Resolving gene-environment correlation and interaction in intergenerational studies

Parents provide both genes and environments for their children. The first proMENTA seminar will have four speakers on intergenerational transmission of risk, with a special focus on how to study this in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study.

Programme

Tom McAdams

«Stress during pregnancy and child emotional outcomes: Accounting for gene-environment correlation and exploring gene-environment interaction»

Yasmin Ahmadzadeh

«Associations between maternal internalising and offspring temperament: Investigating both genetic and environmental intergenerational effects»

Rosa Cheesman

«Separating child and parent genetic influences on anxiety at age 8 using family trios»

Fartein Ask Torvik

«Parental education and psychopathology: A natural experiment»


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Tom McAdams

 

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Yasmin Ahmadzadeh

 

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Rosa Cheesman

 

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Fartein Ask Torvik

 

McAdams, Ahmadzadeh, and Cheesman are affiliated with the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience; King´s College, London. Torvik is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.


proMENTA research center

proMENTA is based at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (UiO). proMENTA’s partner institutions are the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, UiO; the University Center for Information Technology, UiO; the Norwegian Institute of Public Health; the Norwegian WHO Healthy Cities Network; Oslo Metropolitan University; Leiden University; and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Published Feb. 21, 2019 11:20 AM - Last modified May 21, 2024 1:30 PM