Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 17 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02556-8Reconstructing parental haplotypes for up to 440,209 UK and Estonian Biobank participants, the authors estimate genetic assortative mating across 69 traits and find that assortment for height and education has intensified in recent generations.

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Laurie Hannigan will present a case study on improving transparency and reproducibility in epidemiological cohort research

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Electronic health records (EHRs) have become the cornerstone of population-scale genetic studies1, but factors including patterns of healthcare use shape which and how diagnoses are recorded, leading ...

Join Dr. Yu Heng Daryl Lee to learn about the efficacy of AI in evaluating open science practices.

Eline Ensinck will present research on the number of preregistered studies which are never published and the reasons behind this

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Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration

Understanding how genetic influences on complex traits change with age is a fundamental question in genetic epidemiology. Both cross-sectional (between-subject) and longitudinal (within-subject) appro...

The genetics of human aging remains poorly understood due to limited longitudinal data. Here, the authors show distinct genetic architectures for baseline function and decline in cognitive and physica...

Large-scale genomic studies focusing on the genetic contribution to human aging have mostly relied on cross-sectional data. With the release of longitudinally curated aging phenotypes by the UK Bioban...

A genome-wide association study of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants found 11 significant loci. Age at onset of walking showed SNP heritability of 24%, a reliable polygenic score and gene...

Parental neuropsychiatric traits relate to children’s emotions and behaviours beyond genetic transmission alone. Here the author's findings suggest potential environmental risk factors that can act on...

Background Neurodevelopmental conditions are highly heritable. Recent studies have shown that genomic heritability estimates can be confounded by genetic effects mediated via the environment (indire.....

In this session, Dr Kara Kedrick will present her work examining how scientific knowledge grows.

Biobank data are extensively used. Schoeler and colleagues show that self-report inaccuracy and selective participation are sources of poor reproducibility for biobank-scale research.

Biobank data are extensively used. Schoeler and colleagues show that self-report inaccuracy and selective participation are sources of poor reproducibility for biobank-scale research.

Parent-of-origin effects (POEs) occur when the impact of a genetic variant depends on its parental origin. Traditionally linked to genomic imprinting, these effects are believed to have evolved from p...