Other papers in this issue focus on the need to ensure that the incorporation of genetic information into prevention science represents the state of the science(Latendresse, Musci, & Maher, 2017) and/or novel study designs for understanding genetic and environmental influences on behavioral outcomes(Leve et al., 2017; Maher, Latendresse, & Vanyukov, 2016). Latendresse et al.(2017) provide an overview of the history and current methods used in large-scale genetic analyses, with guidelines for how to conduct genetically informative studies. Leve et al.(2017) discuss the use of different natural designs to disentangle genetic and environmental influences in order to identify “true” environmental effects, and Maher et al.(2016) discuss the novel strategy of focusing on finding genes involved in resistance, rather than risk, and how best to design studies to do this.
