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

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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)