Thursday, October 3, 2019

Recent Publications

We are proud to share our faculty and graduate students' accomplishments in research.  We have 5 new publications in our department.

IGEMS: The Consortium on Interplay of Genes and Environment Across Multiple Studies—An Update

NL Pedersen, M Gatz, BK Finch, D Finkel, DA Butler…M McGue... - Twin Research and Human …, 2019
The Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) is a consortium of 18 twin studies from 5 different countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, United States, and Australia) established to explore the nature of gene–environment …

The Danish Twin Registry: An Updated Overview

DA Pedersen, LA Larsen, M Nygaard, J Mengel-From, M McGue… - Twin Research and Human …, 2019
The Danish Twin Registry (DTR) was established in the 1950s, when twins born from 1870 to 1910 were ascertained, and has since been extended to include twins from birth cohorts until 2009. The DTR currently comprises of more than 175,000 twins …

[PDF] Leveraging Trace Data in Game-Based Assessments

EM Auer, S Marin, RN Landers, A Collmus…
Page 1. Leveraging Trace Data in Game-Based Assessments Elena M. Auer, Sebastian Marin, and Richard N. Landers University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Andrew Collmus Flex Michael B. Armstrong Google Salih Mujcic and Jason A. Blaik Revelian, Inc. Page 2. Agenda …

Sibling Comparison Designs: Addressing Confounding Bias with Inclusion of Measured Confounders

GRB Saunders, M McGue, SM Malone - Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2019
Genetically informative research designs are becoming increasingly popular as a way to strengthen causal inference with their ability to control for genetic and shared environmental confounding. Co-twin control (CTC) models, a special case of these …

[PDF] Binding of speech syllables when segregation occurs

M David, M Lavandier, N Grimault, AJ Oxenham
Two previous studies [David et al., 2017, Hear. Res. 344, 235-243; David et al., 2017, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 142 (3), 1674-1685] have investigated the segregation of speech syllables made of a fricative consonant and a vowel, referred to as CV tokens. The …