Brendan P Zietsch

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Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi Female orgasm rates are largely independent of other traits: implications for "female orgasmic disorder" and evolutionary theories of orgasm
    Brendan P Zietsch
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    J Sex Med 8:2305-16. 2011
  2. ncbi No association of candidate genes with cannabis use in a large sample of Australian twin families
    Karin J H Verweij
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratories, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Addict Biol 17:687-90. 2012
  3. ncbi Common and specific genetic influences on EEG power bands delta, theta, alpha, and beta
    Brendan P Zietsch
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane 4029, Australia
    Biol Psychol 75:154-64. 2007
  4. ncbi A genome-wide association study of Cloninger's temperament scales: implications for the evolutionary genetics of personality
    Karin J H Verweij
    Genetic Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, and Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratories, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Biol Psychol 85:306-17. 2010
  5. ncbi Genetic and environmental influences on optimism and its relationship to mental and self-rated health: a study of aging twins
    Miriam A Mosing
    Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
    Behav Genet 39:597-604. 2009
  6. ncbi Heritability of preferences for multiple cues of mate quality in humans
    Brendan P Zietsch
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4067, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Evolution 66:1762-72. 2012
  7. ncbi Evidence for genetic variation in human mate preferences for sexually dimorphic physical traits
    Karin J H Verweij
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    PLoS ONE 7:e49294. 2012
  8. ncbi Variation in human mate choice: simultaneously investigating heritability, parental influence, sexual imprinting, and assortative mating
    Brendan P Zietsch
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    Am Nat 177:605-16. 2011
  9. ncbi Maintenance of genetic variation in human personality: testing evolutionary models by estimating heritability due to common causal variants and investigating the effect of distant inbreeding
    Karin J H Verweij
    Genetic Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, and Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratories, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston 4006, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Evolution 66:3238-51. 2012
  10. ncbi Experimental evidence that women's mate preferences are directly influenced by cues of pathogen prevalence and resource scarcity
    Anthony J Lee
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Biol Lett 7:892-5. 2011

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Publications12

  1. ncbi Female orgasm rates are largely independent of other traits: implications for "female orgasmic disorder" and evolutionary theories of orgasm
    Brendan P Zietsch
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    J Sex Med 8:2305-16. 2011
    ..Evolutionary theories about the function of female orgasm predict correlations of orgasm rates with sexual attitudes and behavior and other fitness-related traits...
  2. ncbi No association of candidate genes with cannabis use in a large sample of Australian twin families
    Karin J H Verweij
    Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratories, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
    Addict Biol 17:687-90. 2012
    ..05). The lack of replication may point to our limited understanding of the neurobiology of cannabis involvement and also to potential publication bias and false-positive findings in previous studies...
  3. ncbi Common and specific genetic influences on EEG power bands delta, theta, alpha, and beta
    Brendan P Zietsch
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane 4029, Australia
    Biol Psychol 75:154-64. 2007
    ..Non-additive genetic effects on beta power and a common environment effect on delta, theta, and alpha powers were observed in the frontal region...
  4. ncbi A genome-wide association study of Cloninger's temperament scales: implications for the evolutionary genetics of personality
    Karin J H Verweij
    Genetic Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, and Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratories, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Biol Psychol 85:306-17. 2010
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  5. ncbi Genetic and environmental influences on optimism and its relationship to mental and self-rated health: a study of aging twins
    Miriam A Mosing
    Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia
    Behav Genet 39:597-604. 2009
    ....
  6. ncbi Heritability of preferences for multiple cues of mate quality in humans
    Brendan P Zietsch
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4067, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Evolution 66:1762-72. 2012
    ..Heritability was a little higher in reproductive aged than in nonreproductive aged women, but the difference was not significant...
  7. ncbi Evidence for genetic variation in human mate preferences for sexually dimorphic physical traits
    Karin J H Verweij
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    PLoS ONE 7:e49294. 2012
    ..However, the relative magnitude of estimated genetic and environmental effects differed greatly and significantly between different trait preferences, with heritability estimates ranging from zero to 57%...
  8. ncbi Variation in human mate choice: simultaneously investigating heritability, parental influence, sexual imprinting, and assortative mating
    Brendan P Zietsch
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    Am Nat 177:605-16. 2011
    ..The main discernible pattern of mate choice was assortative mating; we found that partner similarity was due to initial choice rather than convergence and also at least in part to phenotypic matching...
  9. ncbi Maintenance of genetic variation in human personality: testing evolutionary models by estimating heritability due to common causal variants and investigating the effect of distant inbreeding
    Karin J H Verweij
    Genetic Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, and Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratories, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston 4006, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Evolution 66:3238-51. 2012
    ..These findings are consistent with genetic variation in personality traits having been maintained by mutation-selection balance...
  10. ncbi Experimental evidence that women's mate preferences are directly influenced by cues of pathogen prevalence and resource scarcity
    Anthony J Lee
    School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Biol Lett 7:892-5. 2011
    ..These findings suggest that environmental factors may directly influence women's mate preferences owing to evolved plasticity, such that mate preferences are flexible in response to environmental factors...
  11. ncbi Estimating heritability from twin studies
    Karin J H Verweij
    Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Methods Mol Biol 850:151-70. 2012
    ..OpenMx and the scripts used for this chapter can be downloaded so that readers can adapt and use the scripts for their own purposes...
  12. ncbi Sexual orientation and psychiatric vulnerability: a twin study of neuroticism and psychoticism
    Brendan P Zietsch
    Genetic Epidemiology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Arch Sex Behav 40:133-42. 2011
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