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Valerie S. Knopik is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research focuses on integrating multiple disciplines within medicine and psychology, particularly emphasizing clinical psychology and genetics.

The scientist's work primarily explores topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, birth, development, and health, early childhood education and development, smoking behavior and cessation, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, prenatal substance exposure effects, and health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Valerie S. Knopik has contributed to several notable publications. Recent papers include:

  • Multi-omic and multi-species meta-analyses of nicotine consumption, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Implicates Ras Pathways in the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020, Behavior Genetics
  • Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology: An examination of symptom severity and directionality, 2022, Development and Psychopathology
  • DNA methylome perturbations: an epigenetic basis for the emergingly heritable neurodevelopmental abnormalities associated with maternal smoking and maternal nicotine exposure, 2021, Biology of Reproduction
  • Multi-type childhood maltreatment exposure and substance use development from adolescence to early adulthood: A GxE study, 2022, Child Abuse & Neglect

Frequent co-authors working alongside Valerie S. Knopik include:

  • Kristine Marceau
  • Rohan H. C. Palmer
  • Leslie A. Brick
  • Chelsie E. Benca-Bachman
  • John E. McGeary

The scientist's research is regularly published in venues such as Behavior Genetics, Development and Psychopathology, Translational Psychiatry, Biology of Reproduction, and Child Abuse & Neglect. The number of papers published at these venues highlights areas of focused interest, with Behavior Genetics and Development and Psychopathology being frequent platforms for their work.

Valerie S. Knopik's work spans several subfields, notably clinical psychology, genetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, education, and physiology. These interdisciplinary approaches contribute to a comprehensive understanding of developmental and genetic factors influencing human health and behavior.

Best Publications

  • Top 10 replicated findings from behavioral genetics.

    Robert Plomin;John C. DeFries;Valerie S. Knopik;Jenae M. Neiderhiser

  • The epigenetics of maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and effects on child development.

    Valerie S. Knopik;Matthew A. Maccani;Sarah Francazio;John E. McGeary

  • Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Child Outcomes: Real or Spurious Effect?

    Valerie S. Knopik

  • Maternal alcohol use disorder and offspring ADHD: disentangling genetic and environmental effects using a children-of-twins design.

    Valerie S. Knopik;Andrew C. Heath;Theodore Jacob;Wendy S. Slutske

  • Allelic variation in TAS2R bitter receptor genes associates with variation in sensations from and ingestive behaviors toward common bitter beverages in adults.

    John E. Hayes;Margaret R. Wallace;Valerie S. Knopik;Deborah M. Herbstman

  • Contributions of parental alcoholism, prenatal substance exposure, and genetic transmission to child ADHD risk: a female twin study

    Valerie S. Knopik;Elizabeth P. Sparrow;Pamela A. F. Madden;Kathleen K. Bucholz

  • Quantitative trait locus for reading disability on chromosome 6p is pleiotropic for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Bruce F. Pennington;Shelley D. Smith;Lon R. Cardon

  • Genetic effects on alcohol dependence risk: re-evaluating the importance of psychiatric and other heritable risk factors.

    Valerie S. Knopik;Andrew C. Heath;Pamela A. F. Madden;Kathleen K. Bucholz

  • Comorbidity of mathematics and reading deficits: Evidence for a genetic etiology.

    Valerie S. Knopik;Maricela Alarcón;John C. DeFries

  • Etiology of reading difficulties and rapid naming: the Colorado Twin Study of Reading Disability.

    Chayna J. Davis;Javier Gayán;Valerie S. Knopik;Shelley D. Smith

  • Examining the role of common genetic variants on alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and illicit drug dependence: genetics of vulnerability to drug dependence.

    Rohan H. C. Palmer;Rohan H. C. Palmer;Leslie Brick;Nicole R. Nugent;Nicole R. Nugent;L. Cinnamon Bidwell;L. Cinnamon Bidwell

  • Genetic and Environmental Overlap between Low Self-Control and Delinquency

    Danielle Boisvert;John Paul Wright;Valerie Knopik;Jamie Vaske

  • 5-HTTLPR and BDNF Val66Met polymorphisms moderate effects of stress on rumination.

    Peter C. Clasen;Tony T. Wells;Valerie S. Knopik;John E. McGeary

  • Associations of the DRD2 TaqIA Polymorphism with Impulsivity and Substance Use: Preliminary Results from a Clinical Sample of Adolescents

    Christianne Esposito-Smythers;Anthony Spirito;Christie Rizzo;John E. McGeary;John E. McGeary

  • Bitterness of the Non-nutritive Sweetener Acesulfame Potassium Varies With Polymorphisms in TAS2R9 and TAS2R31

    Alissa L. Allen;John E. McGeary;Valerie S. Knopik;Valerie S. Knopik;John E. Hayes

  • Cue-Elicited Increases in Incentive Salience for Marijuana: Craving, Demand, and Attentional Bias

    Jane Metrik;Jane Metrik;Elizabeth R. Aston;Christopher W. Kahler;Damaris J. Rohsenow;Damaris J. Rohsenow

  • Correlates of Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy and Its Genetic and Environmental Overlap with Nicotine Dependence

    Arpana Agrawal;Valerie S. Knopik;Michele L. Pergadia;Mary Waldron

  • Genetic epidemiology of alcohol-induced blackouts.

    Elliot C. Nelson;Andrew C. Heath;Kathleen K. Bucholz;Pamela A. F. Madden

  • Initial evidence of an association between OPRM1 and adolescent alcohol misuse.

    Robert Miranda;Lara Ray;Alicia Justus;Lori A. Meyerson

  • Genetic and environmental influences on externalizing behavior and alcohol problems in adolescence: A female twin study

    Valerie S. Knopik;Andrew C. Heath;Kathleen K. Bucholz;Pamela A.F. Madden

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. McGeary
John E. McGeary Brown University
Andrew C. Heath
Andrew C. Heath Washington University in St. Louis
Pamela A. F. Madden
Pamela A. F. Madden Washington University in St. Louis
L. Cinnamon Bidwell
L. Cinnamon Bidwell University of Colorado Boulder
John C. DeFries
John C. DeFries University of Colorado Boulder
Kathleen K. Bucholz
Kathleen K. Bucholz Washington University in St. Louis
Jane Metrik
Jane Metrik Brown University
James MacKillop
James MacKillop McMaster University
Damaris J. Rohsenow
Damaris J. Rohsenow Brown University
Brandon E. Gibb
Brandon E. Gibb Binghamton University

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