VIPBG PAST SEMINARS

Seminars are held each Thursday from 12 to 1pm in the VIPBG conference room (Biotech 1-160). If you are interested in being contacted about upcoming seminars, please email Jack Hettema. If you need to update your seminar information, please email Joey Noble with those changes.

VIPBG Research Seminars 2010-2011 VIPBG Research Seminars 2009-2010 VIPBG Research Seminars 2008-2009 VIPBG Research Seminars 2007-2008 VIPBG Research Seminars 2006-2007 VIPBG Research Seminars 2005-2006 VIPBG Research Seminars 2004-2005 VIPBG Research Seminars 2003-2004 VIPBG Research Seminars 2002-2003 VIPBG Research Seminars 2001-2002 VIPBG Research Seminars 2000-2001 VIPBG Research Seminars 99-2000 VIPBG Research Seminars 98-99 VIPBG Research Seminars 97-98 VIPBG Research Seminars 96-97 VIPBG Research Seminars 95-96 Seminars on QTL Methods in relation to Obesity, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 94 Genetic Seminars on Linkage, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 93 Seminars on Ascertainment and the Analysis of Family Data, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 93 Quantitative Genetics Research Seminar Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 92 Miscellaneous Seminars Hard Problems Seminars 2002-2003 Hard Problems Seminars 2001-2002 Hard Problems Seminars 2000-2001
VIPBG Research Seminars 2010-2011
09/09/10	Mark Reimers	Are GWAS really working? Journal club on two recent papers from NG
09/20/10	Ananda Amstadter	Broad Introduction: Ongoing and Planned Studies
10/07/10	Mark Reimers	Small Effects: estimating the genetic architecture of complex traits
10/14/10	Jennifer Slane	Genetic and Environmental Factors Underlying Comorbid Bulimic Symptoms and Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms: A Role for Personality?
10/28/10	Jingchun Chen	PTPN21/EML5, two candidate genes for schizophrenia, were identified by GWA study and replication
11/04/10	Brad Verhulst	Personality and Politics: Examining the causal influence of personality traits on the development of social attitudes.
11/11/10	Aaron Wolen	Characterizing ethanol responsive gene networks in mouse prefrontal cortex
11/18/10	Jack Hettema	A Twin Imaging Study of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
12/01/10	Tobias Guennel	Statisticals Methods for High Throughput Sequencing Date
12/09/10	Hao Wu	On the Null Distributions of Likelihood Ratio Test Statistics in Bivariate ACE Models
12/16/10	Sam Chen	An update on CMYA5 and schizophrenia
01/06/11	Michael Miles	From gene networks to behavior and back again: prefrontal cortex gene expression responses to ethanol
01/13/11	Chuck Gardner	Discovering Existential Meaning in Logistic Regression
01/20/11	Danielle Dick	The new interdisciplinary PhD in Psychiatric, Behavioral, and Statistical Genetics: A Chance for VIPBG Faculty, Students, and Collaborators to discuss our vision for the program.
01/27/11	Tim Bigdeli	Assessing empirical significance for low-frequency variants
02/03/11	Kenneth Kendler	Historical and Philosophical Issues in Psychiatric Nosology
02/10/11	Guest Speaker: John Loughlin	Genetic and functional analysis of osteoarthritis susceptibility.
02/17/11	Guest Presenter: Sarah Medland, QIMR NHMRC Sidney Sax Fellow	GWAS of Anthropometric Traits
02/24/11	Jia Yan	Using genetic information from GWAS and family-based association studies in risk prediction for alcohol dependence
03/03/11	Jacquelyn Meyers	Alcohol Dependence: Using Twin Studies to Inform Gene Identification Projects
03/10/11	CANCELLED
03/17/11	Steven Aggen	Alternative Approaches to Investigating Symptom Criteria Level Data
03/24/11	Ryne Estabrook	Factor Scores: Reliability, Utility & Application in OpenMx
03/31/11	Kia Jackson	The role of the 15q24 gene cluster in schizophrenia
04/07/11	Briana Mezuk	Differences in depressive symptoms across the lifespan
04/14/11	Paul Andrews	Blue again: Perturbational effects of antidepressants suggest monoaminergic homeostasis in major depression
04/21/11	Jocilyn Dellava	BMI Fluctuation Using an Extended Twin Design
04/28/11	Alexis Edwards	Smoking and depression: Using twins to investigate the association between phenotypes
05/05/11	Todd Webb	Multivariate quality control of Affymetrix SNP arrays and genotyping accuracy
05/12/11	Guest Presenter: Dr Jan Sundquist
05/13/11	Guest Presenter: Dr Kristina Sundquist
05/19/11	Roseann Peterson	The association of common and rare variation influencing body mass index: A combined single nucleotide polymorphism and copy number variation analysis.
05/26/11	Fazil Aliev	2x2 contingency tables for rare alleles and association
06/02/11	Vernell Williamson	A look at two on-going projects: using RNA-seq to detect novel miRNAs and understanding the methylation status of a CpG island near to hsa-mir-137
06/09/11	CANCELLED
06/16/11	Scott Bowers	G-protein substrates of drug and alcohol addiction: A universe of possible cures
06/23/11	Amy Dietrich	Examining the association between GPSM1 and human Alcohol Dependence
06/30/11	Albert Kim	Functional Validation of microRNAs in Schizophrenia
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2009-2010
9/10/09	Helen Wang, IT Support	Introduction of VIPBG servers and IT support
9/17/09	Jia Yan, Graduate Student Jackie Meyers, Graduate Student	Using Genetic Information in Risk Prediction for Complex Disorders Refining the Alcohol Phenotype
9/24/09	Danielle Dick, Assistant Professor	Gene environment interaction effects: Rethinking the diathesis stress model
10/1/09	Sam Chen, Associate Professor	Recent genetic studies of nicotine dependence and schizophrenia
10/8/09	Brion Maher, Assistant Professor	The Power of Polygenic Scoring
10/15/09	Jack Hettema, Associate Professor	Prioritization and Association Analysis of Murine-Derived Candidate Genes in Anxiety-Spectrum Disorders
10/22/09	Hermine Maes, Associate Professor	Combined Genetic Epidemiologic and Association Approaches in Smoking
10/29/09	Alexis Edwards, Postdoctoral Fellow	Analyses of Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Adolescent Finnish Twins
11/05/09	Vlady Vladimirov, Assistant Professor	miRNA involvement in schizophrenia and bipolar disorders
11/12/09	Scott Bowers, Assistant Professor	A little SK and too far gone : Alcohol Abuse Liability of the Small Conductance Potassium Channel
11/26/09	David Glahn, Professor	Identification of Genes involved in brain structure & Function: Insights for Psychopathology
11/26/09	Thanksgiving Holiday
12/3/09	Kenneth Bollendw, PhD, UNC	What are We Measuring? Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation among Immigrant Youth
12/10/09	Michael Neale, Professor	Genetics of Neuroimaging: Plans, Progress and a Puzzle
12/17-12/31/09	Holiday Break
1/14/10	Tim Bigdeli, Graduate Student	Comparative Power for Gene-Based Tests of Association
1/21/10	Kelly Lambert, PhD, Macon and Joan Brock Professor and Chair of Psychology, Randolph-Macon College	Prehistoric Prozac: Examining the neurobiological constituents of adaptive coping strategies and effort-driven reward training
1/28/10	Rachel Elves, Graduate Student	Candidate gene identification with gene expression analysis in schizophrenia
2/4/10	Paul Andrews, Postdoctoral Fellow	Empirical Problems with Disorder Hypotheses in Depression
2/11/10	Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Postdoctoral Fellow	Embracing Complexity: Genetic and Environmental Effects of Biological Measures Related to Depression, Anxiety and Obesity
2/18/10	Mark Reimers, Assistant Professor	Estimation issues in high-throughput data analysis
2/25/10	Hao Wu,Postdoc Position Applicant	An Empirical Bayesian Approach to Misspecified Covariance Structures
2/25/10	Tim York, Assistant Professor	Genetic Analysis of Racial Differences in Preterm Birth
3/4/09	Cancelled
3/11/10	Brien Riley, Associate Professor	Beyond GWAS: How to move forward in Psychiatric Genetics
3/25/10	Jocilyn Dellava, PhD, a post-doc applicant from UNC Chapel Hill	Body Composition, Body Mass Index, and Anorexia Nervosa
3/25/10	Charles Gardner, PhD, Research Associate	Logistic Regression and Interactions: Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams
4/1/10	Amy Dietrich, Graduate Student	The association of CLIC4 with ethanol sensitivity across species: preliminary results from the VCU-ARC
4/8/10	Tim York, Assistant Professor	TBA
4/15/10	Brad Verhulst	A Cholesky Approach to Disentangling the Relationship between Personality Traits and Social Attitudes
4/15/10	Roxann Roberson-Nay, Assistant Professor	TBA
4/22/10	Jingchun Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
4/29/10	Nathan Gillespie, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
5/6/10	Vladimir Vladimirov, Assistant Professor	TBA
5/13/10	Laura Hack, MD/PhD Student	TBA
5/20/10	Steve Aggen, Research Associate	TBA
5/27/10	Fazil Aliev, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
6/3/10	Dawn Thiseton, Research Associate	TBA
6/10/10	Kia Jackson, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
6/17/10	Gursharan Kalsi, Research Associate	TBA
6/24/10	Tom Kubarych, Research Associate
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2008-2009
09/11/08	Paul Andrews, Postdoctoral Fellow	Lifting the veil: A goodness-of-fit method for estimating underreporting with application to real and simulated data
09/18/08	Todd Webb, Assistant Professor	Population distribution, heritability, and genome-wide association study of number of illicit substances tried
09/25/08	Brien Riley, Associate Professor	Early replication of Schizophrenia GWAS data in the ISSCC
10/02/08	Jack Hettema, Associate Professor	Linkage Meta-Analysis of Anxiety-Related Phenotypes
10/09/08	ISPG
10/16/08	ISPG
10/23/08	Michael Neale, Professor	Structural MRI Twin Studies and an Mx Update
10/30/08	Sam Chen, Assistant Professor	Can we obtain copy number information in our routine genotyping assays?
11/06/08	Brion Maher, Assistant Professor	The association of AVPR1A with addiction is mediated by spousal relationship quality
11/13/08	Nathan Gillespie, Postdoctoral Fellow	The Identification of Heterogeneous Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol and Cannabis Use
11/20/08	Mark Reimers, Assistant Professor	The Long Tail: strategies for marshalling many genes with small effects
12/04/08	Kate LaPane, Professor	Estimating Causal Effects from Non-Experimental Studies
12/11/08	Hermine Maes, Associate Professor	Extended Twin Kinship Models: Why?
01/08/09	Briana Mezuk, PhD, University Of Michigan	Depression and risk of metabolic disorders: Exploring potential mechanisms
01/15/09	Ivelina S Metcheva, Director VCU Tech Transfer	Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
01/22/09	Jingchun Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow	ACSL6 Association and Functional Study in Nicotine Dependenc
p1/29/09	Ralph Greenspan, PhD; Scripps Research institute	Flexible gene networks and behavior in Drosophila
02/05/09	Youssef Sari, PhD; Indiana University	Neuroadaptation of dopaminergic and glutamatergic systems in bred alcohol-preferring rats
02/12/09	Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Postdoctoral Fellow	Use of Brain Morphometry as an Endophenotype for Tobacco and Alcohol Use
02/19/09	Samir Haj-Dahmane, PhD, University of Buffalo, SUNY	Endocannabinoids and the Retrograde Modulation of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in Serotonin Neurons
02/26/09	Kenneth Kendler; Distinguished Professor	Selected Research Topics
03/05/09	Sarah Bergen, Graduate Student	Phenotypic and Gene Network Analyses of Schizophrenia
03/12/09	Ming Li, UVA	Genetics of Nicotine Dependence (Invited Speaker)
03/19/09	Shawn Latendresse, Postdoctoral Fellow	Gene-environment interplay in the development of alcohol problems: A case for heterotypic continuity
03/26/09	Roxann Roberson-Nay, Assistant Professor	A Comprehensive Examination of Phenotypic Variance in Panic Disorder
04/02/09	Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor	Schizophrenia Candidate Gene Selection and Networks
04/09/09	Danielle Dick, Assistant Professor	New Findings from a Variety of Projects Aimed at Understanding Genetic Contributions to Alcohol Dependence
04/16/09	Charles Gardner, Research Assiciate	Dealing with various types of confounding in observational data
04/23/09	Anyuan Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow	Ethanol-related gene resource and gene feature analysis
04/30/09	NONE
05/07/09	Qi Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow
05/14/09	Steve Aggen, Research Associate	Preliminary Look at the Longitudinal Characteristics of the DSM Criteria for Major Depression
05/21/09	Jessica Baker, Graduate Student	Genetic risk factors for disordered eating in adolescent males and females
05/28/09	Fazil Aliev, Postdoctoral Fellow	Regression analyses on GWAS and GxE interactions
06/04/09	Gursharan Kalsi, Research Associate
06/11/09	Darlene Kertes, Postdoctoral Fellow	Genetic association analysis: What constitutes replication?
06/18/09	Dawn Thiseton, Research Associate	Ongoing studies of candidate genes/regions for schizophrenia susceptibility in the Irish high density and case-control samples
06/25/09	Bo Zhang, Post-Doc Applicant	Adaptive Model Selection via Generalized Degrees of Freedom and Data Perturbation with Applications to Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2007-2008
9/27/07	Paul Andrews, Postdoctoral Fellow	Evolution and epistemology in mental health science: Distinguishing defense mechanisms from mental disorders
10/25/07	Hermine Maes, Associate Professor	Cross-cultural comparison of genetic and environmental transmission of smoking initiation using an extended twin kinship model
11/8/07	Mark Reimers, Assistant Professor	Statistical methods for pathway-based investigations of disease in genotype and gene expression studies
11/15/07	Thomas Kubarych, Research Associate	Narcissism, Self-Deception, Conscience and Evil
11/22/07	No Seminar	N/A
11/29/07	Qi Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow	Association and expression study of CSF2RB gene with schizophrenia
12/6/07	Brion Maher, Assistant Professor	Large scale candidate gene association studies of drug use disorder and ADHD
12/13/07	Michael Neale, Professor	Some Issues in GxE, Comorbidity & Factor Analysis
12/20/07	No Seminar	N/A
1/3/08	Yuan Gao, Assistant Professor	Illuminating the Genome Landscape by Deep Sequencing
1/10/08	OPEN
1/17/08	Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Postdoctoral Fellow	The Effects of Genes and Environment on Diurnal Levels of Cortisol, Testosterone and DHEA
1/24/08	Steve Aggen, Research Associate	The Scaling of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms:Assessing Differential Moderation of the DSM-IV Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder
1/31/08	Nathan Gillespie, Postdoctoral Fellow	The role of peer group deviance and drug availability in the genetic and environmental pathways to cannabis use, abuse and dependence
2/7/08	Jack Hettema, Associate, Professor	Testing genes under a mouse anxiety QTL region for association in human internalizing disorders
2/14/08	Steve Negus, Professor	Some Determinants of Drug Choice in Rhesus Monkeys: Implications for the Genetics of Drug Abuse
2/21/08	Brien Riley, Assistant Professor	GSK-3B, Wnt signaling, and DKK2 in alcohol depenedence
2/28/08	Vladimir Vladimirov, Assistant Professor	Identification of a novel miRNA gene in dysbindin
3/6/08	Mark Reimers, Assistant Professor	Further excursions in pathway analysis for psychiatric genetics
3/13/08	Darlene Brunzell, Assistant Professor	Genes, proteins, and behavior; elucidating mechanisms of nicotine addiction
3/20/08	Mats Forsman, Doctoral Student(Karolinska Institute)	Genetic and Environmental Influences on Psychopathic Personality in Adolescence
3/27/08	Anyuan Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow	Dystrobrevin binding protein 1 (DTNBP1) gene features analysis
4/3/08	Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor	Candidate genes for schizophrenia: a survey of association studies and gene ranking
4/10/08	Danielle Dick, Assistant Professor	Characterizing the Risk associated with Genes Influencing Alcohol Dependence
4/17/08	Alexis Edwards, Doctoral Student (NCSU)	The Genomics of Aggressive Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
4/24/08	Cancelled
5/1/08	Kenneth Kendler, Distinguished Professor	Empirical Tests of Psychiatric Nosology -- Uncomplicated Bereavement, 'Normal' Sadness, and Major Depression
5/8/08	Jingchun Sun, Postdoctoral Fellow	Dysbindin: protein interactions and networks
5/15/08	Fazil Aliev, Postdoctoral Fellow	Multiple testing problems in linkage and association studies
5/22/08	Charles Gardner, Research Associate	The Dynamic Inter-relationship of Major Depression and Coronary Artery Disease: Attempts at Statistical Modeling
5/29/08	Seon-Sook An, Research Associate	A study of NPY receptor genes: genotyping discrepancy and potential Copy Number Variations using pyrosequencing
6/5/08	CANCELLED
6/12/08	Darlene Kertes, Postdoctoral Fellow	Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis genes in comorbid alcohol dependence and major depression
6/19/08	Gursharan Kalsi, Research Associate	TBA
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2006-2007
9/14/06	Seth Roberts	Predicting Gene Essentiality: The Gene Takeout Method
9/21/06	Bradley Todd Webb, Research Associate	Data Integration and Gene Prioritization Lead to Schizophrenia Pharmacongenetic Discover
9/28/06	Jack Hettema, Assistant Professor	Testing the Association Between the COMT Gene and Susceptibility to Anxiety-Spectrum Disorders
10/5/06	Michael Miles, Professor	Identification of Genetic Loci Linked to Acute Ethanol Responsive Gene Expression in Prefrontal Cortex
10/12/06	Richard Kennedy, Graduate Assistant	Probe-level Analysis of Microarray Data
10/19/06	Hermine Maes, Assistant Professor	TBA
10/26/06	No Seminar	N/A
11/2/06	James Eric Schmitt, Graduate Student	A Different Kind of Fine Mapping: High-Resolution Family Studies of Pediatric Brain Morphology
11/16/06	Sarah Medland, Postdoctoral Fellow	Results from Linkage and Drug behaviours projects
11/30/06	Brion Maher, Assistant Professor	Initial Discovery and Replication in Large Scale Genetic Association Studies: A Sequential Analysis Approach
12/07/06	Brien P. Riley, Assistant Professor	The emerging importance of copy number variation in the human genome
12/14/06	Timothy York, Assistant Professor	The use of Finite Mixture Models to Handle Drug Response Heterogeneity in Pharmacogenetic Studies
1/11/07	Sam Chen, Assistant Professor	Are there common genetic factors in nicotine dependence and other substance use/abuse?
1/25/07	Charles Gardner, Research Associate	TBA
2/1/07	Gursharan Kalsi, Postdoctoral Fellow	Alcohol, glutamate receptors and beyond
2/15/07	Paul Andrews, Postdoctoral Fellow	When truth is not told: A method for testing the effects of underreporting and applying it to gender differences in perceptions of sexual infidelity and heritability estimates of drug abuse
2/22/07	Brien P. Riley, Assistant Professor	Identifying Novel Candidate Genes from DNA-pooled Whole Genome Association (or Damn, that's cheap! Does it work?)
3/1/07	Michael Neale, PhD - Professor	The measurement and analysis of complex traits
3/8/07	Mark Reimers, Assistant Professor	Some statistical methods for gene groups in expression data and some new directions
3/15/07	Matthew Keller, Postdoctoral Fellow	PedSim: A general simulator of pedigree data and evolutionary processes
3/22/07	Nathan Gillespie, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
3/29/07	Po-Hsiu Kuo, Research Associate	Applications of Finite Mixture models- is it just another fancy model?!
4/5/07	Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor	CpG Islands and DNA Methylation: Does Methylomics Approach Work in Psychiatry?
4/12/07	Cizhong Jiang, Postdoctoral Fellow	Evidence and Model of Loss of promoter-associated CpG islands in mammals
4/19/07	Kenneth Kendler, Co-director and Distinguished Professor	Developmental Models of Externalizing and Anxiety Disorders
4/26	Steven Aggen, Research Associate	Measuring the Mind: A Discussion of Current Topics in Psychometrics
5/3/07	Tom Kubarych, Research Associate	Stem-probe, ordinal data and clinical significance issues in measurement non-invariance studies: examples from DSM-IV Generalized Anxiety and Narcissistic Personality Disorders
5/10/07	Elizabeth Prom, Graduate Student	TBA
5/17/07	Jingchun Sun (Sunny), Postdoctoral Fellow	Genetic network analysis of schizophrenia-associated genes: preliminary results and future direction
5/24/07	Seon-Sook An, Postdoctoral Fellow	CREB1 Gene Association Study with Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Disorders
5/31/07	Edwin van den Oord, Associate Professor	The center for biomarker research and personalized medicine
6/7/07	Joseph McClay, Associate Professor	TBA
6/14/07	Daniel Adkins, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
6/21/07	Dawn Thiselton, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
6/28/07	Vladimir Vladimirov, Assistant Professor	TBA
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2005-2006
9/08/05	Visting Professor, Dr. Robert Kimberly	"Hard problems" seminar on lupus genetics
9/15/05	No Seminar	N/A
9/22/05	Bradley Todd Webb, Postdoctoral Fellow	Systematic selection of candidate genes by model-based data integration.
9/29/05	Lan Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow	Searching for the genes associated with smoking
10/06/05	Jack Hettema, Assistant Professor	Association Between Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase (GAD) Genes and Mood and Anxiety Disorders
10/13/05	No Seminar	N/A
10/20/05	Charles Gardner, Research Associate	Applications of generalized linear mixed models to twin data.
10/27/05	Noon: Nathan Gillespie, Postdoctoral Fellow 2PM: Michael Grotewiel, Professor	Noon: Modeling of Measures of Drug Availability: Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana & Cocaine. 2PM: Questions and Approaches to Studying Drosophila Behavior
11/03/05	Xiangning "Sam" Chen, Assistant Professor	>Search for schizophrenia genes in 5q an update
11/10/05	Jaime Robles, Research Associate	Model Discovery using Artificial Intelligence
11/17/05	Special Guest, Philosopher Dr. Dominic Murphy	TBA
11/24/05	No Seminar	Holiday
12/01/05	Vladimir Vladimirov, Postdoctoral Fellow	A Region of 35kb Containing the Trace Amine Associated Receptor 6 (TAAR6) Gene is Associated with Schizophrenia in the Irish Study of High Density Schizophrenia Families.
12/08/05	Timothy Bates, Guest Speaker	Linkage for dyslexia in a normal sample
12/15/05	Thomas Kubarych, Research Associate	MI2: Investigating Measurement Invariance of Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms in the Virginia Twin Registry and National Comorbidity Survey
12/22/05	No Seminar	Holiday
12/29/05	No Seminar	Holiday
1/05/06	Paul Andrews, Postdoctoral Fellow	Depression and problem-solving: History and development of an idea
1/12/06	Brien Riley, Assistant Professor	Alcohol dependence is associated with the ZNF699 gene, the human ortholog of Drosophila hangover/CG32575
1/19/06	Kelly Tracy, Graduate Student	Genetic and Environmental Factors Contributing to the Development of Antisocial Behavior inMale and Female Young Adults
1/26/06	Cristina Vargas-Irwin, Postdoctoral Fellow	Behavioral economic aspects of addiction
2/02/06	Jozsef Bukzsar, Postdoctoral Fellow	Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses and average effect size in large scale genetic case-control studies
2/08/06	Timothy Newman, Faculty Candidate	Functional Candidate Gene Studies and the Evolution of Behavior in Primates: Lessons from the MAOA Gene
2/09/06	Kristopher Preacher, Faculty Candidate	Assessing mediation, moderation, and conditional indirect effects
2/16/06	Matthew Keller, Postdoctoral Fellow	Resolving the Paradox of Common, Harmful, Heritable Mental Disorders: WhichEvolutionary Genetic Models Work Best?
2/23/06	James Eric Schmitt, Graduate Student	Detecting latent normality with ordered latent class models
3/02/06	Cizhong Jiang, Postdoctoral Fellow	Analysis of Mutational Spectrum in Categorized Human Genomic Regions
3/09/06	Steven Aggen, Research Associate	Latent Psychiatric Phenotypes:Establishing a Basis for Informative Comparisons Applications to DSM Major Depressive & Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria
3/16/06	Guest Speaker Geoff Miller	A general fitness factor underlying cognitive function, mental health and physical health: Theory and evidence from 12,749 Vietnam-era veterans
3/23/06	Dawn Thiselton, Postdoctoral Fellow	Molecular genetic studies of candidate susceptibility genes for schizophrenia
3/30/06	Po-Hsiu Kuo, Research Associate	The temporal relationship of the onsets of alcohol dependence and major depression
4/06/06	Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor	Nucleotide Variation and Haplotype Diversity in a 10-kb Noncoding Region in Three Continental Human Populations
4/13/06	Gursharan Kalsi, Postdoctoral Fellow	Fine-mapping the Alcohol Dependence Susceptibility Locus on 4q22-32 using Tag SNPs
4/20/06	Joseph McClay, Postdoctoral Fellow	Genotype - environment interactions in metabolic phenotypes
4/27/06	Michael Neale, PHD - Professor	Thoughts about the future of Mx
5/04/06	Carla Mazefsky, Postdoctoral Fellow	Autism: Introduction to the Phenotype and Research Examples
5/11/06	Edwin van den Oord, Associate Professor	New tools for analyzing genome-wide association data and designing subsequent replication studies.
5/18/06	Lindon Eaves, Co-director and Distinguished Professor	Some Things I Worry About
5/25/06	Donna Miles, Assistant Professor	Virginia Youth Tobacco Project: Preliminary Findings.
6/01/06	Kenneth Kendler, Co-director and Distinguished Professor	The Role of Theory in Psychiatric Research: A review of the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia
6/08/06	OPEN	OPEN
6/15/06	OPEN	OPEN
6/22/06	OPEN	OPEN
6/29/06	Elizabeth Prom, Graduate Student	Use of Monoamine Oxidase-A, Serotonin Transporter Promoter, and Dopamine Transporter Polymorphisms as Common Genetic Risk Factors for Adolescent Conduct Disorder and Hyperactivity
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2004-2005
1/06/05	Paul Andrews, Postdoctoral Fellow	Analytical Reasoning and Depression
1/13/05	Lindon Eaves, Distinguished Professor and Director	The Mating Game
1/20/05	Charles Gardner, Research Associate	Clustered, Confounded, and Confused: Opportunities and Dangers with Clustered Observational Data
1/27/05	Cristina Vargas-Irwin, Postdoctoral Fellow	Behavioral and genetic markers of drug addiction in an adolescent murine model
2/03/05	Hermine Maes, Assistant Professor	Smoking: An extended/reduced 'extended twin kinship' analysis
2/10/05	Kenneth Kendler, Professor and Director	Reduction, Emergence and Explanatory Pluralism
2/24/05	Nathan Gillespie, Postdoctoral Fellow	Factor and Item-Response Analysis of DSM-IV Criteria for Abuse of and Dependence on Cannabis, Cocaine, Hallucinogens, Sedatives, Stimulants and Opiates
3/03/05	Dr. Clyde Francks	Parent-of-origin effects on handedness and schizophrenia on 2p12-q11
3/07/05	Dr. Robin Murray, Visiting Scholar	Environmental Causes of Schizophrenia
3/10/05	Steve Aggen, Research Associate	Latent Variables: A Look at Their Place in Behavioral Sciences Research
3/10/05	Fred Wolf, Faculty Candidate	Interview with a Fly: Neural and MolecularSubstrates for Drosophila Locomotor Behavior
3/15/05	Dr. Isaac Marks, Visiting Scholar	What Leads to Normal and Morbid Fear and Anxiety?
3/16/05	Sarah Medland, Postdoctoral Candidate	The genetics of handedness: Results from a large international colaborative study
3/17/05	Justin Rhodes, Ph.D., Faculty Candidate	Neural Circuits underlying motivation for natural and drug rewards
3/17/05	Joseph McClay, Postdoctoral Fellow	Variance component analysis of polymorphic metabolic network
3/23/05	Darlene Kertes, Postdoctoral Candidate	Effects of early life experience on adrenocortical function
4/07/05	Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor	Sequence-Context Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
4/21/05	Mike Neale, Steven Aggen, and Tom Kubarych	Journal Article Discussion
5/12/05	Brien P. Riley, Assistant Professor	Beyond Positional Cloning and Association: the search for causal variation in DTNBP1
5/19/05	Elizabeth Prom, Graduate Student	The Roles of Monoamine Oxidase-A and Childhood Adversity as Risk Factors for Conduct Disorder in Females
5/26/05	Charles Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
6/02/05	James Eric Schmitt, Graduate Student	Heritability of brain volumes in a genetically informative pediatric sample
6/03/05	Tara Turley, Postdoctoral Candidate	Use of Covariates in the Linkage Analysis of Complex Qualitative Traits
6/09/05 Noon	Po-Hsiu Kuo, Postdoctoral Fellow	TBA
6/09/05 2PM	Carla Mazefsky, Postdoctoral Candidate	Autism Spectrum Diagnostic Research: Past Studies and Future Directions
6/16/05	Dr. David Reiss	Gene-environment interaction and preventive intervention: is this couple ready for marriage? (Guest Speaker)
6/23/05	Robin Page Goin, Postdoctoral Fellow	Co-occurrence of Asthma and Externalizing Symptoms Among Children and Adolescents
7/07/05	Linda Hancock	Tylenol, Twinkies and Genetic Snowflakes: Translating basic science knowledge for teenager consumption (Guest Speaker)
09/30/04	Jack Hettema, Assistant Professor	The Relationship Between Neuroticism and Internalizing Disorders
10/07/04	Carol Prescott, Associate Professor	Interactions between stressful life events and the serotonin transporter in the prediction of depressive episodes
10/14/04	No Seminar	N/A
10/21/04	Jonathan Kuhn, Research Associate	Uneven sensitivity when testing gene/environment interaction: a simulation study
10/28/04	Sam Chen, Assistant Professor	Searching for schizophrenia genes on chromosome 5
11/04/04	Robert Krueger (guest speaker) Associate Professor, University of Minnesota	Comparing dimensional and categorical representations of psychpathology
11/11/04	Fengkai Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow	Bioinformatics Topic: The Use of Vector Seeds to Improve PSI-BLAST Sensitivity
11/18/04	Jozsef Bukszar, Postdoctoral Fellow	Power calculations for 2 by m tables in one and two stage unmatched case-control designs
11/25/04	No seminar	Thanksgiving Day
12/02/04	12 PM: Edwin van den Oord, Associate Professor and JR Robles, Research Associate	Multistage LD studies and their computer implementation
12/02/04	1 PM: Brian Flaherty, Applicant	Using Associative Latent Transition Analysis to Examine Linked Processes
12/09/04	Mike Neale, Professor	Discriminating between latent traits and latent classes
12/16/04	Kristen Jacobson, Assistant Professor	The structure of antisocial behavior: Results from a genetic factor analysis
12/23/04	No Seminar	Winter Closing
12/30/04	No Seminar	Winter Closing
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2003-2004
9/11/03	Jack Hettema, Assistant Professor	Genetic and Environmental Sources of Covariation Between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Neuroticism
9/25/03	Mike Neale, Professor	Issues with IRT models and missing data
10/23/03	Yongqiang Tang, Postdoctoral Candidate	Cancer classification using gene expression data
10/30/03	Tieband Wang, Postdoctoral Candidate	The sensitivity of Magnaporthe grisea to fenhexamid is determined by a putative GDP/GTP exchange factor (GEF) for Rho1
11/6/03	Yihua Che, Postdoctoral Fellow	A Multiplexing SNP Detection Method Based on Restriction Enzyme Mediated Single Base Extension (REM-SBE)
11/3/03	Lindon Eaves, Distinguished Professor	Struggling to make sense of the environment in behavioral development
11/20/03	Brien Riley, Assistant Professor	A Complete Map of Sequence Variation in the DTNBP1 High-risk Haplotype From The Irish Study Of High Density Schizophrenia Families
11/27/03	Brian Flaherty	Measurement structure of the nicotine dependence syndrome scale in the 2001 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse
12/11/03	Charles Gardner, Research Associate	A Survey of Methods for Regression Models with Clustered Data
1/8/04	Gitta Lubke	Factor mixture models applied to ADHD data
1/15/04	Hermine Maes, Assistant Professor	Genetic and environmental transmission of retrospective conduct disorder
1/22/04	RObin Page Goin, Postdoctoral Fellow	Affective disorders in parents of children with autism: Are there implications for different types of autism onset?
1/29/04	Dawn Thiselton, Postdoctoral Fellow	Searching for schizophrenia susceptibility variants on chromosome 8p: no evidence for linkage or association of neuregulin-1 (NRG1) with disease in the Irish Study of High Density Schizophrenia Families (ISHDSF).
2/5/04	Carol Prescott, Associate Professor	Estimating heritability under conditions of unknown zygosity and biased ascertainment: An application using psychiatric diagnoses in the Swedish Twin Registry
2/12/04	Matthew Keller, Postdoctoral Candidate	An evolutionary framework for understanding mental disorders: what evolutionary genetics can tell us
2/19/04	Paul Andrews, Postdoctoral Candidate	Defects in the defect models of depression
3/4/04	Tim York, Postdoctoral Candidate	Genome-wide variation in human gene expression
3/11/04	Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor	Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Mouse Genome
3/18/04	Kevin Bolinsky	Twins, Personality, and Stressful Life Events
3/25/04	Edwin van den Oord, Associate Professor	The analysis of large scale genetic data
4/1/04	Lindon Eaves, Distinguished Professor	Developing an attitude: election-year behavior genetics
4/8/04	Mike Neale, Professor	Measurement and gender in latent trait analyses: theory and applications
4/22/04	Joseph McClay, Postdoctoral Fellow	Variance components in biochemical networks with and without competitive inhibition
5/6/04	Steven Aggen, Research Associate	Gender Differences in MD Prevalence: Measurement Invariance Models for Examining Risk Equivalence
5/13/04	Arpana Agrawal, Graduate Student	Testing competition effects in sources of caffeine use: Coffee, soda and tea use in female twins
5/20/04	Po-Hsiu Kuo, Postdoctoral Candidate	Studies in substance use: Results from genetic and longitudinal studies
5/27/04	Elizabeth Prom, Research Assistant	X-Inactivation in Females and MAO-A: An Overview
6/10/04	Debra Foley, Assistant Professor	Proximal psychiatric risk factors for suicidality in youth aged 9-16 years
6/15/04	Tom Kubarych	Personality and Psychopathology: Measurement, Models and Classification
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2002-2003
04/24/03	Todd Webb	Dissection of schizophrenia linkages using the DTNBP1 high-risk haplotype
04/04/03	Kenneth Schaffner	Molecular and Quantitative Behavioral Genetics: What Kind of a Bridge(s)? (Guest Speaker)
03/27/03	Bill Arend/G. Moxley	Cytokine Biology / Quantitative genetic aspects of immunity (Guest Speaker)
03/20/03	Ayman Fanous	Suicidal Ideation and its Prediction Using Epidemiological Methods
03/06/03	Ken Kendler	First thoughts on a conceptual framework for psychiatric genetics
02/20/03	Robin Goin	Parental Reports of the Development of Autism in their Children: How do Regression, Comorbidity, and Genetics Fit Into the Picture? (Post Doc Candidate)
01/30/03	Arpana Agrawal	Use and Abuse/Dependence of Cannabis And Other Illicit Drugs: Examination of the Neale-Kendler Models of Comorbidity
01/16/03	Douglas Levinson	Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders: simulation and power analysis studies refine the interpretation of results (Guest Speaker)
12/19/02	Zhongming Zhao	Data Mining Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Human Genome (Bioinformatics Faculty Candidate)
12/17/02	Brian Flaherty	Assessing the four-class structure of parenting style with an extended latent class model (Research Associate Candidate)
12/12/02	Hermine Maes	Genetic analyses of smoking initiation, regular smoking and nicotine dependence
12/03/02	Timothy Paul York	Complex trait analysis using modern exploratory methods
12/02/02	Karen Davis	Genetic Analysis of Keloids
11/21/02	Rosemary Kelso	Do's & Don'ts of IRB Submissions
11/14/02	Paul T. Costa, Jr.	Personality Disorders from the perspective of the Five-factor Model of Personality (Guest Speaker)
11/01/02	Zhili He	Bioinformatics: From Sequence to Phenotype (Bioinformatics Faculty Candidate)
10/24/02	Brien Riley	Identification of genes involved in Drosophila melanogaster geotaxis, a complex behavioral trait. DP Toma, KP White, J Hirsch and RJ Greenspan, Nature Genetics 31: 349-353, 2002
10/23/02	Dianjing Guo	B-net: a reference biochemical database for metabolomics /Arabidopsis aspartic proteinase gene family identification (Bioinformatics Faculty Candidate)
10/21/02	Philip Miller	Trends in Bioinformatics (Bioinformatics Faculty Candidate)
10/15/02	Andrew Pickles	Tricking Mx into doing multivariate genetic survival analysis / Molecular genetic developmental models of language development/ disability (Guest Speaker)
10/14/02	Thomas Kubarych	New Narcissism Scales, A Five-Factor Solution to Personality Disorders and Response to Disconfirming Feedback (PD Candidate)
10/07/02	Ming Zhan	From Genome to Protein Network: Bioinformatics Solutions (Bioinformatics Faculty Candidate)
10/03/02	Carol Prescott	Are genetic influences on alcoholism risk mediated by individual differences in motivations for drinking?
09/26/02	Jack Hettema	Fear Conditioning and Self-Report Ratings of Fear and Anxiety: Genetic and Environmental Sources of Covariation
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2001-2002
06/18/02	Yehuda Neumark	The genetics of alcoholism (Guest Speaker)
06/06/02	Soo Rhee	Modeling comborbidity for substance use and abuse (Guest Speaker)
04/18/02	Tim York	Microarray analysis of prostate cancer gene expression
04/04/02	Federica Tozzi	A Twin Model of Perfectionism
03/28/02	Kristen Jacobson	The Role of Puberty in the Development of Antisocial Behavior
03/21/02	Mike Neale	New Features and New Developments in Mx
03/21/02	David Reiss	The role of family social processes in the expression of genetic influence (Guest Speaker) [cancelled]
03/14/02	George Moxley	Sticklebacks and male odors
02/28/02	Erica Spotts	Interpersonal Relationships and Mental Health: Genetic and Environmental Influences (Guest Speaker)
02/14/02	Ken Kendler	Dimensions of Religiosity and Risk for Adult Psychopathology
02/07/02	Jack Hettema	A Twin Study of the Genetics of Fear Conditioning
01/24/02	Ayman Fanous	Personality, Major Depression, and Gender
01/17/02	David Allison	Linkage, Association, and Expression Arrays
12/13/01	Kevin Bolinskey	MMPI Indicators of Schizophrenia: PersonalityAssessment in Pre-and Post-Morbid Participants
12/06/01	Jennifer Harris	The Norwegian Twin Registry (Guest Speaker)
11/29/01	Jenae Neiderhiser	Genetics and Environmental Influences on relationships among family members: Different patterns across the life span (Guest Speaker)
11/01/01	Steve Aggen	Classification or Measurement: Different Ways of Utilizing Item Response Data: An Application to DSM Major Depression Criteria
10/25/01	Amir Khan	Personality and Comorbidity in Psychiatric Disorders
10/18/01	Kristen Jacobson	Gender, cohort, equal environments, and antisocial behavior
10/11/01	Hermine Maes	Where there's Smoke....There's Fire
10/04/01	Charles Anderson	God and Grub
09/26/01	Brien Riley	The Chewbacca Defense
09/14/01	Wanqing Liu	Serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene variants associated with schizophrenia? (Post Doc Candidate) [cancelled]
09/13/01	Todd Webb	Fine mapping of a schizophrenia locus on 8p
08/30/01	Eva Lindholm	Genetic Studies of Schizophrenia (Post Doc Candidate)
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VIPBG Research Seminars 2000-2001
07/27/01	Wei Zhen Ye	Identification of Genes Associated with Type 2 Diabetes in Humans - Study the Candidates Genes (Post Doc Cand.)
07/16/01	Kenneth Cogger	Modern Regression: A Comparative Discussion of Nonlinear Methods (Guest Speaker)
07/13/01	Chunhui Yu	Virtual screening of human BAC's with BM algorithm (Post Doc Candidate)
07/12/01	Hongtao Fan	Identify potential imprinted gene--bioinformatic and experimental approaches (Post Doc Candidate)
06/05/01	Paras Mehta	Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling: The Best of Both Worlds
05/31/01	Tim York	Analysis of gene expression array data
05/24/01	Todd Webb	Bioinformatics
05/11/01	Matti Huttunen	Schizophrenia - a neurodevelopmental view / Review of Finnish Registers
05/03/01	Donna Miles	Risk factors for adolescent marijuana use: The Add Health Study
04/26/01	Danielle Dick	The Finnish Twin Studies: What's New? What's Next?
04/05/01	Aymon Fanous	Modifier Loci in Schizophrenia
03/27/01	Dawn Thiselton	Molecular Genetic and Genomic Analysis of Two'Monogenic' Retinal Disorders: X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) and Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy (ADOA)
03/22/01	Lindon Eaves	Jinks & Fulker (1970) Comparison of the biometrical genetical, MAVA and classical approaches to the analysis of human behavior II
03/15/01	Jack Hettema	What we know about the genetics of adult anxiety disorders (i.e., and now for something completely different - another meta-analysis)
03/08/01	Todd Webb	Recent advances in bioinformatics due to the completion of the draft of the Human Genome
03/01/01	Kristen Jacobson	Behavioral genetic confirmation of a life-course perspective on antisocial behavior: Can we believe the results?
02/15/01	Lindon Eaves	Jinks & Fulker (1970) Comparison of the biometrical genetical, MAVA and classical approaches to the analysis of human behavior I
02/01/01	Tim York	Common disease analysis with MARS
01/25/01	Ian Jones	Postnatal Depression
01/11/01	Scott Vrana	Deconstructing emotion
12/14/00	Hermine Maes	Genetic analyses of cardiovascular reactivity and smoking initiation, dependence and cessation
12/07/00	Ken Kendler	Analyses in progress on rater bias and mode of acquisition of phobias
12/04/00	Nancy Cox	Issues and approaches in the identification of genetic variation affecting susceptibility to complex disorders
11/30/00	Don Mikulecky	Complexity Theory
11/14/00	Albert Stunkard	Determinants of growth and development of children at high risk for obesity
10/26/00	Lenn Murrelle	Violent and drug-related behavior in Colombian adolescents: Work in progress
10/20/00	Wade Perrettini	Genetic Studies of Psychosis
10/12/00	Pat Sullivan	Two meta-analyses
10/05/00	Judy Silberg	Possible genetic mechanisms underlying the development of depression in teenage girls
10/03/00	Edwin van den Oord	Statistical Modeling with Measured Genotypes
10/02/00	Dana Hughes	Identification of Predisposition Genes for Major Depression
09/29/00	Hans Moises	Strategies in Behavioral Genetics
09/21/00	Erik Turkheimer (UVA)	SES as a moderator of heritability in the National Collaborative Perinatal Project
09/20/00	Martin Reardon	Of jellyfish and rubber bands: An inquiry into performance-based identification of high-ability learners
09/18/00	Ricky Kittles	Exploiting the evolutionary history of genes for genetic disease studies
09/14/00	Kristen Jacobsen	Age-related cognitive decline among relatives of schizophrenics and relatives of controls: Differential aging effects
09/11/00	Pamela Sklar	SNPs and neuropsychiatric disorders: Discovery and genotyping
09/07/00	Cindy Bulik	Intro to Journal Club and Constitutional thinness and resistance to obesity
08/28/00	Sam Chen	SNP genotyping technologies: Throughput, cost and implication for complex disease studies
08/16/00	Brien Riley	A study of Schizophrenia in an Ethiopian Population
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VIPBG Research Seminars 99-2000
06/14/00	Valerie Knopik	Differential Genetic Etiology of Reading-Related Difficulties as a Function of IQ
06/12/00	Pavel Kovalenko	Seasonal variations in internalizing, externalizing and substance use disorders in youth
05/11/00	Carol Prescott	Factors Associated with Changes in Alcohol Consumption: Is Marriage a State or Trait?
04/27/00	Lindon Eaves	Genetic Application of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
04/20/00	Steve Aggen	The Other Hard Problems: Measuring Behavioral Phenotypes
04/13/00	Ken Kendler	Eliot Slater's classic monograph, Psychotic and Neurotic Illnesses in Twins (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953)
04/06/00	Ayman Fanous	Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis of Schizophrenia
03/30/00	Daijin Ko	Regression Diagnostics for Proportional Hazard Models
03/16/00	Jack Hettema	Generalized Anxiety Disorder in men and women
03/08/00	Ian Jones	Molecular and genetic approaches to psychiatric disorder
03/02/00	Charles MacLean	More and more about linkage disequilibrium
02/24/00	Hermine Maes	Smoking data at VIPBG: Models on Initiation/Dependence/Cessation
02/03/00	Mike Neale	New software available on the VIPBG network
01/27/00	Kristen Jacobson	Individual differences in the development of antisocial behavior
12/16/99	Chuck Gardner	Frequently asked question on Generalized Linear Models
12/09/99	Mike Neale	Statistical Software on the VIPBG Unix Cluster
12/02/99	Ken Kendler	An Introduction to The Mind/Body Problem
11/18/99	Charles MacLean	Trimmed-Haplotype Treatment of the Location Problem
11/04/99	Patrick Sullivan	Don't Know About You, But I'm Afraid of Epistasis
10/28/99	Michael Brown	An overview of analytic rotation in exploratory factor analysis
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VIPBG Research Seminars 98-99
05/20/99	Ken Kendler	Genetics of drug abuse in adult twins
05/06/99	Tracy Wade	Problems (and Solutions) Encountered in Studying the Genetic Epidemiology of Low Prevalence Disorders
04/22/99	Patrick Sullivan	Gene Hunting
04/15/99	Lindon Eaves	Models for parent-offspring interaction
03/25/99	Steve Aggen	Some alternative models for the biometric structuring of longitudinal data: 4 waves of female-female twin neuroticism data
03/18/99	Linda Corey	The genetics of epilepsy: an update
03/04/99	Emil Coccaro	Biological, treatment and family studies of impulsive aggression
02/18/99	Seth Roberts	Variation in the position of peak LOD score in linkage studies of complex traits
02/11/99	Laura Karkowski	Examination of gender differences in ilicit substance use and abuse: work in progress
01/28/99	Chuck Gardner	Likelihoods, Thresholds and Non-Independent Samples: Debunking the conventional wisdom
01/21/99	Carol Prescott	Evaluating the role of drinking milestones in the etiology of alcohol use disorders
01/14/99	Alaattin Erkanli (Duke)	Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods (Guest Speaker)
01/07/99	Rory Martin	Haplotype Analysis
12/17/98	Ken Kendler	Marker-to-marker Disequilibrium and phenotypic correlates
12/17/98	Charles MacLean	Approaches to Haplotype Analysis
12/10/98	Mike Neale	Issues in Association Analysis: ADH2 and alcohol consumption, and ApoE isoforms and levels
12/03/98	Lindon Eaves	Genotype x Environment Interaction in Transmission Disequilibrium Test
11/19/98	Hermine Maes	Genetic Epidemiology: Development of Cardiovascular Risk
10/29/98	Kendler/Straub	Introduction to Field Methods in the Schizophrenia Study of High-Density Families & Linkage Results
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VIPBG Research Seminars 97-98
05/21/98	Debra Foley	The Prospective Predictive Priority of Major Depression and Overanxious Disorder
05/14/98	Patrick Sullivan	Logical Quantitative Traits for a Genome Scan for Nicotine Dependence
04/30/98	Charles Gardner	Adjusting alpha level for Multiple Test: Theory and Practice
04/23/98	Rise Goldstein	Familial Aggregation of Delusional Depression
04/09/98	David Ross	Deficit Syndrome and Eye Tracking Disorder may reflect a Distinct Subtype within Syndrome of Schizophrenia
03/27/98	Michael Bailey	Genetics of Homosexuality
03/25/98	Seth Roberts	Neuroticism and Self-esteem as Indices of the Vulnerability to Major Depression in Women
03/13/98	J Rappaport	Schizophrenia
03/12/98	Charles MacLean	Haplotype Sharing in Schizophrenia Pedigrees
02/26/98	Carol Prescott	Using Twin Data to study the Association between Age of Drinking Onset and Alcoholism
02/19/98	Richard Straub	Applications of DNA Microarray (GeneChip) Technology
02/12/98	Kenneth Kendler	GE Models of Stressful Life Events
02/05/98	Lenn Murrelle	The Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry: An Update
01/29/98	Patrick Sullivan	Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa/ Authorship in the Modern Era
01/08/98	Michael Neale	Age at Onset and Liability to Disease
12/18/97	Charles MacLean	Scientific Visualization
12/11/97	Steve Aggen	Modeling Behavioral Stability, Variability, and Change
12/04/97	Charlene Woodard	Prevention of Adolescent Substance Abuse
11/06/97	Carol Prescott	Modeling Selection, Attrition, and Age in Longitudinal Models
10/30/97	Hermine Maes	Developmental Genetic Analysis of Conduct Disorder
10/09/97	Lindon Eaves	Revisiting the Environment
10/02/97	Rory Martin	Haplotype-based Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium (LD)
09/25/97	Charles Gardner	Recent Advances in Linear Statistical Modelling
09/4/97	Kenneth Kendler	Contingent Conditional Model of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence
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VIPBG Research Seminars 96-97
06/12/97	Patrick Sullivan	Latent Class Analysis of Atypical Depressive Symptoms in the National Comorbidity Study
05/29/97	Charlene Woodard	Genetic Analysis of Child Behavior Checklist among African American Adolescents from Virginia Twin Study
05/15/97	Richard Straub	Positional Cloning of Genes for Complex Disorders
05/01/97	Laura Karkowski	Animal Models of Psychopathology
04/17/97	Michael Neale	Modeling Latent Variable Interactions
03/20/97	Carol Prescott	Sex Differences in Alcohol Consumption and Alcoholism
02/27/97	Judy Silberg	A Model for the Emergence of Gender Differences in Adolescent Depression
02/20/97	Hermine Maes	Genetic and Environmental Factors in Relative Body Weight and Human Adiposity
02/06/97	Charles MacLean	Estimating and Maximizing Algorithm
01/23/97	Charles Gardner	Adjusting Statistical Inference for Twin Samples
01/09/97	Debra Foley	Latent Trait Models and Item Response Theory
12/12/96	Lindon Eaves	Measuring EnvironmenMeasuring Environmental Risk in the Presence of Genex Environment Correlation - The Children of Twins: Unravelling the Correlation between the Effects of Genes and the Family Environment on Risk to Disorders of Adolescent Behavior
11/21/96	Lenn Murrelle	The North Carolina School-Age Twin Study: Methods and Preliminary Findings
	Michael Neale	Introduction to Mx Graphical Interface
11/7/96	Kenneth Kendler	Longitudinal Models for Major Depression
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VIPBG Research Seminars 95-96
06/96	Carol Prescott	Potential Influences of Chorion Type on Twin Study Results
05/30/96	Joanne Meyer	Power of Affected Sib Pair Sampling for Linkage Analysis
05/02/96	Hermine Maes	Power to Detect QTL Effect for Correlated Phenotypes
04/18/96	Linda Corey	The Virginia Twin Registry
03/21/96	Michael Neale	Hidden Markov Processes and Computing Identity by Descent Probabilities
02/29?/96	Carol Prescott	Davis et al. (1995) Schiz Bull 21:357-366/ Sokol et al. (1995) Behav Genet 25:457-466
02/01/96	Ken Kendler	Berrettini et al. (1994) Proc Natl Acad Sci 91:5918-5921/ Ebstein et al. (1996) Nature Genet 12:78-80 Benjamin et al. (1996) Nature Genet 12:81-84/ Stine et al. (1995) Am J Hum Genet 57:1384-1394
01/18/96	Charlie MacLean	Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium (Pak Sham & David Curtis: Ann. Hum Genet 59:323-336)
01/04/96	Lindon Eaves	2nd session, Kruglyak & Lander
11/30/95	Lindon Eaves	Kruglyak & Lander
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Seminars on QTL Methods in relation to Obesity, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 94
05/4/94	Libbie Miller	Obesity and Heterogeneity
04/27/94	Cindy Shillady	Obesity and Mendelian Disorders: a Literature Review
04/20/94	Hermine Maes	Use of Covariates to Increase Power to Detect QTL Effects
04/13/94	Joanne Meyer	Developmental Change in Gene Expression for Body Mass Index
?04/06/94	Richard Straub	Genomic Mismatch Scanning
03/30/94	Jeanine Gau	Eating Disorders: Anorexia/Bulimia
03/23/94	Walter Nance	Imprinting
03/09/94	Lindon Eaves	Sib-Pair Methods/ Identity by Descent
02/23/94	Tony O'Neill	The Physiology of Obesity
02/16/94	Kenneth Kendler	Body Mass Index and Depression, Typical and Atypical
02/02/94	Arlen Price	Genetic Studies on Obesity + Open Forum Discussion on QTL Analysis of Complex Traits
01/26/94	Lindon Eaves	What do we know about the Measurement, Physiology and Inheritance of Obesity?
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Genetic Seminars on Linkage, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 93
11/24/93	Charles MacLean	Multilocus Linkage
11/17/93	Charles MacLean	Multipoint Analyses
10/27/93	Charles MacLean	Interpretation of Linkage Results
10/20/93	Charles MacLean	Linkage II
09/29/93	Charles MacLean	Linkage I
09/22/93	Charles MacLean	Mendel II
09/15/93	Charles MacLean	Mendel I
09/08/93	Charles MacLean	Do it yourself linkage seminars
07/28/93	Charles MacLean	Multipoint Mapping
07/21/93	Charles MacLean	Ott J, Analysis of Human Linkage, Variability of the Recombination Fraction
07/14/93	Charles MacLean	Ott J, Analysis of Human Linkage, Numerical and Computerized Methods
07/07/93	Charles MacLean	Ott J, Analysis of Human Linkage, Multipoint Linkage Analysis
06/30/93	Charles MacLean	Ott J, Analysis of Human Linkage, The Informativeness of Family Data
06/16/93	Charles MacLean	Ott J, Analysis of Human Linkage, Methods of Linkage Analysis
06/09/93	Charles MacLean	Ott J, Analysis of Human Linkage, Genes and Genetic Polymorphisms/ Aspects of Statistical Inference
06/02/93	Charles MacLean	Linkage analysis made easy
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Seminars on Ascertainment and the Analysis of Family Data, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 93
05/13/93	Jennifer Reynolds	Human Gene Mapping: Applications to Neurofibromatosis and Waardenburg Syndrome (Dissertation Defense)
05/05/93	Carol Prescott	DC Rao & R Wette (1987) Non-random sampling in genetic epidemiology: Maximum likelihood methods for multifactorial analysis of quantitative data ascertained through truncation. Gen et Epidemiol, 4:357-376
04/26/93	David B. Allison	Issues in the Genetics of Obesity (Special Seminar)
04/14/93	Michael C. Neale	RJA Little & DB Rubin (1987) Statistical analysis with missing data. New York, Wiley & Son
04/07/93	Charles MacLean	The consequences of ascertaining high density pedigrees for linkage analysis
03/24/93	K.S. Kendler	K.S.Kendler, L.J. Eaves: The Estimation of Probandwise Concordance in Twins: The Effect of Unequal Ascertainment
03/17/93	Ellen Walters	DA Greenberg (1986) The effect of proband designation on segregation analysis. Am J Hum Genet, 39,329-339
03/10/93	Lindon Eaves	WJ Ewens & NCE Shute (1986) A resolution of the ascertainment sampling problem: I Theory. Theo Pop Biol 30:388-412/ NCE Shute & WJ Ewens (1988) A resolution of the ascertainment sampling problem: II Generalizations and numerical results. Am J Hum Genet 43:374-386
02/24/93	Scott Diehl	NJ Schork: Detection of Genetic Heterogeneity for Complex Quantitative Phenotypes Extended Pedigree Patterned Covariance Matrix Mixed Models for Quantitative Phenotype Analysis
02/10/93	Charles MacLean	C Cannings & EA Thompson (1977) Ascertainment in the sequential sampling of pedigrees. Clin Genet 12:208-212
02/03/93	Mary Marazita	NE Morton (1959) Genetic tests under incomplete ascertainment. Am J Hum Genet 11:1-16 NE Morton & MP Mi (1968) Multiplex families with two or more probands. Am J Hum Genet 20:361-367
01/27/93	Michael Neale	AC Aitken (1934) Note on selection from a multivariate normal population. Proc Edin Math Soc 4:106-110
01/13/93	Pak Sham	RA Fisher (1934) The effect of methods of ascertainment upon the estimation of frequencies. Ann Eugen 6:13-25
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Quantitative Genetics Research Seminar Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, 92
12/18/92	John R. Nesselroade	Intraindividual Variability: Selected Methods, Findings, and Implications
12/15/92	Joanne Meyer	Genetic Analyses of Drug Abuse in the Vietnam Era Twin Study
12/11/92	Deborah Dawson	Extended HLA Profile of an Inbred Caucasian Isolate
12/04/92	Ina Hoeschele	Estimation of Variance Components in Models for Family Resemblance including Dominance and Inbreeding
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Hard Problems Seminars 2002-2003
05/01/03	Lindon Eaves	An introduction to BUGS
03/13/03	Ben Neale/Edwin	Haplotype Block Controversy
02/27/03	Daijin Ko	Microarry Dimension Reduction
02/13/03	Edwin van den Oord	False positives: How to keep the baby while tossing out the bath water
12/12/02	Daijin Ko	Microarrays and Data Mining
12/05/02	Daijin Ko	An Idiot's Guide to the False Discovery Rate
11/21/02	Carol Prescott	IRB do's and don'ts
11/14/02	Tim York	Microarrays and Prostate Cancer
11/07/02	Edwin van den Oord	False Discovery Rates in Linkage
10/31/02	Ben Neale	Genomewide Scan for Nicotine Dependence Study
10/17/02	Andrew Pickles	Genetic Analysis of Developmental Processes: Aquiring language and passing developmental milestones
10/10/02	Mike Neale	Using Mx for Linkage Analysis
09/26/02	George Moxley	Allelic Variation in Human Gene Expression Cite (Science 08/16/2002, page 1143)
09/19/02	Ken Kendler ea	Proposed program project grant on "Genetics of Nicotine Dependence and Acute Response"
08/01/02	Pat Sullivan	What I did in Sweden? Collaborative Projects
07/25/02	Jonathan Kuhn	Errors of Omission
07/18/02	George Moxley	Structure of Haplotype Blocks in the Human Genome (Science 21/06/2002, p 2225)
07/11/02	Chuck Gardner	Some useful tips on statistical interactions
06/27/02	Meike Bartels	Fitting longitudinal rater models to CBCL ratings of problem behaviors
06/20/02	Todd Webb	An update in Bioinformatics Tools
06/13/02	Lindon Eaves	Fractals & Freedom: getting from DNA to a person
06/13/02	Carol Prescott	What you had damn well better know about the ethics of family history research
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Hard Problems Seminars 2001-2002
03/14/02	Patrick Sullivan	ACE modeling
03/07/02	Patrick Sullivan	Plomin et al (Behav Genet 2001, 31:497)
03/07/02	Ken Kendler	Turri et al (Current Biology 2001, 11:725-34)
02/28/02	Erica Spotts	Interpersonal Relationships and Mental Health: Genetic and Environmental Influences
02/14/02	Patrick Sullivan	Talking Back to Twin Critics
01/31/02	Sam Chen	Genotyping II
01/24/02	Walter Nance	Genetic Studies of the Most Important Event in Human Evolution
01/17/02	David Allison	Statistical Methods for Micro-array Analysis
12/13/01	Sam Chen	Genotyping I
10/31/01	Brien Riley	Molecular Genetics of Autism
10/18/01	Ken Kendler	Linkage Disequilibrium and Recombination
10/11/01	Patrick Sullivan	Univariate Twin Modeling of Discrete Traits: Are We Doing It Wrong?"
10/04/01	Michael Miles	Functional Genomics in the Neurobiology of Drug Abuse
09/27/01	Chuck Gardner	Multiple Imputation - why and how?
09/20/01	Ken Kendler	Two recent Nature articles which appear to have nailed a gene for a complex trait
09/13/01	Ted Reichborn/Espen Roysamb	Norwegian Research
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Hard Problems Seminars 2000-2001
06/21/01	Sam Chen	Use of Biological Haplotypes in Gene-finding
06/14/01	Panos Fatouros	The new MCV MRI Facility
06/07/01	Patrick Sullivan	Search for new Faculty
05/31/01	Tim York	Analysis of Gene Expression Array data
05/24/01	Todd Webb	Bioinformatics
05/17/01	Patrick Sullivan	Are Genotypes Enough?
05/10/01	Patrick Sullivan	Nicotine Research
05/03/01	Carol Prescott	Genotyping and Analysis of the Irish Alcohol sib pairs
04/12/01	Mike Neale ea	Measurement and Methodology: How Long is a Piece of Psychopathology?
03/22/01	Brien Riley	Latest claim for a "schizophrenia gene" from Lesch' group in Germany
03/15/01	Ian Jones	Bias caused (or not) by Population Stratification in Case-control Association Studies using Genetic Markers
03/08/01	Patrick Sullivan	Mad Cows & Madmen: Candidates Genes for Schizophrenia
03/01/01	Patrick Sullivan	Discovery Science: Gene Expression in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
02/15/01	Patrick Sullivan	What we need to do to (a) keep heads above water and (b) stay ahead of the wave
02/08/01	Patrick Sullivan	Threats to the intellectual underpinninngs of our work II
02/01/01	Patrick Sullivan	Threats to the intellectual underpinninngs of our work I
01/18/01	Ken Kendler	Thoughts on the Fly (Drosophila)
12/21/00	Lindon Eaves	Genetic Analysis in Bugs
11/30/00	Lindon Eaves	Introduction to BUGS (Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampler)
10/26/00	Patrick Sullivan	VIPBG Research Directions
10/12/00	Ken Kendler	Show & Tell
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