About the MCTFR

The Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (MCTFR) is a nationally-recognized team of researchers whose mission is to:

  • Understand vulnerability to negative mental and physical health outcomes, and related behavioral problems such as substance use disorders.
  • Identify risk and protective factors for adaptive and maladaptive development across the lifespan, including environmental, family, and sociodemographic and contextual factors.
  • Uncover the interplay of genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of mental and physical health outcomes. 
  • Identify and characterize genes that affect psychopathology and addiction.
  • Track the developmental trajectory of aspects of mental and physical health across the lifespan, from the prenatal period into older adulthood.
  • Identify the neural circuits and neurobiological processes associated with mental and physical health outcomes.

The MCTFR spans longitudinal and registry data collected from more than 10,000 people in over 2500 families over 30+ years, including interviews, questionnaires, observational, neurocognitive, psychophysiological, MRI, physical health, and genetics/genomics data. 
 


 

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