Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences 2021

Conference Schedule

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Authors in italics will present remotely.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Time	Event
8:00-8:30	Arrival, Introduction, Overview
8:30-9:20	Genes and SES Part 1
	Tobias Wolfram The Genetics of Occupational Status
	Rosa Cheesman How do schools and residential areas interact with genetic factors to shape educational achievement?
	Gabriella Conti Genes, Maternal Education, and Inequalities in Human Capital: Evidence from a British Cohort
	Patrick Turley The Effect of Education on the Relationship between Genetics, Early-Life Disadvantages, and Later-Life SES
	Michael Topping The Effects of Education on Cognition in Older Age: Evidence from Genotyped Siblings
9:20-10:10	Selection and Other Considerations
	Sjoerd van Alten The effects of demographic-based selection bias on GWAS results in the UK Biobank
	Felix Tropf Consequences of natural and mortality selection for genetic discovery in the UKBiobank
	David Hugh-Jones Human Capital Drives Natural Selection in Contemporary Humans
	Yuchang Wu GWAS on Birth Year Infant Mortality Rates Provides New Evidence of Recent Natural Selection
	Shiro Furuya The Big (Genetic) Sort? Reassessing Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the UK
10:10-10:30	Break
10:30-11:20	Genes and SES Part 2
	Margherita Malanchini Triangulating genetic methods to uncover the contribution of cognitive and noncognitive skills to academic achievement throughout the school years
	Jani Erola Genes and equality of opportunity in an egalitarian context
	Hyeokmoon Kweon First results from a multivariate GWAS on different measures of income among ~756,000 individuals
	Lauren Schmitz In Utero Exposures and Epigenetic Aging Signatures: Evidence from the U.S. Great Depression
	Bhash Mazumder Understanding Sibling Correlations in Education: Molecular Genetics and Family Background
11:30-12:30	Keynote Address
	Melinda Mills Why the social sciences and genetics need each other
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:20	Gene-Environment Interactions Part 1
	Jonathan Beauchamp Kin-based institutions and economic development
	Fumiya Uchikoshi Horizontal Educational Stratification through a Genetic Lens: Effects of Social Background and Genetic Endowment on College Selectivity and Wages
	Titus Galama Sources of Inequality at Birth: the Interplay Between Genes and Parental Socioeconomic Status
	Qiongshi Lu Estimating social genetic effects on Alzheimer's disease
	David Rehkopf Can DNA methylation clocks function as a surrogate endpoint for the most important risk factors for mortality?
2:20-3:10	Epigenetics
	Gloria Huei-Jong Graf Evaluating the impacts of social mobility on biological aging among older adults in the United States
	Kristen Malecki Cumulative Environmental Exposures (Social*Environment) and Accelerated Biological Aging
	Daniel Belsky Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test: the DunedinPACE DNA methylation algorithm
	Jerome Choi Assessing the Biological Mechanisms between Smoking Behavior and Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence from Metabolomic and Epigenomic Data
	Jonah Fisher Epigenome Wide Associations of Smoking Behavior in the Health and Retirement Study
3:10-3:45	Break
3:45-4:35	Gene-Environment Interactions Part 2
	Aura Ankita Mishra Life-course victimization and CRP related DNA methylation among LGB adults
	Anatoliy Yashin Evaluating collective associations of many pairs of interacting genetic and non-genetic factors with Alzheimer's disease: Insights for studying mechanisms of multifactorial regulation of complex traits
	Fangqi Guo Interaction Between Neighborhood Crime and Polygenic Score on Type 2 Diabetes
	Breanna Clark An Unrevealed Collateral Consequence: The Suppressing Effect of Paternal Incarceration on Children's Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment
	Hassan Bokhari Health Insurance, Immigration Status and Genomics: Polygenic Risk Score Interactions for Body Mass Index in the Diverse Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
4:35-5:00	Discussion

Friday, October 29, 2021

Time	Event
8:00-11:00	Statistical Genetics Workshop
	Allison Kupsco, Haotian ("Howie") Wu DNA methylation analysis using the Illumina MethylationEPIC arrays
11:00-11:50	Gene-Environment Interactions Part 3
	Pietro Biroli Genes, Pubs, and Drinks: Gene-environment interplay and alcohol licensing policy in the United Kingdom.
	Dilnoza Muslimova The Power of the Pill: Evidence from Gene-environment Interactions in the UK Biobank.
	Evelina Akimova Changing polygenic penetrance on depression among adults in the United Kingdom
	Boyan Zheng Long Term Impacts of Life Family Instability on Adulthood Depression: The Role of Genetic Sensitivity and Time
	Yuexuan Xu Effect of Pathway-specific Polygenic Risk Scores for Alzheimer's Disease on Rate of Change in Cognitive Function and AD-related Biomarkers among Asymptomatic Individuals
11:50-12:40	New approaches and uses of polygenic information
	Jiacheng Miao A quantile integral linear model to quantify genetic effects on phenotypic variability
	Margaret Clapp Using Genomic Structural Equation Modeling to test the validity of latent factor models
	Jeffrey Shero The Practical Utility of Genetic Screening in School Settings
	Brooke Sasia Direct and Indirect Polygenic Scores for Externalizing and Trajectories of Antisocial Behavior
	Jie Song Estimating genetic correlation of direct and indirect effect using UK Biobank sibling data
12:40-1:45	Lunch
1:45-2:35	Genes and SES Part 3
	Brian Finch Social Mobility and the Genome: Testing a Unified Stratification Theory
	Victor Ronda The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills
	Meng-Jung Lin Get Married and Be a Scientist? The Effects of Biology and Gendered Marriage Expectation on Having a STEM Job
	Dongyue Ying Using Education and Genetic Information to Explore Stability of Risk Preference
	Nicole Gladish Multiple components of socioeconomic status measured in older adulthood and childhood differentially associated with DNA methylation.
2:35-3:30	Epigenetics Part 2 and Other Questions
	Vikesh Amin Associations between body mass index and telomere length at older ages: Evidence from polygenic risk scores, Mendelian randomization and within-twin designs
	Helen Meier Association of GrimAge DNA methylation components and 2-year mortality in the Health and Retirement Study
	Peter Tanksley Evidence of Accelerated Aging Among Americans with a History of Incarceration
	Julia Goodwin The Impact of the High School Movement on Epigenetic Aging
	Sarah Merrill Associations of peripheral blood DNA methylation and estimated monocyte proportion differences during infancy with toddler attachment style
	Eva Vasiljevic Cognitive trajectory divergence by genetic risk in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention
3:30-4:00	Discussion and Concluding Comments