R Plomin

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Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Child development, molecular genetics, and what to do with genes once they are found
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
    Child Dev 69:1223-42. 1998
  2. ncbi Exploring the genetic etiology of low general cognitive ability from 14 to 36 months
    S A Petrill
    Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London
    Dev Psychol 33:544-8. 1997
  3. ncbi Genetic and environmental origins of verbal and performance components of cognitive delay in 2-year-olds
    T C Eley
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
    Dev Psychol 35:1122-31. 1999
  4. ncbi A genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci associated with mathematics ability and disability
    S J Docherty
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Genes Brain Behav 9:234-47. 2010
  5. ncbi Genetic and environmental covariation between verbal and nonverbal cognitive development in infancy
    T S Price
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    Child Dev 71:948-59. 2000
  6. ncbi Adoption results for self-reported personality: evidence for nonadditive genetic effects?
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, London, England
    J Pers Soc Psychol 75:211-8. 1998
  7. ncbi Dimensions and disorders of adolescent adjustment: a quantitative genetic analysis of unselected samples and selected extremes
    K Deater-Deckard
    Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 38:515-25. 1997
  8. ncbi DNA by mail: an inexpensive and noninvasive method for collecting DNA samples from widely dispersed populations
    B Freeman
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, United Kingdom
    Behav Genet 27:251-7. 1997
  9. ncbi GENESiS: creating a composite index of the vulnerability to anxiety and depression in a community-based sample of siblings
    P C Sham
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, London, UK
    Twin Res 3:316-22. 2000
  10. ncbi Genotype-environment correlations in late childhood and early adolescence: antisocial behavioral problems and coercive parenting
    T G O'Connor
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
    Dev Psychol 34:970-81. 1998

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Publications24

  1. ncbi Child development, molecular genetics, and what to do with genes once they are found
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
    Child Dev 69:1223-42. 1998
    ....
  2. ncbi Exploring the genetic etiology of low general cognitive ability from 14 to 36 months
    S A Petrill
    Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London
    Dev Psychol 33:544-8. 1997
    ..Although replication is necessary, these results suggest that the genetic etiology of low g during infancy and early childhood is at least as great as the heritability of g in the unselected population...
  3. ncbi Genetic and environmental origins of verbal and performance components of cognitive delay in 2-year-olds
    T C Eley
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
    Dev Psychol 35:1122-31. 1999
    ..Because the genetic and environmental origins of V and P delays in infancy differ, they are better considered separately rather than combined into a composite measure of general cognitive delay...
  4. ncbi A genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci associated with mathematics ability and disability
    S J Docherty
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Genes Brain Behav 9:234-47. 2010
    ....
  5. ncbi Genetic and environmental covariation between verbal and nonverbal cognitive development in infancy
    T S Price
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    Child Dev 71:948-59. 2000
    ..The implications of this result for theories of cognitive development are discussed...
  6. ncbi Adoption results for self-reported personality: evidence for nonadditive genetic effects?
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, London, England
    J Pers Soc Psychol 75:211-8. 1998
    ..These findings have important implications for attempts to identify specific genes responsible for genetic influence on personality...
  7. ncbi Dimensions and disorders of adolescent adjustment: a quantitative genetic analysis of unselected samples and selected extremes
    K Deater-Deckard
    Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 38:515-25. 1997
    ..Similar estimates were found for unselected individual differences and selected extreme groups. A framework is proposed that focuses on quantifying the etiologies of disorders (QED) as measured on continuous dimensions...
  8. ncbi DNA by mail: an inexpensive and noninvasive method for collecting DNA samples from widely dispersed populations
    B Freeman
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, United Kingdom
    Behav Genet 27:251-7. 1997
    ..The purpose of this paper is to recommend this technique to the behavioral genetics community and to present results of our use of this technique to obtain DNA by mail for 114 2-year-olds and 116 adults...
  9. ncbi GENESiS: creating a composite index of the vulnerability to anxiety and depression in a community-based sample of siblings
    P C Sham
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, London, UK
    Twin Res 3:316-22. 2000
    ..This index, which has a sib correlation of 0.22, will be used as a quantitative phenotype in the molecular genetic phase of GENESiS...
  10. ncbi Genotype-environment correlations in late childhood and early adolescence: antisocial behavioral problems and coercive parenting
    T G O'Connor
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
    Dev Psychol 34:970-81. 1998
    ....
  11. ncbi No association between general cognitive ability and the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene
    S A Petrill
    Institute of Psychiatry, London, England
    Behav Genet 27:29-31. 1997
    ....
  12. ncbi Infant zygosity can be assigned by parental report questionnaire data
    T S Price
    Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    Twin Res 3:129-33. 2000
    ..The results validate the use of parental report questionnaire data to determine zygosity in infancy...
  13. ncbi Visual analysis of geocoded twin data puts nature and nurture on the map
    O S P Davis
    King s College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    Mol Psychiatry 17:867-74. 2012
    ..More broadly, our experience demonstrates the potential for collaborative exploratory visualization to act as a lingua franca for large-scale interdisciplinary research...
  14. ncbi Chasing behaviour genes into the next millennium
    I W Craig
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    Trends Biotechnol 18:22-6. 2000
    ..For the foreseeable future, association studies involving whole-genome scanning will combine strategies using both single-nucleotide and simple-sequence-repeat polymorphisms...
  15. ncbi An adoption study of depressive symptoms in middle childhood
    T C Eley
    Institute of Psychiatry, London, U K
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 39:337-45. 1998
    ..Although the power of the sibling data is low, the combined findings from the two designs suggest that genetic effects on depressive symptoms in childhood may be somewhat smaller than previously estimated in twin studies...
  16. ncbi A genome-wide scan of 1842 DNA markers for allelic associations with general cognitive ability: a five-stage design using DNA pooling and extreme selected groups
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Behav Genet 31:497-509. 2001
    ..Instead we are using the same design to screen markers such as cSNPs and SNPs in regulatory regions that are likely to include functional polymorphisms in which the marker can be presumed to be the QTL...
  17. ncbi DNA
    R Plomin
    Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, King s College London, United Kingdom
    Psychol Bull 126:806-28. 2000
    ..Finally, the authors discuss behavioral genomics and predict that DNA will revolutionize psychological research and treatment early in the 21st century...
  18. ncbi Why are children in the same family so different? Nonshared environment a decade later
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, DeCrespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Can J Psychiatry 46:225-33. 2001
    ..To review recent developments in the study of nonshared environment; that is, the environmental influences that make children growing up in the same family different, rather than similar...
  19. ncbi Genetic analyses of emotionality
    T C Eley
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, 113 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 7:279-84. 1997
    ..Molecular genetic research is beginning to identify quantitative trait loci that are associated with the genetically related emotional domains of neuroticism, anxiety and depression...
  20. ncbi A genetic analysis of weight and overweight in 4-year-old twin pairs
    G Koeppen-Schomerus
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, 113 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:838-44. 2001
    ..We tested the hypothesis that, in early childhood, overweight is as heritable as weight and that weight and overweight are linked genetically...
  21. ncbi Pathways from science findings to health benefits
    M Rutter
    Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
    Psychol Med 39:529-42. 2009
    ..There are now some opportunities for direct translational research but there is a much greater need for hypothesis-based bridging studies that occupy a crucial mid-phase in the pathway from science findings to health benefits...
  22. ncbi The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood
    C M A Haworth
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
    Mol Psychiatry 15:1112-20. 2010
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  23. ncbi The genetics of g in human and mouse
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, 111 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Nat Rev Neurosci 2:136-41. 2001
    ..In this article, I argue that a mouse model of g could provide a powerful analytic tool for exploring cognitive processes that are linked functionally by genes...
  24. ncbi Genetics, environment and cognitive abilities: review and work in progress towards a genome scan for quantitative trait locus associations using DNA pooling
    R Plomin
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
    Br J Psychiatry Suppl 40:s41-8. 2001
    ..CONCLUSIONS: These first results of the application of DNA pooling in systematic analysis of allelic association are encouraging...