Danielle Posthuma appointed on the Fenna Diemer Lindeboom Chair
05-04-11As of January 1st 2011, Danielle Posthuma has been appointed Professor of Genetics of Complex Traits.
Cornelisse, Posthuma and Verhage receive prestigious NWO grant
16-12-10Cornelisse, Posthuma and Verhage receive a prestigious grant from the NWO research program Complexity. This program focuses on multidisciplinary research at the area of complex systems driven by the real societal problems.
Posthuma, Verhage and Heutink receive prestigious grant
24-08-10- in the 'Programmes for Excellence' - round from the 'National Initiative Brain and Cognition: an integrated approach' (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research).
IQ study in science center NEMO
19-08-10Researchers Danielle Posthuma and Tinca Polderman collect IQ data and DNA from visitors of science center NEMO, Amsterdam, as part of NEMO's Science Live experiment.
Researchers Find Genetic Variants Linked to Smoking Behavior
02-04-10A international team of scientists has used data from genome-wide association studies to identify genetic variants associated with key smoking behaviors that have a significant impact on health. CNCR researcher Danielle Posthuma was part of the statistical analysis subgroup of the largest genetic study of smoking to date, called the Tobacco and Genetics Consortium (TAG).
Life events moderate the heritability of cognitive ability
01-03-10CNCR researchers Annabelle Vinkhuyzen, Sophie van der Sluis and Danielle Posthuma found that going through major life events changes the relative influence of genes on cognitive ability. Their results are available online and will be published in Molecular Psychiatry.
G-proteins and intelligence
01-01-10Groups of Posthuma and Verhage apply novel functional gene group analysis and detect a role for G-proteins in cognitive ability. Runao et al., American Journal of Human Genetics, 86, 1–13, 2010
NWO open competition grant for Danielle Posthuma
01-06-09CNCR researcher Danielle Posthuma, in collaboration with Peter Hagoort and Guillén Fernandez (FC Donders Centre Nijmegen), won a NWO Open Competition grant with a proposal that aims to integrate neurogenetics with the field of neuroimaging. This will improve her understanding of the interaction between intellectual functioning and the genetic make-up of an individual.
Peter Visscher KNAW Visiting Professorship at CNCR
01-05-09Renowned expert in the epidemiology and statistics of genetics, dr. Peter Visscher will make a total of three visits to the VU/ CNCR. Visscher received a TOP visiting professorship grant, subsidised by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
