Camelia C. Minică

Genetic evidence for a large overlap and potential bidirectional causal effects resilience and well-being.

This study investigates the genetic and environmental overlap and bidirectional causality between resilience and well-being using twin-sibling data and polygenic scores.

Expanding the Genetic Architecture of Nicotine Dependence and its Shared Genetics with Multiple Traits: Findings from the Nicotine Dependence GenOmics (iNDiGO) Consortium

The paper identifies novel genetic loci associated with nicotine dependence and shows genetic correlations with other smoking traits and comorbidities using genome-wide association studies.

Incorporating polygenic scores in the twin model to estimate genotype-environment covariance: exploration of statistical power

This paper explores estimating genotype-environment covariance in twin models by incorporating polygenic scores, showing increased statistical power when fixing variance explained by polygenic scores.

Extending Causality Tests With Genetic Instruments: An Integration Of Mendelian Randomization And The Classical Twin Design

This paper introduces MR-DoC, a twin-based model integrating Mendelian Randomization and Direction of Causation to test causal relationships while accounting for pleiotropy and improving statistical power.

The weighting is the hardest part: on the behavior of the likelihood ratio test and score test under weight misspecification in rare variant association studies

The paper evaluates the performance of likelihood ratio and score tests under weight misspecification in rare variant association studies and finds LRT more robust and powerful.