Maximising the Value of Twin Studies (English)
Channel: EBA science videos
Date: 2023-05-21

Research Master Students and Postdocs from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam together publish their paper in Nature Human Behaviour on “Maximizing the Value of Twin Studies in Health and Behaviour". 

The team dived into the classical twin design and explored recent developments in twin studies. The team read hundreds of papers to collect their material and analyzed the outcomes of recent twin studies on the concordance and discordance for major diseases and mental disorders challenging the belief that genetic influences are deterministic. 

The classical twin design is indispensable to understand how genetic and environmental factors relate to human traits and obtain an estimate of their heritability. 

The paper is now available for download on Nature Human Behaviour’s website: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01609-6 


A preprint may be found here: https://osf.io/rne4s 

About the RM program: https://vu.nl/en/education/master/genes-in-behaviour-and-health-research