BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION      JUNE 1998
28TH ANNUAL MEETING
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

The purpose of the Behavior Genetics Association is to promote scientific study of the interrelationship of genetic mechanisms and behavior, both human and animal; to encourage and aid the education and training of research workers in the field of behavior genetics; and to aid in the dissemination and interpretation to the general public of knowledge concerning the interrelationship of genetics and behavior, and its implications for health and human development and education.

For additional information about the Behavior Genetics Association, please contact Dr. Andrew Heath, BGA Secretary, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Box 8134, 4940 Children's Place, St. Louis, MO 63110.
 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1997-1998 1998-1999
President Nicholas Martin Norman Henderson
President-Elect Norman Henderson Richard Rose
Past President James Wilson Nicholas Martin
Secretary Andrew Heath Hermine Maes
Treasurer Matt McGue Matt McGue
Member-at-Large Linda Dixon Nancy Pedersen
Member-at-Large Nancy Pedersen Deborah Finkel
Member-at-Large Deborah Finkel Irwin Waldman
 
Presidents YEAR Dobzhansky 

Awardees

 Thompson 

Awardees

 Local Hosts
1972-1973 Th. Dobzhansky 

1973-1974 John L. Fuller 

1974-1975 Gerald E. McClearn 

1975-1976 J. P. Scott 

1976-1977 Irving I. Gottesman 

1977-1978 W. R. Thompson 

1978-1979 Lee Ehrman 

1979-1980 V. Elving Anderson 

1980-1981 John C. Loehlin 

1981-1982 Norman D. Henderson 

1982-1983 John C. DeFries 

1983-1984 David W. Fulker 

1984-1985 Steven G. Vandenberg 

1985-1986 Sandra Scarr 

1986-1987 Ronald S. Wilson 

1987-1988 Peter A. Parsons 

1988-1989 Leonard L. Heston 

1989-1990 Robert Plomin 

1990-1991 Carol B. Lynch 

1991-1992 Lindon J. Eaves 

1992-1993 David A. Blizard 

1993-1994 Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. 

1994-1995 Glayde Whitney 

1995-1996 James Wilson 

1996-1998 Nicholas Martin 

 1971 R Osborne/B Ginsburg - Storrs CT
1972 GE McClearn - Boulder CO
1973 WS Pollitzer - Chapel Hill NC
1974 S Scarr - Minneapolis MN
1975 J Bruell - Austin TX
1976 JC DeFries - Boulder CO
1977 Steven Vandenberg Nancy Galvin R Wilson - Louisville KY
1978 Elliott Slater Gregory Carey T Klein - Davis CA
1979 Ernst Caspari Marla Sokolowski C Lynch - Middletown CT
1980 Benson Ginsburg RD Bock - Chicago IL
1981 Sheldon Reed Michael Pogue-Geile L Erhman - Purchase NY 

Rose/Guttman/Guttman - Jerusalem
1982 Gardner Lindzey Paul Sharp D Nash - Ft Collins CO
1983 Peter Broadhurst Mike Neale D Fulker - London
1984 Leonard Heston Christine Michard & George Vogler R Rose - Bloomington IN
1985 Nikki Erlenmeyer-Kimling Dorret Boomsma & 

Lucinda Miner

 G McClearn - State College PA
1986 Raymond Cattell David Harder G Ashton/R Johnson - Honolulu HI
1987 J L Fuller & J P Scott J. S. de Belle L Heston - Minneapolis
1988 Lee Erhman Joanne Meyer S Kerbusch - Nijmegen, Netherlands
1989 Gerald McClearn Susan Felsenfeld S Scarr - Charlottesville VA
1990 Irving Gottesman Lon Cardon & 

Philip Welbergen

 P Roubertoux - Aussois, France
1991 John Loehlin Abel Bult & 

Lawrence Rodriguez

 G Vogler - St Louis MO
1992 John DeFries Deborah Finkel J Wilson - Boulder CO
1993 Peter Parsons Hermine Maes N Martin - Sydney, Australia
1994 Aubrey Manning Frans Sluyter A Fernandez-Teruel/RM Escorihuela/ 

A Tobena - Barcelona
1995 David Fulker Soo HyunRhee & 

Stephen Petrill

 J Meyer/L Eaves - Richmond VA
1996 Stephanie Schmitz G McClearn/G Vogler/D Blizard/ 

B Jones - Pittsburgh PA
1997 Ron Johnson Martine Thomas Tony Vernon - Toronto, Canada
1998 Nancy Pedersen - Stockholm, Sweden

BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION
28th Annual Meeting
Salénhuset
Stockholm, Sweden
June 8-10, 1998

The 28th Annual Meeting will be held at Salén Konferens & Matsalar (Salén's Conference and Restaurant Center) in Stockholm. The meeting will start after lunch on Monday with a plenary session, and then parallel sessions as usual. Monday evening we will meet at the Stockholm City Hall at 6 pm for a tour and a complementary buffet dinner. No activities are planned for Tuesday evening. The meeting will conclude with the banquet on Wednesday to be held at the Vasa Museum. (See home pages: http://www.vasamuseet.se/ and http://www.stockholm.se/).

For ongoing updated information about the conference itself, and for more details about transportation, lodging, maps, etc., please access the conference web site:  http://www.bga.org/1998/

BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION
28th Annual Meeting
 
 
Monday, June 8
 
 
10:00am Executive Committee Meeting I
11:00am - 5:00pm Registration
1:00pm - 2:00pm Plenary Session: LISREL and Twin Models
Karl G. Jöreskog & Stefan Mattson, Uppsala University
Introduced by Nick Martin		 Aulan
2:00pm - 2:30pm Coffee Break Cafét
2:30pm - 4:45pm Symposium I: A New Generation of Longitudinal Twin Studies of Behavioral Development
Organizer: Hill Goldsmith		 Aulan
The Wisconsin Twin Panel: Temperament in context.
Hill Goldsmith & Kathryn S. Lemery
Preliminary results from the twins' early development study: Language delay and mild mental retardation in infancy.
Thalia C. Eley & The Twins' Early Development Study
The Netherlands Twin Register.
Dorret I. Boomsma
The Georgia Twin Registry: Sample description and research issues.
Irwin D. Waldman, Soo Hyun Rhee, Sarah A. Feigon & Jessica L. Bar
Risk factors for aggression and antisocial behavior in twins.
Laura A. Baker & Adrian Raine
6:00pm - 8:00pm Reception (Swedish Buffet) City Hall
 

Tuesday, June 9
 
 
9:00am - 10:30am Symposium II: Contributions from Finnish Twin Studies:  Ongoing Finnish Twin Cohort Studies in Behavioral Genetics
Organizer: Richard J. Rose		 Aulan
Introduction: Historical contributions from Finnish twin studies to behavior genetics.
R. J. Rose
Parasomnias among adult finnish twins.
J. Kaprio, C. Hublin, M. Partinen, K. Heikkilä & M. Koskenvuo
Social support, life-events, and vulnerability to depression among 12,063 adult twins.
K. Romanov, J. Varjonen, J. Kaprio & M. Koskenvuo
Peers, teachers, and parents as raters of twins' behavioral and emotional problems and adjustment.
Lea Pulkkinen, Jaakko Kaprio & Richard J. Rose
Genes, environments, and precursors of alcoholism: Finnish twin-family studies.
Richard J. Rose, J. Kaprio, L. Pulkkinen, R .J. Viken & M. Koskenvuo
Migrant-discordant twins: A natural experiment on effects of environmental change.
Niklas Hammar, J. Kaprio, L. Alfredsson, M. Koskenvuo, T. Rönnemaa, T. Hammar, U. Hagström & L. Viikari
 
10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break Cafét
11:00am - 12:00pm Symposium II: (continued) Aulan
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
 
1:30pm - 3:00pm Paper Session I: Reading and Attention Deficit Disorders
Chair : J.C. DeFries		 Aulan
1:30 Linkage studies suggest a possible locus for dyslexia near the Rh region on chromosome 1.
E. L. Grigorenko, F. B. Wood, M. S. Meyer, J. E. D. Pauls, L. A. Hart & D. L. Pauls
1:45 Quantitative trait locus for specific language and reading deficits on chromosome 6p.
Javier Gayan, S. D. Smith, S. S. Cherny, L. R. Cardon, D. W. Fulker, W. J. Kimberling, R. K. Olson, B. F. Pennington & J. C. DeFries
2:00 Testing psychological theories of hyperactivity within a twin study. 
Jonna Kuntsi & Jim Stevenson
2:15 Sex differences in the etiology of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity. 
Soo Hyun Rhee, Irwin D. Waldman, David A. Hay & Florence Levy
2:30 Genetic validation of the DSM-IV subtypes of ADHD.
David A. Hay, M. McStephen, I. Waldman & F. Levy
2:45 Genetic and environmental associations between attention problems and other problem behaviors.
Stephanie Schmitz & David W. Fulker
 
1:30pm - 3:00pm Paper Session II: Philosophical and measurement issues
Chair : A.C. Heath		 Olympia
1:30 Philosophy of human behavior genetics.
S. Wieder
1:45 Genes and environment: A new theory of freedom.
Mark Ast
2:00 Twins' ratings on the "Sibling Inventory of Differential Experience" (SIDE): A three-year follow-up study.
Ruth Guttman & Nitzan Goldschmidt
2:15 Discrepancies in life event reports with multiple raters and multiple time points. 
J. M. Lessem, J. K. Hewitt, L. J. Eaves, J. L. Silberg, M. Rutter & E. Simonoff
2:30 Iris patterns and personality: Does a relationship exist that can be useful for the Five Factor Model and behavioral genetics?. (25 min. paper)
Mats Larsson
 
3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break and Poster Session I (with authors) Cafét/Lobby
1. Genetic influences on personal assessments of stressful situations.
Andreas Busjahn, Hans-Dieter Faulhaber & Friedrich C. Luft
2. Differential genetic etiology of reading disability as a function of IQ.
S. J. Wadsworth, R. K. Olson, B. F. Pennington & J. C. DeFries
3. Discrimination of odor differences in MHC-deficient mice.
Kunio Yamazaki, G.K. Beauchamp, J. Bard & E.A. Boyse
4. Update on IQ similarity of unrelated same age siblings.
Nancy L. Segal
5. A genetic analysis of the relationship between low academic performance and early-onset substance use in adolescent males.
L.N. Legrand, Matt McGue & W.G. Iacono
6. A study of genetic and environmental influences on prosocial and antisocial behaviours.
Christine Pett & Jim Stevenson
7. The Y chromosome, sexual behavior and pregnancy block in Mus Musculus.
Tara L. McLaughlin & Benson E. Ginsburg
8. Obstetrical complications in twin pregnancies.
Joan T. Bihun, Jackie S. Roessler & H. Hill Goldsmith
9. Using discordant sibling pairs to replicate behavioral associations within families.
J. K. Johnson, R. J. Viken, & R. J. Rose
10. Do genetic and environmental influences on childhood conduct disorder vary across environmental contexts?
Jessica L. Bar, Irwin D. Waldman, David A. Hay & Florence Levy
11. Home cage activity in mice selected for high- and low open-field ambulation
Norman D. Henderson, Theresa Tritto, David W. Fulker, and John C. DeFries
12. Genetic disposition for global maturity: an explanation for genetic effects on parental reports of ADHD.
Brigitta Steffensson, Jan-Olov Larsson, Ingegärd Fried, Eman El Sayed, Per-Anders Rydelius, and Paul Lichtenstein
13. The importance of environmental influences on scholastic achievement in Bedouin full and half siblings.
Yoon-Mi Hur, S. Elbedour, Hasan Abu Saad
 
3:30pm - 5:00pm Paper Session III: Cognition
Chair : D. Finkel		 Aulan
3:30 Sources of individual variation contributing to change in cognitive abilities.
Chandra A. Reynolds, Margaret Gatz & Nancy L. Pedersen
3:45 Common genetic influences on general cognitive ability in males and females: A twin study. 
Valerie S. Knopik & John C. DeFries
4:00 Genetic and environmental influences on the relationship between attachment to family and attachment to school.
Kristen C. Jacobson & David C. Rowe
4:15 IQ and academic achievement in twins: A longitudinal study.
Marcie Chambers & D. W. Fulker
4:30 Is there a genetic basis for sex differences in social cognition?
Jim Stevenson
4:45 Genetics of early cancer detection behaviors in Australian female twins.
Susan A. Treloar, Christine McDonald & Nicholas G. Martin

3:30pm - 5:00pm Paper Session IV: Bio-social Factors
Chair : Steve Maxson		 Olympia
3:30 Etiological validation of a developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior.
Irwin D. Waldman, David A. Hay & Florence Levy
3:45 The heritability of personality factors in zoo chimpanzees Pan Troglodytes.
Alexander Weiss & J.E. King
4:00 Developmental genetic analysis of conduct disorder in adolescent twins.
Hermine H. M. Maes, Michael C. Neale, Judy L. Silberg, Lindon J. Eaves
4:15 Developmental isolation and subsequent adult behavior of Drosophila Paulistorum: Courtship.
Lee Ehrman & Y.-K. Kim
4:30 Psychophysiology and genetics in twins.
Laura A. Baker
4:45 Alcohol preference in mice: Replication using genotypic selection and an F4 advanced intercross.
Lisa M. Tarantino & Gerald McClearn
 

EVENING FREE
 

Wednesday, June 10
 
9:00am - 10:30am Symposium III: The Longitudinal OCTO-Twin Study: The Etiology of Cognitive Functioning and Health-Related Behaviors in the Oldest-Old
Organizers: Boo Johannson and Stephen A. Petrill		 Aulan
Overview of the OCTO-Twin Study
Gerald E. McClearn
Stability and change in cognitive functioning in late adulthood.
Scott M. Hofer, S. Berg, B. Johansson & G. E. McClearn
Extremes in cognitive functioning in the oldest-old: A Defries-Fulker analysis of non-demented octogenarian twins.
Stephen A. Petrill, Boo Johansson, Stig Berg, Robert Plomin & Gerald E. McClearn
Cognitive impairment and dementia in the oldest old twins.
Boo Johansson, Birgitta Andersson, David Karlsson & Gerald E. McClearn
Genetic and environmental influences on health-control beliefs in the oldest-old.
Julia D. Grant, Boo Johansson & Gerald E. McClearn.
Discussant: Matt McGue
 
10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break Cafét
11:00am - 12:00pm Symposium III (Continued) Aulan
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
 
1:30pm - 3:15pm Paper Session V: Quantitative Methods and Models
Chair : J. J. McArdle		 Olympia
1:30 Monozygotic twins increase power of genetic association studies of complex phenotypes.
Michael B. Miller
1:45 Measurement models for sexual orientation in a large Australian twin sample.
N. G. Martin, K. Kirk, M. P. Dunne & J. M. Bailey
2:00 Modeling the genetic contribution to smoking and other substance use disorders: Quantitative genetic approaches.
A. C. Heath, P. A. F. Madden, A. Todorov & N. G. Martin
2:15 Gene mapping in the presence of gene-environment interactions.
Alexandre A. Todorov, E. Genin, K. D. Siegmund, P. A. F. Madden & A. C. Heath
2:30 New models for survival studies of twins.
Anatoli I. Yashin, I.A. Iachine & A.S. Begun
2:45 Maximum liklihood methods of association and linkage.
S. S. Cherny, D. W. Fulker & P. Sham
3:00 The effects of randomized response on the power of the classical twin study.
M. C. Neale
 
3:15pm - 3:45pm Coffee Break and Poster Session II Cafét/Lobby
1. Differential twin-spouse phenotypic assortment, not social homogamy.
Kay Phillips
2. Sex-limited genes and individual differences in femininity-masculinity as assessed by the Fem content scale of the MMPI.
Richard J. Viken, Richard J. Rose, Jaakko Kaprio & Markku Koskenvuo
3. Pubertal timing and personality predict alcohol use within adolescent female twin pairs.
Danielle M. Dick, Richard J. Rose, J. Kaprio & R. J. Viken
4. Genetic and environmental influences on childhood anxiety disorder symptoms and their moderation by age and sex.
Sarah A. Feigon & Irwin D. Waldman
5. Assortative mating for MMPI-2 personality traits in a sample of parents of twins.
Susan L. Trumbetta & Kay Phillips
6. A twin study of stability and change in late-life cognitive functioning.
Matt McGue & Kaare Christensen
7. Spouse and familial similarity for alcohol use and alcohol-related problems in a Mauritian sample.
Chandra A. Reynolds, Adrian Raine, Kjetil Melligen, Peter H. Venables & Sarnoff A. Mednick
8. The familial aggregation of nicotine, alcohol and marijuana dependence symptoms in families with substance-abusing adolescent probands and controls.
Michael C. Stallings, S. E. Young, D. R. Miles, J. K. Hewitt, D. W. Fulker & T. J. Crowley
9. Psychopathy in a twin sample of alcohol dependent twins and their co-twins.
T.A. Ridenour, A.C. Heath, K.K. Bucholz, P.A.F. Madden & N.G. Martin.
10. Family factors underlying conduct disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A sibling study of comorbidity.
Susan E. Young, M. C. Stallings, R. P. Corley, J. K. Hewitt & D. W. Fulker
11. Twin study of self-recognition in toddlers.
Paula Y. Mullineaux, Deborah Finkel & Adam P. Matheny
12. Psychological adjustment in women: The Twinmoms study.
David Reiss, Paul Lichtenstein, Marianne Cederblad, Kjell Hansson, Olle Elthammar, Jenae M Neiderhiser, Nancy L Pedersen
 
3:45pm - 5:15pm Paper Session VI: Substance Use and Dependence
Chair: G.E. McClearn		 Olympia
3:45 Personality and the common genetic risk for conduct disorder and alcohol dependence.
Wendy S. Slutske, A. C. Heath, P. A. F. Madden, K. K. Bucholz, S. H. Dinwiddie, M. P. Dunne, D. J. Statham & N. G. Martin
4:00 Genetic and environmental influences on adolescent drug and alcohol use in the Colorado Adolescent Twin Study (CATS).
Steven M. Wilson & John K. Hewitt
4:15 The prediction of peer substance use during adolescence: Evidence for shared environmental influences.
Julia D. Grant, Kathleen K. Bucholz, Pamela A. F. Madden, Wendy, S. Slutske & Andrew C. Heath.
4:30 Genetic and environmental influences on adolescent drug and alcohol use in the Colorado Adolescent Twin Study (CATS).
Steven M. Wilson, John K. Hewitt Robin P. Corley, Michael C. Stallings & Thomas P. Beresford
4:45 Genetics influences on early stages in cigarette smoking in Missouri adolescent female twins.
Pamela A.F. Madden, K.K. Bucholz, L.J. Bierut, W.S. Slutske, W. Reich & A.C. Heath
5:00 Multivariate genetic analyses of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana consumption and dependence among female twins from the MCV Stress & Coping Twin Project.
Carol A. Prescott & Kenneth S. Kendler
 
 
5:30pm - 6:30pm Business Meeting Olympia
7:30pm-11:00pm Banquet and Awards (boat to museum leaves at 7:30pm) Vasa Museum

Thursday, June 11
 
 
9:00am Executive Committee Meeting II Journalisten

Behavior Genetics Association
28th Annual Meeting
Stockholm, Sweden
June 8 - 11, 1998
Program Overview

Monday, June 8
 
11:00am - 5:00pm Registration Lower Lobby
10:00am Executive Committee Meeting I Journalisten
1:00pm - 2:00pm Plenary Session: LISREL and Twin Models Aulan
2:00pm - 2:30pm Coffee Break Cafét
2:30pm - 4:45pm Symposium I: A New Generation of Longitudinal Twin Studies Aulan
6:00pm - 8:00pm Reception City Hall
 

Tuesday, June 9
 
9:00am - 10:30am Symposium II: Contributions from Finnish Twin Studies Aulan
10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break Cafét
11:00am - 12:00pm Symposium II: (continued) Aulan
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm Paper Session I: Reading and Attention Deficit Disorders Aulan
1:30pm - 3:00pm Paper Session II: Philosophical and measurement issues Olympia
3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break and Poster Session I Cafét/Lobby
3:30pm - 5:00pm Paper Session III: Cognition Aulan
3:30pm - 5:00pm Paper Session IV: Bio-social Factors Olympia
 

EVENING FREE
Wednesday, June 10
9:00am - 10:30am Symposium III: The Longitudinal OCTO-Twin Study Aulan
10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break Cafét
11:00am - 12:00pm Symposium III (Continued) Aulan
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:15pm Paper Session V: Quantitative Methods and Models Olympia
3:15pm - 3:45pm Coffee Break and Poster Session II Cafét/Lobby
3:45pm - 5:15pm Paper Session VI: Substance Use and Dependence Olympia
5:30pm - 6:30pm Business Meeting Olympia
7:30pm - 11:00pm Banquet and Awards (boat to museum leaves at 7:30) Vasa Museum
 

Thursday June 11
9:00am Executive Committee Meeting II Journalisten