Olivia Wootton

The Contribution of Common and Rare Genetic Variation to Emotional and Behavioural Symptoms in Childhood and Adolescence

This study examines the genetic contributions to emotional and behavioural symptoms in childhood and adolescence using common and rare variants from two large cohorts.

Phantom genetic nurture: assortative mating accounts for most of the apparent association between parental genotypes and childhood cognitive performance

The paper introduces RAVEL, a framework to estimate genetic nurture effects by distinguishing direct and non-transmitted genetic associations in parent-offspring trios, finding assortative mating explains most apparent parental genetic influence on child cognition.

Investigating the Interplay Between Prematurity and Genetic Variation in the Context of Rare Developmental Disorders

The paper examines how prematurity interacts with genetic variation in rare developmental disorders, finding independent and additive effects on phenotypic severity and identifying genetic contributions to preterm birth risk.

The differential effects of common and rare genetic variants on cognitive performance across development

The paper examines how common and rare genetic variants affect cognitive performance across childhood and adolescence, finding age-related changes in their effects and differences in their impact across the phenotype distribution.

Genomic Insights into the Shared and Distinct Genetic Architecture of Cognitive Function and Schizophrenia

This study identifies shared and distinct genetic factors between cognitive traits and schizophrenia using genomic structural equation modelling and GWAS data.