BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION

32nd ANNUAL MEETING  PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Keystone Resort, Keystone, Colorado     July 3-6, 2002

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 3

4:00-6:00

REGISTRATION                               

6:00-9:00

WELCOME RECEPTION                   

THURSDAY JULY 4

8:00-9:30

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING                                                Shavano

9:30-11.30

SYMPOSIUM I               Castle Peak I

On the relationship between extremes and individual differences in three key areas of human ability and disability: Language, cognitive ability, and reading

SYMPOSIUM II                 Castle Peak II

Aggression across species

 

1:00-2:30

PAPER SESSION I           Castle Peak I

Personality

PAPER SESSION II            Castle Peak II

Methods

FRIDAY  JULY 5

8:30-11:30

PAPER SESSION III         Castle Peak I

Child and adolescence

PAPER SESSION IV          Castle Peak II

Substance use/abuse

 

1:00-4:30

SYMPOSIUM III                                                                                      Castle Peak I

Drosophila behavior

 

6:00-9:00

POSTER SESSION                                                                                   Red Cloud

SATURDAY JULY 6

8:30-10:00

SYMPOSIUM IV               Castle Peak I

Multivariate study of young twins as a tool to understanding the development of mood and behavioral disorders

SYMPOSIUM V                 Castle Peak II

Beyond QTL mapping: New approaches for defining genetic effects in animals

10:30-12:00

PAPER SESSION V          Castle Peak I

Aspects of human development

PAPER SESSION VI            Castle Peak II

Linkage & QTL                                 

1:00-2:30

SYMPOSIUM VI                                                                                      Castle Peak I

Ethical Guidelines in Human and Animal Research:

Subject Protection or Investigator Persecution?

3:00-4:00

BUSINESS MEE  BUSINESS MEETING                                                                               Shavano

4:00-5:00

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING                                                   Shavano

6:00-9:00

BANQUET

                               

 

 

 

BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION

32nd ANNUAL MEETING

Keystone Resort, Keystone, Colorado, USA

                July 3-6, 2002           

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 3

 

 

4:00-6:00

 

REGISTRATION                   Shavano Foyer                                                          

 

 

6:00 - 9:00

 

OPENING RECEPTION      Shavano Foyer and Convention Center Lobby

 

 

 

THURSDAY JULY 4

 

 

7:00-8:00

 

Continental Breakfast

 

Shavano Peak Foyer

 

 

8:00-9:30

 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING                                      Shavano                  

 

Thursday

July 4th

9:30 - 11:30

SYMPOSIUM I                                                                             Castle Peak I                                          Castle Peak I

On the relationship between extremes and individual differences in three key areas of human ability and disability: Language, cognitive ability, and reading

Organizer and Chair: Frank M. Spinath

Discussant: Robert Plomin

 

A model-fitting implementation of the DeFries-Fulker model for selected twin data

Shaun M. Purcell and Pak C. Sham

 

Genetic etiology of reading ability and disability in a large population sample of 7-year-old twins

Nicole Harlaar

 

Verbal and nonverbal cognitive disabilities and abilities: A multivariate analysis of a large twin sample assessed at 2, 3 and 4 years of age

Frank M. Spinath

 

Liability-threshold modeling shows strong, overlapping genetic influences on low language ability and low nonverbal cognitive ability in 4-year-old twins (T)

Thomas S. Price

 

Bivariate linkage analyses for reading difficulties and rapid naming (T)

Chayna J. Davis, Simon E. Fisher, Clyde Francks, I. Laurence MacPhie, Javier Gayán, Shelley D. Smith, Lon R. Cardon, Bruce F. Pennington, Richard K. Olson, Anthony P. Monaco and John C. DeFries


Thursday

July 4th

9:30 - 11:30

 SYMPOSIUM II                                                                          Castle Peak II

Aggression across species

Organizers and Chairs: Frans Sluyter and Caroline van Baal

 

Fighting fruit flies and lobsters: Model systems for the study of aggression

Edward A. Kravitz

 

 

Intersexual aggression in mice: Effects of female cycling and strain differences (T)

Andrew D. Canastar and Stephen C. Maxson

 

QTL maps for aggression in mice differ for standard-opponent and resident- intruder conditions

Pierre L. Roubertoux

 

The origins of antisocial behavior in 5-year old twins using reports from mothers, teachers, examiners and children themselves

Louise Arseneault

 

Parental, teacher and self-reported aggression in Dutch twin families: Longitudinal studies in young and adult twins

D.I. Boomsma, E.M. Derks, G. Heidema, J.M. Vink, H. C. Dirkzwager, J. J. Hudziak, F. C. Verhulst, M. Bartels, M. J. H. Rietvald and C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt

 

11:30-1:00

Lunch

 

1:00-2:30

PAPER SESSION I                                                                    Castle Peak I

Personality

Chair: Thomas Bouchard

 

Genetic and environmental influences on associations between marriage and positive mental health

Erica L. Spotts and David Reiss

 

Personality and marriage: A genetic analysis (T)

Wendy Johnson, Matt McGue, Robert F. Krueger and Thomas J. Bouchard

 

Heritability and genetics of personality in healthy families and families with affective disorders from Sweden (T)

Sofie van Gestel, Stephan Claes, Jurgen Del-Favero, Yurii Aulchenko, Thomas Forsgren, Mattias Lundberg, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Rolf Adolfsson and Christine van Broeckhoven

 

Can iris patterns be used as a biomarker to identify important candidate genes in personality research? (T)

Mats Larsson, Nancy L. Pedersen and Hĺkan Stattin

 

Biometric growth modeling of depression symptomatology in the very old

Matt McGue and Kaare Christensen

 

Exploring the association between pubertal development and depression (T)

Brian S. Mustanki, Richard J.Viken, Jaakko Kaprio, Lea Pulkkinen and Richard J. Rose

 


 

Thursday

July 4th

1:00-2:30

PAPER SESSION II                                                                      Castle Peak II

Methods

Chair: Chandra Reynolds

 

A comparison of information-theoretic fit criteria for use in model selection (T)

Kristian E. Markon and Robert F. Krueger

 

An extended latent class genomic control method

Shaun M. Purcell and Pak C. Sham

 

Substantive interpretation of bivariate biometric designs: Still not there

Eric Turkheimer, Mary Waldron, Brian D’Onofrio and Robert E. Emery

 

Another mathematical model for behavioral genetics (Groan!)

Gregory Carey

 

The use of Cholesky decomposition in multivariate models of sex-limited genetic and environmental effects

Michael C. Neale

 

Cognitive decline: Associations with candidate genes

Chandra A. Reynolds, Lars Feuk, Margaret Gatz, Jonathan Prince, Anthony Brookes and Nancy L. Pedersen

 

A powerful regression-based method of quantitative-trait linkage analysis for general pedigrees

P.C. Sham, S. Purcell, S.S. Cherny and G.R. Abecasis

 

2:45

Coffee

 

3:00

FREE

 

 

 

FRIDAY JULY 5

 

 

7:00-8:00

 

Continental Breakfast

 

Shavano Peak Foyer

 

Friday 

July 5th

8:30 - 10:00

PAPER SESSION III                                                                      Castle Peak I

Child and adolescence

Chair: Jenae Neiderhiser

 

Children in the Colorado Adoption Project at risk for conduct disorders: A 10-year follow-up (T)

Christie A. Hartman, Gregory Carey and Robin Corley

 

A longitudinal examination of the role of parent-child conflict in the covariation among childhood externalizing disorders (T)

S. Alexander Burt, Matthew K. McGue, Robert F. Krueger and William G. Iacono

 

The relationship between attention problems and IQ

Stephanie Schmitz

 

Genetics of ADHD: Controlling for parental alcohol dependence, maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy

Valerie S. Knopik, Pamela A. F. Madden, Kathleen K. Bucholz and Andrew C. Heath

 

A meta-analysis of linkage and association between the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1) and childhood ADHD

Irwin D. Waldman and Stephen V. Faraone

 

 


Friday 

July 5th

8:30 - 10:00

PAPER SESSION IV                                                                     Castle Peak II

Substance use/abuse

Chair: Pam Madden

 

 

Nicotine dependence in female adolescents

Christina N. Lessov, Andrew C. Heath, Kathleen K. Bucholz and Pamela A. F. Madden

 

Childhood conduct disorder and subsequent drug use and drug abuse/dependence

Michael T. Lynskey, Andrew C. Heath, Kathleen K. Bucholz, Wendy S. Slutske, Pamela A. F. Madden, Elliot C. Nelson, Dixie J. Statham and Nicholas G. Martin

 

Nicotine dependence and externalizing psychopathology: Extending the externalizing spectrum via a multivariate biometric analysis (T)

Brian M. Hicks, Robert F. Krueger, Christopher J. Patrick, Matt McGue and William G. Iacono

 

Family transmission of marijuana use, abuse and dependence

Christian Hopfer, Michael Stallings, Thomas Crowley and John Hewitt

 

Genetic analyses of smoking initiation, regular smoking and nicotine dependence

Hermine H. Maes, Patrick F. Sullivan, Cindy Bulik, Michael C. Neale, Kenneth S. Kendler and Lindon J. Eaves

 

Smoking and personality: A co-twin control study

Michele L. Pergadia, Andrew C. Heath, Michael T. Lynskey, Christina N. Lessov, Nicholas G. Martin and Pamela A. F. Madden

 

10:00-10:30

Coffee

 

10:30-11:30

PAPER SESSION III contd.                                                         Castle Peak I

 

Genetic and environmental contributions to prosocial and antisocial behavior in young twins

Robert F. Krueger, Avshalom Caspi and Terrie E. Moffitt

 

Problem behavior at a young age: A large twin study of individual differences and extremes in a repeated assessment design (T)

Angelica Ronald

 

Is etiology in the eye of the beholder? Parent, self and teacher ratings of behavior problems in early adolescence

Kimberley J. Saudino, Catherine Tuvblad and Paul Lichtenstein

 

A multivariate analysis of EAS temperament dimensions in childhood (T)

Amber L. Gahagan and Irwin D. Waldman