Epigenome-wide association study of physical activity and physiological parameters in discordant monozygotic twins
Duncan GE, Avery A, Thorson JLM, Nilsson EE, Beck D, Skinner MK.
Category Archives: For Twins
Cross-sectional associations between neighbourhood walkability and objective physical activity levels in identical twins
Duncan GE, Avery AR, Hurvitz P, Vernez-Moudon A, Tsang S
Positive lifestyle behaviours and emotional health factors are associated with low back pain resilience
Roberts KE, Beckenkamp PR, Ferreira ML, Duncan GE, Calais-Ferreira L, Gatt JM, Ferreira P.
The pillars of health: influence of multiple lifestyle behaviors on body mass index and depressive symptoms in adult twins
Duncan GE, Avery AR, Tsang S, Watson NF, Williams BD, Turkheimer E.
Reassessing relationships between appetite and adiposity in people at risk of obesity: a twin study using fMRI
Sewaybricker LE, Melhorn SJ, Rosenbaum JL, Askren MK, Tyagi V, Webb MF, De Leon MRB, Grabowski TJ, Schur EA
GPS-based built environment measures associated with adult
physical activity
Boakye KA, Amram O, Schuna JM, Duncan GE, Hystad P.
Measurement of neighborhood-based physical activity bouts
Duncan GE, Hurvitz PM, Moudon AV, Avery AR, Tsang S.
Genetic and environmental influences on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and disinhibited eating behaviors
Afari N, Gasperi M, Dochat C, Wooldridge JS, Herbert MS, Schur EA, Buchwald DS.
Central and Peripheral Symptoms in Network Analysis are Differentially Heritable A Twin Study of Anxious Misery
Olatunji BO, Christian C, Strachan E, Levinson CA.
Affectionate Communication findings
We are happy to share that a manuscript using data from the affectionate communication study has been published. Within twin pairs, identical twins were more highly correlated for expressed and received affection than fraternal twins, suggesting genetic influences play a role in affection. Using an ACE model, which is used in twin studies to estimate the contribution of genetics and the environment to a given phenotype such as affection, the study authors determined that 45% of the variance in expressed affectionate communication is heritable (due to genetics), and 0% is explained by the common environment. This means that shared influences such as being raised by the same parents in the same households had no impact on expressed affection. Only 21% of the variance in received affection was heritable. Given that received affection largely depends on others, it is not surprising to see that heritability is lower for this trait. These findings suggest that greater attention should be given to communicative behaviors by considering genetic and biological influences, and not just environmental influences.
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Associations between changes in resilient coping and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Sinclair VG, Adams SM, Dietrich M.
Insomnia and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Evidence of shared etiology.
Cox RC, Taylor S, Strachan E, Olatunji BO.
Global metabolic profiling to model biological processes of aging in twins.
Bunning BJ, Contrepois K, Lee-McMullen B, Dhondalay GKR, Zhang W, Tupa D, Raeber O, Desai M, Nadeau KC, Snyder MP, Andorf S.
Genome-wide profiling of DNA methylome and transcriptome in peripheral blood monocytes for major depression: A Monozygotic Discordant Twin Study.
Zhu Y, Strachan E, Fowler E, Bacus T, Roy-Byrne P, Zhao J.
Cohort Profile: TWINS study of environment, lifestyle behaviours and health.
Duncan GE, Avery A, Hurvitz PM, Moudon AV, Tsang S, Turkheimer E.
Sleep Duration and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Twin Study.
McCall CA, Turkheimer E, Tsang S, Avery A, Duncan GE, Watson NF.
Probabilistic walking models using built environment and sociodemographic predictors
Moudon AV, Huang R, Stewart OT, Cohen-Cline H, Noonan C, Hurvitz PM, Duncan GE.
Salience network connectivity is reduced by a meal and influenced by genetic background and hypothalamic gliosis.
Sewaybricker LE, Melhorn SJ, Askren MK, Webb MF, Tyagi V, De Leon MRB, Grabowski TJ, Seeley WW, Schur EA.
Heritability of Type 2 Diabetes in the Washington State Twin Registry
Avery AR, Duncan GE