UMN - Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics 

1A: The Nature-Nurture Debate and Founding of Behavioral Genetics

1B: The Eugenics Movement

1C: What is Behavioral Genetics?

1D: The John/Joan Case

1E: Phenylketonuria (PKU)

1F: Huntington Disease - Supplementary

Unit 1 Office Hours Video

Required Reading #1: Genetics and Human Behaviour: the Ethical Context

Required Reading #2: Taboo Genetics

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Unit 1 Quiz

2A: Twins: A Natural Experiment

2B: How to Assess Twin Similarity

2C: Findings from Twin Studies

2D: Are Twin Studies Valid?

2E: Adoption Studies: Not by Twins Alone

2F: Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA)

2G: Conversation with Tom Bouchard - Supplementary

Unit 2 Office Hours Video

Required reading: Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart

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Unit 2 Quiz

3A: Mendelian Inheritance (and Terminology)

3B: Galtonian Inheritance (aka Quantitative Genetics)

3C: How is Heritability Estimated?

3D: What Heritability Is and What It Is Not

3E: Gene-Environment Interaction

3F: Multivariate Approaches - Supplementary

Unit 3 Office Hours Video

Required reading: The Human Genome

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Unit 3 Quiz

4A: DNA

4B: What Is a Gene?

4C: Three Surprising Findings From the Human Genome Project

4D: Genetic Variation

4E: Williams Syndrome

4F: The X Chromosome

4G: Prader-Willi & Angelman Syndromes

4H: Genetic Regulation and Epigenetics

4I: Epigenetic Inheritance - Supplementary

Unit 4 Office Hours Video

Required reading #1: Genomic Medicine

Required reading #2: Epigenetics

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Unit 4 Quiz

5A: What Is Schizophrenia?

5B: The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia

5C: Twin and Adoption Studies of Schizophrenia

5D: What We Have Learned About Environmental Risk From Twin and Adoption Studies

5E: Identifying Schizophrenia Risk Alleles - The Positional Cloning Strategy

5F: Identifying schizophrenia risk alleles - The GWAS strategy

5G: Identifying schizophrenia risk alleles ? rare variants

5H: Genetics, Race & Ancestry - Supplementary

Unit 5 Office Hours Video

Required reading: A candidate-gene study of schizophrenia

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Unit 5 Quiz

6A: What Is intelligence?

6B: Twin, Adoption Studies, and The Heritability of General Cognitive Ability

6C: Heritability and The Malleability of General Cognitive Ability

6D: Gene-Environment Interplay In Studies of General Cognitive Ability

6E: Why is general cognitive ability heritable?

6F: Genetics of intellectual disability

6G: The replication crisis - Supplementary

Unit 6 Office Hours Video

Required reading: Genetic association study of intelligence

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Unit 6 Quiz

7A: Shared versus Non-shared Environment Distinction

7B: The Moderating Effect of Development

7C: Gene-Environment Correlation

7D: Family Socialization: A Behavioral Genetic Perspective

7E: Gene-Environment Interaction II

7F: Genetics and Aging

7G: Epigenetics and twins - Supplementary

Unit 7 Office Hours Video

Required reading: Age differences in heritability of general cognitive ability

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Unit 7 Quiz

8A: Four Laws of Behavioral Genetics

8B: Behavior and Genomic Medicine

8C: Behavioral Genetics, the Law and Personal Responsibility, Part I

8D: Behavioral Genetics, the Law and Personal Responsibility, Part II

8E: Gottesman Interview

8F: Acknowledgements, Thank You, and Goodbye

8G: Genetic prediction - Supplementary

Unit 8 Office Hours Video

Required reading: The (first) three laws of behavioral genetics

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Unit 8 Quiz