Jared V. Balbona

The paper estimates the covariance between liability to a disorder and age at onset in censored populations using a mixture distribution model applied to twin data.

This study identifies sex-specific genetic loci and correlations for alcohol use behaviors and their comorbidities using genome-wide association studies.

This study performs a genome-wide association study of chronic pain across six ancestries, identifying two significant loci and showing genetic correlations with mental and physical health traits.

This study performs a multi-ancestral GWAS of DSM-defined nicotine dependence, finding genetic correlations with other substance use disorders and health traits, and identifying a strong general addiction liability factor.

This study identifies genetic correlations between substance use and aging indices, finding causal effects of tobacco and alcohol use on aging with alcohol effects dependent on quantity.

The paper analyzes partner correlations across 22 traits using meta-analysis and 133 traits in the UK Biobank, finding positive correlations with varying strengths.

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 estimates parental effects on offspring using polygenic scores and causal models, showing how joint modeling can provide unbiased estimates of environmental influences.