Research

Publications

• van Alten, S., Domingue, B. W., Faul, J., Galama, T., & Marees, A. T. (2024). Reweighting UK Biobank corrects for pervasive selection bias due to volunteering. International Journal of Epidemiology, 53(3), dyae054.

• van Alten, S., Domingue, B. W., Faul, J., Galama, T., & Marees, A. T. (2025). Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3578.

• Cheesman, R., Anapaz, V., van Alten, S., Abdellaoui, A., Porneso, R., Ebeltoft, J. C., ... & Ystrom, E. (2025). Genetic associations with educational fields. Nature Genetics, 1-10. 

Working papers

• van Alten, S., Barcellos, S. H., Carvalho, L., Galama, T. J., & Palma, M. A. (2025). A Chip Off the Old Block? Genetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status (No. w34208). National Bureau of Economic Research.

• Carvalho, L., van Alten, S., Barcellos, S., Dorn, S., Galama, T., Hartman, C. A., ... & Muslimova, D. (2026). Random Genetic Variation Links Personality to Earnings and Wealth. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.06088. 

• Zheng, Q., van Alten, S., Lyngstad, T. H., Ciscato, E., Sun, Z., Miao, J., ... & Lu, Q. (2025). Genetic basis of partner choice. bioRxiv, 2025-02.