Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10159-6
{"title":"Announcement of the Fulker Award for a Paper Published in Behavior Genetics, Volume 52, 2022.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10519-023-10159-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10519-023-10159-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":" ","pages":"422-423"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41116039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-11-01Epub Date: 2023-08-27DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10151-0
Sean R Womack, Christopher R Beam, Evan J Giangrande, Rebecca J Scharf, Xin Tong, Medha Ponnapalli, Deborah W Davis, Eric Turkheimer
{"title":"Nonlinear Catch-Up Growth in Height, Weight, and Head Circumference from Birth to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Twin Study.","authors":"Sean R Womack, Christopher R Beam, Evan J Giangrande, Rebecca J Scharf, Xin Tong, Medha Ponnapalli, Deborah W Davis, Eric Turkheimer","doi":"10.1007/s10519-023-10151-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10519-023-10151-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Owing to high rates of prenatal complications, twins are, on average, substantially smaller than population norms on physical measurements including height, weight, and head circumference at birth. By early childhood, twins are physically average. This study is the first to explore the process of catch-up growth by fitting asymptotic growth models to age-standardized height, weight, and head circumference measurements in a community sample of twins (n = 1281, 52.3% female) followed at up to 17 time points from birth to 15 years. Catch-up growth was rapid over the first year and plateaued around the population mean by early childhood. Shared environmental factors accounted for the majority of individual differences in initial physical size (57.7-65.5%), whereas additive genetic factors accounted for the majority of individual differences in the upper asymptotes of height, weight, and head circumference (73.4-92.6%). Both additive genetic and shared environmental factors were associated with variance in how quickly twins caught up. Gestational age and family SES emerged as important environmental correlates of physical catch-up growth.</p>","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":" ","pages":"385-403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12309830/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10142371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10160-z
Gareth Richards
{"title":"Gay Fathers, Twin Sons: The Citizenship Case that Captured the World by Nancy Segal : Aug 8-2023, Roman & Littlefield, ISBN-13 978-1538171257.","authors":"Gareth Richards","doi":"10.1007/s10519-023-10160-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-023-10160-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10309947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10137-y
Dirk H M Pelt, Inga Schwabe, Meike Bartels
{"title":"Bias in Gene-by-Environment Interaction Effects with Sum Scores; An Application to Well-being Phenotypes.","authors":"Dirk H M Pelt, Inga Schwabe, Meike Bartels","doi":"10.1007/s10519-023-10137-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10519-023-10137-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the current study, we investigated the influence of using skewed sum scores on estimated gene-by-environment interaction effects (GxE) for life satisfaction and happiness with perceived social support. To this end, we analyzed item-level data from a large adult twin sample (Ns between 3610 and 11,305) of the Netherlands Twin Register. Item response theory (IRT) models were incorporated in unmeasured (univariate) GxE models, and measured GxE models (with social support as moderator). We found that skewness introduced spurious GxE effects, with the largest effect for the most skewed variable (social support). Finally, in the IRT model for life satisfaction, but not for happiness, heritability estimates decreased with higher social support, while this was not observed when analyzing sum scores. Together, our results indicate that IRT can be used to address psychometric issues related to the use of sum scores, especially in the context of GxE, for complex traits like well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":"53 4","pages":"359-373"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10275801/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9648838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10145-y
LiChen Dong, Evan J Giangrande, Sean R Womack, Kristy Yoo, Christopher R Beam, Kristen C Jacobson, Eric Turkheimer
{"title":"A Longitudinal Analysis of Gene x Environment Interaction on Verbal Intelligence Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood.","authors":"LiChen Dong, Evan J Giangrande, Sean R Womack, Kristy Yoo, Christopher R Beam, Kristen C Jacobson, Eric Turkheimer","doi":"10.1007/s10519-023-10145-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10519-023-10145-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Scarr-Rowe hypothesis proposes that the heritability of intelligence is higher in more advantaged socioeconomic contexts. An early demonstration of this hypothesis was Rowe and colleagues (Rowe et al., Child Dev 70:1151-1162, 1999), where an interaction between the heritability of verbal intelligence and parental education was identified in adolescent siblings in Wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The present study repeated their original analysis at Wave I using contemporary methods, replicated the finding during young adulthood at Wave III, and analyzed the interaction longitudinally utilizing multiple measurements. We examined parental education, family income, and peer academic environment as potential moderators. Results indicated increased heritability and decreased shared environmental variance of verbal intelligence at higher levels of parental education and peer academic environment in adolescence. Moreover, moderation by peer academic environment persisted into adulthood with its effect partially attributable to novel gene-environment interactions that arose in the process of cognitive development.</p>","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":"53 4","pages":"311-330"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10023858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1007/s10519-022-10131-w
Zhengyang Zhou, Hung-Chih Ku, Sydney E Manning, Ming Zhang, Chao Xing
{"title":"A Varying Coefficient Model to Jointly Test Genetic and Gene-Environment Interaction Effects.","authors":"Zhengyang Zhou, Hung-Chih Ku, Sydney E Manning, Ming Zhang, Chao Xing","doi":"10.1007/s10519-022-10131-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10519-022-10131-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most human traits are influenced by the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Many statistical methods have been proposed to screen for gene-environment interaction (GxE) in the post genome-wide association study era. However, most of the existing methods assume a linear interaction between genetic and environmental factors toward phenotypic variations, which diminishes statistical power in the case of nonlinear GxE. In this paper, we present a flexible statistical procedure to detect GxE regardless of whether the underlying relationship is linear or not. By modeling the joint genetic and GxE effects as a varying-coefficient function of the environmental factor, the proposed model is able to capture dynamic trajectories of GxE. We employ a likelihood ratio test with a fast Monte Carlo algorithm for hypothesis testing. Simulations were conducted to evaluate validity and power of the proposed model in various settings. Real data analysis was performed to illustrate its power, in particular, in the case of nonlinear GxE.</p>","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":"53 4","pages":"374-382"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10277225/pdf/nihms-1866672.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10108769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10146-x
Katie N Paulich, Samantha M Freis, Deepika R Dokuru, Jordan D Alexander, Scott I Vrieze, Robin P Corley, Matt McGue, John K Hewitt, Michael C Stallings
{"title":"Exploring Relationships Between Internalizing Problems and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Twin Study.","authors":"Katie N Paulich, Samantha M Freis, Deepika R Dokuru, Jordan D Alexander, Scott I Vrieze, Robin P Corley, Matt McGue, John K Hewitt, Michael C Stallings","doi":"10.1007/s10519-023-10146-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10519-023-10146-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research links risky sexual behavior (RSB) to externalizing problems and to substance use, but little research has been conducted on relationships between internalizing problems (INT) and RSB. The current study addresses that literature gap, using both a twin sample from Colorado (N = 2567) and a second twin sample from Minnesota (N = 1131) in attempt to replicate initial results. We explored the hypothesis that the latent variable INT would be more strongly associated with the latent variable RSB for females than for males, examining relationships between INT and RSB via phenotypic confirmatory factor analysis and multivariate twin analyses. We found a small but significant phenotypic association between the latent variables. However, despite using two large twin samples, limited power restricted our ability to identify the genetic and environmental mechanisms underlying this association. Our sex differences hypothesis was not fully supported in either sample and requires further investigation. Our findings illustrate the complexity of the relationship between internalizing problems and risky sexual behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":"53 4","pages":"331-347"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11138211/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9650867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Behavior GeneticsPub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s10519-023-10147-w
Kasper Otten, Jornt J Mandemakers
{"title":"Partners in Health: Investigating Social Genetic Effects Among Married and Cohabiting Couples.","authors":"Kasper Otten, Jornt J Mandemakers","doi":"10.1007/s10519-023-10147-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10519-023-10147-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Partners resemble each other in health behaviors and outcomes such as alcohol use, smoking, physical activity, and obesity. While this is consistent with social contagion theory suggesting partner influence, it is notoriously difficult to establish causality because of assortative mating and contextual confounding. We offer a novel approach to studying social contagion in health in long-term partnerships by combining genetic data of both partners in married/cohabiting couples with longitudinal data on their health behaviors and outcomes. We examine the influence of the partner's genetic predisposition for three health outcomes and behaviors (BMI, smoking, and drinking) among married/cohabiting couples. We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing with data on health outcomes and genotypes for both partners. Results show that changes over time in BMI, smoking, and drinking depend on the partner's genetic predispositions to these traits. These findings underline the importance of people's social surroundings for their health and highlight the potential of targeting health interventions at couples.</p>","PeriodicalId":8715,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Genetics","volume":"53 4","pages":"348-358"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10276063/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10026508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}