BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION

34th ANNUAL MEETING

Centre des Congrès, Aix en Provence, France

14 Boulevard Carnot

June 27-30, 2004

 

 

Sunday, JUNE 27, 2004

 

 

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

(Main Hall)

 

REGISTRATION

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

(Room Secrétariat)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING I

 

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

(Room Pablo Picasso)

OPENING RECEPTION

 

 

Monday, JUNE 28, 2004

Joint Meeting Day with

International Society for Developmental Psychobiology

37th Meeting

 

 

8:00 am – 11:00 am

(Main Hall)

REGISTRATION

 

 

8:00 am – 8:45 am

(Room Pablo Picasso)

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am – 9:00 am

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

Opening ceremony

with Representatives from the

Country Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur,

City of Aix en Provence

and University of Provence

9:00 am – 10:00 am

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

ISDP and John Wiley Invited Address

Entering the milky way of life: The role of redundant odor messages in the survival of infant mammals.

Benoît Schaal (France) introduced by Robert Lickliter,  President of ISDP

10:00 am – 11:00 am

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

BGA Invited Address

The development of health-related behaviors from adolescence to young adulthood -A longitudinal twin study.

Jaako Kaprio (Finland) introduced by Michèle Carlier, President Elect of BGA.

11:00 am – 11:15 am

(Room Pablo Picasso)

 

BRIEF MORNING break (cash bar)

11:15 am – 12:45 pm

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

 

Monday ISDP Invited Symposium

Down Syndrome: Cognitive and Molecular Aspects.

Organizer Pierre Roubertoux

Chair: Bernard Kerdelhué

 

11:15 am 11:30 am

Down syndrome: A tribute to Jerôme Lejeune

Bernard Kerdelhué (France)

 

11:30 am 12:05 pm

Cognitive profiles in children with Down syndrome

Stefano Vicari (Italy)

 

12:05 pm 12:40 pm

Brain size and circuit complexity: A study of the cerebral cortex in Dirk1a Mouse

Mara Dierssen (Spain) and R. Benavides-Piccione, I. Ballesteros-Yáñez, M. Martίnez de Lagrán, M.L. Arbonés, V. Foiaki, X. Eestivill, J. Defelipe, and G.N. Elston.

12:40 pm 12:45 pm

Concluding remarks

Pierre Roubertoux (France).

12:45 pm – 2:30 pm

(Rooms Pablo Picasso, Sainte Victoire &

Forbin)

Monday Joint ISDP/BGA Poster session

with buffet (included in registration)

BGA

 1

Relations between parenting and extra-familial relationships: Nature or nurture?

Alison Pike and Thalia C. Eley.

BGA

2

Genetic influences on neurocognitive mechanisms of inhibitory control: A twin study of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in a Go/No-Go task.

Andrey P. Anokhin, Andrew C. Heath, and Erin Myers.

BGA

3

Heritability of Behavioral Approach and Inhibition Systems (BIS/BAS) scales in twins.

Andrey P. Anokhin, Andrew C. Heath, and Erin Myers.

BGA

4 (T)

Masculine girls and feminine Boys: Genetic and environmental contributions to atypical gender development in early childhood.

Ariel Knafo, Alessandra C. Iervolino and Robert Plomin.

BGA

5

Do patients bearing oligophrenin 1 gene mutations present relative strength in visuo-spatial cognition? Preliminary results.

Aude Gérard, Michèle Carlier, Nicole Philip, Laurent Villard, and Brigitte Chabrol..

BGA

6

Prevalence, stability, and concordance rates of gender identification symptoms: A longitudinal study in Dutch twins.

Toos C.E.M. van Beijsterveldt and D.I. Boomsma.

BGA

7

Intellectual impairment differences in Parkinson’s patients with and without affected mothers.

Carol A Manning, Lillian J Currie, Madeline Harrison, G. Frederick Wooten, and Eric N. Turkheimer.

BGA

8

Low heritability for antisocial behavior among adolescents residing in low socioeconomic environments.

Catherine Tuvblad, Martin Grann, and Paul Lichtenstein.

BGA

9 (T)

Genetic and environmental influences on social attitudes: Evidence for increased shared environmental effects in families with high cohesion.

Chizuru Shikishima and Juko Ando.

BGA

10 (T)

The relation between ADHD and sluggish cognitive tempo: Genetic and environmental contributions. 

Christie Hartman, Erik Willcutt, and Bruce Pennington.

BGA

11

COMT gene polymorphism is associated with cognitive functioning in adulthood and old age.

Cindy M. de Frias, Kristina Annerbrink, Lars Westberg, Elias Eriksson, Rolf Adolfsson, and Lars-Göran Nilsson.

BGA

12

Item analysis of structured clinical interview data.

Tomas Kubarych, and MC Neale.

BGA

13 (T)

Investigating age at onset with twin analyses with simulated data. 

Detre A. Godinez, Michael C. Stallings, Jeff Lessem, and John K. Hewitt.

BGA

14

Serotonergic shaping of the locomotor pattern in the in vitro neonatal rat spinal cord.

Faïza Ben Mabrouk, Edouard Pearlstein, Jean-Françios Pflieger and Laurent Vinay.

BGA

15

Executive functioning and genetic liability to schizophrenia:  Preliminary results from a large-pedigree, multiplex study.

Michael F. Pogue-Geile, Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Laura Almasy, Joel Wood, Judy Thompson, Sarah Tarbox, and Vishwajit Nimgaonkar.

BGA

16

The effect of birth weight with genetic susceptibility in predicting childhood and adolescent depression.

Frances Rice and Anita Thapar.

BGA

17 (T)

Differences in DSM-IV subtypes of ADHD: Genetic and environmental influences. 

Henrik Larsson, Jan-Olov Larsson, and Paul Lichtenstein.

BGA

18

The structure of eating behavior and attitudes among Japanese adolescent women.

Hiroko Maekawa, Juko Ando, and Yutaka Ono.

BGA

19

Kin recognition in Drosophila paulistorum: Relatedness vs familiarity.

J. Drew Prosser and Y.-K. Kim.

BGA

20

Genetic influences on the relationship between alcohol dependence, self-reported health and health services use.

James C. Romeis, Hong Xian, Andrew C. Heath and Nancy Pedersen.

BGA

21

Genetic influences on smoking and drinking behaviors in Japanese adolescence and young adulthood: A twin study.

Juko Ando, Ryoko Nakajima, Yutaka Ono, Kimio Yoshimura, Nobuhiko Kijima, and Kato Rumi Price.

BGA

22

Altered sensorimotor development in SOD1G85R transgenic mice, a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Julien Amendola, Pierre L. Roubertoux, Bernard Verrier and Jacques Durand.

BGA

23

Assessing the influence of GRIN2A on reading ability in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Kate J Lifford, K. Langley, D. Turic, M. B. Van den Bree, J. Williams, M. J. Owen, M. C. O’Donovan, and A. Thapar.

BGA

24 (T)

Causes of stability in explosive strength during adolescence

Maarten W. Peeters, Martine A. Thomis, Hermine H.M. Maes, Ruth J.F. Loos, Albrecht L. Claessens, Robert Vlietinck, and Gaston P. Beunen.

BGA

25

Parental disciplinary styles and associations with anxiety in adolescent and young adults.

Maria Napolitano, and Thalia C. Eley.

BGA

26 (T)

Age at first sexual intercourse and teenage pregnancy. 

Mary Waldron, Andrew C. Heath, Eric Turkheimer, Robert E. Emery and Nicholas G. Martin

BGA

27

Linkage conditional on measured genotypes under conditions of low statistical power

M.B. Miller

 

BGA

28

Genetic and environmental influences on career attitudes and vocational preparation in Japanese junior high school and high school students.

Motoko Matsuura, Masumi Sugawara, Atsushi Sakai, Taketoshi Takuma, and Sachiko Amou.

BGA

29 (T)

A twin study of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam era veterans. 

Qiang Fu, Andrew C. Heath, Kathleen K. Bucholz, Michael J. Lyons, Ming T. Tsuang, William R. True, and Seth A. Eisen.

BGA

30

Robustness of genome scan results on adolescent dependence vulnerability from the Colorado CADD.

R. P. Corley, M. C. Stallings, J. K. Hewitt, S. E. Young, and J. Zeiger.

BGA

31 (T)

Sleep problems and well-being: Genetic and environmental contributions. 

Ragnhild B. Nes, E. Røysamb, K. Tambs and J. R. Harris.

BGA

32

Genetic influences and developmental trends in comorbid asthma, anxiety, and depression.

Robin P. Goin and Judy L. Silberg.

BGA

33

Friends and families: A combined twin-adoption analysis of parenting and peer relationships.

Sally-Ann Rhea, Brett C. Haberstick, Robin P. Corley, and Stacey S. Cherny.

BGA

34

Communicating cancer risk information in genetic counseling:  Does format of presentation affect understanding?

Sandra Wilkniss, Eric Turkheimer, Carol Manning, Irving Gottesman, Lora Baum, Susan Jones, and Susan Miesfeldt.

BGA

35 (T)

Age-of-onset as a moderator of the genetic and environmental influences on Conduct Disorder

Amber L. Gahagan, and Irwin D. Waldman.

BGA

36

Behavioral alterations in mice with a reduced Neuregulin-1 Ig domain isoform.

Sukumar T. Rao, Ming-Ming Zhou, Robert J. Merker, Mary A. Mann, Gerald D. Fischbach, and Jay A. Gingrich.

 

BGA

37

The genetic and environmental structure of the NEO-PI-R: Facet-level analysis.

Shinji Yamagata, Atsunobu Suzuki, Kimio Yoshimura, Nobuhiko Kijima, Yutaka Ono, and Juko Ando.

 

BGA

38 (T)

The developmental changes in sources of individual differences in adolescent temperament.  

Sergei B. Malykh, Elena D. Gindina, and Viktoria V. Nadyseva.

BGA

39

Association between interleukin-6 gene polymorphism and personality traits in women.

Susanne Henningsson, Anna Håkansson, Lars Westberg, Michael Landén, Fariba Baghaei, Roland Rosmond, Göran Holm, and Elias Eriksson.

BGA

40 (T)

A candidate study of the EPAC gene for nicotine dependence using a Dutch twin sample. 

Xiangning Chen, Jaqueline M. Vink, Michael C. Neale, Kenneth S. Kendler and Dorret I. Boomsma.

BGA

41

Genetic and environmental influences on some habitual behaviors in childhood.

Syuichi Ooki.

BGA

42 (T)

Sibling-based association analyses of the serotonin transporter polymorphism and Generalized Anxiety Disorder in adolescents.

Victoria E. Cosgrove, Blake Buhlig, Soo Hyun Rhee, Susan E. Young, Andrew Smolen, Robin P. Corley, and John K. Hewitt.

BGA

43

Catechol-O-methyltransferase polymorphism in ADHD.

Toni N. Smolen, Andrew Smolen and Erik Willcutt.

BGA

44 (T)

Family dysfunction interacts with genes in the causation of antisocial symptoms. 

Tanya M. M. Button, Jane Scourfield, Neilson Martin, Shaun Purcell and Peter McGuffin

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

 

Monday BGA Invited Symposium I

Biology and Autism

Organizers : Gene Fish (USA) and Sylvie Tordjman (France).

Chair : Sylvie Tordjman

 

2:30 pm – 2:55 pm

 

Towards an integrated clinico-biological approach to autism.

Sylvie Tordjman (France)

2:55 pm – 2:20 pm

.

Towards identification of autism susceptibility variants in the IMGSAC sample
Janine A Lamb (UK), Elena Bonora, Gaby Barnby, Nuala Sykes, Elena Maestrini, Francesca Blasi, Elena Bacchelli, Kim S Beyer, Sabine M Klauck, Annemarie Poustka, Anthony J Bailey, Anthony P Monaco, International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium (IMGSAC).

3:20 pm – 3:45 pm

 

Longitudinal assessment of cognitive-behavioral features of children and adolescents with either Autism or the Fragile X Mutation

Gene S. Fisch (USA), Richard J. Simensen, and Roger J. Schroer.

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Discussion: The opinion of one parent

Agnes Massion (France), President of the Association APAR - Prevention Autism Recherche.

4:00 pm –  4:30 pm

(Room Pablo Picasso)

 

Monday Break (drinks and pASTRIES)

Conclusion of ISDP/BGA Joint scientific sessions

 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

 

monday bga parallel Symposium II

Behavior Genetics of Substance Use in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)

Organizer and Chair : John Hewitt

4:30 pm –  4:50 pm (T)

Heritability of smoking behavior and associations with dopaminergic polymorphisms in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. 

David S. Timberlake, Brett C. Haberstick, Jeffrey M. Lessem, Christian Hopfer, Andrew Smolen, Marissa Ehringer, and John K. Hewitt.

4:50 pm –  5:10 pm

Genetic influences on quantity of alcohol consumed by adolescents and young adults.

Christian Hopfer, David Timberlake , Brett Haberstick, Jeff Lessem, Marissa Ehringer, Andrew Smolen,and John Hewitt.

5:10 pm –  5:30 pm

Genetic and candidate gene analysis of Nicotine Dependence in the Add Health sample. Brett C. Haberstick., David S. Timberlake , Jeff M. Lessem , Christian Hopfer , Andrew Smolen , Marissa Ehringer, and John K. Hewitt.

 

5:30 pm –  5:50 pm

Relation between early use of marijuana and later illicit drug use in the Add Health sample.

Jeffrey M. Lessem, Brett C. Haberstick, Christian Hopfer, Andrew Smolen, David Timberlake, and John K. Hewitt.

 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

(Room Darius Milhaud)

Monday BGA parallel paper session I

Linkage Analyses and Molecular Genetics

Chair: Michael F. Pogue-Geile

4:30 pm –  4:45 pm

A genomic wide screen of the P300 ERP component: Preliminary findings.

Margie J. Wright, Michelle Luciano, Narelle K. Hansell, Gina M. Geffen and Nicholas G. Martin

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Linkage analyses of ERP slow wave measures of working memory.

Narelle K. Hansell, M.J. Wright, S. Medland, G.M. Geffen, L.B. Geffen, and N.G. Martin.

5:00 pm – 5:15 pm

QTL influencing standard deviation of heart rate and blood pressure in the mouse.

David A. Blizard, David J. Vandenbergh, Arimantas Lionikas, Glenn S. Gerhard, James W. Griffith,   Laura C. Klein, Joseph T. Stout, Holly A. Mack,  Joan M. Lakoski, Lars Larsson, Jeanne M. Spicer,  George P. Vogler, and  Gerald E. McClearn.

5:15 pm – 5:30 pm  (T)

A multivariate genome scan for finger ridge count. 

Sarah Medland, Danuta Loesch, Bogdan Mdzewski, Gu Zhu, and Nicholas G Martin.

5:30 pm – 5:45 pm (T)

Accounting for strong age-specific sex-limitation in QTL linkage analysis. 

Manuel A.R. Ferreira, David L. Duffy, and Nicholas G. Martin.

 

5:45 pm – 6:00 pm

Genetic and environmental factors influence Huntington’s disease age of onset.

Javier Gayán and The US-Venezuela Collaborative Research Project.

 

 

Monday JUNE 28

Reception hosted by the

Mayor

of Aix en Provence

 

7:30 pm

 

in the garden of pavillon vendôme

 

(in the old city; walking distance from the Centre des Congrès)

 

(bar offered by the city and buffet included in the registration)

 

 


 

Tuesday, JUNE 29, 2004

 

 

8:00 am – 8:30 am

(Main Hall)

REGISTRATION

 




8:30 am – 10:30 am

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

TUESDAY PARALLEL SYMPOSIUM III (part one)

Genetics of Reading Disabilities

Organizer and Chair : John DeFries

 

8:30 am – 8:50 am

Colorado Twin Study of Reading Disabilities.

John C. DeFries and Sally J. Wadsworth.

8:50 am – 9:10 am

Reading abilities and disabilities in a UK population sample of 5500 7-year-old twin pairs.

Nicole Harlaar and Robert Plomin.

9:10 am – 9:30 am

Genetic influences on reading disability as a function of gender.

Sally J. Wadsworth and John C. DeFries.

9:30 am – 9:50 am

Understanding comorbidity: A twin study of reading disability and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Erik G. Willcutt, Bruce F. Pennington, Richard K. Olson, and John C. DeFries.

 

9:50 am – 10:10 am

Bivariate linkage scan for reading disability and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Javier Gayán, Erik G. Willcutt, Simon E. Fisher, Clyde Francks, Lon R. Cardon, Richard K. Olson, Bruce F. Pennington, Shelley D. Smith, Anthony P. Monaco, and John C. DeFries.

10:10 am – 10:30 am

Molecular-genetic studies of reading disability in candidate genes.

Elena L. Grigorenko, Damaris Ngorosho, Christina Romano, Adam Naples, Luke Turechek, Anna Kochetkova, and Joseph Chang.

 

 

8:30 am – 10:30 am

(Room Darius Milhaud)

TUESDAY  PARALLEL PAPER SESSION II

Aggression, Depression, and Cognition

Chair : Stacey Cherny

8:30 am – 8:45 am  (T)

Genetic analyses of teacher ratings on aggression, attention problems and anxiety in 7-, 10, and 12-year-old children. 

Eske M. Derks, J.J. Hudziak, C.E.M. Beijsterveldt, and D.I. Boomsma, D.I.

8:45 am – 9:00 am (T)

Genetic epidemiology of depression in a selected population of Dutch twins and their siblings

Christel M. Middeldorp, Danielle C. Cath, A. Leo Beem, and Dorret I. Boomsma.

9:00 am – 9:15 am (T)

Mathematics, reading, and IQ: A multivariate genetic analysis in 7-year-old twins. 

Yulia Kovas, Nicole Harlaar, Stephen A. Petrill, and Robert Plomin.

9:15 am – 9:30 am (T)

Common aetiology for diverse linguistic skills in 4 1/2 year old twins. 

Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas, Yulia Kovas, Nicole Harlaar, Dorothy V. M. Bishop, Philip Dale, and Robert Plomin.

9:30 am – 9:45 am  (T)

Genetic and environmental influences on academic achievement trajectories during adolescence. 

Wendy Johnson, Matt McGue, and William G. Iacono.

9:45 am – 10:00 am (T)

The co-action and interaction of genetic and environmental influences on ADHD.

Tom A. Fowler and Anita Thapar. 

10:00 am – 10:15 am

The influence of family conflict in predicting childhood and adolescent depression: Differential effects according to familial and genetic risk for depression.

Frances Rice, Gordon T Harold  and Anita Thapar.

10:15 am – 10:30 am

The questionable truth of childhood aggression: The effects of child IQ and parental monitoring on parent-child agreement.

Alice P. Villatoro, Laura A. Baker, and Adrian Raine..

 

10:30 am –  11:00 am

(Room Pablo Picasso)

Tuesday Break (drinks and “viennoiseries”)

 



11:00 am – 12:00 am

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

TUESDAY  PARALLEL SYMPOSIUM III (part two)

Genetics of Reading Disabilities

Organizer and Chair: John DeFries

 

11:00 am – 11:20 am

Linkage, association and candidate-gene analyses for reading disability and speech sound disorder.

Shelley D. Smith, Karen E. Deffenbacher, R. Boada, N. Raitano, R. Tunick

, Laurence D. Shriberg, Richard K. Olson, Bruce F. Pennington, and John C. DeFries.

11:20 am – 11:40 am

Association mapping of the 6p23-21.3 QTL for reading disability.

Clyde Francks, Silvia Paracchini, Shelley D. Smith, Alex J. Richardson, Tom S. Scerri, Lon R. Cardon, Angela J. Marlow, I. Laurence MacPhie, Janet Walter, Bruce F. Pennington, Simon E. Fisher, Richard K. Olson, John C. DeFries, John F. Stein, and Anthony P. Monaco.

 

11:40 am – 12:00 am

General discussion

 



11:00am – 12:00 pm

(Room Darius Milhaud)

TUESDAY PARALLEL PAPER SESSION III

Substance Abuse and Methodology

Chair: Carol Prescott

 

11:00 am – 11:15 am

The association between marital instability and offspring substance-use and emotional problems: A children of twins study.

Brian M. D’Onofrio, Eric Turkheimer, Robert E. Emery, Hermine H. Maes, Judy Silberg, and Lindon J. Eaves.

11:15 am – 11:30 am

French Paradox redux :  Are the cardio-protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption direct or indirect?

Carol A. Prescott, Jonathan S. Kuhn and Nancy L. Pedersen.

11:30 am – 11:45 am

Do genetic and/or environmental influences on abuse and dependence overlap? Explorations using cannabis and alcohol.

Julia D. Grant, Andrew C. Heath, and Kathleen K. Bucholz.

11:45 am – 12:00 pm

Causes of respondent participation and attrition in questionnaire surveys. A longitudinal twin study.

Espen Røysamb, Jennifer R. Harris, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, and Kristian Tambs.

 

12:00 pm –  1:30 pm

 

Break for LUNCH (on your own)

 



 

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION

Chair: Pierre Roubertoux

1:30 pm – 2:20 pm

INVITED LECTURE

Introduced by Pierre Roubertoux

François Clarac (CNRS, France)

Motor development from neonatal rats to human infant:Genetic and neurophysiological aspects.

 

2:20 pm – 3:10 pm

2003 DOBZhANSKY AWARD LECTURE

Introduced by Michèle Carlier

Some biased reflections on genetic interactions

Norman Henderson (USA)

3:10 pm – 3:30 pm

Pooled DNA on chips: Genotyping large samples of cases and controls for thousands of SNPs simultaneously.

Robert Plomin.

 

3:30 pm –  4:00 pm

(Room Pablo Picasso)

 

tuesday Break (drinks and PASTRIES)

 

4:00 pm 6:00 pm

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

TUESDAY PARALLEL SYMPOSIUM IV

Psychological and Neurological Profiles in Genetic Diseases

Organizer and Chair : Michèle Carlier

4:00 pm – 4:20 pm

The example of 22q11.3 microdeletion and Smith-Magenis syndromes. Microdeletion syndromes as a model for identifying genes involved in behavioral development in humans.

Nicole Philip, Sabine Sigaudy, and Anne Moncla.

4:20 pm – 4:40 pm

Neuropsychological profiles of children bearing genetic diseases (Down and Williams syndromes).

Stefano Vicari.

4:40 pm – 5:00 pm

Developing a murine model for Williams Syndrome.

Gene S. Fisch.

5:00 pm – 5:20 pm

Prehension and laterality in children with Williams-Beuren Syndrome

Michèle Carlier, Silvia Stefanini, Arianna Bello and Virginia Volterra.

5:20 pm – 5:40 pm

Academic impairment is the most frequent complication of Neurofibromatosis Type-1(NF1) in children.

François X. Coudé, Claire Mignot, Stanislas Lyonnet and Arnold Munnich.

 

5:40 pm – 6:00 pm

Neural adhesion cell disorders.

Marc Jamon and Michel Pratte.

 



 

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

(Room Darius Milhaud)

 

TUESDAY PARALLEL PAPER SESSION IV

Methodology and Behavioral Problems

Chair: Caroline Van Baal

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm  (T)

The utility of mother, father, and teacher ratings in association analyses of candidate genes for childhood ADHD

Ian R. Gizer, Irwin D. Waldman, Ann Abramowitz, Craig Stever, and David C. Rowe.

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm  (T)

Multivariate models of fertility precursors and outcomes in the National Longitudinal. Survey of Youth.  

Joseph Lee Rodgers and David Bard.

4:30 pm – 4:45 pm  (T)

Association of early menarche with adolescent depression.

Jane Mendle, Eric Turkheimer, Robert E. Emery, Brian M. D’Onofrio, Stacy K. Lynch, Wendy S. Slutske, Andrew C. Heath, and Nicholas G. Martin.

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm  (T)

A genetically informed study of the association between harsh punishment and offspring behavioral problems  

Stacy K. Lynch, Eric Turkheimer, Robert E. Emery, Brian M. D’Onofrio, Jane Mendle, Wendy S. Slutske, Andrew C. Heath, and Nicholas G. Martin.

5:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Mixed or multilevel models for longitudinal sibling data.

Guang Guo and Jianmin Wang.

5:15 pm – 5:30 pm

 The addition of biometric components to longitudinal dynamic structural models of growth and survival.

John J. McArdle and Fumiaki Hamagami.

5:30 pm – 5:45 pm

Cholesky problems.

Gregory Carey.

5:45 pm – 6:00 pm

Criteria for the selection of endophenotypes for candidate gene studies: Application to executive functions and ADHD.

Irwin D. Waldman.

 


 



WEdnesday, JUNE 30, 2004

 

 

8:00 am – 8:30 am

(Main Hall)

REGISTRATION

 

8:30 am – 10:30 am

(Amphithéâtre Paul Cézanne)

WEDNESDAY PARALLEL SYMPOSIUM V

Using Behavior Genetic Designs to Study Environmental Influences

Organizer and Chair: Danielle M. Dick

8:30 am – 8:45 am

Introduction

Richard Rose

8:45 am – 9:05 am

Identifying environmental influences on adolescent substance use in the Finnish Twin Studies.

Danielle M. Dick, Shaun Purcell, Richard J. Viken, Jaakko Kaprio, Lea Pulkkinen, and Richard J. Rose.

9:05 am – 9:25 am (T)

Childhood adversity and risk for teenage pregnancy:  Examination of gene-environment interplay. 

Mary Waldron, Andrew C. Heath, Eric Turkheimer, Robert E. Emery and Nicholas G. Martin.

9:25 am – 9:45 am

Identifying sources of nongenetic influences on change in parent-child relationships from adolescence to young adulthood.

Jenae M. Neiderhiser.

9:45 am – 10:05 am

Shared environmental effects – Do they endure?

Matt McGue, Margaret Keyes, Irene Elkins and William G Iacono.

10:05 am – 10:30 am

General discussion

 

8:30 am – 10:30 am

(Room Darius Milhaud)

WEDNESDAY PARALLEL PAPER SESSION V

Antisocial Behavior

Chair:  Laura Baker

8:30 am – 8:45 am

Genetic and environmental bases of pre-adolescent antisocial behavior: A multi-trait multi-method twin study.

Laura A. Baker, Adrian Raine, and Kristen Jacobson.

8:45 am – 9:00 am

Sex differences in the relationship between IQ and antisocial behavior in young children.

Karestan C. Koenen.

9:00 am – 9:15 am

An assessment of transmission disequilibrium between quantitative measures of childhood problem behaviors and DRD2/TaqI, DRD2/-141C Ins/Del and DRD4/48bp-repeat polymorphisms.

Cecilia Marino, L Vanzin, R Giorda, A Frigerio, M L Lorusso, M Nobile, M Molteni, and M Battaglia.

9:15 am – 9:30 am

Genetic and environmental transmission of retrospective conduct disorder.

Hermine H. Maes, Michael C. Neale, Judy L. Silberg, Debra L. Foley, and Lindon J. Eaves.

9:30 am – 9:45 am

Consistency of adolescent relationship quality inside and outside the family: A behavior genetic analysis.

Erica L. Spotts, and Paul Lichtenstein.

9:45am – 10:00 am (T)

Genetic and environmental architecture of aggressive and non-aggressive conduct disorder.    Heather L. Gelhorn, Michael C. Stallings, Susan E. Young, Robin P. Corley, Soo Hyun Rhee, and John K. Hewitt.

 

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Applying item response theory in studying latent distributions, sex differences and development in attention problems.

Stéphanie van den Berg, Gonneke Willemsen, Eco de Geus, and Dorret Boomsma.

10:15 am – 10:30 am

Simulation-based estimation of genetic, environmental and overall liability scores from pedigree affection data for multifactorial disorders.

Desmond Campbell, Harvey E. Wickham, and Pak C. Sham.

 

10:30 am –  11:00 am

(Room Pablo Picasso)

 

Wednesday Break (drinks and “viennoiseries”)

 

11:00 am –  12:30 am

(Amphithéâtre

Paul Cézanne)

WEDNESDAY Parallel symposium VI

Cognitive and Environmental Links to Genetic Risk for Emotional Problems

Organizer and Chair : Thalia Eley

11:00 am –  11:20 am

Phenotypic and genetic/environmental structure of anxiety sensitivity in adolescents.

Thalia C. Eley.

11:20 am –  11:40 am  (T)

Examining the origins of the association between childhood anxiety and sleep problems using a cognitive-genetic-environmental approach

Alice M. Gregory and Thalia C. Eley.

11:40 am –  12:10 am  (T)

Adolescent depression: Interactions, correlations and cognitions. 

Jennifer Y.F. Lau and T. C. Eley.

12:10 am –  12:30 am

Discussion

Alison Pike

 

11:00 am –  12: 30 am

(Room Darius Milhaud)

WEDNESDAY Parallel PAPER SESSION VI

Personality and Cognition

Chair:  Nancy Pedersen

11:00 am –  11: 15 am

A genome wide scan for adolescent personality: Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism and Lie.

Nathan A. Gillespie, David E. Evans, G. Zhu, Margie M. Wright, and Nicholas G. Martin.

11:15 am –  11: 30 am

Genetic and environmental influences on global self-esteem in adolescent twins.

Richard J. Viken, Danielle M. Dick, Jaakko Kaprio, Lea Pulkkinen, and Richard J. Rose

11:30 am –  11: 45 am

The association of three amyloid-related candidates and longitudinal memory performance in the second half of the life-span.

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

11:45 am –  12: 00 am

Impairment of episodic memory and word fluency in carriers of the APOEε4 allele.

Lars-Göran Nilsson, Rolf Adolfsson, Lars Bäckman, Marc Cruts, Lars Nyberg, Brent J. Small, and Christine Van Broeckoven.

12:00 am –  12: 15 am

Using multivariate linkage methods to locate QTLs for word recognition and IQ.

Michelle Luciano, Mark Wainwright, Margaret J. Wright, Gina M. Geffen, David L. Duffy, and Nicholas G. Martin.

12:15 am –  12: 30 am

Shared environmental factors involved in anxiety/depression during childhood: Real or inflated by rater bias? A study from the Netherlands Twin Register.

Dorret I. Boomsma, C.E.M. van Beijsterveldt, E.M. Derks, M. Bartels, and J.J. Hudziak

12:30 am –  2:00 pm

Break for LUNCH (on your own)

 

12:30 am –  1:30 pm

(Room Secrétariat)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meeting II

(lunch provided)

 

 


 


2:00 pm –  4:00 pm (Amphithéâtre

Paul Cézanne)

WEDNESDAY PARALLEL SYMPOSIUM VII

Linkage Strategies and Successes in Behavior Genetics

Organizer and Chair: Danielle Posthuma

2:00 pm –  2:20 pm

Extensions of models for genetic linkage: Mixture distributions and epistasis.

Michael C. Neale.

2:20 pm –  2:40 pm

Full genome scans for cognition in Dutch and Australian samples.

Danielle Posthuma, Michelle Luciano, Eco JC de Geus, Margie J Wright, Nicholas G Martin, and Dorret I Boomsma.

2:40 pm –  3:00 pm

Genetics of loneliness: A study from the Netherlands Twin Register.

Dorret Boomsma, Gonneke Willemsen, Eco J.C. de Geus, Louise C. Hawkley, John T. Cacioppo, and Danielle Posthuma.

3:00 pm –  3:20 pm

A genome scan for eye color using a full two-locus model

Nicholas G. Martin, Gu Zhu, and David L. Duffy.

3:20 pm –  3:40 pm

Molecular approaches to identifying candidate genes in depression.

Jan Fullerton, Saffron Brady, Matthew Cubin, Hemant Tiwari, Chenxi Wang, Amarjit Bomhra, Stuart Davidson, Sue Miller, Christopher Fairburn, Guy Goodwin, Michael C Neale, Simon Fiddy, Richard Mott, David B Allison, and Jonathan Flint.

3:40 pm –  4:00 pm

Identifying Genes Influencing Alcohol Dependence in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) Sample.

Danielle M. Dick, Howard J. Edenberg, Tatiana Foroud, Alison Goate, Laura Bierut, Bernice Porjesz, & Henri Begleiter.

2:00 pm –  4:00 pm

(Room Darius Milhaud)

WeDNESDAY Parallel PAPER SESSION VII

Cognition, Gene Environment Interaction

Chair: Robert Plomin

2:00 pm –  2:15 pm

Scholastic achievement and IQ: A moderate genetic correlation.

Caroline  G M. Van Baal, Meike Bartels and Dorret I. Boomsma.

2:15 pm –  2:30 pm

Links between hyperactivity and academic achievement.

Kimberly J. Saudino and Robert Plomin.

2:30 pm –  2:45 pm

Predicting school achievement from intelligence, ability self-perceptions, and intrinsic values: Phenotypic and genetic analyses in a large twin study of 9-year-olds.

Frank M. Spinath, Birgit Spinath, and Robert Plomin.

 

2:45 pm –  3:00 pm

Surprising lack of sex differences in cognitive decline.

Deborah Finkel, Chandra A. Reynolds, and Nancy L. Pedersen.          

3:00 pm –  3:15 pm

Multi-method assessment of personality: An observational study of adult twins.

Heike Wolf, Peter Borkenau, Alois Angleitner, Rainer Riemann and Frank M. Spinath.

3:15 pm –  3:30 pm

Gene-environment interaction and association analysis.

Shaun Purcell.

3:30 pm –  3:45 pm

Possible interaction between maternal smoking during pregnancy and DRD4 genotype influencing severity of ADHD diagnosis.

Kate Langley, Frances Rice, Darko Turic, Marianne Van den Bree, Michael, J. Owen, Michael C. O’Donovan, Peter, A. Holmans, and Anita Thapar.

3:45 pm –  4:00 pm

Test of alternative hypotheses explaining the comorbidity between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder.

Soo Hyun Rhee, Erik G. Willcutt, Christie A. Hartman, Bruce F. Pennington, and John C. DeFries.

4:10 pm –  5:10 pm

(Room Darius Milhaud)

 

members BUSINESS MEETING

 

 

6:30 pm

WEDNESDAY EVENING

Meet Buses at

Centre des Congrès

 

7:00 pm – 10:30 pm

BANQUET at the “Mas des Arnajons”

(all drinks included in the registration)

 

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS

 

 


BEHAVIOR GENETICS ASSOCIATION

34th ANNUAL MEETING

Centre des Congrès, Aix en Provence, France

14 Boulevard Carnot

June 27-30, 2004

 

SUNDAY, June 27

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm                     Registration                                                                                                                    Main Hall

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Executive Committee Meeting I                                                                      Room Secrétariat                                                    

5:00 pm – 8 :00 pm

OPENING RECEPTION                                                                             Room Pablo Picasso

MONDAY, June 28

Joint Meeting Day ISDP/BGA

8:00 am – 11:00 am

Registration                                                                                                                    Main Hall

8:00 am – 8 :45 am

Continental Breakfast                                                                                  Room Pablo Picasso

8:45 am – 9:00 am

Opening Ceremony                                                                                  Amphithéâtre Cézanne

9 :00 am – 11 :00 am

Invited Speakers ISDP and BGA                                                           Amphithéâtre Cézanne

11:15 am – 12:45 pm

Invited ISDP Symposium

Down syndrome : Cognitive and molecular aspects

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

12:45 pm    2:30 pm

Poster Session & Buffet

Rooms Pablo Picasso, Sainte Victoire & Forbin

2:30 pm  – 4:00 pm

Invited BGA Symposium I

Biology and autism

  Amphithéâtre Cézanne

4:30 pm  – 6:00 pm

Symposium II

Behavior genetics of substance use in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

  Amphithéâtre Cézanne

4:30 pm  – 6:00 pm

Paper Session I

Linkage analyses and molecular genetics

    Room Darius Milhaud

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

RECEPTION

Pavillon Vendôme

TUESDAY, June 29

8:00 am – 8:30 am                     Registration                                                                                                                    Main Hall

8:30 am – 10:30 am

Symposium III (part one)

Genetics of reading disabilities

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

8:30 am – 10:30 am

Paper Session II

Aggression, depression, cognition

Room Darius Milhaud

11:00 am – 12:00 am

 

Symposium III (part two)

Genetics of reading disabilities (part two)

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

11:00 am – 12:00 am

 

Paper Session III

Substance abuse & methodology

 

Room Darius Milhaud

1:30 pm– 3:30 pm

Plenary session

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Symposium IV

Psychological and neurological profiles in genetic diseases

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

4:00 pm– 6:00 pm

Paper Session IV

Methodology, behavioral problems

Room Darius Milhaud

WEDNESDAY, June 30

8:00 am – 8 :30 am                     Registration                                                                                                                    Main Hall

8:30 am – 10:30 am

Symposium V

Using behavior genetic designs to study environmental influences

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

8:30 am – 10:30 am

Paper Session V

Antisocial behavior

Room Darius Milhaud

11:00 am – 12:30 am

Symposium VI

Cognitive and environmental links to genetic risk for emotional problems

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

11:00 am – 12:30 am

Paper Session VI

 Personality, cognition

Room Darius Milhaud

12:30 am – 1:30 pm

Executive Committee Meeting II

Room Secrétariat

2:00 pm –  4:00 pm

Symposium VII

 

Linkage strategies and successes in behavior genetics

Amphithéâtre Cézanne

2:00 pm –  4:00 pm

Paper Session VII

Cognition, gene environment interactions

 Room Darius Milhaud

4:10 pm –  5:10 pm

Members Business Meeting

Room Darius Milhaud

6:30 pm –  10 :30 pm

BANQUET                                                                                         Mas des Arnajons