Institute for Behavioral Genetics, 50 Years of Excellence, 1967-2017

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IBG Research Day

At the end of each year IBG hosts a mini-conference where students and trainees present their original research. Afterwards, we celebrate!

Who We Are & What We Do

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Molecular Genetics and Neuroscience

Multiple laboratories use neuroscience and molecular genetic approaches to understand behavior in animals.

fMRI, Executive Function, and Genes

Studies of executive function look at the genetic basis of brain regions involved in decision making

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Featured Research at IBG

COTwins: Colorado Twin Study

A social media study with Colorado twins ages 14-17.

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Nicotinic Receptors

A study on DNA regions involved with nicotine dependence.

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CATSLife

Colorado Adoption & Twin Study of Lifecourse Development.

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fMRI Studies

Several Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies are underway.

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News

Scott Vrieze wins 2018 Fuller and Scott Award

June 26, 2018

IBG Faculty Fellow, Scott Vrieze , won the 2018 Fuller and Scott Award for outstanding scientific accomplishments by an early career member of the Behavior Genetics Association.

Spencer Huggett accepts the award from Eric Turkheimer

Spencer Huggett wins 2018 Rowe Award

June 26, 2018

IBG graduate student, Spencer Huggett , won the 2018 Rowe Award for the best poster presented at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting. Spencer Huggett & Michael Stallings, Cocaine'omics: The Genetic and Neurological Basis of Cocaine Use and Dependence .

Postdoctoral Fellow Position

April 30, 2018

We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with experience in programming, statistics, and/or genetics to help us develop methods to elucidate the genetic architecture of complex traits using genome-wide data. This NIH funded work is being conducted at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG), University of Colorado, Boulder (PI Matthew Keller)...

Comparison of methods that use whole genome data to estimate the heritability and genetic architecture of complex traits

April 26, 2018

IBG post-doc Luke Evans is first author on a paper in Nature Genetics which provides a comprehensive summary of different methods of computing narrow sense heritability from SNP data.

Narrow-sense heritability estimation of complex traits using identity-by-descent information

March 28, 2018

IBG post-doc Luke Evans is first author on a paper in Heredity which discusses using GREML-IBD to get a (possibly) unbiased estimate of narrow-sense heritability in unrelated individuals.

Study Participant Information

Research Participants

Are you participating in a research study at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics? Follow this link to find out more information about your project.

All Publications by IBG Affiliates and Fellows

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Publications at PubMed

Most recent publications by IBG affiliates and fellows

Proper conditional analysis in the presence of missing data: Application to large scale meta-analysis of tobacco use phenotypes.

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Awards & Honors

Scott Vrieze wins 2018 Fuller and Scott Award

Spencer Huggett wins 2018 Rowe Award

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