Tanya Button

 

 

Phone: 303-735-3152                                                Mailing address:                                                                   Fed Ex Address:

Fax: 303-492-8063                                                    Institute for Behavioral Genetics,                                          1489 30th Street

Email: tanya.button@colorado.edu                           UCB 447, Boulder, CO 80309-0447                                      Boulder, CO 80303

 

 

Before boring you all senseless with work type stuff I thought I might tell you a little bit about myself. I was born in England and grew up in a town called Redditch. I did my BSc in Genetics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, my MSc in Health Care Ethics at Birmingham University and finally my PhD in Genetics and Antisocial Behaviour at the SGDP Centre in the Institute of Psychiatry. I am currently undertaking my first post-doc position at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics in Boulder, Co. When I am not trying to fit unworkable models to masses of data I enjoy spending my time with my recently acquired cat and boyfriend. I enjoy reading, mainly crime and crime-fiction, but am also trying to break into the classics. I also enjoy listening to music.

Book Chapters:

Button, T.M.M., and McGuffin, P. (2004) Behavior Genes. In Meyers, R.A. (ed). Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine. Wiley-VCH

Button, T.M.M., Maughan, B., and McGuffin, P. (In Prep) Relationship of maternal smoking to psychological problems in the offspring. In Smoking in pregnancy: effects on the fetus and newborn

Publications:

Button, T. M.M., Rhee, S. H., Hewitt, J. K., Young, S. E., Corley, R. P., and Stallings, M. C. (2006). The role of conduct disorder in explaining the comorbidity between alcohol and illicit drug dependence in adolescence. Drug Alcohol Depend.. (Online Publication)

Button, T. M.M., Hewitt, J. K., Rhee, S. H., Young, S. E., Corley, R. P., and Stallings, M. C. (2006). Examination of the causes of covariation between conduct disorder symptoms and vulnerability to drug dependence. Twin Res. Hum. Genet., 9:38-45.

Button, T.M.M., Scourfield, J., Martin, N., Purcell, S., and McGuffin, P. (2005). Family Dysfunction Interacts with Genes in the Causation of Antisocial Symptoms. Behav. Genet., 35:115-120.

Button, T.M.M., Thapar, A., and McGuffin, P. (2005). Relationship between antisocial behaviour, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and maternal prenatal smoking. Br. J. Psychiatry, 187:155-160.

Button, T.M.M., Scourfield, J., Martin, N., and McGuffin, P. (2004). Do aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviors in adolescents result from the same genetic and environmental effects? Am. J. Med. Genet. B Neuropsychiatr. Genet., 129B:59-63.

In press:

Feinberg, M.E. Button, T.M.M., Riess, D., and Neiderhiser J.M. (In Press) Parental Negativity Predicting Adolescent Maladjustment: Evidence for Gene-Environment Interaction. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry

Button, T.M.M. (In Press) Commentary: Mothers who smoked during pregnancy had an increased risk of giving birth to a child with a hyperkinetic disorder (Linnet, K.M., Wisborg, K.,Obel, C., Secher, N.J.,Thomsen, P.H., Agerbo, E.,and Henriksen, T.B.). Evidence-based Obstetrics and Gynecology

Under Review:

Button, T.M.M., Lau, J.Y.F. Maughan, B., and Eley, T.C. (Under Review) Maternal punitive discipline, negative life events and gene-environment interplay in the development of externalizing behavior. Psychological Medicine.

Button, T.M.M., Rhee, S.H., Hewitt, J.K., Young, S.E., Corley, R.P., Friedman, N.P., and Stallings, M.C. (Under Review) Delinquent peer affiliation and conduct problems: A twin study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Being prepared:

Button, T.M.M. and McGuffin, P., Craig, I., Wadsworth, M. et al (In Prep) An Investigation of the Effects of Parental Care, Social Class, and MAOA in Adolescent Antisocial Behaviour

Button, T.M.M., Scourfield, J., Martin, N., and McGuffin P. (In Prep) Financial hardship and paternal criminality influence childhood behavioral problems independently of genes

Button, T.M.M., Rhee, S.H., Hewitt, J.K., Young, S.E., Corley, R.P., and Stallings, M.C. (In Prep) Delinquent peer affiliation and the genetic predisposition for polysubstance dependence vulnerability

 

 

Some of my favorite links

·  Want to train a frog to race but can’t be bothered with the trouble of keeping your pond water clean, try www.racingfrogs.org

·  Keane fans among you might like these sights: www.keaneband.com,  www.keanemusic.com, www.keane.at, and www.rag-and-bone.com

·  And if a hard day at the office still isn’t enough to keep your brain stimulated, maybe you should try www.funtrivia.com/crossword

·  Hmmmm that’s all I have right now – not enough time for surfing the web these days!