In UK Biobank, individuals who had high polygenic score for educational attainment but performed poorly in fluid intelligence test and/or had poor education ('deviators') were more likely to carry neurodevelopmental disorder-related rare variants. Great demonstration of liability…

Flattered that Federica Bulgarelli wrote a very insightful commentary about our meta-GWAS on infant and toddler vocabulary🧬🗣️💭

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biop…
Commentary: doi.org/10.1016/j.biop…

Biological Psychiatry
EAGLE_Consortium
Beate St Pourcain
MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics

Fancy working with us on the genetics/epigenetics of early language development and social abilities MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics?
We have an open 4-year, fully funded PhD position starting 1 October 2024:
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What an amazing sense of rhythm

Autism-related features have many different presentations. To what extent is this variability related to differences across the genome? mpi.nl/news/variabili…
Beate St Pourcain Lucía de Hoyos

This is so unreal that one of my kindest colleagues during my days in Bristol has passed away. Miss you, Santi!

Today, I’m proud to say, our new paper on assortative mating was published in Nature Communications. (Link: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…). Here are our key findings 🧵:

Recently, the latest book (Open Access) by MPI director emeritus Stephen C. Levinson was published entitled 'The Dark Matter of Pragmatics'.
More info: mpi.nl/news/stephen-c…

In Topics in Cognitive Science, Jan Hulstijn and I present the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis: processing of written language leads to increased (language) knowledge as well as enhanced language and non-language (perceptual and cognitive) skills pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…

New GxE preprint out! Did the effects of a Swedish schooling reform on a large variety of outcomes differ depending on underlying genetic measures? Among 105 pre-registered heterogeneity tests, only two come out positive after multiple testing adjustments. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

We are honored to have worked with other journal editors to provide guidance on the use of population descriptors in #Genetics and #Genomics research
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1/4 🚀 Exciting news in research! 📚 PhD candidate Madhur Bain Singh unveils IV-CLPM, a causal inference method merging instrumental variables & longitudinal data, last authors Michael C Neale #ConorDolan . Published in Multivariate Behavioral Research tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Early Words Shape Future Brain: Genetic Link Between ADHD and Language

A new study explores the intricate relationship between genetics and early language development, shedding light on how early vocabulary growth influences later cognitive and neurodevelopmental outcomes.…

We are depositing the meta-GWAS summary statistics of early vocabulary size into The Language Archive (TLA) MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics and hope they will spark future research.
For questions, just contact me or Ellen Verhoef

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1/9 our work where we disentangle phenotypic heterogeneity from a genetic perspective is out now in Nature Communications
➡️nature.com/articles/s4146…
Beate St Pourcain MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics @MRC_IEU SPARK for Autism #SSC Donders Institute Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative

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🥳🧬🗣️Very pleased that our meta-GWAS of infant and toddler vocabulary size is now published in Biological Psychiatry. Full-text available here biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-… and a 🧵below