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Zhou, Q., Gidziela, A., Allegrini, A. G., Cheesman, R., Wertz, J., Maxwell, J., ... Rimfeld, K. & Malanchini, M. (2024). Gene-environment correlation: The role of family environment in academic development. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-10. 

 

Malanchini, M., Allegrini, A. G., Nivard, M. G., Biroli, P., Rimfeld, K., Cheesman, R., ... & Plomin, R. (2024). Genetic associations between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement over development. Nature human behaviour, 1-13.

 

Procopio, F., Liao, W., Rimfeld, K., Malanchini, M., von Stumm, S., Allegrini, A. G., & Plomin, R. (2024). Multi-polygenic score prediction of mathematics, reading, and language abilities independent of general cognitive ability. Molecular psychiatry, 1-9. 

 

Kawakami, K., Procopio, F., Rimfeld, K., Malanchini, M., von Stumm, S., Asbury, K., & Plomin, R. (2024). Exploring the genetic prediction of academic underachievement and overachievement. npj Science of Learning, 9(1), 39. 

 

Schwabe, I., Jović, M., Rimfeld, K., Allegrini, A. G., & van den Berg, S. M. (2024). Genotype-Environment Interaction in ADHD: Genetic Predisposition Determines the Extent to Which Environmental Influences Explain Variability in the Symptom Dimensions Hyperactivity and Inattention. Behavior genetics, 54(2), 169-180. 

Verhoef, E., Allegrini, A. G., Jansen, P. R., Lange, K., Wang, C. A., Morgan, A. T., ... Rimfeld, K. …& BIS investigator group. (2023). Genome-wide analyses of vocabulary size in infancy and toddlerhood: associations with ADHD, literacy and cognition-related traits. Biological psychiatry. 

 

Gidziela, A., Malanchini, M., Rimfeld, K., McMillan, A., Ronald, A., Viding, E., ... & Plomin, R. (2023). Explaining the influence of non‐shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 64(5), 747-757. 

 

Lockhart, C., Bright, J., Ahmadzadeh, Y., Breen, G., Bristow, S., Boyd, A., ...Rimfeld, K. … & Eley, T. C. (2023). Twins Early Development Study (TEDS): A genetically sensitive investigation of mental health outcomes in the mid‐twenties. JCPP Advances, e12154. 

 

Ayorech, Z., Baldwin, J. R., Pingault, J. B., Rimfeld, K., & Plomin, R. (2023). Gene-environment correlations and genetic confounding underlying the association between media use and mental health. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1030. 

 

Lim, K. X., Oginni, O. A., Rimfeld, K., Pingault, J. B., & Rijsdijk, F. (2022). Investigating the causal risk factors for self-harm by integrating Mendelian randomisation within twin modelling. Behaviorgenetics, 52(6), 324-337. 

 

Tielbeek, J. J., Uffelmann, E., Williams, B. S., Colodro-Conde, L., Gagnon, É., Mallard, T. T., ... Rimfeld, K. …& & Posthuma, D. (2022). Uncovering the genetic architecture of broad antisocial behavior through a genome-wide association study meta-analysis. Molecular psychiatry, 27(11), 4453-4463. 

 

Lim, K. X., Krebs, G., Rimfeld, K., Pingault, J. B., & Rijsdijk, F. V. (2022). Investigating the genetic and environmental aetiologies of non-suicidal and suicidal self-harm: a twin study. Psychological medicine, 52(15), 3391-3401.

 

Demange, P. A., Hottenga, J. J., Abdellaoui, A., Eilertsen, E. M., Malanchini, M., Domingue, B. W., ... Rimfeld, K. …& Cheesman, R. (2022). Estimating effects of parents’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills on offspring education using polygenic scores. Nature communications, 13(1), 4801. 

 

Rajula, H. S. R., Manchia, M., Agarwal, K., Akingbuwa, W. A., Allegrini, A. G., Diemer, E., ... Rimfeld, K. …& Middeldorp, C. M. (2022). Overview of CAPICE—Childhood and Adolescence Psychopathology: unravelling the complex etiology by a large Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Europe—an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Training Network. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 31(5), 829-839. 

 

Gidziela, A., Ahmadzadeh, Y.I., Michelini, G., Allegrini, A.G., Agnew-Blais, J., Lau, L.Y., Duret, M., Procopio, F., Daly, E., Ronald, A., Rimfeld, K. ., Malanchini, M. (2023) A meta-analysis of genetic effects on neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(4), 642-656 .

 

Akingbuwa, W.A., Hammerschlag, A.R., Allegrini, A.G., Sallis, H., Kuja‐Halkola, R., Rimfeld, K. ,Lichtenstein, P., Lundstrom, S., Munafò, M.R., Plomin, R. and Nivard, M.G., (2023). Multivariate analyses of molecular genetic associations between childhood psychopathology and adult mood disorders and related traits. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 192(1-2), 3-12.

 

Procopio, F., Zhou, Q., Wang, Z., Gidziela, A., Rimfeld, K. , Malanchini, M. and Plomin, R. (2022). The genetics of specific cognitive abilities. Intelligence, 95, p.101689.

 

Maxwell, J., Ronald, A., Cardno, A.G., Breen, G., Rimfeld, K. . and Vassos, E. (2022). Genetic and geographical associations with six dimensions of psychotic experiences in adolescence. Schizophrenia Bulletin , 49(2), 319-328.

 

Gidziela, A., Malanchini, M., Rimfeld, K. , McMillan, A., Ronald, A., Viding, E., Pike, A., Asbury, K., Eley, T.C., von Stumm, S. and Plomin, R. (2022). Explaining the influence of non‐shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(5), 747-757.

 

Allegrini, A.G., van Beijsterveldt, T., Boomsma, D.I., Rimfeld, K. , Pingault, J.B., Plomin, R., Bartels, M. and Nivard, M.G. (2022). Developmental co‐occurrence of psychopathology dimensions in childhood. JCPP Advances, 2(3), p.e12100.

 

Eising, E., Mirza-Schreiber, N., De Zeeuw, E.L., Wang, C.A., Truong, D.T., Allegrini, A.G., Shapland, C.Y., Zhu, G., Wigg, K.G., Gerritse, M.L., Rimfeld, K. , et al. (2022). Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading-and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(35), p.e2202764119.

 

Neumann, Alexander, Ilja M. Nolte, Irene Pappa, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Erik Pettersson, Alina Rodriguez, Andrew Whitehouse, Rimfeld, K. , et al. (2022). A genome-wide association study of total child psychiatric problems scores. Plos one 17, no. 8 (2022): e0273116.

 

Schlag, F., Allegrini, A.G., Buitelaar, J., Verhoef, E., van Donkelaar, M., Plomin, R., Rimfeld, K. ,Fisher, S.E. and St Pourcain, B. (2022). Polygenic risk for mental disorder reveals distinct association profiles across social behaviour in the general population. Molecular psychiatry, 27(3), pp.1588-1598. 

 

Rimfeld, K. , Malanchini, M., Arathimos, R., Gidziela, A., Pain, O., McMillan, A., Ogden, R., Webster, L., Packer, A.E., Shakeshaft, N.G. and Schofield, K.L. (2022). The consequences of a year of the COVID-19 pandemic for the mental health of young adult twins in England and Wales. BJPsych Open, 8(4). 

 

Gidziela, A., Rimfeld, K. , Malanchini, M., Allegrini, A.G., McMillan, A., Selzam, S., Ronald, A., Viding, E., Von Stumm, S., Eley, T.C. and Plomin, R. (2022). Using DNA to predict behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(7), pp.781-792.

 

Leigh, E., Rimfeld, K. , Bowes, L., Clark, D.M., Eley, T.C. and Krebs, G. (2022). Prospective associations between internalising symptoms and educational achievement in youth: A monozygotic twin differences study. Journal of affective disorders, 307, pp.199-205. 

 

Wootton, R.E., Riglin, L., Blakey, R., Agnew-Blais, J., Caye, A., Cadman, T., Havdahl, A., Gonçalves, H., Menezes, A., Wehrmeister, F.C. Rimfeld, K. , et al. (2022). Decline in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits over the life course in the general population: trajectories across five population birth cohorts spanning ages 3 to 45 years. International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(3), 919-930.

 

Jami, E.S., Hammerschlag, A.R., Ip, H.F., Allegrini, A.G., Benyamin, B., Border, R., Diemer, E.W., Jiang, C., Karhunen, .,… Rimfeld, K. , …V., Lu, Y. and Lu, Q. (2022). Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(7), 934-945.

 

Pain, O., Glanville, K.P., Hagenaars, S., Selzam, S., Fürtjes, A., Coleman, J.R., Rimfeld, K. , Breen, G., Folkersen, Land Lewis, C.M. (2021). Imputed gene expression risk scores: a functionally informed component of polygenic risk. Human Molecular Genetics, 30(8), pp.727-738.

 

Pain, O., Glanville, K.P., Hagenaars, S.P., Selzam, S., Fürtjes, A.E., Gaspar, H.A., Coleman, J.R., Rimfeld, K. , Breen, G., Plomin, R. and Folkersen, L. (2021). Evaluation of polygenic prediction methodology within a reference-standardized framework. PLoS genetics, 17(5), p.e1009021.

 

Rimfeld, K. , Malanchini, M., Packer, A.E., Gidziela, A., Allegrini, A.G., Ayorech, Z., Smith‐Woolley, E., McMillan, A., Ogden, R., Dale, P.S. and Eley, T.C. (2021). The winding roads to adulthood: a twin study. JCPP Advances, 1(4), p.e12053.

 

Malanchini, M.1, Rimfeld, K. 1, Gidziela, A., Cheesman, R., Allegrini, A.G., Shakeshaft, N., Schofield, K., Packer, A., Ogden, R., McMillan, A. and Ritchie, S.J. (2021). Pathfinder: A gamified measure to integrate general cognitive ability into the biological, medical, and behavioural sciences. Molecular Psychiatry, 26(12), pp.7823-7837. 

 

Ip, H.F., Van der Laan, C.M., Krapohl, E.M., Brikell, I., Sánchez-Mora, C., Nolte, I.M., St Pourcain, B., Bolhuis, K., Palviainen, T., Zafarmand, H. and Colodro-Conde, L.,… Rimfeld, K. ., …Boomsma, D,I. (2021). Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), pp.1-9. 

 

Rimfeld, K. ., Malanchini, M., Allegrini, A., Packer, A. E., McMillan, A., Ogden, R., ... & Stringaris, A. (2021). Genetic correlates of psychological responses to the COVID-19 crisis in young adult twins in Great Britain. Behavior Genetics. 51:110–124. 

 

Lim K.X,. Krebs G., Rimfeld, K. , Pingault J-B., Rijsdijk F.V. (2021). Investigating the genetic and environmental aetiologies of non-suicidal and suicidal self-harm: a twin study. Psychological Medicine 1–11.

 

Malanchini, M.1, Rimfeld, K. 1, Shakeshaft, N. G., McMillan, A., Schofield, K. L., Rodic, M., ... & Plomin, R. (2020). Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence. npj Science of Learning, 5(1), 1-13. 

Allegrini, A. G., Karhunen, V., Coleman, J. R., Selzam, S., Rimfeld, K. , von Stumm, S., ... & Plomin, R. (2020). Multivariable GE interplay in the prediction of educational achievement. PLoSGenetics, 16(11), e1009153. 

Vuoksimaa, E., Rose, R. J., Pulkkinen, L., Palviainen, T., Rimfeld, K. , Lundström, S., ... & Plomin, R. (2020). Higher aggression is related to poorer academic performance in compulsory education. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(3), 327-338.

 

Von Stumm, S., Smith‐Woolley, E., Ayorech, Z., McMillan, A., Rimfeld, K. , Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. (2020). Predicting educational achievement from genomic measures and socioeconomic status. Developmental Science, 23(3), e12925.  

 

Akingbuwa, W. A., Hammerschlag, A. R., Jami, E. S., Allegrini, A. G., Karhunen, V., Sallis, H., ...Rimfeld, K. .,.. & Hagenbeek, F. A. (2020). Genetic associations between childhood psychopathology and adult depression and associated traits in 42 998 individuals: A Meta-Analysis. JAMA psychiatry, 77(7):715-728. 

 

Wang, Z., Rimfeld, K. , Shakeshaft, N., Schofield, K., & Malanchini, M. (2020). The longitudinal role of mathematics anxiety in mathematics development: Issues of gender differences and domain-specificity. Journal of Adolescence, 80, 220-23.

 

Malanchini, M., Rimfeld, K. , Allegrini, A.G., Ritchie, S.J. and Plomin, R. (2020). Cognitive ability and education: how behavioural genetic research has advanced our knowledge and understanding of their association. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 111, pp.229-24.

 

Von Stumm, S., Rimfeld, K. , Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. (2020). Preschool verbal and nonverbal ability mediate the association between socioeconomic status and school performance. Child Development, 91(3), pp. 705-71.

 

Malanchini, M., Rimfeld, K. ,  Wang, Z., Petrill, S.A., Tucker-Drob, E.M., Plomin, R. and Kovas, Y. (2020). Genetic factors underlie the association between anxiety, attitudes and performance in mathematics. Translational Psychiatry, 10(12), pp.1-11.

 

Allegrini, A.G., Cheesman, R., Rimfeld, K. ,  Selzam, S., Pingault, J.B., Eley, T.C. and Plomin, R. (2020). The p factor: genetic analyses support a general dimension of psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(1), pp.30-39.

 

Rimfeld, K. , Malanchini, M., Spargo, T., Spickernell, G., Selzam, S., McMillan, A., Dale, P.S., Eley, T.C. and Plomin, R. (2019). Twins Early Development Study: A genetically sensitive investigation into behavioral and cognitive development from infancy to emerging adulthood, Twin Research and Human Genetics, pp.1-6. 

Allegrini, A.G., Selzam, S., Rimfeld, K. , von Stumm, S., Pingault, J.B. and Plomin, R. (2019). Genomic prediction of cognitive traits in childhood and adolescence. Molecular Psychiatry, 24(6), p.819.

Rimfeld, K. , Malanchini, M., Hannigan, L.J., Dale, P.S., Allen, R., Hart, S.A. and Plomin, R. (2019). Teacher assessments during compulsory education are as reliable, stable and heritable as standardized test scores, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,60 (12).

 

Rimfeld, K. , Malanchini, M., Krapohl, E., Hannigan, L.J., Dale, P.S and Plomin, R. (2018). The stability of educational achievement across school years is largely explained by genetic factors, Nature Science of Learning, 3(16).

 

Toivainen, T., Pannini,G.,  Papageorgiou, K.A.,  Malanchini, M., Rimfeld, K. ,  Shakeshaft, N. and Kovas, Y. (2018). Prenatal testosterone does not explain sex differences in spatial ability, Scientific Reports, 8 (13653).

 

Yerdelen, S., Dunksen, T., Rimfeld, K. , Plomin, R. and Asbury, K. (2018). Developing SENSES: Student Experience of Non-Shared Environment Scales, PloS ONE, 3(9): e0202543.

Malanchini, M., Smith-Wooley, E., Ayorech,, Z., Rimfeld, K. , Krapohl, E., Vuoksimaa, E., Korhonen, T., Bartels, M., van Beijsterveldt, T.C.E.M.,  Hagenbeek, H., Rose, R.J., Lundström, S., Anckarsäter, H., Kaprio, J., Lichtenstein, P., Boomsma, D.I. and Plomin, R. (2018). Aggressive behaviour in childhood and adolescence: the role of smoking during pregnancy, evidence from the EU-ACTION study in four twin cohorts, Psychological Medicine, 1-9.

 

Rimfeld, K. , Krapohl, E., Trzaskowski, M., Coleman, J., Selzam, S., Esko, T., Dale, P.S., Metspalu, A. and Plomin, R (2018). Genetic influence on educational attainment and occupational status during and after the Soviet era in Estonia, Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 269-275.

 

Smith-Woolley, E. D., Pingault, J-B., Selzam, S., Rimfeld, K. , Krapohl, E. M. L., von Stumm, S., Asbury, K., Dale, P., Young, T., Allen, R., Kovas, Y. & Plomin, R. (2018). Differences in exam performance between pupils attending selective and non-selective schools mirror the genetic differences between them. npj Science of Learning, 3(1), 3.

Dale, P.S., Rice, ML, Rimfeld, K. , Hayiou-Thomas, M. and Plomin, R. (2018). The etiology of variation on a proposed clinical marker of Specific Language Impairment based on grammatical judgment of finiteness marking. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 1-13.

Rimfeld, K. , Shakeshaft, N.G., Malanchini, M., Rodic, M., Selzam, S., Schofield, K., Dale, P.S., Kovas, Y. and Plomin, R. (2017). Phenotypic and genetic evidence for a unifactorial structure of spatial abilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(10), pp.2777-2782.

 

Malanchini, M., Rimfeld, K. , Shakeshaft, N.G., Rodic, M., Schofield, K., Selzam, S., Dale, P.S., Petrill, S.A. and Kovas, Y. (2017). The genetic and environmental aetiology of spatial, mathematics and general anxiety. Scientific Reports, 7.

Selzam, S., Krapohl, E., von Stumm, S., O'Reilly, P.F., Rimfeld, K. , Kovas, Y., Dale, P.S., Lee, J.J. and Plomin, R. (2017). Predicting educational achievement from DNA. Molecular Psychiatry, 22(2), 267-272.

Smith-Woolley, E.1, Rimfeld, K. 1 and Plomin, R. (2017). Weak associations between pubertal development and psychiatric and behavioral problems. Translational psychiatry, 7(4), e1098.

 

Rimfeld, K. , Ayorech, Z., Dale, P,S., Kovas, Y. and Plomin, R. (2016). Genetics affects choice of academic subjects as well as achievement. Scientific Reports, 6.

 

Rimfeld, K. , Kovas, Y., Dale, P. S. and Plomin, R. (2016). True grit and genetics: Predicting academic achievement from personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(5), p.780.

Shakeshaft, N.G., Rimfeld, K. , Schofield, K.L., Selzam, S., Malanchini, M., Rodic, M., Kovas, Y. and Plomin, R. (2016). Rotation is visualisation, 3D is 2D: using a novel measure to investigate the genetics of spatial ability. Scientific Reports, 6.

Krapohl, E., Euesden, J., Zabaneh, D., Pingault, J. B., Rimfeld, K. , Von Stumm, S., ... & Plomin, R. (2015). Phenome-wide analysis of genome-wide polygenic scores. Molecular Psychiatry, 21(9), 1188-1193.

 

Rimfeld, K. , Dale, P.S. and Plomin, R. (2015). How specific is second language learning ability? A twin study exploring the contributions of first language achievement and intelligence to second language achievement, Translational Psychiatry, 5(9), e638.

Rimfeld, K. , Kovas, Y., Dale, P. S. and Plomin, R. (2015). Pleiotropy across academic subjects at the end of compulsory education. Scientific Reports, 5.

 

Trzaskowski, M., Harlaar, N. , Arden, R., Krapohl, E., Rimfeld, K. , McMillan, A., . . . Plomin, R. (2014). Genetic influence on family socioeconomic status and children's intelligence. Intelligence, 42, 83-88.

Krapohl, E.1, Rimfeld, K. 1, Shakeshaft, N.G., Trazkowski, M., McMillan, M., Pingault, A.B., Asbury, K., Harlaar, N., Dale, P.S. and Plomin, R. (2014). The high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201408777.

Shakeshaft, N..G., Trzaskowski, M., McMillan, A., Rimfeld, K. ., Krapohl, E., Haworth, C.M.A., Dale. P.S. and Plomin, R. (2013). Strong genetic influence on a UK nationawide test of educational achievement at the end of compulsory education at age 16, PloS ONE, 8(12): e80341.

 1 Denotes equal contribution

 

Chapters in books:

Asbury, K., Rimfeld, K. , Krapohl, E. (2017). Can (and should) we personalize education along genetic lines? Lessons from Behavioral Genetics. In Genetics, Ethics and Education (pp. 63-85). Cambridge University Press, UK

Rodic, M., Gaysina, D., Docherty, S., Malykh, S., Rimfeld, K. and Kovas, Y. (2016). Studying Rare Genetic Syndromes as a Method of Investigating Aetilogy of Normal Variation in Educationally Relevant Traits. In: Kovas, Y., Malykh, S., Gaysina, D. eds. Behavioural Genetics for Education, Palgrave Macmillian, UK, pp. 77-95

 

Other Outputs:

Asbury, K., McBride,T. and Rimfeld, K. (2021). Genetics and early intervention. Early Intervention Foundation Report

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