The primary goal motivating the scientific field of Developmental Psychopathology is to
discover why some individuals develop mental health and neuro‐developmental difficulties …

Background We used a polygenic score for externalizing behavior (extPGS) and structural
MRI to examine potential pathways from genetic liability to conduct problems via the brain …

Background The general factor of psychopathology, often denoted as p, captures the
common variance among a broad range of psychiatric symptoms. Specific factors are co …

Recent studies suggest that smoking and lower educational attainment may have genetic
influences in common. However, little is known about the mechanisms through which …

Over 50% of children with a parent with severe mental illness will develop mental illness by
early adulthood. However, intergenerational transmission of risk for mental illness in one's …

Assortative mating for a given phenotype is the phenomenon by which mates select each
other based on their phenotypic similarity. Other phenomena can create positive correlation …

Polygenic indices (PGI)—the new recommended label for polygenic scores in social science
applications—are genetic summary scales often used to represent an individual's liability for …

Bullying research has shown repeatedly that victims of bullying have an increased risk for
later internalizing problems and bullies have an increased risk for later externalizing …

BackgroundWhile maternal at-risk drinking is associated with children's emotional and
behavioral problems, there is a paucity of research that properly accounts for genetic …

While the use of short self-report measures is common practice in biobank initiatives, such
phenotyping strategy is inherently prone to reporting errors. In this work, we aimed to …