Danielle M. Dick

Characterizing the Association between Delinquency and Parenting Practices Across Adolescence: Longitudinal Associations and the Role of Genetic Liability

Background: Parenting practices are a potential mechanism through which adolescent delinquent behavior can be modified. However, it remains unclear whether associations between parenting and delinquency reflect stable differences between families or dynamic processes unfolding wi...

Psychiatric and substance use disorder polygenic scores are associated with the exposome in youth

Abstract Gene-environment correlations (rGE) present challenges for accurately estimating the individual and joint contributions of genetic and environmental influences on risk for psychiatric and substance use disorders. The present study examined rGE between polygenic risk scor...

Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality

Personality traits describe stable differences in how people think, feel and behave, and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments1,2. Many questions remain unanswered about associations between DNA and personality traits, such as their robustne...