title: Lindon J. Eaves, Ph.D., M.A. (Oxon), D.Sc. Theory-model-data.
abstract: We begin this special issue by providing a glimpse into the career of Dr. Lindon J. Eaves, from the perspectives of a student, postdoc, instructor, assistant to associate and full professor over the last 20 odd years. We focus primarily on Lindon's contributions to methodological issues and research designs to address them, in particular those related to models for extended twin-family designs, for the development of adolescent behavior, for genotype-environment covariation and interaction, and their application to the Virginia 30,000 and the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development. We then introduce the collection of papers in this special festschrift issue of Behavior Genetics, celebrating Dr. Eaves achievements over the last 40 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980003, Richmond, VA, 23298-0003, USA, hmaes@vcu.edu.
authors.forename: Hermine H M
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Maes
authors.forename: Peter K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Hatemi
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Neale
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000266:history; D056726:Genetic Association Studies / Q000266:history*; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D018433:Twin Studies as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States