Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity. New paper by @luciadehoyos.bsky.social & al. with Ellen Verhoef, @profsimonfisher.bsky.social , @bstpourcain.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00329-y

Our paper out today in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social integrates data from large-scale genome scans of dyslexia & rhythm skills, as a novel way to investigate biological overlaps between human traits related to language & musicality. Co-led by Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt). 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I have been (foolishly?) searching for peak 2015-2017 twitter "science on socials" magic... In an experiment to recapture that excitement, I talked to @eikofried.bsky.social , in what might veer into podcast territory(?), about a new GWAS of Depression (N > 5 million) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHvB...

Looking for an online tool to plot your gene of interest? @joerydh.bsky.social and I have created #ExInPlotter. A shiny app where you can select a genome build (also non-human ones) and plot your gene(s) of interest. Check it out here: jho2024.shinyapps.io/ExInPlotter/

A new publication from the EAGLE consortium: Genome-wide Analyses of Vocabulary Size in Infancy and Toddlerhood: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... with summary statistics deposited here: t.co/5f0SFNf0mb

What makes us so susceptible to the power of music? Our new pre-printed work suggests that genetic variation, primarily dissociated from other relevant perceptual-affective processes, also seems to be at play. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... But the story does not end here ...

🚨Our study "Structural models of genome-wide covariance identify multiple common dimensions in autism", where we disentangle phenotypic heterogeneity in ASD from a genetic perspective, is out now in Nature Communications ➡️ nature.com/articles/s41... @bstpourcain.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org