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Conference Program 37th Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association 3-6 June 2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Conference Program 37th Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association 3-6 June 2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Year Presidents Local Hosts Behavior Genetics Association 1971 R. Osborne/B. Ginsburg - Storrs, CT, USA The purpose of the Behavior Genetics Association is to promote scientific study of the 1972 Th. Dobzhansky G.E. McClearn - Boulder, CO, USA interrelationship of genetic mechanisms and behaviour, both human and other animal; to 1973 John L. Fuller W.S. Pollitzer - Chapel Hill, NC, USA encourage and aid the education and training of research workers in the field of behavior 1974 Gerald E. McClearn S. Scarr - Minneapolis, MN, USA genetics; and to aid in the dissemination and interpretation to the general public of 1975 J.P. Scott J. Bruell - Austin, TX, USA knowledge concerning the interrelationship of genetics and behaviour, and its implications 1976 Irving I. Gottesman J.C. DeFries - Boulder, CO, USA for health and human development and education. 1977 W.R. Thompson R. Wilson - Louisville, KY, USA 1978 Lee Ehrman T. Klein - Davis, CA, USA For additional information about the Behavior Genetics Association, please contact the BGA 1979 V. Elving Anderson C. Lynch - Middletown, CT, USA Secretary, Michael Stallings, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1980 John C. Loehlin R.D. Bock - Chicago, IL, USA CO 80309, USA ([email protected]) or the BGA website (www.bga.org). 1981 Norman D. Henderson L. Ehrman - Purchase, NY, USA 1982 John C. DeFries D. Nash - Ft. Collins, CO, USA Executive Committee 1983 David W. Fulker D. Fulker - London, UK 1984 Steven G. Vandenberg R. Rose - Bloomington, IN, USA Scarr G. McClearn - State College, PA, USA 2006 - 2007 1985 Sandra Ronald S. Wilson G. Ashton/R. Johnson - Honolulu, USA President Laura Baker 1986 Peter A. Parsons L. Heston - Minneapolis, MN, USA President-Elect Pierre Roubertoux 1987 1988 Leonard L. Heston S. Kerbusch - Nijmegen, Netherlands Past President H. Hill Goldsmith Robert Plomin S. Scarr - Charlottesville, VA, USA Secretary Michael Stallings Carol B. Lynch P. Roubertoux - Aussois, France Treasurer Stacey Cherny 1990 Lindon J. Eaves G. Vogler - St. Louis, MO, USA Member-at-Large Jenae Neiderhiser 1991 David A. Blizard J. Wilson - Boulder, CO, USA Member-at-Large Danielle Posthuma 1992 Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. N. Martin - Sydney, Australia Member-at-Large Juko Ando 1993 1-994- Glayde Whitney A. Fernandez-Teruel/R.M. Escorihuela/ A. Tobena - Barcelona, Spain 1995 James Wilson J. Meyer/L. Eaves - Richmond, VA, USA 2007 Meeting Information 1996 Nicholas Martin G. McClearn/G. Vogler/D. Blizard/ B. Jones - Pittsburgh, PA, USA The 37th Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association will be held at the Royal 1997 Nicholas Martin T. Vernon - Toronto, Canada Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam, The 1998 Norman Henderson N. Pedersen - Stockholm, Sweden Netherlands. Paper, symposia and plenary sessions will be held throughout the day on June 1999 Richard Rose K. Jang - Vancouver, Canada 4, 5 and 6.The poster session will be held on June 4 from 6-9pm in the Caransa Hotel, 2000 John Hewitt J. Hudziak - Burlington, VT, USA Rembrandt Square 19, Amsterdam. The opening reception is from 6-8pm on Sunday June 3 2001 Matt McGue T. Eley - Cambridge, UK and the banquet will be held on the evening of Tuesday, June 5, 2007 in the West Indian 2002 Nancy Pedersen M. Wamboldt - Keystone, CO, USA House, Herenmarkt 99, Amsterdam. 2-130-3' Andrew Heath A. Heath - Chicago, USA 2004 Michele Carlier Pi. Roubertoux - Aix-en-Provence, Local Hosts: FrAnce 2005 H. Hill Goldsmith L. Baker - Los Angeles, CA, USA Dorret I. Boomsma, Ph.D. 2006 Laura Baker - S. Maxson - Connecticut, USA Department of Biological Psychology VU University Amsterdam natascha @psy.vu.nl 3 2 Year Dobzhansky Awardees Thompson Awardees 1977 Steven Vandenberg Nancy Galvin Sunday June 3 1978 Elliott Slater Gregory Carey 1979 Ernst Caspari Marla Sokolowski 17.00 - 19.00 Executive Meeting 1980 Benson Ginsburg Tin bergenzaal 1981 Sheldon Reed Michael Pogue-Geile 1982 Gardner Lindzey Paul Sharp 18.00 - 20.00 Registration & Welcome Reception 1983 Peter Broadhurst Michael Neale hall KNAW 1984 Leonard Heston Christine Michard & George Vogler 1985 Nikki Erlenmeyer-Kimling Dorret Boomsma & Lucinda Miner 1986 Raymond B. Cattell David Harder 1987 J.L. Fuller & J.P. Scott J.S. de Belle Lee Ehrman Joanne 1988 Meyer Monday June 4 1989 Gerald McClearn Susan Partour 1990 Irving Gottesman Lon Cardon & Philip Welbergen 08.00 - Registration 1991 John Loehlin Abel Bult & Lawrence Rodriguez hall KNAW 1992 John DeFries Deborah Finkel 1993 Peter Parsons Hermine Maes 09.30 Plenary Session 1994 Aubrey Manning Frans Sluyter 08.30 - Tinbergenzaal Chair: Laura A. Baker 1995 David Fulker Soo Hyun Rhee & Stephen Petrill 1996 Stephanie Schmitz Shelley D. Smith, Language Disorders at the Molecular Level 1997 Ronald Johnson Martine Thomis 1998 Stephen Maxson Javier Gayan & Alexander Weiss 09.45 - 11.15 Symposium 1999 Lindon Eaves Danielle Posthuma & Danielle Dick Oude Vergaderzaal Convener and Chair: Michele Carlier 2000 Pierre L. Roubertoux Brian D'Onofrio & Nathan Gillespie Brain and behavioral phenotypes of genetic syndromes (Fragile X, 2001 Thomas Bouchard Shaun Purcell DiGeorge, Williams Beuren, Neurofibromatosis Type 1, Trisomy 21) 2002 Robert Plomin Meike Bartels & Michael Galsworthy 2003 Norman Henderson Arpana Argrawal Gene S. Fisch, Nancy Carpenter, Patricia N. Howard-Peebles, Jeanette 2004 Sandra Scarr Jennifer Lau J.A. Holden, Jack Tarleton, Richard Simensen, Walter Nance 2005 Nicholas Martin Heather Goldhorn Studies of Age-Correlated Features of Cognitive-Behavioral 2006 Jerry Hirsch David Bard & Angelica Ronald Development in Children and Adolescents with Genetic Disorders Awardees Fuller/Scott Ann Swillen The neurocognitive and behavioural spectrum in de122q1.2 syndrome Frank Spinath 2004 (DiGeorge syndrome-Velocarcliofacial syndrome) 2005 Danielle Posthuma Danielle Dick 2006 T. van Amelsvoort Neuroanatomical and dopaminergic markers in 22q 11 deletion syndrome Pierre L. Roubertoux Cognitive genomics or cognitive proteomics? 4 5 09.45 - 11.15 Session Paper: Biostatistics and models Tinca J.C. Polderman, Danielle Posthuma, Frank C. Verhulst, Eco J.C. de Tinbergenzaal Chair: Michael C. Neale Geus, Dorret I. Boomsma Genetic associations between Attention, IQ and the Stroop effect Levente Littvay during childhood (eligible for Thompson Award) A New Way of Modeling Ascertainment or MAR Missing Data in the ACE Model 11.45 - 12.30 Paper Session: Psychopathology Oude Vergaderzaal Chair: Nick Martin Michael B. Miller, Gregg R. Lind GenetSim: Computer Simulation of Genetic Data on Twins Using R Harriet A. Ball, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, Matthew Hotopf, Peter McGuffin Sarah E. Medland, Brion S. Maher, Ralph E. Tarter, Levent Kirisci, The heritability of depressive tendency in a Sri Lankan twin sample, Michael M. Vanyukov, Michael C. Neale using an age-dependent categorical phenotype (eligible for Thompson Factorial Association: A generalization of the Fulker between-within Award) model to the multivariate case Lannie Ligthart, Marijn A. Distel, Dale R. Nyholt, Gonneke Willemsen, Karen S. Mitchell, Suzanne E. Mazzeo, J. Eric Schmitt, Cynthia M. Bulik, Dorret I. Boomsma Michael C. Neale The association between migraine and neuroticism: analysis of the Assessing Violations of the Equal Environments Assumption with a sources of covariance in a Dutch twin sample (eligible for Thompson Finite Mixture Distribution Model (eligible for Thompson Award) Award) Matthew C. Keller R. Jay Schulz-Heik, Soo Hyun Rhee, Brett C. Haberstik, John K. Hewitt, PedEvolve: A simulator of genetically informative datasets Andrew Smolen, David S. Timberlake implemented in R Gene-Environment Correlations in Childhood Maltreatment and Genetic Mediation of the Maltreatment - Conduct Problem Relationship G. Carey, M.C. Neale, L.J. Eaves (eligible for Thompson Award) Resolving equivalent models using data on pairs of individuals 12.30 - 13.00 Plenary Session: Dobzhansky Award I 17.15 - 11.45 Coffee Break Tinbergenzaal Chair: Dorret I. Boomsma hall KNAW Robert Plomin 11.45- 12.30 Paper Session: Cognition The quantitative trait locus (QTL) hypothesis Tinbergenzaal Chair: Juko Ando 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch M. van Leeuwen, S.M. van den Berg, D.I. Boomsma KNAW Restaurant Genetic and environmental structure underlying the association between short-term and working memory (eligible for Thompson 14.00 - 15.30 Paper Session: Cognitive abilities Award) Oude Vergaderzaal Chair: Richard R. Rose Eero P. Vuoksimaa, Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson, Laura Hokkanen, Chizuru Shikishima, Shinji Yamagata, Kai Hiraishi, Juko Ando Jaakko Kaprio, Richard J. Rose ' Associations between general intelligence and social attitudes: A Mental rotation ability in same-sex and opposite-sex twins (eligible Japanese twin study (elig ible for Thompson Award) for Thompson Award) Annabelle A.E. Vinkhuyzen, Sophie van der Sluis, Dorret I. Boomsma, Eco J.C. de Geus, Danielle Posthuma Heritability of Memory scanning (eligible for Thompson Award) 7 6 Timothy C. Bates, Michelle Luciano, Margaret J. Wright, Grant W. Sophia J. Docherty, Charles J. Curtis, Robert Plomin Montgomery, Nick G. Martin A two-stage genomewide association scan of pooled DNA for QTLs Heritability of phonological storage deficits related to Specific associated
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