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Genetic and cultural transmission of antisocial behavior: an extended twin parent modelHermine H Maes
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0003, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:136-50. 2007..This study showed significant heritability, which is slightly increased by assortative mating, and significant effects of primarily nonparental shared environment on CD...- Genetic and cultural transmission of smoking initiation: an extended twin kinship modelHermine H Maes
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 980003, 23298 0003, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Behav Genet 36:795-808. 2006.... 
Flexible Mx specification of various extended twin kinship designsHermine H Maes
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0003, United States of America
Twin Res Hum Genet 12:26-34. 2009..Results indicate that biases in the estimation of variance components depend both on the types of relative available for analysis, and on the underlying genetic and environmental architecture of the phenotype of interest...- A twin association study of nicotine dependence with markers in the CHRNA3 and CHRNA5 genesHermine H Maes
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, P O Box 980003, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Behav Genet 41:680-90. 2011..Including phenotypic data on ungenotyped relatives can improve the statistical power to detect the effects of genetic variants when they contribute to individual differences in the phenotype... - Etiological heterogeneity in the development of antisocial behavior: the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development and the Young Adult Follow-UpJudy L Silberg
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Psychol Med 37:1193-202. 2007..Longitudinal, genetically informed, prospective data collected on a large population of male twins (n=1037) were used to examine developmental differences in the etiology of antisocial behavior... - A twin study of genetic and environmental influences on tobacco initiation, regular tobacco use and nicotine dependenceHermine H Maes
Departments of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Psychol Med 34:1251-61. 2004..As the development of ND requires regular tobacco use (RTU) which in turn requires TI, a conditional approach is necessary... - Childhood adversity, monoamine oxidase a genotype, and risk for conduct disorderDebra L Foley
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virgoinia Commonwaelth University, Richmond, 23298 0003, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:738-44. 2004..Very little is known about how different sets of risk factors interact to influence risk for psychiatric disorder... 
Genetic risk factors for disordered eating in adolescent males and femalesJessica H Baker
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:576-86. 2009..However, only 50% of the genetic risk for this factor is shared between the sexes...- Characteristics of monozygotic male and female twins discordant for overweight: a descriptive studyKaren S Mitchell
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
Eat Behav 9:366-9. 2008..BMI is highly heritable. Yet, trends in obesity highlight environmental influences on body weight. Monozygotic (MZ) twins discordant for overweight offer a unique opportunity to examine these factors... - Genetic and environmental transmission of body mass index fluctuationJocilyn E Bergin
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, MCV, P O Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Behav Genet 42:867-74. 2012.... - An investigation of weight suppression in a population-based sample of female twinsKaren S Mitchell
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 2018, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:44-9. 2011..Weight suppression (WS), maintaining a body weight below one's maximum adult weight, is associated with bingeing, purging, and weight gain in clinical samples... - Genetic and environmental influences on multiple dimensions of religiosity: a twin studyTodd Vance
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 198:755-61. 2010..The results suggest that for the population studied, additive genetic and unique environmental effects largely account for the variance across the religiosity construct... - Revisiting the children of twins: can they be used to resolve the environmental effects of dyadic parental treatment on child behavior?Lindon J Eaves
Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 8:283-90. 2005..The fact that many candidate environments, such as parental divorce, are dyadic gives reason to question the interpretation of their correlations with behavior in the children of twins... - Provision of genetic services for hearing loss: results from a national survey and comparison to insights obtained from previous focus group discussionsKara Anne Withrow
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, P O Box 980033, Richmond, VA 23298 0033, USA
J Genet Couns 18:618-21. 2009..This data should help providers in clinical genetics keep patient preferences at the helm and provide culturally competent services... - Shared environmental contributions to substance useJessica H Baker
Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Behav Genet 42:345-53. 2012..Results illustrate an important way of extending behavior genetic research to reveal specific etiological environmental mechanisms... - Risks for conduct disorder symptoms associated with parental alcoholism in stepfather families versus intact families from a community sampleDebra L Foley
Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:687-96. 2004.... - The relationship between the genetic and environmental influences on common internalizing psychiatric disorders and mental well-beingKenneth S Kendler
Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, P O Box 980126, 800 E Leigh Street, Room 1 123, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
Behav Genet 41:641-50. 2011..The overlap of environmental risk factors is more modest. Although low levels of IP on average reflect a high genetic propensity for MWB, other independent genetic influences play an important role in producing good mental health... - Impact of genetic advances and testing for hearing loss: results from a national consumer surveyKara A Withrow
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0033, USA
Am J Med Genet A 149:1159-68. 2009..Cultural affiliation and genetic testing status, rather than hearing status, contributed more to the participants' responses... - Methodological issues in the assessment of substance use phenotypesMichael C Neale
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Box 980126, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
Addict Behav 31:1010-34. 2006..g., substance dependence symptoms, are systematically missing in those who have not initiated use of the substance in question... - Application of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling to item-response theory modeling of multi-symptom genetic dataLindon Eaves
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0003, USA
Behav Genet 35:765-80. 2005..Additional benefits of the IRT approach are discussed including the estimation of latent trait scores, including genetic factor scores, and their sampling errors... - Genetic risk sum score comprised of common polygenic variation is associated with body mass indexRoseann E Peterson
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Biotech I, 800 E Leigh Street, Richmond, VA 23298 0126, USA
Hum Genet 129:221-30. 2011..This study provides evidence of the utility of a GRSS as an alternative approach to replication of common polygenic variation in complex traits... - Genetic and environmental influences on spontaneous micronuclei frequencies in children and adults: a twin studyKimberly H Jones
Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0662, USA
Mutagenesis 26:745-52. 2011..Recognition of factors contributing to baseline levels of micronuclei should provide guidance to researchers in designing studies to evaluate agents hypothesised to influence chromosomal instability... - Analysis and interpretation of twin studies including measures of the shared environmentEric Turkheimer
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904 4400, USA
Child Dev 76:1217-33. 2005.... - Genetic and environmental determination of tracking in subcutaneous fat distribution during adolescenceMaarten W Peeters
Department of Biomedical Kinesiology, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 86:652-60. 2007..The distribution of fat and adipose tissue is an important predictor of disease risk. Variation in fat distribution during adolescence is correlated with fat distribution in adulthood... - A Children of Twins Study of parental divorce and offspring psychopathologyBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University 47405, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:667-75. 2007..The relations may be due to genetic or environmental selection factors, characteristics that lead to both marital separation and offspring functioning... - Covariance of isometric and dynamic arm contractions: multivariate genetic analysisGunther De Mars
Department of Biomedical Kinesiology, Research Center for Exercise and Health, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:180-90. 2007..This exploratory multivariate study suggests shared pleiotropic gene action for MCSA, eccentric, isometric and concentric strength, with a moderate to high genetic contribution to the variability of these characteristics...
Research Grants
- Pre- & Post-doctoral Training Program in Cancer ControlHermine Maes; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..
- Developmental Genetic Epidemiology of SmokingHermine H Maes; Fiscal Year: 2010..We will focus on both individual and contextual influences in order to make progress in prevention and control of smoking behavior, and thus influence public health. ..