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Papers

(The median citation count of Behavior Genetics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Estimation of Parental Effects Using Polygenic Scores	31
Direct and Indirect Effects of Maternal, Paternal, and Offspring Genotypes: Trio-GCTA	28
Separating Measured Genetic and Environmental Effects: Evidence Linking Parental Genotype and Adopted Child Outcomes	19
Best Practices for Binary and Ordinal Data Analyses	18
Genetic Correlates of Psychological Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis in Young Adult Twins in Great Britain	16
Genetic Risk for Smoking: Disentangling Interplay Between Genes and Socioeconomic Status	15
Incorporating Polygenic Risk Scores in the ACE Twin Model to Estimate A–C Covariance	15
Quantile-Specific Heritability of Intakes of Alcohol but not Other Macronutrients	14
Effects of Chronic Caffeine Administration on Behavioral and Molecular Adaptations to Sensory Contact Model Induced Stress in Adolescent Male Mice	14
A Comparison of the ASEBA Adult Self Report (ASR) and the Brief Problem Monitor (BPM/18-59)	13
Continuity of Genetic Risk for Aggressive Behavior Across the Life-Course	13
Genetic Influences on the Covariance and Genetic Correlations in a Bivariate Twin Model: An Application to Well-Being	13
Using Multimodel Inference/Model Averaging to Model Causes of Covariation Between Variables in Twins	13
Modeling Interaction and Dispersion Effects in the Analysis of Gene-by-Environment Interaction	12
The Genes We Inherit and Those We Don’t: Maternal Genetic Nurture and Child BMI Trajectories	12
Mapping Pathways by Which Genetic Risk Influences Adolescent Externalizing Behavior: The Interplay Between Externalizing Polygenic Risk Scores, Parental Knowledge, and Peer Substance Use	12
GW-SEM 2.0: Efficient, Flexible, and Accessible Multivariate GWAS	11
Polygenic Risk for Aggression Predicts Adult Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses via Substance Use Offending in Emerging Adulthood and is Moderated by a Family-Centered Intervention	11
Genetic and Environmental Variation in Continuous Phenotypes in the ABCD Study®	11
The Analytic Identification of Variance Component Models Common to Behavior Genetics	10
Combining Structural-Equation Modeling with Genomic-Relatedness-Matrix Restricted Maximum Likelihood in OpenMx	10
Multilevel Modeling in Classical Twin and Modern Molecular Behavior Genetics	9
On the Transformation of Genetic Effect Size from Logit to Liability Scale	9
Examining the Role of Genetic Risk and Longitudinal Transmission Processes Underlying Maternal Parenting and Psychopathology and Children’s ADHD Symptoms and Aggression: Utilizing the Advantages of a	9
The CADM2 Gene and Behavior: A Phenome-Wide Scan in UK-Biobank	8

Gene–Environment Interplay Between Physical Exercise and Fitness and Depression Symptomatology	8
Genetic Inactivation of Two-Pore Channel 1 Impairs Spatial Learning and Memory	8
Continuity and Change in the Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Youth Antisocial Behavior	8
The Association Between Puberty Timing and Body Mass Index in a Longitudinal Setting: The Contribution of Genetic Factors	8
Bias and Precision of Parameter Estimates from Models Using Polygenic Scores to Estimate Environmental and Genetic Parental Influences	8
Human Capital Mediates Natural Selection in Contemporary Humans	7
A Family-Based Genome Wide Association Study of Externalizing Behaviors	7
Genetic Architecture of Innate Fear Behavior in Chickens	7
Genetic Moderation of the Association Between Early Family Instability and Trajectories of Aggressive Behaviors from Middle Childhood to Adolescence	7
The Augmented Classical Twin Design: Incorporating Genome‐Wide Identity by Descent Sharing Into Twin Studies in Order to Model Violations of the Equal Environments Assumption	7
Genetically Informed Regression Analysis: Application to Aggression Prediction by Inattention and Hyperactivity in Children and Adults	7
A Polygenic Approach to Understanding Resilience to Peer Victimisation	6
What Do People Know About the Heritability of Sleep?	6
LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Conducting Genomic Research on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	6
Whole-Genome Sequencing of Inbred Mouse Strains Selected for High and Low Open-Field Activity	6
A Twin Study of Inhibitory Control at Age Two and ADHD Behavior Problems at Age Three	6
Multilevel Twin Models: Geographical Region as a Third Level Variable	6
Gene × Environment Interactions in the Development of Preschool Effortful Control, and Its Implications for Childhood Externalizing Behavior	6
Gene-by-Crisis Interaction for Optimism and Meaning in Life: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Cigarette Smoking Behavior a Gateway to Opium Use Disorder: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis	5
The Associations of Polygenic Scores for Risky Behaviors and Parenting Behaviors with Adolescent Externalizing Problems	5
Exploring the Genetic and Environmental Etiologies of Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, and Vocabulary Among Chinese–English Bilingual Children: The Moderating Role of Second Language I	5
Modeling Parent-Specific Genetic Nurture in Families with Missing Parental Genotypes: Application to Birthweight and BMI	5
Developmental Cascades from Polygenic and Prenatal Substance Use to Adolescent Substance Use: Leveraging Severity and Directionality of Externalizing and Internalizing Problems to Understand Pubertal	5
Investigating the causal risk factors for self-harm by integrating Mendelian randomisation within twin modelling	5
MR-DoC2: Bidirectional Causal Modeling with Instrumental Variables and Data from Relatives	5
Heritability of Childhood Music Engagement and Associations with Language and Executive Function: Insights from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	4
Heritability Estimation of Cognitive Phenotypes in the ABCD Study® Using Mixed Models	4
DNA Methylation Analysis of Imprinted Genes in the Cortex and Hippocampus of Cross-Fostered Mice Selectively Bred for Increased Voluntary Wheel-Running	4
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Semantic Verbal Fluency Across Midlife and Later Life	4
Integrative Multi-omics Analysis of Childhood Aggressive Behavior	4
Heritability × SES Interaction for IQ: Is it Present in US Adoption Studies?	4
Clarifying the Genetic Influences on Nicotine Dependence and Quantity of Use in Cigarette Smokers	4
Elucidating the Links Between Mother and Father Alcohol Use Disorder and Adolescent Externalizing Psychopathology: A Test of Transmission Specificity Within Competing Factor Structures and Genetic and	4
A General Cognitive Ability Factor for the UK Biobank	4
Age Effects Aggressive Behavior: RNA-Seq Analysis in Cattle with Implications for Studying Neoteny Under Domestication	3
Polygene control and trait dominance in death-feigning syndrome in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3
Genotype Data and Derived Genetic Instruments of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study® for Better Understanding of Human Brain Development	3
Are Different Individuals Sensitive to Different Environments? Individual Differences in Sensitivity to the Effects of the Parent, Peer and School Environment on Externalizing Behavior and its Genetic	3
The Intergenerational Transmission of Developmental Nicotine Exposure-Induced Neurodevelopmental Disorder-Like Phenotypes is Modulated by the Chrna5 D397N Polymorphism in Adolescent Mice	3
Psychiatric Resilience and Alcohol Resistance: A Twin Study of Genetic Correlation and Sex Differences	3
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Stressful Life Events and their Associations with Executive Functions in Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin Analysis	3
Etiological Overlap Between Sex Under the Influence and Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners	3
Using Genomic Structural Equation Modeling to Partition the Genetic Covariance Between Birthweight and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors into Maternal and Offspring Components in the Norwegian HUNT Study	3
Exploring the Relationships Between Autozygosity, Educational Attainment, and Cognitive Ability in a Contemporary, Trans-Ancestral American Sample	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘The Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Disorders’	3
Maternal Parenting Behaviors Amplify Environmental Influences on Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol Use During Adolescence	3
An Introduction to the Special Issue: Developmental Behavior Genetics and Externalizing Psychopathology	3
Associations Between Traumatic Stress, Brain Volumes and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Children: Data from the ABCD Study	3
The Role of Remembered Parenting on Adult Self-Esteem: A Monozygotic Twin Difference Study	3

Bidirectional Causal Associations Between Same-Sex Attraction and Psychological Distress: Testing Moderation and Mediation Effects	3
A Nation-Wide Swedish Cohort Study on Early Maternal Age at First Childbirth and Risk for Offspring Deaths, Accidents, and Suicide Attempts	3
Phenotypic, Genetic and Environmental Architecture of the Components of Sleep Quality	2
The (Broad-Sense) Genetic Correlations Among Four Measures of Inattention and Hyperactivity in 12 Year Olds	2
Notes on Three Decades of Methodology Workshops	2
Birth Complications and Negative Emotionality Predict Externalizing Behaviors in Young Twins: Moderations with Genetic and Family Risk Factors	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Statistical Genetic Methods for Human Complex Traits	2
Polygenic Risk for Schizophrenia, Major Depression, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Hippocampal Subregion Volumes in Middle Childhood	2
Celebrating a Century of Research in Behavioral Genetics	2
No Evidence for Passive Gene-Environment Correlation or the Influence of Genetic Risk for Psychiatric Disorders on Adult Body Composition via the Adoption Design	2
The Hole-Board Test in Mutant Mice	2
Using Genetic Marginal Effects to Study Gene-Environment Interactions with GWAS Data	2
The Heritability of Type D Personality by an Extended Twin-Pedigree Analysis in the Netherlands Twin Register	2
Principal Component Analysis Reduces Collider Bias in Polygenic Score Effect Size Estimation	2
Decomposition of Mean Sex Differences in Alcohol Use Within a Genetic Factor Model	2
Heteropaternal Siblings Misclassified as Dizygotic Twins: A Potential Biasing Factor for Heritability Estimates?	2
Behavior Genetics Association 52st Annual Meeting Abstracts	2
A Gateway That Never Was	2
Sibling Resemblances in Physical Fitness in Three Distinct Regions in Peru: The Peruvian Sibling Study on Growth and Health	2