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Tanya Horwitz

Predoctoral Trainee

Institute for Behavioral Genetics

447 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309

Research Interests:

My research interests involve substance use, assortative mating, and the overlap between diagnostic and phenotypic categories.

Mentor:

Mike Stallings

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Highlighted publications

The meta-analyzed random effects spousal correlations and 95% confidence intervals for each trait.

A comprehensive meta-analysis of human assortative mating in 22 complex traits

We conducted the largest set of meta-analyses on human partner concordance to date. The degree to which individuals in a marital or romantic couple correlate for a trait is of interest because so-called "assortative mating" can increase the genetic and environmental variation of traits, can increase the prevalence of disorders in a population, and can bias estimates in genetically informed designs. We found the highest rates of concordance for social attitudes, some substance use phenotypes, and educational attainment; correlations for personality yielded amongst the lowest within-couple correlations.

(preprint)

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