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"Symptoms of overactive behavior in very young children are predictive of later attention problems" |
Prof.
Dr. D.I. (Dorret) Boomsma |
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“We
study the genetic architecture of depression and attention problems.
We are interested in the development of depression and we want
to know to what extent differences in the development of depression
are influenced by genotype. We are also interested in the relation
between depression and anxiety, and between depression and cardiovascular
risk factors. We have demonstrated significant heritability for
depression and the next step is to find depression related genes
by genome wide linkage scan in these families.” |
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Publications: de Geus EJ, Posthuma D, Kupper N, van den Berg M, Willemsen G, Beem AL, Slagboom PE, Boomsma DI. A whole-genome scan for 24-hour respiration rate: a major locus at 10q26 influences respiration during sleep. Am J Hum Genet. 2005 Jan;76(1):100-11. Hudziak JJ, Van Beijsterveldt CE, Althoff RR, Stanger C, Rettew DC, Nelson EC, Todd RD, Bartels M, Boomsma DI. Genetic and environmental contributions to the Child Behavior Checklist Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: a cross-cultural twin study. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2004 Jun;61(6):608-16. Boomsma D, Busjahn A, Peltonen L. (2002) Classical twin studies and beyond. Nature Rev Genet. 3(11):872-82. Posthuma D, De Geus EJ, Baare WF, Hulshoff Pol HE, Kahn RS, Boomsma DI. (2002) The association between brain volume and intelligence is of genetic origin. Nat Neurosci. 5(2):83-4. |
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