Read a summary of our annual meeting by Thomas Sollie at our website now: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/12...

Thanks everyone who attended the 4th annual #GENEAmsterdam meeting - we had a great time! Keep an eye out for the website and socials - more details on the day will be posted soon 👀 ! For now, a large thanks to Adrià Túnez Aquilué, Tessa Zonneveld and Aysu Okbay for this years organization.

For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7

Really looking forward to go back to my old stumping grounds (the Roeterseiland in Amsterdam) and give a keynote on improved phenotypic modeling in genetics.

Don't forget to sign up for the fourth annual GENE Amsterdam at Roeterseiland December 16! The event will feature presentations from research groups, junior flash talks, and a keynote lecture by Prof. Michel Nivard. Missed the email? Send us a message so we can send the registration form!

Have a look at this new honours course coordinated and taught by many GENE Amsterdam researchers in Amsterdam🧬: vu.nl/en/education...

Congratulations to Anaïs Thijssen for receiving the Volksbond award yesterday for her paper on "Investigating genetically stratified subgroups to better understand the etiology of alcohol misuse": www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎙️ New #GENEAmsterdam Interview session: Jana Hirzinger and Adrià Túnez interview @ymilaneschi.bsky.social on his research on immunometabolic depression, talking not only about genetics, but also philosophy, the clinic, and even ozempic. www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/11...

Congratulations to Dr. Wouter Peyrot for winning the Sklar Innovation Award. This award honors the memory of Pamela Sklar and recognizes people & groups for innovation. Dr. Peyrot received the award at the award ceremony of the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG) 2025.

Please join us Tuesday October 28 at the CNCR seminar hosted by Dorret Boomsma and Danielle Posthuma: "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳" by prof. Jonathan Flint. cncr.nl/seminar/extr...

Have you already signed up for the annual hashtag#GENEAmsterdam day on December 16? If not, sign up using the google form send out to the mailing list! Important note: this years GENE Amsterdam meeting will n̳o̳t̳ take place at the Doelenzaal but at Roeterseiland!

Join us online tomorrow for our monthly research talk where Anaïs Thijssen will present introduce a novel method, Genetic Distance Visualization (GDVIS)🔺. www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

❗SAVE THE DATE! The 4th annual GENE Amsterdam meeting will take place Tuesday, December 16. Registration forms will be send out to the mailing list end of this month. Not on the mailing list and interested in joining? Contact us via LinkedIn or the website: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org

Congratulations to one of #GENEAmsterdam's founding members, Wouter Peyrot, for receiving an ERC starting grant! www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...

Interesting webinar by the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS), moderated by #GENEAmsterdam researcher @jennyvandongen.bsky.social. Sign up using the QR code! 📝

🗓️ Our next (hybrid, AMC) research meeting will take place September 4th 13:00, where @hubersnikki.bsky.social will present current knowledge on the aetiology of twinning. See you there! www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

🥳Congratulations to #GENEAmsterdam researcher Fiona Hagenbeek, for receiving a VENI to study genetic and molecular influences on externalizing behaviors from childhood into (early) adulthood at @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social! www.nwo.nl/nieuws/200-o...

🎤New #GENEAmsterdam interview online! Read about @meikebartels.bsky.social work on genetic & environmental influences on wellbeing, including her views on where the next 15 years will take us: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/06...

👤 On the 'personal pages' part of the website, you can check out the profiles of GENEAmsterdam researchers. Are you a genetics researcher based in Amsterdam but do you not have a personal page yet? Please reach out so we can quickly set this up! www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/personal-pag...

(1/9) 📣 OUT NOW! 📣 So excited to share that our systematic review and meta-analysis on the autism polygenic score is now published in JAACAP Open @jaacapjournals.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... A (long) thread of our main findings ⤵️

🎓 Multiple exciting job openings at the Department of Complex Trait Genetics at VU Amsterdam: Application for Two PhD Positions in Statistical Genetics: t.co/0Cy3KF75lI Application for Postdoc Statistical Genetics: t.co/ENI5KeI6yF Application for Postdoc Bioinformatics: t.co/qOLaauKNLV

1/2; Check out our new paper on #Dizygotic #Twinning and female #fertility: doi.org/10.1007/s108... In this collaboration from @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social and the Norwegian #MoBa study, we use several genetically informed methods to investigate the genetic architecture of DZ Twinning.

🗓️ Our next research meeting will take place online on Thursday, June 5th at 13:00. Tune in to hear about interesting research by @bstpourcain.bsky.social & Ellen Verhoef. www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

🏡🧬 Our new meta-analysis of 140 studies including ~66,000 people finds that lower socioeconomic status and marginalized race/ethnicity is associated with faster epigenetic biological aging. Find out which epigenetic clocks show the strongest effects 👇 tinyurl.com/metaclocks

Don't forget to join our online research meeting tomorrow! www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

📌PhD Position at the department of Biological Psychology: stress-in-action.nl/phd-student-...

New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

Previously presented by Yayouk Willems and @laraffington.bsky.social at a #GENEAmsterdam symposium and out now: "Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence" by @munaaikins.bsky.social Summary: lnkd.in/eyT9jrrQ

Don't forget to join this workshop/discussion coming Thursday!

Tomorrow in our research meeting (location VU): Yuchen Ning will present a talk on “Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Physical Activity Across Six Cohorts: Novel Loci, Genetic Correlation, and Causality”. 🏃 www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

This past Monday, Dr. Bodine Gonngrijp successfully defended her PhD thesis "Invisible Scars: Unravelling the Epigenetic and Mental Health Consequences of Victimization." Congratulations on this important milestone! 👏 #PhDDefense #Research #MentalHealth #Epigenetics

Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed? #GENEAmsterdam's @dr-appie.bsky.social created a really cool comic with @lizahaart.bsky.social on this question: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we....

This week, GeNe Amsterdam researcher Bodine Gonggrijp successfully defended her thesis: "Invisible Scars: Unraveling the Epigenetic and Mental Health Consequences of Victimization"! Congratulations, doctor Gonggrijp! Check out the thesis here: lnkd.in/e7ghH7q5

Free 'genes and SEM' workshop organized by @bstpourcain.bsky.social, Brad Verhulst, and Conor Dolan: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/03...

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽

🔬New #GENEAmsterdam Interview with Kavish Kohabir and his use of CRISPR to perform clinical test diagnostics: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/03...

Super proud of 4 brilliant PhD candidates I (co)supervise who will present at Oslo University!🌟 They will showcase their research on how genetics and environment shape children’s learning and behaviour. 📅 14 March www.uv.uio.no/create/engli... Bring lunch—join us for informal discussions afterward

On the 10th of April, Renata Androvicova, @joellepasman.bsky.social and Karin Verweij will host a workshop on the genetics of sexual violence. Join in person or online to discuss the results of the study on the genetic overlap between sexual violence, reproductive traits, and psychiatric traits!

📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... 🧵👇1/6

The BGA meeting in Atlanta will now have a hybrid option! 🌍🎥 We've also reopened abstract submissions for 2 weeks, with a hard deadline of March 14, 2025. Join us in person or virtually for a fantastic meeting! Register here: auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st... #BGA2025

Our next research meeting will be online, where Brenda Penninx will present her talk titled: 'Using (gen)omics to disentangle depression’s heterogeneity'. More information:https://www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/research-meeting-brenda-penninx/

🚨NEW PAPER! Together with Wuno Akingbuwa (@wonuola.bsky.social) we developed a way to estimate non-linear genetic correlations. It didnt sit well with us that known non-linear relations (e.g. BMI and MDD with a famous U shaped ) are poorly captured in statistical genetics. 🧵

Happy Valentines day❤️! Haven't found your perfect match yet? At least you can now use FLAMES to find your perfect SNP-to-gene match @mjschipper.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💼PhD position in genetics of brain activity in health and disease at Amsterdam UMC: werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

Good luck to @sbruins.bsky.social who will defend her thesis 'Best of both worlds: Psychometric Analyses of Latent and Observed Genetically Informative Data' tomorrow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Read more about her thesis: research.vu.nl/en/publicati... and defense: vu.nl/nl/agenda/20...

(in Dutch): Interessant interview met #GENEAmsterdam wetenschappers @mmdewit.bsky.social en @tincatwin.bsky.social: 'Erfelijk of ontwikkeld: hoe ontstaat autisme?' over hartnekkige misverstanden, de interpretatie van erfelijkheid en de invloed van externe factoren. www.quest.nl/mens/psychol...

📆Join our next (hybrid: Amsterdam UMC, location AMC and online) research meeting on February 6th, where we will hear from dr. Camiel van der Laan on his work on genetically informed research using CBS data: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

Prof. Dorret Boomsma has made huge contributions to the field of behaviour genetics - which phenomena does she think deserve more attention, and what does the future hold for her? Read more in this month's interview by Jana Hirzinger & Anaïs Thijssen: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/01...

Register now for the Amsterdam reproduction & development research symposium including #GENEAmsterdam @hubersnikki.bsky.social and Jenny van Dongen 📆

From now on, Susanne Bruins from @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social will be co-managing the #GENEAmsterdam socials! Reach out to her or @margotvdweijer.bsky.social if you have any updates with respect to your scientific output, awards, outreach, etc. ✨