sjoerdalten.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Interested in labor/health, and its intersection with behavioral genetics Find out about my work: https://sites.google.com/view/sjoerd-van-alten
👤 Joined on 29 September 2023
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@sjoerdalten.bsky.socialThis is awesome. Looking forward to giving the paper a read!
Show PostReally cool within-family polygenic analysis of the (potentially causal) relationship between Personality and Economic Outcomes like income and wealth. Great use of negative controls to confirm the within family PGI doesnt relate to parental confounders.
Show Postone of my favorite co-authors, @leandroscarvalho.bsky.social, is tackling the big question of a causal link between personality and economic outcomes in his new paper. take a look and give him a follow.
Show Post🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Show Post1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.
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