A selection from more than 550 publications:
1970's | 1980's | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | in press

1970's publications:
Buss, A. H., & Plomin, R. (1975). A temperament theory of personality development. New York: Wiley Interscience.

Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., & Loehlin, J. C. (1977). Genotype-environment interaction and correlation in the analysis of human behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 84, 309-322.

DeFries, J. C., & Plomin, R. (1978). Behavioral genetics. Annual Review of Psychology, 29, 473-515.

Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. (1979). Multivariate behavioral genetic analysis of twin data on scholastic abilities. Behavior Genetics, 9, 505-517.
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1980's publications:
Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., & McClearn, G. E. (1980). Behavioral genetics: A primer. San Francisco: Freeman.

Plomin, R., & Foch, T. T. (1980). A twin study of objectively assessed personality in childhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 680-688.

Hardy-Brown, K., Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. (1981). Genetic and environmental influences on rate of communicative development in the first year of life. Developmental Psychology, 17, 704-717.

Rowe, D. C., & Plomin, R. (1981). The importance of nonshared (E1) environmental influences in behavioral development. Developmental Psychology, 17, 517-531.

Plomin, R. (1983). Developmental behavioral genetics. Child Development, 54, 253-259.

Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. (1983). The Colorado Adoption Project. Child Development, 54, 276-289.

Buss, A. H., & Plomin, R. (1984). Temperament: Early developing personality traits. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Pedersen, N. L., Friberg, L., Floderus-Myrhed, B., McClearn, G. E., & Plomin, R. (1984). Swedish early separated twins: Identification and characterization. Acta Geneticae Medicae et Gemellologiae, 33, 243-250.

Daniels, D., Dunn, J., Furstenberg, F. F., Jr., & Plomin, R. (1985). Environmental differences within the family and adjustment differences within pairs of adolescent siblings. Child Development, 56, 764-774.

Hardy-Brown, K., & Plomin, R. (1985). Infant communicative development: Evidence from adoptive and biological families for genetic and environmental influences on rate differences. Developmental Psychology, 21, 378-385.

Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. (1985). Origins of individual differences in infancy: The Colorado Adoption Project. New York: Academic Press.

Plomin, R., Loehlin, J. C., & DeFries, J. C. (1985). Genetic and environmental components of "environmental" influences. Developmental Psychology, 21, 391-402.

Dunn, J., & Plomin, R. (1986). Determinants of maternal behavior toward three-year-old siblings. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 127-137.

Dunn, J., Plomin, R., & Daniels, D. (1986). Consistency and change in mothers' behavior toward young siblings. Child Development, 57, 348-356.

Plomin, R. (1986). Development, genetics, and psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

DeFries, J. C., Plomin, R., & LaBuda, M. C. (1987). Genetic stability of cognitive development from childhood to adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 23, 4-12.

Plomin, R., & Daniels, D. (1987a). Why are children in the same family so different from each other? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 1-16. PDF

Plomin, R., & Daniels, D. (1987b). Children in the same family are very different from each other, but why? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 44-54. [Response to commentaries]

Fulker, D. W., DeFries, J. C., & Plomin, R. (1988). Genetic influence on general mental ability increases between infancy and middle childhood. Nature, 336, 767-769.

Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., & Fulker, D. W. (1988). Nature and nurture in infancy and early childhood. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Plomin, R., McClearn, G. E., Pedersen, N. L., Nesselroade, J. R., & Bergeman, C. S. (1988). Genetic influence on childhood family environment perceived retrospectively from the last half of the life span. Developmental Psychology, 24, 738-745.

Thompson, L. A., & Plomin, R. (1988). The Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development: An adoption study of 2- and 3-year-olds. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 11, 219-231.

Plomin, R. (1989). Environment and genes. Determinants of behavior. American Psychologist, 44, 105-111.

Plomin, R., & Loehlin, J. C. (1989). Direct and indirect IQ heritability estimates: a puzzle. Behavior Genetics, 19, 331-342.

Plomin, R., McClearn, G. E., Pedersen, N. L., Nesselroade, J. R., & Bergeman, C. S. (1989). Genetic influence on adults' ratings of their current family environment. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51, 791-803.
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1990 publications:
Dunn, J., & Plomin, R. Separate lives: Why siblings are so different. New York: Basic Books.

Dunn, J., Stocker, C., & Plomin, R. Nonshared experiences within the family: Correlates of behavioral problems in middle childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 113-126.

Plomin, R. Nature and nurture: An introduction to human behavioral genetics. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., & McClearn, G. E. Behavioral genetics: A primer (2nd ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman.

Plomin, R., Lichtenstein, P., Pedersen, N. L., McClearn, G. E., & Nesselroade, J. R. Genetic influence on life events during the last half of the life span. Psychology and Aging, 5, 25-30.
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1991 publications:
Plomin, R. Genetic risk and psychosocial disorders: links between the normal and abnormal. In M. Rutter & P. Casaer (Eds.), Biological risk factors for psychosocial disorders (pp. 101-138). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Plomin, R., & Bergeman, C. S. The nature of nurture: Genetic influence on "environmental" measures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 373-427. (With Open Peer Commentary) PDF

Plomin, R., & Bergeman, C. S. The nature of nurture: Genetic influence on "environmental" measures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 414-424. (Response to commentaries)

Plomin, R., McClearn, G. E., & Gora-Maslak, G. . Quantitative trait loci and psychopharmacology. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 5, 1-9.

Plomin, R., McClearn, G. E., Gora-Maslak, G., & Neiderhiser, J. M. Use of recombinant inbred strains to detect quantitative trait loci associated with behavior. Behavior Genetics, 21, 99-116.

Plomin, R., & Rende, R. Human behavioral genetics. Annual Review of Psychology, 42, 161-190.

Thompson, L. A., Detterman, D. K., & Plomin, R. Associations between cognitive abilities and scholastic achievement: Genetic overlap but environmental differences. Psychological Science, 2, 158-165.

Wachs, T. D., & Plomin, R. (Eds.) Conceptualization and measurement of organism-environment interaction. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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1992 publications:
Braungart, J. M., Plomin, R., & Fulker, D. W. Genetic mediation of the home environment during infancy: A sibling adoption study of the HOME. Developmental Psychology, 28, 1048-1055.

Cardon, L. R., Fulker, D. W., DeFries, J. C., & Plomin, R. Continuity and change in general cognitive ability from 1 to 7 years. Developmental Psychology, 28, 64-73.

Cardon, L. R., Fulker, D. W., DeFries, J. C., & Plomin, R. Multivariate genetic analysis of specific cognitive abilities in the Colorado Adoption Project at age 7. Intelligence, 16, 383-400.

Chipuer, H. M., & Plomin, R. Using siblings to identify shared and non-shared HOME items. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 10, 165-178.

Plomin, R., & Neiderhiser, J. M. Genetics and experience. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 160-163.
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1993 publications:
Chipuer, H. M., Plomin, R., Pedersen, N. L., McClearn, G. E., & Nesselroade, J. R. Genetic influence on family environment: The role of personality. Developmental Psychology, 29, 110-118.

Plomin, R., Emde, R. N., Braungart, J. M., Campos, J., Corley, R., Fulker, D. W., Kagan, J.., Reznick, J.S., Robinson, J., Zahn-Waxler, C., & DeFries, J. C. Genetic change and continuity from fourteen to twenty months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study. Child Development, 64, 1354-1376.

Plomin, R., & McClearn, G. E. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) analyses and alcohol-related behaviors. Behavior Genetics, 23, 197-211.

Plomin, R., & McClearn, G. E. (Eds.) Nature, nurture, and psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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1994 publications:
DeFries, J. C., Plomin, R., & Fulker, D. W. (Eds.) Nature and nurture during middle childhood. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Hetherington, E. M., Reiss, D., & Plomin, R. (Eds.) Separate social worlds of siblings: Impact of nonshared environment on development. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Pedersen, N. L., Plomin, R., & McClearn, G. E. Is there G beyond g? (Is there genetic influence on specific cognitive abilities independent of genetic influence on general cognitive ability?) Intelligence, 18, 133-143.

Plomin, R. Genetics and experience: The interplay between nature and nurture. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Plomin, R. Nature, nurture, and social development. Social Development, 3, 37-53.

Plomin, R. The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1993. Genetic research and identification of environmental influences. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 817-834.

Plomin, R. Genetics and experience. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 7, 297-299.

Plomin, R., McClearn, G. E., Smith, D. L., Vignetti, S., Chorney, M. J., Chorney, K., Venditti, C.P., Kasarda, S., Thompson, L. A., Detterman, D. K., Daniels, J., Owen, M., & McGuffin, P. DNA markers associated with high versus low IQ: the IQ Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Project. Behavior Genetics, 24, 107-118.

Plomin, R., Owen, M. J., & McGuffin, P. The genetic basis of complex human behaviors. Science, 264, 1733-1739. PDF

Plomin, R., Pedersen, N. L., Lichtenstein, P., & McClearn, G. E. Variability and stability in cognitive abilities are largely genetic later in life. Behavior Genetics, 24, 207-215.

Plomin, R., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M., & Howe, G. W. Nature and nurture: Genetic contributions to measures of the family environment. Developmental Psychology, 30, 32-43.
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1995 publications:
Braungart-Rieker, J. M., Rende, R. D., Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., & Fulker, D. W. Genetic mediation of longitudinal associations between family environment and childhood behavior problems. Development and Psychopathology, 7, 233-245.

O'Connor, T. G., Hetherington, E. M., Reiss, D., & Plomin, R. A twin-sibling study of observed parent-adolescent interactions. Child Development, 66, 812-829.

Plomin, R. Genetics and children's experiences in the family. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36, 33-68.

Plomin, R., McClearn, G. E., Smith, D. L., Skuder, P., Vignetti, S., Chorney, M. J., Chorney, K., Kasarda, S., Thompson, L. A., Detterman, D. K., Petrill, S. A., Daniels, J., Owen, M. J. & McGuffin, P. Allelic associations between 100 DNA markers and high versus low IQ. Intelligence, 21, 31-48.

Wadsworth, S. J., DeFries, J. C., Fulker, D. W., & Plomin, R. Covariation among measures of cognitive ability and academic achievement in the Colorado Adoption Project: Sibling analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 18, 63-73.

Wadsworth, S. J., DeFries, J. C., Fulker, D. W., & Plomin, R. Cognitive ability and academic achievement in the Colorado Adoption Project: A multivariate genetic analysis of parent-offspring and sibling data. Behavior Genetics, 25, 1-15.
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1996 publications:
Pike, A., McGuire, S., Hetherington, E. M., Reiss, D., & Plomin, R. ( Family environment and adolescent depressive symptoms and antisocial behavior: A multivariate genetic analysis. Developmental Psychology, 32, 590-603. PDF

Pike, A., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M., & Plomin, R. Using MZ differences in the search for nonshared environmental effects. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 37, 695-704.
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1997 publications:
Deater-Deckard, K., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M., & Plomin, R. Dimensions and disorders of adolescent adjustment: A quantitative genetic analysis of unselected samples and selected extremes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 515-525.

Felsenfeld, S., & Plomin, R. Epidemiological and offspring analyses of developmental speech disorders using data from the Colorado Adoption Project. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 40, 778-791.

Freeman, B., Ball, D., Powell, J., Craig, I., & Plomin, R. DNA by mail: An inexpensive and noninvasive method for collecting DNA samples from widely dispersed populations. Behavior Genetics, 27, 251-257.

Manke, B., & Plomin, R. Adolescent familial interactions: A genetic extension of the social relations model, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 14, 505-522.

McClearn, G. E., Johansson, B., Berg, S., Pedersen, N. L., Ahern, F., Petrill, S. A., & Plomin, R. Substantial genetic influence on cognitive abilities in twins 80 or more years old. Science, 276, 1560-1563. PDF

McClearn, G. E., Tarantino, L. M., Rodriquez, L. A., Jones, B. C., Blizard, D. A., & Plomin, R. Genotypic selection provides experimental confirmation for an alcohol consumption quantitative trait locus in mouse. Molecular Psychiatry, 2, 486-489.

Petrill, S. A., Saudino, K. J., Cherny, S. S., Emde, R. N., Hewitt, J. K., Kagan, J., & Plomin, R. Exploring the genetic etiology of low general cognitive ability from 14 to 36 months. Developmental Psychology, 33, 544-548.

Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., McClearn, G. E. & Rutter, M. Behavioral genetics (3rd ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman.

Plomin, R., Fulker, D. W., Corley, R., & DeFries, J. C. Nature, nurture and cognitive development from 1 to 16 years: A parent-offspring adoption study. Psychological Science, 8, 442-447. PDF

Plomin, R., & Petrill, S. A. Genetics and intelligence. What's new? Intelligence, 24, 53-77.

Rutter, M., & Plomin, R. Opportunities for psychiatry from genetic findings. British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, 209-219.

Saudino, K. J., Pedersen, N. L., Lichtenstein, P., McClearn, G. E. & Plomin, R Can personality explain genetic influences on life events? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 196-206.

Saudino, K. J., & Plomin, R. Cognitive and temperamental mediators of genetic contributions to the home environment during infancy. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43, 1-23.
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1998 publications:
Chorney, M. J., Chorney, K., Seese, N., Owen, M. J., Daniels, J., McGuffin, P., Thompson, L. A., Detterman, D. K., Benbow, C. P., Lubinski, D., Eley, T. C., & Plomin, R. A quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with cognitive ability in children. Psychological Science, 9, 159-166.

Dale, P. S., Simonoff, E., Bishop, D. V. M., Eley, T. C., Oliver, B., Price, T. S., Purcell, S., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. Genetic influence on language delay in two-year-old children. Nature Neuroscience, 1, 324-328. PDF

Daniels, J., Holmans, P., Williams, N., Turic, D., McGuffin, P., Plomin, R., & Owen, M. J. A simple method for analyzing microsatellite allele image patterns generated from DNA pools and its application to allelic association studies. American Journal of Human Genetics, 62, 1189-1197.

Eley, T. C., Deater-Deckard, K., Fombonne, E., Fulker, D. W., & Plomin, R. An adoption study of depressive symptoms in middle childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39, 337-345.

O'Connor, T. G., McGuire, S., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M. & Plomin, R. Co-occurrence of depressive symptoms and antisocial behavior in adolescence: a common genetic liability. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107(1):27-37.

O'Connor, T. G., Deater-Deckard, K., Fulker, D. W., Rutter, M., & Plomin, R. Genotype-environment correlations in late childhood and early adolescence: antisocial behavioral problems and coercive parenting. Developmental Psychology, 34, 970-981.

O'Connor, T. G., Neiderhiser, J. M., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M., & Plomin, R. Genetic contributions to continuity, change, and co-occurrence of antisocial and depressive symptoms in adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39, 323-336.

Petrill, S. A., Plomin, R., Berg, S., Johansson, B., Pedersen, N. L., Ahern, F., & McClearn, G. E. The genetic and environmental relationships between general and specific cognitive abilities in twins age 80 and older. Psychological Science, 9, 183-189.

Petrill, S. A., Saudino, K., Cherny, S. C., Emde, R. N., Fulker, D. W., Hewitt, J. K., & Plomin, R. Exploring the genetic and environmental etiology of high general cognitive ability in fourteen- to thirty-six-month-old twins. Child Development, 69, 68-74.

Plomin, R., Corley, R., Caspi, A., Fulker, D. W., & DeFries. Adoption results for self-reported personality: Evidence for nonadditive genetic effects? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 211-218.

Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. The genetics of cognitive abilities and disabilities. Scientific American, May, 62-69. PDF

Plomin, R., & Rutter, M. Child development, molecular genetics, and what to do with genes once they are found. Child Development, 69, 1223-1242.

Saudino, K. J., Dale, P. S., Oliver, B., Petrill, S. A., Richardson, V., Rutter, M., Simonoff, E., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. The validity of parent-based assessment of cognitive abilities of 2-year-olds. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 349-363.

Tarantino, L. M., McClearn, G. E., Rodriguez, L. A., & Plomin, R. Confirmation of QTLs for alcohol preference in mice. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 22, 1099-1105.
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1999 publications:
Alarcon, M., Plomin, R., Fulker, D. W., Corley, R., & DeFries, J. C. Molarity and modularity: Multivariate genetic analysis of specific cognitive abilities in parents and their 16-year-old children in the Colorado Adoption Project. Cognitive Development, 14, 175-193.

Deater-Deckard, K., & Plomin, R. An adoption study of the etiology of teacher and parent reports of externalizing behavior problems in middle childhood. Child Development, 70, 144-154.

Deater-Deckard, K., Fulker, D. W., & Plomin, R. A genetic study of the family environment in the transition to early adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 769-775.

Eley, T. C., Bishop, D. V. M., Dale, P. S., Oliver, B., Petrill, S. A., Price, T. S., Purcell, S., Saudino, K., Simonoff, E., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. Genetic and environmental origins of verbal and performance components of cognitive delay in 2-year-olds. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1122-1131.

Fisher, P. J., Turic, D., McGuffin, P., Asherson, P. J., Ball, D. M., Craig, I. W., Eley, T. C., Hill, L., Chorney, K., Chorney, M. J., Benbow, C. P., Lubinski, D., Plomin, R., & Owen, M. J. DNA pooling identifies QTLs on chromosome 4 for general cognitive ability in children. Human Molecular Genetics, 8, 915-922.

Hill, L., Craig, I. W., Ball, D. M., Eley, T. C., Ninomiya, T., Fisher, P. J., McGuffin, P., Owen, M. J., Chorney, K., Chorney, M. J., Benbow, C. P., Lubinski, D., Thompson, L. A., & Plomin, R. DNA pooling and dense marker maps: A systematic search for genes for cognitive ability. NeuroReport, 10, 843-848.

McGuire, S., Manke, B., Saudino, K .J., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M., & Plomin, R. Perceived competence and self-worth during adolescence: A longitudinal behavioral genetic study. Child Development, 70, 1283-1296.

Neiderhiser, J. M., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M., Plomin, R. Relationships between parenting and adolescent adjustment over time: genetic and environmental contributions. Developmental Psychology, 35, 680-692.

Plomin, R. Genetic research on general cognitive ability as a model for mild mental retardation. International Review of Psychiatry, 11, 34-36.

Plomin, R. Genetics and general cognitive ability. Nature, 402, C25-C29 PDF

Plomin, R. Genetics of childhood disorders: III. Genetics and intelligence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 786-788.
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2000 publications:
Caspi, A., Taylor, A., Moffitt, T. E., & Plomin, R. Neighborhood deprivation affects children's mental health: Environmental risks identified in a genetic design. Psychological Science, 11, 338-342.

Dale, P. S., Dionne, G., Eley, T. C., & Plomin, R. Lexical and grammatical development: a behavioural genetic perspective. Journal of Child Language, 27(3), 619-642. PDF

Galsworthy, M. J., Dionne, G., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. Sex differences in early verbal and non-verbal cognitive development. Developmental Science, 3, 206-215.

Koeppen-Schomerus, G., Eley, T. C., Wolke, D., Gringras, P., & Plomin, R. The interaction of prematurity with genetic and environmental influences on cognitive development in twins. Journal of Paediatrics, 137, 527-533.

O'Connor, T. G., Caspi, A., DeFries, J. C., & Plomin, R. Are associations between parental divorce and children's adjustment genetically mediated? An adoption study. Developmental Psychology, 36, 429-437.

Pike, A., Manke, B., Reiss, D., & Plomin, R. A genetic analysis of differential experiences of adolescent siblings across three years. Social Development, 9, 96-114.

Plomin, R. Behavioural genetics in the 21st century. International Journal of Behavioural Development, 24, 30-34.

Plomin, R., & Crabbe, J.C. DNA. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 806-828. PDF

Plomin, R., & Dale, P. S. Genetics and early language development: A UK study of twins. In D. V. M. Bishop & B. E. Leonard (Eds.), Speech and language impairments in children: Causes, characteristics, intervention and outcome. (pp. 35-51). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Price, T. S., Eley, T. C., Dale, P. S., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. Genetic and environmental covariation between verbal and nonverbal cognitive development in infancy. Child Development, 71, 948-959.

Price, T. S., Freeman, B., Craig, I. W., Petrill, S. A., Ebersole, L., & Plomin, R. Infant zygosity can be assigned by parental report questionnaire data. Twin Research, 3, 129-133.

Reiss, D., Neiderhiser, J. M., Hetherington, E. M., & Plomin, R. The relationship code: Deciphering genetic and social patterns in adolescent development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Saudino, K. J., Cherny, S. S., & Plomin, R. Parent ratings of temperament in twins: explaining the Ôtoo lowÕ DZ correlations. Twin Research, 3, 224-233.

Towers, H., Spotts, E., Neiderhiser, J. M., Hetherington, E. M., Plomin, R., & Reiss, D. Genetic and environmental influences on teacher ratings of the Child Behavior Checklist. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 24, 373-381.
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2001 publications:
Bergeman, C. S., Neiderhiser, J. M., Pedersen, N. L., & Plomin, R. Genetic and environmental influences on social support in later life: A longitudinal analysis. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 51, 107-135.

Eley, T. C., Dale, P., Bishop, D., Price, T. S., Plomin, R. Longitudinal analysis of the genetic and environmental influences on components of cognitive delay in preschoolers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(4), 698-707.

Koeppen-Schomerus, G., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. Genes and environment in asthma: A study of 4 year old twins. Archives of Diseases in Childhood, 85, 398-400.

Koeppen-Schomerus, G., Wardle, J., & Plomin, R. A genetic analysis of weight and overweight in 4-year-old twin pairs. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders, 25, 838-844.

McGuffin, P., Riley, B., & Plomin, R. Genomics and behavior. Toward behavioral genomics. Science, 291, 1232-1249.

Petrill, S. A., Saudino, K. S., Wilkerson, B., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. Genetic and environmental molarity and modularity of cognitive functioning in 2-year-old twins. Intelligence, 29, 31-43.

Plomin, R. Genetic factors contributing to learning and language delays and disabilities. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 10, 259-277. PDF

Plomin, R. Genetics and behaviour. The Psychologist, 14, 134-139. PDF

Plomin, R. The genetics of g in human and mouse. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 136-141. PDF

Plomin, R., Asbury, K., & Dunn, J. F. Why are children in the same family so different? Nonshared environment a decade later. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 46, 225-33. PDF

Plomin, R., & Craig, I. Genetics, environment and cognitive abilities: review and work in progress towards a genome scan for quantitative trait locus associations using DNA pooling. British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, S41-S48.

Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., McClearn, G. E., & McGuffin, P. Behavioral Genetics. (4th Edition). New York: Worth Publishers.

Plomin, R., & Kosslyn, S. M. Genes, brain and cognition. Nature Neuroscience, 4(12), 1153-1155.

Plomin, R., Hill, L., Craig, I. W., McGuffin, P., Purcell, S., Sham, P., Lubinski, D., Thompson, L., Fisher, P. J., Turic, D., Owen, M. J. A genome-wide scan of 1842 DNA markers for allelic associations with general cognitive ability: A five-stage design using DNA pooling. Behavior Genetics, 31(6), 497-509. PDF

Price, T. S., Simonoff, E., Waldman, I., Asherson, P., & Plomin, R. Hyperactivity in pre-school children is highly heritable. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40(12), 1362-1364.

Purcell, S., Eley, T. C., Dale, P. S., Oliver, B., Petrill, S. A., Price, T. S., Saudino, K. J., Simonoff, E., Stevenson, J., Taylor, E., & Plomin, R. Comorbidity between verbal and non-verbal cognitive delays in 2-year-olds: a bivariate twin analysis. Developmental Science, 4, 195-208.

Turic, D., Fisher, P. J., Plomin, R., & Owen, M. J. No association between apolipoprotein E polymorphisms and general cognitive ability in children. Neuroscience Letters, 299, 97-100.

Wardle, J., Guthrie C. A., Sanderson, S., Birch, L., & Plomin, R. Food and activity preferences in children of lean and obese parents. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders, 25, 971-977.
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2002 publications:
Colledge, E., Bishop, D. V. M., Dale, P., Koeppen-Schomerus, G., Price, T. S., Happe, F., Eley, T.C., & Plomin, R. The structure of language abilities at 4 years: A twin study. Developmental Psychology, 38(5) 749-757. PDF

Hill, L., Chorney, M. J., Plomin, R. A quantitative trait locus not associated with cognitive ability in children: A failure to replicate. Psychological Science, 13, 561-562.

Iervolino, A. C., Pike, A., Manke, B., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E. M., & Plomin, R. Genetic and environmental influences in adolescent peer socialization: Evidence from two genetically sensitive designs. Child Development, 73(1), 162-175.

Meaburn, E., Dale, P. S., Craig, I. W., & Plomin, R. Language-impaired children: No sign of the FOXP2. NeuroReport, 13(8), 1075-1077

Mill, J., Galsworthy, M. J, Payo-Cano, J., Sluyter, F., Schalkwyk, L., Plomin, R., & Asherson, P. Home-cage activity in Heterogeneous stock (HS) Mice as a model of baseline activity. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 1(3), 166-173.

Oliver, B., Dale, P. S., Saudino, K., Petrill, S. A., Pike, A., & Plomin, R. The validity of parent-based assessment of non-verbal cognitive abilities of three-year olds. Early Child Development and Care, 172, 337-348.

Petrill, S. A., Rempell, J., Dale, P. S., Oliver, B., & Plomin, R. Testing cognitive abilities by telephone in a sample of 6-to 8-year olds. Intelligence, 30(4), 353-360.

Plomin, R. Individual differences research in a postgenomic world. Personality and Individual Differences, 33, 909-920. PDF

Plomin, R., & Asbury, K. Nature and nurture in the family. Marriage & Family Review, 33, 275-283.

Plomin, R., Colledge, E., & Dale, P. S. Genetics and the development of language disabilities and abilities. Current Paediatrics, 12, 419-424. PDF

Plomin, R., Price, T. S., Eley, T. C., Dale, P. S., & Stevenson, J. Associations between behaviour problems and verbal and nonverbal cognitive abilities and disabilities in early childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 43(5), 619-633. PDF

Plomin, R., & Spinath, F. M. Genetics and general cognitive ability (g). Trends in Cognitive Science, 6(4), 169-176. PDF

Ronald, A., Spinath, F. M., & Plomin, R. The aetiology of high cognitive ability in early childhood. High Ability Studies, 13, 103-114.

Rovers, M., Haggard, M., Gannon, M., Koeppen-Schomerus, G., & Plomin, R. Heritability of symptom domains in otitis media: a longitudinal study of 1,373 twin pairs. American Journal of Epidemiology, 155(10), 958-64.

Trouton, A., Spinath, F. M., & Plomin, R. Twins Early Development Study (TEDS): A multivariate, longitudinal genetic investigation of language, cognition and behaviour problems in childhood. Twin Research, 5, 444-448. PDF

Wadsworth, S. J., Corley, R. P., Hewitt, J. K., Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. Parent-offspring resemblance for reading performance at 7, 12 and 16 years of age in the Colorado Adoption Project. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(6), 769-774.

Wardle, J., Sanderson, S., Guthrie, C. A., Rapoport, L., & Plomin, R. Parental feeding style and inter-generational transmission of obesity risk. Obesity Research, 10, 453-462.
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2003 publications:
Plomin, R., & McGuffin, P. Psychopathology in the postgenomic era. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 205-228. PDF

Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., Craig, I. W., & McGuffin, P. (Eds). Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era. APA Books: Washington, DC.

Plomin, R., & Walker, S. O. Genetics and educational psychology. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 73, 3-14. PDF

Dionne, G., Dale, P. S., Boivin, M., & Plomin, R. (in press). Genetic evidence for bidirectional effects of early lexical and grammatical development. Child Development.

Bishop, E. G., Cherny, S. S., Plomin, R., DeFries, .J. C., & Hewitt, J. K. Developmental genetic analysis of general cognitive ability from 1 to 12 years in a sample of adoptees, biological siblings, and twins. Intelligence, 31, 31-49.

Spinath, F. M., Ronald, A., Harlaar, N., Price, T. S., & Plomin, R. Phenotypic 'g' early in life: On the etiology of general cognitive ability in a large population sample of twin children aged 2 to 4 years. Intelligence, 31, 195-210. PDF

Bishop, D. V. M., Price, T. S., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. Outcomes of early language delay: II. Etiology of transient and persistent language delay. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 46, 561-575.

Dale, P. S., Price, T. S., Bishop, D. V. M., & Plomin, R. Outcomes of early language delay: I. Predicting persistent and transient delay at 3 and 4 years. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 46, 544-560.

Plomin, R. Genetics, genes, genomics and g. Molecular Psychiatry, 8, 1-5. PDF

Koeppen-Schomerus, G., Spinath, F. M., & Plomin, R. Twins and non-twin siblings: Different estimates of shared environmental influence in early childhood. Twin Research, 6, (21, 97-105.)
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2004 publications:
Spinath, F. M., Harlaar, N., Ronald, A., & Plomin, R. Substantial genetic influence on mild mental impairment in early childhood. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 109, 34-43.

Viding, E., Spinath, F. M., Price, T. S., Bishop, D. V. M., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. Genetic and environmental influences on language impairment in 4-year-old same-sex and opposite-sex twins. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 315-325.

Plomin, R., & Spinath, F. M. Intelligence: Genetics, genes, and genomics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 112-129.
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Publications in press:
Iervolino, A. C., Hines, M., Golombok, S. E., Rust, J., & Plomin, R. (in press). Genetic and environmental influences on sex-typed behavior in pre-school children: A study of 2,426 same-sex twin pairs at 3 and at 4 years of age. Child Development.

Plomin, R., Turic, D., Hill, L., Turic, D., Stephens, M., Williams, J., Owens, M. J., OÕDonovan, M. (in press). A functional polymorphism in the succinate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase (aldehyde dehydrogenase 5 family, member A1) gene is associated with cognitive ability. Molecular Psychiatry.

Spinath, F. M., Price, T. S., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. (in press). The genetic and environmental origins of language disability and ability: a study of language at 2, 3 and 4 years of age in a large community sample of twins. Child Development.

Walker, S. O., Petrill, S. A., & Plomin, R. (in press). School environment and socio-economic status are associated with teacher-assessed academic achievement at 7 years old after controlling for genetics. Educational Psychology.

Walker, S. O., Petrill, S. A., Spinath, F. M., & Plomin, R. (in press). Nature, nurture and academic achievement: A twin study of teacher ratings in the first grade. British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Oliver, B., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. (in press). Verbal and non-verbal predictors of early language problems: A ÔretrodictiveÕ analysis of twins in early childhood back to infancy. Journal of Child Language.

Oliver, B., Harlaar, N., Hayiou Thomas, M. E., Walker, S. O., Petrill, S. A., Spinath, F. M., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. (in press). A twin study of mathematics disabilities and abilities in 7 year olds. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Petrill, S. A., Pike, A., Price, T. S., & Plomin, R. (in press). Chaos in the home and socioeconomic status are associated with cognitive development in early childhood: Environmental risks identified in a genetic design. Child Development.

Dionne, G., Dale, P. S., Boivin, M., & Plomin, R. (in press). Genetic evidence for bidirectional effects of early lexical and grammatical development. Child Development.
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