick G. Martin, Matthew Keller

4:03 Association and Sequence Fine Mapping of Known Schizophrenia Loci with Psychophysiological Endophenotypes.

Mengzhen Liu (Thompson Award Candidate), Scott Vrieze, Stephen Malone, Uma

Vaidyanathan, Matthew McGue, Goncalo Abecasis, William Iacono

4:21 The Genetic Structure of Cognitive Endophenotypes for Schizophrenia: The

Multigenerational Multiplex Genetic Investigation (MGI) of Schizophrenia Michael Pogue-Geile, Susan Kuo, Raquel Gur, Laura Almasy, Reuben Gur, Konasale Prasad,

Vishwajit Nimgaonkar

4:39 Runs of Homozygosity in the PGC2 Data: No Reliable Association with Schizophrenia

Doug Bjelland , Emma Johnson (Thompson Award Candidate), Matthew Keller

3:45-5:00 Paper Session: Tobacco and Cannabis

Chair: Hermine Maes

Salon C

3:45 Passive gene-environment correlation or a developmental gene-environment cascade?

Investigating mechanisms of the association of smoking during pregnancy and birth weight

using a polygenic scoring approach

Kristine Marceau, Rohan Palmer, Jenae Neiderhiser, Taylor Smith, Valerie Knopik

4:03 Understanding the Relationship between Age of Smoking Onset and Severity of Nicotine

Withdrawal Symptoms in Young Adults

Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Judy Silberg, Lindon Eaves, Michael Neale, Hermine Maes

4:21 Potential Effects of Youth Cannabis Use on Adult Functioning: A Twin Study

Nayla Hamdi (Thompson Award Candidate), Matthew McGue, William Iacono

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4:39 A Multivariate Behavior Genetic Analysis of the Ages of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cannabis Initiation

Leah Richmond-Rakerd (Thompson Candidate Award), Wendy Slutske, Michael Lynskey, Arpana Agrawal, Pamela Madden, Kathleen Bucholz, Andrew Heath, Nicholas Martin

3:45-5:00 Paper Session: Parenting

Chair: Kelly Klump

Gas lamp Room 2

3:45 Genetic and Environmental Links between Parenting Practices and Child Phenotypes in Early Childhood

Amanda Cheung (Thompson Award Candidate), Kathryn Harden, Elliot Tucker-Drob 4:00 Family history, the home environment and SES as predictors of response-to-intervention:

Project KIDS

Sarah Hart 4:15 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Parent and Peer Relationships: The Good with the

Bad

Amanda Griffin, Charles Beekman, Jenae Neiderhiser, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Kelly Klump, S. Alexandra Burt

4:30 Aetiological influences on parents' and children's shared and distinct perceptions of parenting: a longitudinal study

Laurie Hannigan (Thompson Award Candidate), Tom McAdams, Robert Plomin, Thalia Eley

Multivariate analysis of genetic and environmental influences on parenting in adolescence Megan Patterson (Thompson Award Candidate), Frank Mann, Elliot Tucker-Drob, Kathryn Harden

4:45

5:00-7:30 Poster Session Chair: Jaakko Kaprio Posters should be put up between 3:15 and 5 pm. Poster size cannot be larger than 4' x 4' (121.92 x 121.92 cms). Pushpins provided.

"R" beside poster number indicates candidate eligible for Rowe Award Appetizers provided; cash bar

Salons D/E &

Grand Ballroom Foyer South

1 The Relationship between Teacher-student relationship and Academic-related Boredom: MAOA Gene as a Moderator

Yangyang Liu

2(R) Toddler Developmental Maturity: Heritability and Prenatal and Postnatal Adversity

Amanda Meachum, Reagan Breitenstein, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, Carlos Valiente 3 DZA Twins Conceived via Identical Double Embryo Donors: Behavioral Features of Three

Infant Pairs Raised in Different Countries

Nancy Segal, Amanda Killian

4(R) The Etiology of Executive Functioning in Early Childhood _

Lauren Micalizzi, Kimberly Saudino

5(R) Genetic Overlap between Neuropsychiatric Problems in Childhood and Psychotic Experiences in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Martin Cederlof, Erik Pettersson, Amir Sariaslan, Henrik Larsson, Per Ostberg, Ian Kelleher, Niklas LangstrOm, Henrik Anckarsater, Clara Hellner Gumpert, Sebastian Lundstrom, Paul Lichtenstein

6(R) Nonshared environmental influences on social aggression: monozygotic twin differences in

parental control

Brooke Slawinski, S. Alexandra Burt, Kelly Klump

7 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Toddler Negative Emotionality, Dysregulation, Problem Behaviors, and Competence.

Olivia Cooke, Sierra Clifford, Carlos Valiente, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant

8 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Longitudinal Changes in Functional Biological Age

Ola Sternang, Deborah Finkel, Ake Wahlin

9 Associations between fetal growth and self-perceived health throughout adulthood: A co-

twin control study.

Miriam Mosing, Margaret Gatz, Jenae Neiderhiser, Nancy Pedersen

10(R) Midlife Cognitive Functioning: Adaptation to Stress and Apolipoprotein E, Interleukin 6, and

C-Reactive Protein Genes

Ryan Barclay, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, Mary Davis, Alex Zautra

11 Prenatal alcohol exposure and ADHD: A prospective extended children-of-twins study Espen Eilertsen, Line Gjerde, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Eivind Ystrom

12(R) Common etiology between Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and abnormal body mass index

Qi Chen, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Paul Lichtenstein, Henrik Larsson

13(R) Does perfectionism drive membership into weight-focused peer groups? A co-twin control design investigating potential selection effects

Shannon O'Connor, S. Alexandra Burt, Kelly Klump

14(R) Familial liability for eating disorders and suicidal behavior: a population-based study in

Sweden

Shuyang Yao, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Laura Thornton, Cristin Runfola, Brian D'Onofrio, Cynthia Bulik, Henrik Larsson

15(R) Parent-offspring similarity of drinking behaviors in a longitudinal twin sample

Gretchen Saunders, Matthew McGue

16 Genome Wide Association Study of Cocaine Dependence and Related Traits in a High-Risk Sample

Spencer Huggett, Michael Stallings

17 Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between ADHD-like traits and

internalizing problems: a Chinese child twin study

Tian-jiao Chen, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein, Zheng Chang

18(R) Genome-wide Association Study of Specific Psychotic Experiences in Adolescence

Oliver Pain, Frank Dudbridge, Robert Plomin, Angelica Ronald 19 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Early Social Competence: Moderation by Childcare

Sierra Clifford, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, Carlos Valiente 20(R) Genes for Good: Wearable Sensors and User Engagement

David Brazel, Maia Frieser, Johanna Forster, Kevin Li, Gregory Zajac, Katharine Brieger,

Goncalo Abecasis, Scott Vrieze

21 Environmental influences on effortful control in early childhood: A study in adopted children and their families

Yayouk Willems, Jenae Neiderhiser, David Reiss, Daniel Shaw, Misaki Natsuaki, Leslie Leve


22(R) Genome wide variation predicts number of lifetime sexual partners: A polygenic score approach

Brooke Huibregtse, Michael Stallings

23(R) Does marital adjustment moderate genetic and environmental influences on parenting?

Emily Le Donne, Ash lea M. Klahr, Jenae Neiderhiser, Kelly Klump, Deborah Gorman-Smith, S.

Alexandra Burt

24 Partial Replication of Two Rumination-related Candidate Gene Studies

Carol Van Hulle, Sierra Clifford, Mollie Moore, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, Hill Goldsmith 25(R) Effects of early-life exposure to Western diet on adult activity levels and associated

behavioral and physiological traits

Jarren Kay, Ralph Albuquerque, Gerald Claghorn, Layla Hiramatsu, Jennifer Singleton, Zoe Thompson, James Colbath, Brett Ho, Brittany Ho, Gabriela Sanchez, Danny Thai, Theodore Garland

26 Social environment affects heritability of smoking persistence. Comparison between two twin cohorts born before and after the 70's pro-smoking change in Spain

Laura Mezquita, Juan Sanchez-Romera, Manuel Ibanez, Lucia Colodro Conde, Generos Grtet, Juan Ordonana

27 Early family environment moderates the environmental contributions to anxiety in later life

Andrew Petkus, Lewina Lee

28(R) Longitudinal Links Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Parent Negativity

Megan Flom, Kimberly Saudino

29 Meta-analysis of the association between birth weight and ADHD

Aspen Makkar, Ryan Manning, Arielle Plavnick, Michael Vargas, Olivia Einbund, Valerie Knopik, Taylor Smith

30(R) Parental depression and prenatal risk influences on child social competence: Understanding genetic and environmental influences

Amanda Ramos, Amanda Griffin, Chang (Cecilia) Liu, Daniel Shaw, Leslie Leve, Jody Ganiban, Misaki Natsuaki, Jenae Neiderhiser

31 Age and Severity of Alcohol and Marijuana Initiation: Effect on P300 Amplitude in a Sample of Twins

Claire Gorey, Marina Bornovalova, Steve Malone, William Iacono, Matthew McGue

32(R) Mutual Influences between Adopted Children's Anger and Adoptive Parents Structured Parenting: A Prospective Adoption Study

Chang (Cecilia) Liu, Amanda Ramos, Ginger Moore, Leslie Leve, Daniel Shaw, Jody Ganiban,

David Reiss, Misaki Natsuaki, Jenae Neiderhiser

33 Genetic and environmental influences on self-control, grit, and conscientiousness: Results from Japanese adolescent twins

Yusuke Takahashi, Shinji Yamagata, Juko Ando

34(R) Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Children's High Intensity Physical Activity: Evidence of evocative rGE?

Frances Mallari, Diane Mitchell, Leslie Leve, Jenae Neiderhiser, David Reiss, Misaki Natsuaki, Daniel Sshaw, Jody Ganiban

35 Heritability and longitudinal stability of planning and behavioral disinhibition based on the Porteus Maze Test

Marcella May, Catherine Tuvblad, Laura Baker, Adrian Raine

36 Genetic and environmental influences on adolescent and young adult smoking initiation: Examining heterogeneity by race

Cristina Bares, Hermine Maes

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37(R) Comparing Relative Telomere Length between Buccal and Leukocyte Derived DNA

Casey Finnicum, Zachary Weber, Jason Petersen, Veryan Codd, Conor Dolan, Gareth Davies,

Erik Ehli, Gonneke Willemsen, Dorret Boomsma

38(R) Moderation of personality by positive life events

Jason Scicchitano, Jaime Derringer

39 Understanding Nonlinear Predictors of Follow-Up Participation of Twins in Project Talent

Twin and Sibling Study

Randy Bautista, John McArdle, Deanna Lyter, Susan Lapham, Carol Prescott

40(R) Working Memory in Relation to Math and Reading: A Twin Study

David Katz, Stephen Petrill, Lee Thomspon

41 Phenotypic differences in facial features of individuals with the 16p11.2 copy number variant

Tim Pang

42(R) A longitudinal look at parent-offspring similarity in personality

Bridget Carey, William Iacono, Matthew McGue

43 The stability of cognitive performance across time in a longitudinal twin design

Shandell Pahlen, Matthew McGue, Chandra Reynolds

44(R) Serotonin-mediated central fatigue underlies increased endurance in mice that have been

selectively bred for high voluntary wheel running

Gerald Claghorn

45(R) Estimating Heritability of Reactive and Proactive Aggression: An Item Response Theory Approach

Shannon Potts, Catherine Tuvblad, Laura Baker, Adrian Raine

46 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Math Achievement and Math Cognition Measures: A Twin Study

Carol Gross, Lee Thompson, Stephen Petrill

47 The impact of culture on genetic and environmental contributions to externalizing behavior during adolescence

Jody Ganiban, Misaki Natsuaki, Kristine Marceau, Xinying Li, David Reiss, Jenae Neiderhiser 48 Locating Participants Using Sibling and Family Relationships in the Project Talent Twin and

Sibling Study

Deanna Lyter Achorn, Carol Prescott, Danielle Battle, Ashley Kaiser, Susan Lapham, George

Rebok

49(R) Heritability of Reading Comprehension: A Meta-Analysis

Callie Little, Sara Hart

50 Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Cannabis Dependence in the UCSF Family Alcoholism Study

Ian Gizer, Chris Bizon, David Gilder, Cindy Ehlers, Kirk Wilhelmsen

51 Particulate Air Pollutants, Delinquency, and Aggressive Behaviors of Adolescents in

Southern California: A Longitudinal Analysis

Laura Baker, Catherine Tuvblad

52 Higher rates of DZ twinning in a 21st century birth cohort

Sally Ann Rhea, Robin Corley, John Hewitt

53 Exome sequencing of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis in parent- offspring trios Stacey Cherny

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Friday June 19 8:00-11:30 Registration Grand Ballroom

Foyer (GBF)North

8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast GBF North

8:45-9:45 Symposium: Determinants and correlates of physical (in- )activity, part I

Chairs: Charlotte Huppertz, Nienke Schutte

Salon A/B

8:45 Exercise behavior in childhood and adolescence: Age-moderation and temporal stability

Charlotte Huppertz (Thompson Award Candidate), Meike Bartels, Catherina van Beijsterveldt, Gonneke Willemsen, Dorret Boomsma, Jim Hudziak, Eco de Geus

9:05 Born to Run: replicated selective breeding for high levels of voluntary exercise in house mice

Theodore Garland

9:25 Born to Run: 2. genetic architecture of voluntary exercise in replicated selection lines of house mice

Liran Yadgary, Daniel Pomp, George Weinstock, Theodore Garland, Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena

8:45-9:45 Paper Session: Methods for genome wide analyses

Chair: Greg Carey

Salon C

8:45 Phenome-wide analysis of genome-wide polygenic scores

Eva Krapohl (Thompson Award Candidate), Robert Plomin

9:00 Gene-Environment Interactions in Biologically Proximate and Distal Traits

Ronald de Vlaming, Aysu Okbay, Philipp Koellinger, Cornelius Rietveld, Daniel Benjamin, David Ces ?rini, Patrick Groenen, Roy Thurik

9:15 Challenges and Solutions for the Use of Cognitive Data in Genetically Informative Research

Matthew Panizzon, Eero Vuoksimaa, Michael Lyons, William Kremen

9:30 GCTAx: Extended genome-wide complex trait analysis

Greg Carey, Beate St. Pourcain, David Evans, Lindon Eaves

8:45-9:45 Paper Session: Internalizing

Chair: Paul Lichtenstein

Gaslamp Room 2

8:45 _

Sex differences in genetic influences on comorbidity between anxiety disorders and personality disorders: A twin study.

Audun Welander-Vatn (Thompson Award Candidate), Eivind Ystrom, Kristian Tambs, Jack

Hettema, Michael Neale, Kenneth Kendler, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Gun Peggy Knudsen

9:00 Choosing a powerful depression phenotype: Trajectories of anxiety and depression between age 7 and age 18 and the influence of genetic factors in Dutch twins

Patrick Miller (Thompson Award Candidate), Brad Verhulst, Meike Bartels, Toos van

Beijsterveldt, Gonneke Willemsen, Dorret Boomsma, Christel Middeldorp, Gitta Lubke

9:15 Examining the relationship between single motherhood and depression: direction of causation, moderators, and cross-cultural comparisons

Diana Dinescu (Thompson Award Candidate), Robert Emery, Erin Horn, Eric Turkheimer

9:30 The Intergenerational Transmission of Suicidal Behavior: A Children of Twins and Siblings - Study

Lauren Bramson, Martin Rickert, Quetzal Class, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein, Brian

D'Onofrio

9:45-10:15 Coffee/Tea Break GBF North

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10:15-11:15 Plenary: Genetics of Physical Activity

Eco de Geus Director, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research at the VU Medical

Center, Amsterdam, NL.

Professor, Department of Biological Psychology at VU

Co-director, Netherlands Twin Registry.


Salon A /B /c

11:15-12:15 Symposium: Determinants and correlates of physical

(in-) activity, part II

Chair: Nienke Schutte, Charlotte Huppertz

Salon A/B

11:15 The association of physical inactivity and body mass index in the Finnish twin pair discordant for their leisure-time physical activity during a 35-year follow-up

Maarit Piirtola, Jaakko Kaprio, Katja Waller, Kauko Heikki la, Markku Koskenvuo, Pia Svedberg,

Karri Silventoinen, Urho Kujala, Annina Ropponen

11:35 Genetic and Environmental Interplay in the Association between Depression and Regular

Exercise and Physical Fitness

Wendy Johnson, Erik Mortensen, Kirsten Kyvik

11:55 Differences in acute affective responses to exercise

Nienke Schutte (Thompson Award Candidate), Ineke Nederend, Jim Hudziak, Meike Bartels,

Eco de Geus

11:15-12:15

,,'N Paper Session: Childhood development Chairs: Timothy Bates

Gas lamp Room 2

tj 411:00 J IToR -a novel, prospective extended children of twins study Line Gjerde, Espen Eilertsen, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Eivind Ystrom

_ 11:15 Infant Brain Development: Genetic and environmental influences from birth to 2 years of

age

Timothy Bates, John Gilmore, Michael Neale

11:30 The parameter space of a Nuclear-Twin-Family model of early childhood reading

William Coventry, Amelia Vogel, Robin Corley, Richard Olson, Stefan Samuelsson, Brian Byrne

11:45 General psychopathology and parenting as genetic and environmental influences on

trajectories of co-occurring behavior problems in children Charles Beekman, Leslie Roos, Leslie Leve, Daniel Shaw, Jody Ganiban, David Reiss, Jenae

Neiderhiser

12:15-1:15 Lunch (Provided) & BGA Business Meeting Salon A/B/C

1:15-2:15 Plenary: Deriving knowledge from complex genomic and microbiome data for discovery and clinical decision making Felix Frueh Chief Scientific Officer, Human Longevity, Inc., San Diego


Salon A/B/C

2:15-3:30 Symposium: 50 years of twin studies

Chair: Tinca Polderman

Salon A/B/C

2:15 The Planning, and Implementation of the National Merit Twin Study

Robert Nichols

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2:33 The National Merit Twin Study data and me

John Loehlin

2:51 50 years of twin studies: A meta-analysis of all human traits. Part I

Danielle Posthuma, Tinca Polderman, Bebe Benyamin, Christiaan De Leeuw

3:09 _

50 years of twin studies: A meta-analysis of all human traits. Part II

Tinca Polderman, Beben Benyamin, Christiaan De Leeuw, D Posthuma _ 2:15-3:30 Paper Session: Traumatic experiences and stress

Chair: Elliot Tucker-Drob

Gas lamp Room 2

2:15 Trauma Exposure, Stressful Life Events, and Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology: Multivariate Structure and Shared Etiology Devon LoParo (Thompson Award Candidate), Kerry Ressler, Irwin Waldman

2:30 Examining the moderating role of trauma on the genetic and environmental contributions to PTSD symptom clusters

Chelsea Sawyers (Thompson Award Candidate), Michael Neale, Carol Franz

2:45 Stressful Life Events and Smoking Behavior in the Transitions to Substance Abuse (TSA)

Follow-Up

Elizabeth Do (Thompson Award Candidate), Hermine Maes

3:00 Biometric Analysis of Chronic Cortisol in a Socioeconomically Diverse Twin Sample

Elliot Tucker-Drob, Daniel Briley, Laura Engelhardt, Frank Mann, Megan Patterson, Kathryn Harden

3:15 Gene expression profiles following acute stress exposure in adults with early trauma history Robert Kvmsta

3:30-4:00 Afternoon break GBF North

4:00-5:15 Symposium: Resuscitating the Louisville Twin Study. A

Symposium in Honor of Adam P. Matheny

Chair: Eric Turkheimer

Salon A/B

4:00 Applying Latent Growth Curve Models to Developmental Synchronies in Cognitive

Development in Louisville Twin Study Data

Deborah Finkel, Deborah Davis, William Dickens, Eric Turkheimer

4:15 Genetic and environmental contributions to behavioral stability during infancy: Revisiting -

Louisville Twin Study Data

Deborah Davis, Deborah Finkel, Eric Turkheimer, William Dickens

4:30 Longitudinal phenotype-environment models in the Louisville Twin Study and their interpretation

Christopher Beam (Thompson Award Candidate), Eric Turkheimer, Deborah Davis _ 4:45

- A Longitudinal Analysis of Birth Order Contributions to Shared and Non-shared

Environment

Deborah Davis, William Dickens, Deborah Finkel, Rachel Sederberg (Thompson Award Candidate), Eric Turkheimer

5:00 Investigating Poverty by Heritability Interactions in the Louisville Twin Study

Eric Turkheimer, Christopher Beam, Deborah Finkel, Deborah Davis, William Dickens

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4:00-5:15 Paper Session: Cognitive ability and dementia

Chair: Michael Lyons

Salon C

4:00 APOE alleles and aging-related memory decline: the tortoise (E2) and the hare (E4)

Thalida Arpawong, John McArdle, Carol Prescott

4:18 Genetic susceptibility to cardiovascular disease and risk of dementia

Ida Karlsson (Thompson Award Candidate), Sara Hagg, Alexander Ploner, Ci Song, Margaret Gatz, Nancy Pedersen

4:36 Genetic influences on neuropsychological traits as assessed by the web-based Computerized Neurocognitive Battery

Suzanne Swagerman (Thompson Award Candidate), Eco de Geus, Kees-Jan Kan, Marinka Koenis, Rachel Brouwer, Hil leke Hulshoff Pol, Dorret Boomsma

4:54 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Stability, Change, and Heterogeneity in General Cognitive Ability over four Decades of Adulthood

Michael Lyons, Matthew Panizzon, Carol Franz, Kristen Jacobson, Michael Grant, Noah Bluestone, Ruth McKenzie, William Kremen, Hong Xian

4:00-5:15 Paper Session: ADHD and autism Chair: Valerie Knopik

Gas lamp Room 2

_ 4:00 Parental asthma and maternal asthma medication during pregnancy and risk of offspring

autism spectrum disorder

Tong Gong (Thompson Award Candidate), Cecilian Lundholm, Gustaf Rejne, Sven Mite, Henrik Larsson, Brian D'Onofrio, Paul Lichtenstein, Catarina Almqvist

4:18 Whole genome sequencing identifies balanced and complex de novo structural variation in autism

William Brand ler (Thompson Award Candidate) 4:36 Relative immaturity and attention problems; A longitudinal, multi-informant twin study

Isabel' Brikell (Thompson Award Candidate), Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Jan-Olov Larsson, Paul

Lichtenstein, Per-Anders Rydelius, Henrik Larsson

4:54 Smoking during pregnancy and ADHD risk: A genetically-informed, multiple-rater approach Valerie Knopik, Kristine Marceau, Rohan Palmer, Taylor Smith, Andrew Heath

5:30-6:30 Paper Session: Childhood psychopathology Chair: Irwin Waldman

Salon A/B

5:30 Testing Alternative Models for the Underlying Structure of Childhood Psychopathology using Confirmatory Factor Analyses and Multivariate Behavior Genetic Analyses Irwin Waldman, Paul Rathouz, Carol Van Hulle, Benjamin Lahey

5:50 Familiality of the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and borderline personality disorder Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein _

6:10 The general factor of psychopathology in childhood and maladaptive outcomes in young adulthood: A Swedish population twin study Erik Pettersson, Benjamin Lahey, Henrik Larsson, Sebastian Lundstrom, Paul Lichtenstein

5:30-6:30 Paper Session: New aspects of methods Chair: Carol Prescott

Salon C

5:30 MIDDLE: A new paradigm for genetic studies.

Michal Neale, Michael Hunter, Hermine Maes, Timo von Oertzen, Steve Boker

5:45 Biases in genetic variance estimates induced by assortative mating Teresa de Candia, Rasool Tahmasbi, Greg Carey, Lindon Eaves, Matt Jones, Matthew Keller

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6:00 Developmentally Dynamic Intra-individual Variations in Heritability of Physical Aggression during Infancy: Some SEM Models Eric Lacourse

6:15 Validation of Zygosity Classification in the Project Talent Twin and Sibling Study Carol Prescott, Deanna Lyter Achorn, Randy Bautista, Franchesca Cortez, John McArdle, Susan Lapham

5:30-6:30 Genes and society

Chair: Scott Vrieze

Gas lamp Room 2

5:30 Genes, Psychological Traits, and Voter Turnout Christopher Dawes

5:50 Genes for Good: Citizen Science and Participant Values

Maia Frieser (Thompson Award Candidate), David Brazel, Johanna Forster, Kevin Li, Gregory Zajac, Katharine Brieger, Goncalo Abecasis, Scott Vrieze

6:10 Genetic correlates of non-participation in a population cohort Joanna Martin, Kate Tilling, Leon Hubbard, Evie Stergiakouli, Michael O'Donovan, George Davey Smith, Anita Thapar, Stanley Zammit

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Saturday June 20 8:00-11:30 Registration Grand Ballroom

Foyer (GBF) North

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast GBF North _

8:45-9:45 Symposium: Neuroimaging and Genetics, part I


Salon A/B

8:45 Polygenic architecture of human cortical surface area

Chi-Hua Chen

9:00 Configuration of cortical surface area and thickness and general cognitive ability Eero Vuoksimaa, Matthew Panizzon, Chi-Hua Chen, Mark Fiecas, Christine Fennema- Notestine, Lisa Eyler, Carol Franz, Michael Lyons, Anders Dale, William Kremen

9:15 Non-linear association of anxiety-depression (SPHERE) score with cortical surface and surface area Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne (Thompson Award Candidate), Lachlan Strike, Paul Thompson, Katie McMahon, Greig de Zubicaray, Nick G. Martin, Ian Hickie, Margaret Wright

9:30 Identifying genetic variants influencing brain structure: recent result from the ENIGMA

consortium Sarah Med land

8:45-9:45 Paper Session: Academic Development Chair: Jonathan Beauchamp

Salon C

_ 8:45 Genetic and environmental underpinnings of spatial abilities and their role in predicting

academic achievement and success in STEM

Kai li Rimfeld (Thompson Award Candidate), Nicholas Shakeshaft, Kerry Schofield, Margherita Malanchini, Maja Rodic, Yulia Kovas, Robert Plomin

9:00 Pleiotropy with Educational Attainment: Results Based on a GWAS with 300,000 Individuals

Jonathan Beauchamp, Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, Ronal de Vlaming, Tonu Esko, Mark Fontana, Philipp Koellinger, Aysu Okbay, Cornelius Rietveld, Patrick Turley

9:15 Biological insights from 73 genetic loci associated with educational attainment Aysu Okbay (Thompson Award Candidate), Tonu Esko, Mark Fontana, Patrick Turley, Jonathan Beauchamp, Cornelius Rietveld, Fleur Meddens, Philipp Koellinger, Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini

9:30 Associations Between Dimensions of Psychosocial Stress and Cognitive Performance in a

Diverse Twin Sample

Laura Engelhardt (Thompson Candidate Award), Daniel Briley, Kathryn Harden, Elliot Tucker- Drob

9:45-10:05 Coffee/Tea Break rth

10:05-11:20 Symposium: Neuroimaging and Genetics, part II Chair: William Kremen

Salon A/B --

10:0 -- ENIGMA-DTI: the genetic contributions to white matter microstructureNeda Jahanshad

-1 10:20 Gene ontributions to cortical thickness patterning in young adults

Lachlan Str. e (Thompson Award Candidate), Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Katie McMahon, Zubicaray, Paul Thompson, Nick G. Martin, Margaret Wright

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10:35 Genetic influences on longitudinal changes in subcortical volumes: results of the ENIGMA

Plasticity Working Group

Hilleke Hulshoff Pol, Rachel Brouwer, David Glahn, Derrek Hibar, Xue Ha, Neda Jahanshad,

Lucija Abramovic, Carol Franz, Narelle Hansell, Marinka Koenis, Karen Mather, Matthew Panizzon, Lachlan Strike, Suzanne Swagerman, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Wei Wen, Dorret Boomsma, John Gilmore, Nitin Gogtay, Rene S Kahn, William Kremen, Perminder Sachdev,

Margaret Wright, Paul Thompson

10:50 Genetically-Informative Multivariate Models of Brain Maturation

James Schmitt, Jay Giedd, Michael Neale

11:05 Discussant

David Glahn _ 10:05-11:20 Paper Session: Development and substance use

Chair: Antti Latvala

Salon C

10:05 Child Language Development and Later Alcohol Use Behaviors Kerri Woodward (Thompson Award Candidate), Robin Corley, Naomi Friedman, Alexander

Hatoum, John Hewitt, Brooke Huibregtse, Soo Rhee, Michael Stallings

10:23 Cognitive ability and risk for substance misuse: Investigating the link in Swedish nationwide family data

Antti Latvala, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein

10:41 Modeling etiology of drug abuse in Swedish twins, full siblings, half siblings, cousins and step siblings.

Hermine Maes, Michael Neale, Henrik Ohlson, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, Kenneth Kendler

11:59 A Biometric and Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Alcohol Use Patterns from Early

Adolescence to Young Adulthood

Jeanne Savage (Thompson Award Candidate), Jaakko Kaprio, Richard Rose, Antti Latvala, Anu

Lou kola, Danielle Dick _

10:05-11:20 Paper Session: Depression

Chair: S. Alexandra Burt

Gaslamp Room 2

10:05 A Direct Test of the Diathesis-Stress Hypothesis Using Polygenic Risk Scores

Nick G. Martin, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Lucia Colodro Conde, Gu Zhu, William Coventry,

Sarah Medland

10:23 Gene-by-Environment Interactions, Social Stress, and Depression in Older Adults

Jaime Derringer, Mark Whisman

10:41 Do 'Plasticity' Genes Relate to Sensitivity to the Environment? Divergence in Depression

Scores in Monozygotic Twin Pairs

Sarah Moore (Thompson Award Candidate), Jane Mendle

11:59 A straightforward family design for examining the contribution of mitochondrial DNA to psychiatric/behavioral phenotypes S. Alexandra Burt, Kelly Klump, Qing Lu

11:20-12:30 Lunch On your own

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12:30-1:30 Plenary: Making sense of GWAS: using epigenomics and

genome engineering to understand the functional relevance

of SNP5 in non-coding regions of the human genome

Peggy Farnham William M Keck Professor of Biochemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/ Norris

Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California


Salon A /B /c

1:45-3:00 Paper Session: Genes, epigenetics and substance use


Salon AM

r .145 Examining the relationship between FTND, CPD and rs16969968 with different psychometric models

Brad Verhulst, Michael Neale, Jingchun Chen, Xiangning Chen

2:00 / -....--

Deep sequencing of 71 genes to detect variation associated with alcohol dependence

Shaunna Clark, Joseph Mc Clay, Daniel Adkins, Karolina Aberg, Gaurav Kumar, Srilaxmi Nerella, Linying Xie, Ann Collins, James Crowley, Corey Quakenbush, Chris Hillard, Guimin Gao, Andrey Shaba lin, Scott Vrieze, Roseann Peterson, William Copeland, Judy Silberg, Matthew McGue, Hermine Maes, William Iacono, Patrick Sullivan, E.Jane Costello, Edwin van den Cord

2:15 Validating the assumption of genetic homogeneity across DSM-IV indicators of alcohol dependence

Rohan Palmer, John Mc Geary, Andrew Heath, Matthew Keller, Valerie Knopik

2:30 Examining Gene-Environment interactions with Classical Twin Models and Epigenetic Analysis Jane Ebejer, Tim York, Richard Rose, Richard Viken, Jaakko Kaprio, Danielle Dick

2:45 DNA Methylation Signatures in MZ Twins Discordant for Smoking

Brinda Rana, Matthew Panizzon, Carol Franz, William Kremen

1:45-3:00 Paper Session: Women's health Chair: Brian D'Onofrio

Salon C

1:45

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Changes in Genetic Risk for Emotional Eating across the Menstrual Cycle: A Longitudinal Study Kelly Klump, Britny Hildebrandt, Shannon O'Connor, Pamela Keel, Michael Neale, Cheryl Sisk,

Steven Boker, S. Alexandra Burt 2:03 igh heritability estim es for Nausea and Vomiting during Pregnancy

Lucia Colodro Con , Patrick Jern, Ada Johansson, Juan Ordonana, Sarah Medland :21 Matern y Mass Index and Offspring Fetal Growth: A Cousin- and Sibling-Comparison

Catarina

Study Brian D'Onofrio, Anna Oberg, Quetzal Class, Martin Rickert, Lauren Bramson, Almqvist, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein

2:39 A Genetically Informed Study of the Associations between Maternal Age at Childbearing and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes

Ayesha Sujan (Thompson Award Candidate), Martin Rickert, Quetzal Class, Claire Coyne, Paul

Lichtenstein, Catarina Almqvist Malmros, Henrik Larsson, Arvid Sjolander, Benjamin Lahey,

Carol Van Hulle, Irwin Waldman, Anna Oberg, Brian D'Onofrio

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r 1:45-3:00 Paper Session: Executive Functioning Chair: John Hewitt

Gas lamp Room 2

1:45 Genetic Variance In Executive Functioning Accounts for some of the Comorbidity in Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Alexander Hatoum (Thompson Award Candidate), Soo Rhee, Robin Corley, John Hewitt, Naomi Friedman

2:03 Predicting neural correlates of executive functioning with genetic risk scores for psychiatric disorders Chelsie Benca (Thompson Award Candidate), Jaime Derringer, Robin Corley, John Hewitt, Naomi Friedman

2:21 Stability and Change in the Relations Among Executive Functions and Substance Use and Dependence From Late Adolescence to Early Adulthood Naomi Friedman, Daniel Gustayson, Robin Corley, Michael Stallings, John Hewitt

2:39 Understanding the Cognitive and Genetic Underpinnings of Procrastination: Evidence for Shared Genetic Influences with Goal Management and Executive Function Abilities

Daniel Gustayson, Akira Miyake, John Hewitt, Naomi Friedman

3:00-3:20 Afternoon break GBF North 3:20-4:30 Symposium: Novel Methods and Recent Results for

Enrichment and Pleiotropy in GWAS

Chair: Wesley Thompson

Salon A/B

3:20 An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating GWAS Effect Sizes

Wesley Thompson 3:31

---- Leveraging genome-wide association analysis to estimate genetic correlation Benjamin Neale

3:42 Examining Multiple Source of "Enrichment" in GWAS Statistics

Andrew Schork (Thompson Award Candidate) 3:53 Case studies in pathway enrichment analysis for genome-wide association studies:

successes, limitations, and future directions Peter Carbonetto

4:04 Discussants Michael Neale Nicholas Schork

3:20-4:30 Paper Session: Externalizing Chair: Meike Bartels

Gas lamp Room 2

3:20 Trait Endophenotypes for Antisocial Behavior: Evidence for Novelty & Sensation Seeking

Across Two Independent Samples Frank Mann (Thompson Award Candidate), Megan Patterson, Nicholas Martin, Ellio Tucker- Drob, Kathryn Harden

3:37 Genetic and environmental influences on the development of impulsivity and disruptive behavior

Elizabeth Long (Thompson Award Candidate), Judy Silberg, Lindon Eaves, Nathan Gillespie

3:54 Comparing sum score and item-level models in an investigation of stability and change of heritability of physical aggression in Dutch twins from age 3 to age 16

Daniel McArtor, Meike Bartels, Dorret Boomsma, Gitta Lubke

i 3:11 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Antisocial Behavior Sub-Types: Moderation by Age and Puberty Kathryn Harden, Megan Patterson, Jennifer Tackett, Elliot Tucker-Drob

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