9:00-12:30 | Statistical Genetics Workshop. Presentation Slides, Code, Sample Data |
Patrick Turley | Multitrait Analysis of GWAS (MTAG) |
12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
1:30-2:45 | Session 1: Mobility, Life, and Luck |
Daniel Belsky | Sociogeonomic Analysis of Social Mobility |
Matt McGue | Intergenerational mobility in a twin cohort: The contributions of cognitive ability, personality and genetics. |
Kathryn Paige Harden | Genes, Luck, and Justice |
2:45-3:00 | Break |
3:00-5:00 | Flash 1: Genetics, Education, and Cognition |
N Barban | Does the genetic influence on education change across neighbourhoods? |
Edward Kong | Examining the shared genetic architecture of risk tolerance and related behaviors |
Hexuan Liu | How Are Socioeconomic Advantages Passed Across Generations? Social and Genetic Pathways in Multigenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment |
David Weir | Genetic and Environmental Influences on Schooling and Lifetime Earnings |
Sam Trejo | School Moderation of observed returns to genetic endowments? Evidence from the WLS and Add Heath |
Meghan Zacher | Heritability and Genetic Correlation of Educational Attainment across Cohorts |
Peter Barr | Parental Education Moderates the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Ability in a Diverse Sample of Young Adults |
Amal Harrati | Life course cognition and genetic correlates of cognition in older Americans |
5:00-6:00 | Keynote Speaker: Bruce Link |
| Genetics Research and Beliefs in Essential Racial Differences |
9:00-11:00 | Flash 2: Problem behavior, reproduction, pop. strat., & politics |
Peter Bowers | Measuring Population Stratification in a GWAS of Educational Attainment |
Lauren Gaydosh | Childhood socioeconomic status and BMI across the life course |
Jasmin Wertz | A polygenic score for educational attainment also predicts criminal offending |
Ryan Motz | Genes, Social Environment, and Lifetime Involvement with the Criminal Justice System |
Katherine Sawyer | Determinants of Aggression and Risk-Taking |
Morgan Levine | A New Epigenetic Clock of Phenotypic Aging |
Melinda Mills | Genomic analysis of human reproductive onset and behaviour |
Chris Dawes | Gene x Environment Interplay and Political Participation: the Effect of Information Demands |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
11:15-12:10 | Session 2: Moderation, Machines, and People |
Dalton Conley | vPGS: A better way to model GxE? |
Jessica Faul | Moving Beyond European Only Genetic Associations — An Examination of Within and Trans-Racial PGS and Gene-Region Associations |
12:10-1:30 | Lunch |
1:30-2:45 | Session 3: Genes, Education, and Health |
Philipp Koellinger | Explaining socioeconomic and health outcomes in non-experimental data: An instrumental variables approach using polygenic scores |
Aysu Okbay and Robbee Wedow | GWAS of Educational Attainment |
Jeremy Freese | Comprehensive Examinations of Associations between Polygenic Score for Educational Attainment and Available Measures in a Long-running Cohort Study |
2:45-3:00 | Break |
3:00-5:00 | Flash 3: GxE and Physiological Pathways |
Lauren Schmitz | The Impact of Cigarette Taxation and Polygenic Risk for Smoking on Smoking Behavior in the 20th and 21st Century |
Briana Mezuk | Getting beyond comorbidity: Leveraging a twin design to examine the mechanisms linking depression and type 2 diabetes |
Arianna Gard | Gene X Environment Interaction Models of Latent Psychopathology across the Lifespan |
Colter Mitchell | Developmental and Multilevel Effects of Poverty, Material Hardship, and Economic Conditions on Methylation Profiles and Change |
Jennifer Smith | Neighborhood characteristics influence DNA methylation of genes involved in stress response and inflammation: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis |
Dean Lillard | "I know they will kill me but I can't stop": How Information and Education Affects Smoking Cessation Decisions of Individuals with Genetic Predisposition to Nicotine Addiction |
Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes | A Genetic Risk Score for Increased Body Mass Index and Its Interaction with Acculturation to the United States among Hispanic/Latino Adults from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) |
Anatoliy Yashin | Genes involved in cellular stress response contribute to hidden heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease: Combining evidence from GWAS and molecular biological studies |
5:00 | Concluding comments and discussion |