Melanie
@MMPdeWit
PhD student in developmental psychology, focussing on environmental and genetic influences on the wellbeing and life course of autistic people
📢Out Now 📢 In a GWAS meta-analysis, @Gelironald and colleagues identified 11 independent genome-wide significant loci associated with age at onset of walking. in @NatureHumBehav tinyurl.com/4m5twe46
Fully funded PhD studentship available! Join our lab investigating genetic and environmental influences on early child behaviour. Gain transferable skills in scientific enquiry, coding, writing, presenting & more, deadline June 15th tinyurl.com/4faejtsm RTs appreciated!
A review and meta-analysis of studies that assess the relationship between the autism polygenic score and autism diagnosis, and autistic, behavioral and neurobiological traits: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Led by @MMPdeWit 🧬🧠
Out now! The profile article of our BIObanks Netherlands Internet Collaboration (#BIONIC) project, a #GWAS dataset of >66,000 🇳🇱 subjects to study the genetic base of #Depression. Big shoutout to @Floris_Huider for his great work on the data and the paper: bit.ly/3vgIH6u
We're hiring!🎓🚀3PhD+1PD, all 4y funding @VUamsterdam @NTRscience @GENE_Amsterdam #TwinWise (@brunosauce Hofman & me) workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-… workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post… SCANNER (@wonu_akingbuwa @tincatwin van 't Ent & me) #autism workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-… workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-…