Finkel, D., Finch, B. K., Gatz, M., Christensen, K., Franz, C. E., Karlsson, I. K., Kremen, W. S., Krueger, R. F., Lupton, M., Martin, N., McGue, M., Mosing, M. A., Neiderhiser, J., Nygaard, M., Prom-Worley, E., Reynolds, C., Sachdev, P., Sillanpää, E., Vuoksimaa, E., Whitfield, K. E., Hayden, O., Walters, E., Pedersen, N. L., & for the IGEMS consortium (2025). The interplay of genes and environment across multiple studies (IGEMS) consortium after fifteen years (first view). Twin Research and Human Genetics. doi:10.1017/thg.2025.10036.
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Nygaard, M., Mosing, M. A., Finkel, D. G., Franz, C. E., Kremen, W. S., Martin, N. G., Plassman, B. L., Reynolds, C. A., Sachdev, P. S., Thalamuthu, A., Walters, E. E., Christensen, K., Pedersen, N. L., Gatz, M., McGue, M., & IGEMS consortium (2025). Leisure activity engagement and depressive symptoms: Meta-analysis of 11 studies of middle-aged and older twins aged 32-99. The journals of gerontology, glaf253. doi:10.1093/gerona/glaf253.
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Finch, B. K., Finkel, D., Gatz, M., Pedersen, N. L., Reynolds, C. A., Sachdev, P., Selwood, A., Martin, N., & Mosing, M. A. (2025). Self-rated health and mortality: family background and genetic precursors. Discover Social Science and Health,5: 139. doi:10.1007/s44155-025-00290-6.
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Nayak, S., Ladanyi, E., Eising, E., Mekki, Y., Nitin, R., Bush, C. T., Gustavson, D. E., Anglada-Tort, M., Lancaster, H. S., Mosing, M. A., Ullén, F., Magne, C. L., Fisher, S. E., Jacoby, N., & Gordon, R. L. (2025). Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: Epidemiological and polygenic associations. Nature Communications,16: 8355. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60867-2.
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Abdellaoui, A., Wesseldijk, L. W., Gordon, S. D., Pasman, J. A., Smit, D. J. A., Androvičová, R., Martine, N. G., Ullén, F., Mosing, M. A., Zietsch, B. P., & Verweij, K. J. H. (2025). Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,122(38): e2418257122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2418257122.
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Perizonius, S., Wesseldijk, L. W., Clifton, J. D., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2025). The world as I see it: Genetic and environmental influences on primal world beliefs in a large Swedish twin sample. The Journal of Positive Psychology,20(3), 510-520. doi:10.1080/17439760.2024.2387340.
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Bratchenko, A., Xia, P., Boomsma, D. I., Mosing, M. A., Ullén, F., & Wesseldijk, L. W. (2025). Music style preferences and well-being: A genetic perspective. Personality and Individual Differences,241: 113162. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113162.
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Bignardi, G., Wesseldijk, L. W., Mas-Herrero, E., Zatorre, R. J., Ullén, F., Fisher, S. E., & Mosing, M. A. (2025). Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment. Nature Communications,16: 2904. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58123-8.
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Bairnsfather, J. E., Mosing, M. A., Osborne, M. S., & Wilson, S. J. (2025). Conceptual coherence but methodological mayhem: A systematic review of absolute pitch phenotyping. Behavior Research Methods,57: 61. doi:10.3758/s13428-024-02577-z.
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Gustavson, D. E., Bell, T. R., Buchholz, E. J., Zellers, S., Luczak, S. E., Reynolds, C. A., Finch, B. K., Nygaard, M., Catts, V. S., Christensen, K., Finkel, D., Kremen, W. S., Latvala, A., Martin, N. G., McGue, M., Mewton, L., Mosing, M. A., Panizzon, M. S., Plassman, B. L., Kaprio, J., Gatz, M., Franz, C. E., & The IGEMS Consortium (2025). Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol consumption in middle to late life. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. doi:10.1037/adb0001052.
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du Mérac, T., Admiraal, D., Bignardi, G., Eising, E., Fisher, S. E., Gordon, R. L., Mosing, M. A., & Ullén, F. (2024). Investigating shared genetics effects between social reward sensitivity through music and human psychiatric traits. European Neuropsychopharmacology,87( Supplement 1), 165-166. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.08.328.
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Mosing, M. A., Verweij, K. J. H., Hambrick, D. Z., Pedersen, N. L., & Ullén, F. (2024). Testing the deliberate practice theory: Does practice reduce the heritability of musical expertise? Journal of Intelligence,12(9): 87. doi:10.3390/jintelligence12090087.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Mosing, M. A., & Ullén, F. (2024). Gene-environment interaction in expertise acquisition: Practice effects on musical expertise vary by polygenic scores for cognitive performance. Heliyon, e34264, pp. 10-14. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34264.
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Henry, S., Baker, W., Bratko, D., Jern, P., Kandler, C., Tybur, J. M., de Vries, R. E., Wesseldijk, L. W., Zapko-Willmes, A., Booth, T., & Mõttus, R. (2024). Nuanced HEXACO: A meta-analysis of HEXACO cross-rater agreement, heritability, and rank-order stability (OnlineFirst). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi:10.1177/01461672241253637.
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Christensen, J. F., Wesseldijk, L. W., Mosing, M. A., Fayn, K., Schmidt, E.-M., Blattmann, M., Sancho-Escanero, L., & Ullén, F. (2024). The dancer personality: Comparing dancers and non-dancers in Germany and Sweden. Personality and Individual Differences,222: 112603. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112603.
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Koenders, E. A., Wesseldijk, L. W., Boomsma, D. I., Larsen, J. K., & Vink, J. M. (2024). Heritability of adult picky eating in the Netherlands. Appetite,195: 107230. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2024.107230.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Henechowicz, T. L., Baker, D. J., Bignardi, G., Karlsson, R., Gordon, R. L., Mosing, M. A., Ullén, F., & Fisher, S. E. (2024). Notes from Beethoven’s genome. Current Biology,34(6), R233-R234. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.025.
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Gaston, E., Ullén, F., Wesseldijk, L. W., & Mosing, M. A. (2024). Can flow proneness be protective against mental and cardiovascular health problems? A genetically informed prospective cohort study. Translational Psychiatry,14: 144. doi:10.1038/s41398-024-02855-6.
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Simonsson, O., Mosing, M. A., Osika, W., Ullén, F., Larsson, H., Lu, Y., & Wesseldijk, L. W. (2024). Adolescent Psychedelic Use and Psychotic or Manic Symptoms. JAMA Psychiatry,81(6), 579-585. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0047.
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Ericsson, M., Finch, B., Karlsson, I. K., Gatz, M., Reynolds, C. A., Pedersen, N. L., & Mosing, M. A. (2024). Educational influences on late-life health: Genetic propensity and attained education. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences,79(1): gbad153. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbad153.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2023). Music and genetics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,152: 105302. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105302.
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Kupfer, T. R., & Wesseldijk, L. W. (2023). Heritability of jealousy. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.), Encyclopedia of sexual psychology and behavior. Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_1109-1.
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Gustavson, D. E., Coleman, P. L., Wang, Y., Nitin, R., Petty, L. E., Bush, C. T., Mosing, M. A., Wesseldijk, L. W., Ullén, F., 23 and Me Research Team, Below, J. E., Cox, N. J., & Gordon, R. L. (2023). Exploring the genetics of rhythmic perception and musical engagement in the Vanderbilt Online Musicality Study. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,1521(1), 140-154. doi:10.1111/nyas.14964.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Lu, Y., Karlsson, R., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2023). A comprehensive investigation into the genetic relationship between music engagement and mental health. Translational Psychiatry,13: 15. doi:10.1038/s41398-023-02308-6.
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Wesseldijk, L., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2022). A comprehensive investigation into the genetic relationship between music engagement and mental health. European Neuropsychopharmacology,63, e286-e287. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2022.07.508.
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Bairnsfather, J. E., Osborne, M. S., Martin, C., Mosing, M. A., & Wilson, S. J. (2022). Use of explicit priming to phenotype absolute pitch ability. PLoS One,17(9): e0273828. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273828.
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Niarchou, M., Gustavson, D. E., Sathirapongsasuti, J. F., Anglada-Tort, M., Eising, E., Bell, E., McArthur, E., Straub, P., The 23andMe Research Team, McAuley, J. D., Capra, J. A., Ullén, F., Creanza, N., Mosing, M. A., Hinds, D., Davis, L. K., Jacoby, N., & Gordon, R. L. (2022). Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity. Nature Human Behaviour,6, 1292-1309. doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01359-x.
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Wesseldijk, L. W., Abdellaoui, A., Gordon, R. L., 23andMe Research Team, Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2022). Using a polygenic score in a family design to understand genetic influences on musicality. Scientific Reports,12: 14658. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-18703-w.
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Bairnsfather, J. E., Ullén, F., Osborne, M. S., Wilson, S. J., & Mosing, M. A. (2022). Investigating the relationship between childhood music practice and pitch-naming ability in professional musicians and a population-based twin sample. Twin Research and Human Genetics,25(3), 140-148. doi:10.1017/thg.2022.29.
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Harder, A., Nguyen, T.-D., Pasman, J. A., Mosing, M. A., Hägg, S., & Lu, Y. (2022). Genetics of age-at-onset in major depression. Translational Psychiatry,12: 124. doi:10.1038/s41398-022-01888-z.
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