Huibregtse, Brooke

Publications

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journal article
- Changing genetic architecture of body mass index from infancy to early adulthood: an individual based pooled analysis of 25 twin cohorts. International Journal of Obesity. 1901-1909. 2022
- Educational attainment of same-sex and opposite-sex dizygotic twins: An individual-level pooled study of 19 twin cohorts.. Hormones and Behaviour. 105054. 2021
- Mortality and Obesity Among US Older Adults: The Role of Polygenic Risk. Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 343-347. 2021
- Etiological Overlap Between Sex Under the Influence and Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners. Behavior Genetics: an international journal devoted to research in the inheritance of behavior in animals and man. 12-29. 2021
- Genes Related to Education Predict Frailty Among Older Adults in the United States. Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 173-183. 2021
- Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts. Scientific Reports. 2020
- Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education. Scientific Reports. 2020
- The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 800-808. 2019
- A mutation associated with stress resistance in mice is associated with human grip strength and mortality. Biodemography and Social Biology. 245-256. 2019
- Childhood language development and later alcohol use behaviors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 95-99. 2019
- Parental Education and Genetics of BMI from Infancy to Old Age: A Pooled Analysis of 29 Twin Cohorts. Obesity. 855-865. 2019
- Provider bias as a function of patient genotype: polygenic score analysis among diabetics from the Health and Retirement Study. Obesity Science & Practice. 448-454. 2018
- Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects. American Sociological Review. 802-832. 2018
- Genetic and environmental factors affecting birth size variation: a pooled individual-based analysis of secular trends and global geographical differences using 26 twin cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology. 1195-1206. 2018
- Association of current and former smoking with body mass index: A study of smoking discordant twin pairs from 21 twin cohorts. PLoS One. 2018
- Associations between birth size and later height from infancy through adulthood: An individual based pooled analysis of 28 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project. Early Human Development. 53-60. 2018
- Association between birthweight and later body mass index: an individual-based pooled analysis of 27 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project. International Journal of Epidemiology. 1488-1498. 2017
- Education in Twins and Their Parents Across Birth Cohorts Over 100 years: An Individual-Level Pooled Analysis of 42-Twin Cohorts. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 395-405. 2017
- Genetic influences on the human oral microbiome. BMC Genomics. 2017
- Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 457-466. 2017
- Does the sex of one's co-twin affect height and BMI in adulthood? A study of dizygotic adult twins from 31 cohorts. Biology of Sex Differences. 2017
- Genetic and environmental influences on adult human height across birth cohorts from 1886 to 1994. eLife. 2016
- A Longitudinal Adoption Study of Substance Use Behavior in Adolescence. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 330-340. 2016
- Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 371-379. 2016
- Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts. Scientific Reports. 2016
- Zygosity Differences in Height and Body Mass Index of Twins From Infancy to Old Age: A Study of the CODATwins Project. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 557-570. 2015
- The CODATwins Project: The Cohort Description of Collaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins to Study Macro-Environmental Variation in Genetic and Environmental Effects on Anthropometric Traits. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 348-360. 2015
- Tests of a Direct Effect of Childhood Abuse on Adult Borderline Personality Disorder Traits: A Longitudinal Discordant Twin Design. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 180-194. 2013
- Testing the Role of Adolescent Sexual Initiation in Later-Life Sexual Risk Behavior: A Longitudinal Twin Design. Psychological Science. 924-933. 2011

Teaching

courses taught

PSYC 2111 - Psychological Science I: Statistics
Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
Three hours of lecture and one two-hour lab per week. Introduces descriptive and inferential statistics and their roles in psychological research. Topics include correlation, regression, T-test, analysis of variance and selected nonparametric statistics.
PSYC 2606 - Social Psychology
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Summer 2024
Covers general psychological principles underlying social behavior. Analyzes major social psychological theories, methods, and topics, including attitudes, conformity, aggression, attraction, social perception, helping behavior, and group relations.
PSYC 3102 - Behavioral Genetics
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
This course introduces the basic principles of behavior genetics, the field of study that is interested in evaluating the different forces that shape individual differences. More specifically, the course will survey the evidence for genetic and environmental influences on a broad range of human behaviors, including psychopathology, personality, cognition, and substance use. This course also covers the different methods for evaluating these genetic and environmental contributions, including family-based designs that compare similarities across siblings, twins, and parents and their children, animal models of human behavior, and more recent genomic methods that measure our DNA. Lectures are largely about conceptually understanding findings from this field and the corresponding methods used to produce these findings. This course does not require a strong statistical or biological background to be successful or understand the material.
PSYC 4152 - Research Methods in Behavioral Genetics
Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Advanced course in behavioral genetics. Focuses on current methods used in quantitative and statistical genetics, emphasizing practical application and interpretation. Students review primary-source research and reviews. Students learn and apply technological skills by exploring genome wide data in laboratory practicals and demonstrate applied and theoretical knowledge in a cumulative paper.

Background

education and training

University of Colorado Boulder 2017
M.S., University of Colorado Boulder 2014
B.A., University of Minnesota Central office 2010

awards and honors

Open CU Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions, conferred by University of Colorado President, 2020

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