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Maggie Clapp Sullivan
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WashU Postdoc with a UT PhD. Using multivariate genetic methods to study personality, cog aging, and substance use.
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1/ 🚨New paper in Nature Genetics

Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering.

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...
Genetic associations with educational fields - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses of 10 educational fields identify 17 associated loci. Analysis of genetic clustering across specializations identifies two key dimensions that show genetic overlap with personalit...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin!

Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications

🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...
Postdoctoral Position in Social Science Genomics | Max Planck Research Group Biosocial
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
October 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Non-paywalled link to my commentary on @vw1234.bsky.social and colleagues new paper in @nature.com rdcu.be/eI2NG
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A deep and thought-provoking lecture that is definitely worth watching all the way through.
My Dobzhansky lecture at BGA: "Theodosius Dobzhansky and the Origins of Radical Behavior Genetics" is publicly available. I talk about the tensions introduced into the field at the difficult border between science using model organisms and human beings. Thanks to BGA for the opportunity.
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Dobzhansky Lecture by Eric Turkheimer
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August 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Are mental disorders extreme manifestations of continuous traits or genetically distinct entities? We present Genomic Taxometric Analysis of Continuous and Case-Control data (GTACCC) for evaluating genetic continuity and differentiation of traits across the severity spectrum. Tweetorial coming soon.
February 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
🚨 New paper!
In this review, we explore factor indeterminacy and outline how we can use genetic data to test the validity of latent factors.

tinyurl.com/5n75446y

With @tedmond.bsky.social , @tuckerdrob.bsky.social , @kph3k.bsky.social , @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social , and @michelnivard.bsky.social
Beyond the factor indeterminacy problem using genome-wide association data - Nature Human Behaviour
The authors address the central criticism of latent variable models in behavioural science, which is that a wide range of causal models may account for the observed data (the factor indeterminacy prob...
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January 15, 2024 at 5:12 PM