Conference Schedule and Abstracts

Thursday, October 9, 2014

8:00am - 12:00noon	Statistical genetics workshop
Thomas Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF          Workshop Materials (password-protected)
12:00noon - 1:15pm	Lunch
1:15pm - 1:30pm	Welcome
1:30pm - 2:45pm	Health, Health Behaviors, and Health Care
Coley, et. al.	Genetic and Environmental Risks Predicting Patterns of Alcohol Use and Misuse from Adolescence through Early Adulthood
Belsky	Polygenic Risk and the Pace of Aging
Benjamin, et. al.	Smoking, Genes, and Health
2:45pm – 3:15pm	Break
3:15pm - 4:30pm	Beyond Genotype
Faul, et. al.	Is Heritability of Telomere Length Modified by Lifecourse Socioeconomic Status?
Mitchell	The Association of PTSD and Deployment with Telomere Erosion
King, et. al.	Parental Social Disparities in Epigenetic Regulation of Newborns' Imprinted Genes Related to Gestational Growth and Later-Life Health
4:30pm – 4:45pm	Break
4:45pm – 6:00pm	Methods
Rehkopf	Understanding the Role of Social and Economic Factors in GCTA Heritability Estimates
Turley, et. al.	Leveraging the Predictive Power of Genetic Data in the Social Sciences
Domingue, et. al.	Understanding Genetic Bias
6:00pm – 7:00pm	Social

Friday, October 10, 2014

8:00am - 8:30am	Comments, discussion, coffee
8:30am - 10:00am	Politics, Kidneys, and History
Shcherbak, et. al.	Ancient Urbanization, Historical Prevalence of Pathogens and the ADH1B*48His Allele Frequency
Dawes, et. al.	The Genetic Architecture of Political Activity
Saperstein &    Hollenbach	Making the Right Matches: Exploring Intersections among Genetic Ancestry, Self-reported Race and Origin, and HLA Haplotypes of Prospective Transplant Donors
Cook & Fletcher	Genetic Diversity and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from High Schools in Wisconsin
10:00am - 10:30am	Break
10:30am - 11:45am	Gene-environment Interactions
Schmitz & Conley	The Effect of Military Service and Genotype on Older Age Outcomes: Evidence from the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery
Pluess & Rhoades	Vantage Sensitivity as a Function of Genes: Genetic Moderation of Relationship Intervention Effects
James	Genetic Sensitivity to Social Environment: Serotonin Genes Moderate the Relationship of Persistent Maternal Depression and Child Behavior
11:45am - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Social and Family Relationships
Masarik, et. al.	For Better and for Worse: Genes and Parenting Interact to Predict Future Behavior in Romantic Relationships
Conley	Neanderthal Ancestry & Later Life Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Napierala & Gage	Structuring the Influence of Social Ties in Migration: Genetic and Environmental Variation
Rauscher	Plastic and Immobile? Unequal Intergenerational Transmission by Genotype within Sibling Pairs
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Break
3:00pm - 4:45pm	Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors
Fontana	Genetics, Addictive Consumption, and Price Response Heterogeneity
Perry	Social Integration, Genetics, and Substance Use Disorders: How Gender Gets Under the Skin
Li, et. al.	Does Marriage Moderate Genetic Effects on Delinquency and Violence?
Roos & Nielsen	Genetic and Environmental Influences on Status-related Outcomes in the Early Lifecourse
4:45pm – 5:00pm	Concluding comments and discussion