Rosa Cheesman

This paper identifies 58 genome-wide significant loci for major anxiety disorders using a large meta-analysis and highlights GABAergic signaling as a potential mechanism.

This study uses Trio-GCTA to analyze direct and indirect genetic effects on educational achievement using parent-offspring trios, finding genetic contributions and gene-environment correlations.

This study identifies 1,257 genetic variants associated with human personality traits using large-scale GWAS and finds widespread genetic correlations with behaviors and life outcomes.

The paper examines how family environment mediates genetic effects on academic achievement, showing that family characteristics beyond socio-economic status influence academic outcomes through gene-environment correlation.

The paper shows genetic similarity between relatives can indicate assortative mating, finding evidence in nine traits and increased genetic variance in offspring for six of them.

This study shows noncognitive skills become more predictive of academic achievement over time and their genetic contribution increases with age.

The paper estimates how parents' cognitive and non-cognitive skills affect offspring education through environmental effects using polygenic scores and multiple study designs.

The paper introduces a gamified cognitive ability measure, Pathfinder, which shows heritability and genetic prediction of general cognitive ability.

In 159,701 siblings from 17 cohorts, population GWAS overstate direct effects on height, education, smoking, cognition, depressive symptoms and age at first birth; clinical traits mostly agree across models.

This paper quantifies genetic nurture effects on educational outcomes, finding they are about half the size of direct genetic effects and largely explained by socioeconomic factors.

This study uses genomic analysis of parent-offspring trios to estimate the genetic nurture effect on child anxiety and depression symptoms at age 8, finding significant influence on depression but not anxiety.

The paper compares polygenic scores for education between adopted and non-adopted individuals in the UK Biobank to assess gene-environment interplay, finding stronger genetic prediction in non-adopted individuals.

This study uses family-based genetic effects to estimate heritability of neuroticism and education in the UK Biobank, finding increased heritability and couple environmental influence on education.

This study identifies five novel genome-wide significant loci for anxiety disorders and finds significant genetic correlations with depression, insomnia, and coronary artery disease.

The paper investigates a general dimension of psychopathology (p factor) across childhood and adolescence, finding it highly heritable and genetically stable.