Margot P Van De Weijer

Biographic Data

ID1737409
NAMEMargot P Van De Weijer
GIVEN NAMESMargot P
FAMILY NAMEVan De Weijer
SIGNATUREVAN DE WEIJER M P
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-9720-9481
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes

    Open AccessElham Assary, Jonathan R I Coleman et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 48

    Individual sensitivity to environmental exposures may be genetically influenced. This genotype-by-environment interplay implies differences in phenotypic variance across genotypes, but these variants have proven challenging to detect. Genome-wide association studies of monozygotic twin differences are conducted through family-based variance analyses, which are more robust to the systemic biases that impact population-based methods. We combined da…

  • Connecting the dots: Using a network approach to study the wellbeing spectrum

    Open AccessAnne Landvreugd, Margot P Van De Weijer et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

    In positive psychology, defining the wellbeing construct has been a challenge. We used the psychometric network approach to study the structure of wellbeing. The sample consisted of Dutch adults registered with the Netherlands Twin Register. The variables were measured through standardized surveys. The network was estimated using the Mixed Graphical Models method and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regularization to limit …

  • The Architecture of Happiness

    Open AccessT Lomas, Meike Bartels et al.ARTICLEEmotion Review2022

    Happiness is an increasingly prominent topic of interest across academia. However, relatively little attention has been paid to how it is created, especially not in a multidimensional sense. By ‘created’ we do not mean its influencing factors, for which there is extensive research, but how it actually forms in the person. The work that has been done in this arena tends to focus on physiological dynamics, which are certainly part of the puzzle. Bu…

  • A Re-evaluation of Candidate Gene Studies for Well-Being in Light of Genome-Wide Evidence

    Open AccessMargot P Van De Weijer, Dirk H M Pelt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2022

    Ever since twin-family studies found that a substantial amount (± 40%) of the variation in well-being can be explained by genetic variation, several candidate genes have been proposed explaining this variation. However, these candidate gene and candidate gene-by-environment interaction studies have been surrounded by controversy regarding the validity and replication of their results. In the present study, we review the existing candidate gene li…

  • Self-rated health when population health is challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic; a longitudinal study

    Open AccessMargot P Van De Weijer, Lianne P De Vries et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 4References: 33

    We theorize that the increases in SRH are explained by uninfected individuals evaluating their health more positively than under normal circumstances (partly through social comparison with infected individuals), rather than actual improvements. As the same genes are expressed under different environmental exposures, these results imply no evidence for gene-environment interaction. While different environmental factors might influence SRH at the t…