Abdel Abdellaoui
@dr-appie.bsky.social
Complex Trait Genetics | Population Genetics | Evolutionary Genetics https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=hsyseKEAAAAJ&hl=en
PhD in social science genetics with @dr-appie.bsky.social, @aysuo.bsky.social, et al. Great team, location, and opportunity. Apply. Fast. Do it.
Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · 3w agoHow do nature, nurture, and their interplay drive inequality? 🧬🧠💰 New PhD position in social science genetics at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social and @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Your supervisors will be: Titus Galama, Aysu Okbay, and me. Apply by 21 July: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph... Please share!
Common and rare genetic variant associations with cognitive performance across development in British birth cohorts
Common and rare genetic variant associations with cognitive performance across development in British birth cohorts
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02491-8Associations between polygenic indices and cognitive ability in children increase with age while rare damaging variant associations attenuate, with differential effects across the cognitive ability distribution.
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Using DNA data from UK birth cohorts, researchers have found that rare DNA changes are most strongly linked to cognition in early childhood, while common DNA changes become more influential as children grow. 🧬 https://bit.ly/4b5w0xh
Links between genetics and cognition change across childhood
New study uncovers how genetics influence children’s cognitive ability as they age.
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How do nature, nurture, and their interplay drive inequality? 🧬🧠💰 New PhD position in social science genetics at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social and @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Your supervisors will be: Titus Galama, Aysu Okbay, and me. Apply by 21 July: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph... Please share!
Vacancy — PhD position in Social Science Genetics – VU Amsterdam & Amsterdam UMC
Applications are invited for a PhD position in Social Science Genetics, a joint appointment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC. Eligible candidates may start their studentship between J...
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Why do educational outcomes run in families—and what does that mean for social inequality in education? Thursday #ORD2026: adoption, extended-family & population-genetics studies, with Marjolijn Das, me, @dr-appie.bsky.social, Louise Elffers & Hans Luyten 🕝14:30 |📍0.055 #OnderwijsResearchDagen
A highlight from yesterday: The public science committee organized a plenary symposium 'From data to discourse: Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science' chaired by @evangiangrande.bsky.social . During the symposium, we heard from:
💫 These junior-career researchers blew it out of the park yesterday morning during the presidential symposium! Curious what they presented on? Check out the full conference program: bga.org/content.aspx... - abstracts will be shared in an upcoming edition of BG!
Two few take-aways from a great opening keynote by Wouter Peyrot: 🩺 Genetic counselling in the clinic is evidence-based and clinically useful for empowerment
The local hosts are doing some last prep before welcoming all of you at the opening reception, see you soon🎉
Kicking off BGA 2026 in an unexpectedly warm Amsterdam! Looking forward to three days of amazing science with fantastic people in our lovely city ❌❌❌
Behavior Genetics Association@behaviorgenetic.bsky.social · last mo.The local hosts are doing some last prep before welcoming all of you at the opening reception, see you soon🎉
Had a fantastic time teaching GWAS Day at ISG 2026! We asked participants which trait they'd most want to do a GWAS on (they got bonus points if it wasn't subjected to a GWAS yet). Here are their answers. What would yours be?
Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere are my four GWAS lectures of ~20 minutes each for the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2026. They're part of the broader workshop curriculum but also work as standalone lectures covering the basics of GWAS from the ground up. Videos are below 👇🏽
Exciting new research findings in the latest issue of Behavior Genetics (Volume 56, Issue 3):https://link.springer.com/journal/10519/volumes-and-issues/56-3?utm_source=springer_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_10519_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-260526&utm_content=etoc_springer_20260526
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Een dna-test zet het leven van journalist Cas Reijnders op z'n kop: zijn vader blijkt niet zijn genetische vader. In episode 3 van de NRC-podcast Koekoekskind kwam Kim Bos bij me langs met de vraag waar veel van mijn werk over gaat: hoe belangrijk is dna eigenlijk? www.nrc.nl/koekoekskind/
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Een dna-test leidt tot een persoonlijke zoektocht én een groter verhaal: het structureel falen en gebrekkig toezicht in de Nederlandse fertiliteitssector.
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Weekendavisen har interviewet mig om denne artikel til deres Ideer-sektion: Elitens gener. Et rigtig fint stykke om, hvordan gener og socioøkonomi i stigende grad sorteres sammen. Bonus: det skønne ler-coverart af Stephan Dybus. Tak @weekendavisen.dk!
Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · last yr.In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽
Very excited about this preprint that we just posted. It introduces the Genomic-Relatedness Matched Association (GRMA) study. It’s an extension to family-based GWAS that uses extended relatives beyond only siblings in diverse-ancestry data with very little bias. (Link below.)
Here are my four GWAS lectures of ~20 minutes each for the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2026. They're part of the broader workshop curriculum but also work as standalone lectures covering the basics of GWAS from the ground up. Videos are below 👇🏽
Thank you @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social for having me and for the opportunity to discuss our work! Check out the podcast in the quoted tweet below, and check out the paper we discussed here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences
Nature Human Behaviour - Abdellaoui et al. synthesize genomic evidence on the link between socio-economic status and heredity. They show how social stratification may create selection pressures,...
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ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 3mo agoBig news! @dr-appie.bsky.social returns to Born and Raised this week, and besides talking about how social inequality and genetic structure affect each other, he also has a cool surprise for us! Can you guess what it is?
Another episode with @dr-appie.bsky.social because who else brings a laptop to a deserted island?
ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 3mo agoBig news! @dr-appie.bsky.social returns to Born and Raised this week, and besides talking about how social inequality and genetic structure affect each other, he also has a cool surprise for us! Can you guess what it is?
Big news! @dr-appie.bsky.social returns to Born and Raised this week, and besides talking about how social inequality and genetic structure affect each other, he also has a cool surprise for us! Can you guess what it is?
How Society Shapes the Genome - Abdel Abdellaoui returns | Born and Raised
Can society shape the human genome? What happens when people move to opportunity? Why do genes associated with educational attainment cluster geographically? And what happens to the gene pool when edu...
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@dr-appie.bsky.social is so awesome that me and @aysuo.bsky.social could not not have him back on the podcast. We talk in depth about his @nathumbehav.nature.com paper "Socioeconomic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences". Great conversation!
ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 3mo agoBig news! @dr-appie.bsky.social returns to Born and Raised this week, and besides talking about how social inequality and genetic structure affect each other, he also has a cool surprise for us! Can you guess what it is?
The question I get most after talks about music and mental health: "But what about people who just listen to music?" Most of us never pick up an instrument, we engage with music through listening... So we studied it. New paper on music listening, mental health & genetics 🎵 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Does listening to music relate to mental health in the general population: a genetically informed approach
While some people actively play instruments, most primarily engage with music through listening. Although intervention studies consistently report pos…
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Here is the link to share 🔗: rdcu.be/fgqH8
How to design effective scientific figures
Nature Human Behaviour - Scientific figures strongly influence how research findings are interpreted, yet guidance on figure design has largely focused on technical aspects of visualization. In...
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Ryosuke Fujii (Ryo)@ryo-epi.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew commentary "How to design effective scientific figures" is out from Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com !! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · 4mo agoMe & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️
In this week's episode, we talk to @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social about genetics, musicality, metal, mental health. But more importantly, we finally uncover @dr-appie.bsky.social's secret music career and learn about Laura's childhood playing trombone on a horse while doing a headstand??
@laurawesseldijk.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere was a lot of laughter during this conversation and a few secret confessions... But we also had some great discussions about musicality, genetics, Beethoven and public outreach, mental health, and music genres... Thank you @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social for having me! 🎶
There was a lot of laughter during this conversation and a few secret confessions... But we also had some great discussions about musicality, genetics, Beethoven and public outreach, mental health, and music genres... Thank you @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social for having me! 🎶
ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat's the deal with musicality and genetics? This week, Born and Raised went to talk to Laura Wesseldijk. There's something here for both metalheads, horse riding enthusiasts and trombonists!
There appears to be an unusually large overlap between social science genetics and metal fandom. Had so much fun having this conversation with @aysuo.bsky.social and Laura Wesseldijk!
ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat's the deal with musicality and genetics? This week, Born and Raised went to talk to Laura Wesseldijk. There's something here for both metalheads, horse riding enthusiasts and trombonists!
⚠️ This BGA has turned out to be exceptionally popular with unprecedented numbers of submissions and people wanting to attend. We are now holding a waiting list for non-speakers (this includes symposia Chairs and Discussants) who have not yet registered.
The Akbari/Reich ancient-DNA paper is consistent with our argument that selection intensified after the agricultural transition and rise of civilizations, as growing social stratification influenced heritable traits via mortality, fertility, migration, and non-random mating 👇🏽
Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · last yr.In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽