News & Highlights
GENE Amsterdam Interview session 1: Aysu Okbay
Can you tell us about your background?I currently work at the economics department of the VU. My research focuses on the genetic architecture of social science outcomes, which is a very broad category. I've mostly been working on the genetics of educational attainment...
New website feature: GENE interviews
The Genetics Network (GENE) Amsterdam is large and spread out over several locations across the city. As a result, the researchers from different groups of the network can sometimes feel isolated from each other. As a way of bridge-building, we...
2nd Annual GENE Amsterdam day!
Please mark your calendar for the 2nd GENE Amsterdam day that will be held 28 November 2023 in the Doelenzaal in Amsterdam center!
Abdel Abdellaoui wins best paper award!
Abdel Abdellaoui not only gave a great keynote at the Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference (Murcia, Spain, 21-24 June), but also won the best paper award. Congratulations!
Maximizing the Value of Twin Studies in Health and Behaviour
The Research Master “Genes in Behavior and Health” of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam is proud to announce the publication in Nature Human Behaviour of a review and opinion paper titled “Maximizing the Value of Twin Studies in Health and Behaviour”, written by...
Melanie de Wit presenting at INSAR conference
GENE Amsterdam researcher Melanie de Wit presented her large meta-analysis (N 66 studies) about the polygenic score of Autism at the International Society of Autism Research meeting in Stockholm! She shows that the polygenic score is most significantly associated with...
Workshop for school kids
Genetics Network Amsterdam organised an interactive lecture on a secondary school in Amsterdam. See here some footage: https://bit.ly/3HsWNVa!
Cumlaude for Dr. Lianne de Vries
Huge congratulations to Lianne de Vries who successfully defended her Cumlaude Thesis "Differences in well-being: the biological and environmental causes, related phenotypes, and real-time assessment"! Find her thesis here: https://lnkd.in/eQWnxJPa. Password: Happy2023
New paper by GENE Amsterdam colleagues!
"Brain Structure and Function Show Distinct Relations With Genetic Predispositions to Mental Health and Cognition". Excellent paper just out by GENE Amsterdam colleagues Shu Liu et al https://bit.ly/3K1eRaT.
Thesis award for Anaïs Thijssen
Congratulations to GENE Amsterdam member Anaïs Thijssen who wins the Jan Brouwer award (€2.000) for her Master thesis entitled The Darwinian paradox of psychiatric disorders: Combining multiple evolutionary theories using genetic analyses. See here pictures and a...