Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences 2022

Time	Event
9:00-12:00	Statistical Genetics Workshop
Jennifer Fouquier Applied Microbiome Analyses
12:00-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2:15	Session 1: Spouses
David Hugh-Jones Trading social status for genetics in marriage markets: evidence from UK Biobank
Marta Bilghese The Contribution of Assortative Mating to the Correlation Between Education and Health
Dalton Conley With this Genotype, I Thee Wed: Indirect Genetic Effects on Depression Between Spouses
2:15-2:30	Break
2:30-3:30	Session 2: Methodological Issues
Junming Guan A unified method for estimating direct genetic effects and performing genome-wide association studies
Robbee Wedow Patterns of item nonresponse behavior to survey questionnaires are systematic and have a genetic basis
Sam Trejo The Phenotype Differences Model: Identifying Genetic Effects with Incomplete Sibling Data
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-4:45	Session 3: Gene-Environment Interactions
Nicola Barban Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility
Jiacheng Miao PIGEON: a unified framework to detect polygenic gene-environment interactions
Shubhashrita Basu The Direct and Spillover Impact of Smoking Cessation Intervention and Genetic Risk on Health Outcomes: Evidence from Mean and Variance Polygenic Scores
4:45-5:00	Break
5:00-6:00	Keynote Address
Jennifer Beam Dowd We contain multitudes: microbes, genes, and the future of biosocial science

Time

Event

9:00-12:00

Statistical Genetics Workshop

Jennifer Fouquier
Applied Microbiome Analyses

12:00-1:15

Lunch

1:15-2:15

Session 1: Spouses

David Hugh-Jones
Trading social status for genetics in marriage markets: evidence from UK Biobank

Marta Bilghese
The Contribution of Assortative Mating to the Correlation Between Education and Health

Dalton Conley
With this Genotype, I Thee Wed: Indirect Genetic Effects on Depression Between Spouses

2:15-2:30

Break

2:30-3:30

Session 2: Methodological Issues

Junming Guan
A unified method for estimating direct genetic effects and performing genome-wide association studies

Robbee Wedow
Patterns of item nonresponse behavior to survey questionnaires are systematic and have a genetic basis

Sam Trejo
The Phenotype Differences Model: Identifying Genetic Effects with Incomplete Sibling Data

3:30-3:45

Break

3:45-4:45

Session 3: Gene-Environment Interactions

Nicola Barban
Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility

Jiacheng Miao
PIGEON: a unified framework to detect polygenic gene-environment interactions

Shubhashrita Basu
The Direct and Spillover Impact of Smoking Cessation Intervention and Genetic Risk on Health Outcomes: Evidence from Mean and Variance Polygenic Scores

4:45-5:00

Break

5:00-6:00

Keynote Address

Jennifer Beam Dowd
We contain multitudes: microbes, genes, and the future of biosocial science

Time	Event
8:00-8:30	Coffee and Pastries
8:30-9:30	Session 4: Active and Passive Correlations
Jeremy Freese Selection into Adversity by Polygenic Predictors of Depression
Jonathan Beauchamp Adverse selection in insurance markets due to genetic prediction
Yuchang Wu Estimating maternal genetic effects on risk of autism spectrum disorder in children
9:30-9:45	Break
9:45-10:45	Session 5: Aging
Allison Aiello Familial loss in the early stages of the life course and biological aging of U.S. adults
Iliya Gutin Feeling Your (Epigenetic) Age: Using Epigenetic Clocks to Understand Self-rated Health
Grace Venechuk Did the Great Recession have Implications for Epigenetic Aging?
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Session 6: Education and Income
Gloria Huei-Jong Graf Associations of educational mobility with biological aging and mortality across two generations of the Framingham Heart Study
Luyin Zhang Revisiting the relationship between educational attainment and the family life course: a sociogenomic approach
Tamkinat Rauf The Elusive Causal Income Effect on Mental Well-being: Can Sociogenomics Identify it?
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	Session 7: Genetics, Guts, and Ancestry
Brandt Levitt Variations in gut microbiome by social group membership, genetics, and the environment
Jason Boardman Polygenic Scores, Ancestry, Racialized Experience, and Science
Qiongshi Lu Quantifying portable genetic effects and improving cross-ancestry genetic prediction with GWAS summary statistics

Time

Event

8:00-8:30

Coffee and Pastries

8:30-9:30

Session 4: Active and Passive Correlations

Jeremy Freese
Selection into Adversity by Polygenic Predictors of Depression

Jonathan Beauchamp
Adverse selection in insurance markets due to genetic prediction

Yuchang Wu
Estimating maternal genetic effects on risk of autism spectrum disorder in children

9:30-9:45

Break

9:45-10:45