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Eivind Ystrom @eivindy.bsky.social · 3d

Two birds of a gene - catch Matt Keller's webinar at @uio.no on October 15th. Please share
www.sv.uio.no/promenta/eng...
@ispg.bsky.social @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @essgn.bsky.social @ibg.colorado.edu

Using structural equation models to estimate direct and indirect genetic effects and assortative mating in trio data - PROMENTA

Guest lecture by Matt Keller

www.sv.uio.no

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · 7d

PsyPost did a piece on our recent study on assortative mating. Check out the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 7d

Major study reshapes our understanding of assortative mating and its generational impact

A large-scale study has found that people tend to pair based on shared social environments, not simply educational attainment. Published in Nature Communications, the research challenges key assumptions about assortative mating and how advantage is passed from parents to children.

www.psypost.org

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 9d

Our fragmentation paper is now finally out! I put some of the dumb quips that didn't make the cut in the alt texts.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A fragmented field. If we conceive of the constructs and concepts studied in behavioral science as a map, we would find that it is highly fragmented and directions are hard to come by. Scientists can hardly stand on each others' shoulders if they cannot manage to meet on common ground.

Fragmentation has worsened, not decreased, as the field has grown. Partly, this happens because we have too many reverse Columbuses, who, in search of prestige, set out to find a new continent, but just end up renaming India. But partly, we face a real, solvable search problem when trying to connect our fuzzy constructs and flexible measures.

Most measures are used only once. To be clear, we do not want to prevent or reduce refinements of existing constructs and measures. Revisions, translations, and other refinements can contribute to a more coherent, organized literature and improve measurement. We are most concerned with the measures conceived with limited planning and released into the literature without much commitment or much of a life expectancy. In ontologies, these are sometimes referred to as “orphan nodes.”

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · 10d

Could be constant (or decreasing) assortment, but that the assorted traits have become more heritable over time (leading to greater genotypic correlation between partners)

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Robin Hofmeister @rjhfmstr.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 New preprint out!
We reconstructed parental haplotypes in >440k individuals (UK & Estonian biobanks) to estimate assortative mating directly in the parental generation.
This reveals intensified assortment in recent generations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 21d

The largest study on late life virginity, based on >400k individuals, out now in @pnas.org

Open access link: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Shoutout to shared first author @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social ❤️

Thread below 👇🏽

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · 28d

I tried making a figure explaining how the sum of variances law can be understood as the diagonal of a bivariate normal, and how a correlation between the two antecedent variables — such as under assortative mating — will result in greater variance and more cases above a threshold.

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Jun 11

First, it is important to note that “assortative mating” is not synonymous with “partner similarity”. Instead, assortment is only one of several processes that can lead to partner similarity, the others being convergence, stratification, and inbreeding.

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 9

Took me a second before I remembered my high school German, haha

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 9

In Germany, there are two kinds of children. If your child is of the second kind (less of a temperament I guess), afterschool care is cheaper.

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Thomas H. Kleppestø @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social · Aug 7

We have a new paper out, led by the great @hfsunde.bsky.social! We find that the correlation between parental income and offspring mental disorders may be partly causal in adolescence (phenotypic transmission), but that it is largely explained by passive genetic transmission in adulthood.

Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models.
doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Accompanying the paper is an interactive web page with figures and tables showing the prevalence of psychological codes in the ICPC-2 by age, sex, and parental income quartile. Check it out here:
hfsu.shinyapps.io/prevalence_b...

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Now that this is published, all of my papers in my doctoral dissertation are now officially done. 🍾Thanks to everyone who helped along the >4-year journey from this paper's conception to publication!
@torvik.bsky.social @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social @magnusnordmo.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Here is a free link to the paper if you don't have access:: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

I also wrote a more detailed thread when I posted the preprint last year. Check it out here if you are interested: bsky.app/profile/hfsu...

Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Oct 24

We have a new preprint!📰Here, we describe the association between parental income and psychiatric disorders from childhood and into adulthood, and use children of twins and siblings to differentiate social selection from social causation (1/n)🧵 Link: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Accompanying the paper is an interactive web page with figures and tables showing the prevalence of psychological codes in the ICPC-2 by age, sex, and parental income quartile. Check it out here:
hfsu.shinyapps.io/prevalence_b...

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models.
doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations on a nice first paper, Deniz!

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨📜 Debut publication alert!

Do genetics influence education differently across state borders? 🧬📚 We tested differences in genetic associations with education in East and West 🇩🇪 around reunification!

Out now in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956...

#Sociogenomics #MPRGBiosocial #MPIB

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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · Jul 12

A must-read piece by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social

I'll be That Guy™ and point out that this is why highly distributed pedigrees are used in evolution and animal breeding in nonexperimental settings. Sibs alone (esp. twins) give bad estimates. Good to see human gen getting on board.

Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Jul 12

I wrote a little bit about a cool recent paper looking at heritability estimates from very large registry data, and how we still really don't understand why outcomes track in families. A short 🧵:

We still do not understand family resemblance

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theinfinitesimal.substack.com

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Tabea Schoeler @tabeasch.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨New preprint is out!

How do genetic effects on complex traits change with age? In this work, we compare different approaches to obtain age-varying genetic effects, and show how design and modeling choices can impact the conclusions we draw.
shorturl.at/17snd
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Design and model choices shape inference of age-varying genetic effects on complex traits

Understanding how genetic influences on complex traits change with age is a fundamental question in genetic epidemiology. Both cross-sectional (between-subject) and longitudinal (within-subject) appro...

shorturl.at

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sasha writes about our new study (led by bluesky-less Nikolai Eftedal) where we show how simple genetic models don't adequately fit correlations between multiple types of relatives. The mismatch between observed and expected correlations are interesting, which are explained well in his blog post:

Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Jul 12

I wrote a little bit about a cool recent paper looking at heritability estimates from very large registry data, and how we still really don't understand why outcomes track in families. A short 🧵:

We still do not understand family resemblance

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theinfinitesimal.substack.com

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Jul 12

I wrote a little bit about a cool recent paper looking at heritability estimates from very large registry data, and how we still really don't understand why outcomes track in families. A short 🧵:

We still do not understand family resemblance

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theinfinitesimal.substack.com

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · Jul 11

We have a new preprint: this work is especially dear to my heart, as it results from the data collection pipeline we established at the Netherlands Twin Register, which enabled us to collect Facebook posts and likes (paid for with plenty of blood, sweat, and tears...)
osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · Jul 7

Nice confirmation of a commonly believed theory of why people in the Nordics generally speak English so well compared to central and southern Europe.

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jul 7

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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