Quan Zhou
@QuanZhouu
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PhD candidate at @QMUL. Education/Cognitive/ Noncognitive skills/ Behavioural genomics/Gene-environment interplay/
Joined November 2021
Daniel Kahneman made people think about thinking all his life -- and beyond. Two moving and thought-provoking essays about his suicide while healthy at 90.
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If we are to live well, we need to be able to ask when a life is complete.
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Jung et al. show the existence of polygenic overlap and associations between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders https://t.co/Hm05avMQiG
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🚀 New paper @PsychScience & press release! 🧬📖 🧮 Our large-scale study (20,000 children) shows that #ADHD, #dyslexia, and #dyscalculia often co-occur due to shared genetic risk—not because one condition causes the other. https://t.co/OvOdrs2nA2
https://t.co/EiF75ADMiz (1/5)
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De erfelijke aanleg voor ADHD overlapt met aanleg voor dyslexie en dyscalculie, blijkt uit onderzoek van de VU en UvA.
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🧬🌳 New CoDE lab preprint: From genetic disposition to academic achievement: The mediating role of non-cognitive skills across development. https://t.co/3QaIYkLJOC A short thread 👇
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Genetic effects on academic achievement are likely to capture environmental, developmental, and psychological processes. How these processes contribute to translating genetic dispositions into...
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Save the date if you're interested in exploring cutting-edge twin research in a stunning island setting! 🌴 🗓 August 10-12, 2025 📍 Colombo, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Join us for the 8th World Congress on Twin Pregnancy & 20th ISTS Congress!
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New CoDE Lab preprint led by @QuanZhouu💫. We investigated whether spatial ability consistently predicts STEM success beyond other cognitive skills and what aspects of spatial ability predict success in STEM more accurately. Link: https://t.co/n7a30Gz8an
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New genetic data available! Cleaned, quality-controlled #Genetic data from #NextStepsStudy, which has followed a cohort born 1989-90 since secondary school. Free to access for approved researchers, these new resources offer great potential for health and social research. (1/7)
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Our paper on single-cell splicing QTL is now published as a cover article in Nature Genetics. https://t.co/jHas1xKi01 Congratulations to co-first authors @chitian51616, @Yihan720, and Yuntian Zhang! Huge thanks to AIDA leaders @shyam_lab , Woong-Yang, @JayShin and Kian Hong!
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Nature Genetics - This analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data from peripheral blood mononuclear cells for 474 individuals of diverse Asian ancestries in the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas links...
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I am very excited to welcome @ZiadaAyorech to the @RHULPsychology Statistical Genetics Group meeting today. Ziada will give a talk: Leveraging family-based data reveals gene-environment interplay in life course depression 🌱🧬 https://t.co/QmUh5Gom04
An exciting lineup of speakers for the Statistical Genetics Group meetings at @RHULPsychology! First up on 6th November is @ZiadaAyorech: Leveraging family-based data reveals gene-environment interplay in life course depression. Full schedule: https://t.co/7IUwRz3ctC 🎙️
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*New* paper out today in World Psychiatry! "Where do neurodevelopmental conditions fit in transdiagnostic psychiatric frameworks? Incorporating a new neurodevelopmental spectrum" 🧵👇 (1) @QM_SBBS @QMULSciEng
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1. Out now in @molpsychiatry “Gene-environment correlation: The role of family environment in academic development”. We investigate how family environments and genetic propensity combine to result in individual differences in academic achievement 🧬🌍 https://t.co/njERvOCySM
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New #Postdoc opportunity in London! Come and work with Valdas Noreika, @MarghMalanchini & me @QM_SBBS on a new project on sleep and sensory sensitivity in adults with intellectual disability. Apply by 21 July👇 https://t.co/V0dTpVpeO6
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It was lovely to host Robert Plomin at @RHULPsychology Thank you for the fantastic talk and engaging discussions @TedsProject
Delighted to have welcomed Prof. Robert Plomin to Royal Holloway for our Festival of Research. Robert delivered an insightful talk on the century of research in behavioural genetics. Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed such thoughtful questions! 🧬🌿 @RHULPsychology
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.@elonmusk suggested that we post episodes of The Poetry of Reality on @X. Our team plans to post here every week. Here is a Q&A session I had with @TarynSouthern on a wide range of topics, from the ethics of selective breeding and eugenics to Western liberal sympathy toward
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10 years, 85,000 participants and 850 million images so far. Since 2014 our imaging project has scanned the brains, hearts, bones & abdomens of our volunteers and powered more than 1,000 publications and counting, all aiming to advance health research!
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👈🏆Our paper is among the most-read papers in #DevelopmentalScience! "Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa" https://t.co/DOzIcr0fov 👉👩🏫teacher @teachrachelsor's classroom summary. 👇🧵my scientific summary #TopDownloadedArticle @MinnaTorppa
New preprint! "Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa" https://t.co/hrDNWKulwU We tested the direction of causation in 3,690 twins aged 12. See here what we found (1/5):
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Congratulations again Dr @AgaGidziela what a brilliant Phd 💫 You have been such a joy to work with! So excited about your future and looking forward to what you will accomplish next. So proud of you💫💫💫
I couldn't be happier for or prouder of Dr. @AgaGidziela, what a wonderful PhD! ⭐️ Thank you @emma_meaburn and Helena Zavos for being excellent, thought provoking examiners and, of course, @KailiRimfeld and Robert Plomin for co-supervising. Congratulations, Aga, you are a star!
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I am excited to announce a new R package called mulSEM, which conducts correlation analysis (CANCORR), redundancy analysis (RDA), and multivariate principal component regression (MPCR) using SEM approach. The other contributors are Fei Gu and Yiu-Fai Yung. https://t.co/D21TYppuY8
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A set of functions for some multivariate analyses utilizing a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach through the 'OpenMx' package. These analyses include canonical correlation analysis (CANCOR...
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We're hiring!🎓🚀3PhD+1PD, all 4y funding @VUamsterdam @NTRscience @GENE_Amsterdam
#TwinWise (@brunosauce Hofman & me) https://t.co/FhersitgQt
https://t.co/gJl6m2EiWp SCANNER (@wonu_akingbuwa @tincatwin van 't Ent & me) #autism
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