Papers

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* Denotes a graduate student mentee of Dr. Li’s

Preprints and Papers Under Review

He, Q.*, & Li, J. J. (under review). K-SADS in Context: Testing Measurement Equivalence Across Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Factors. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vwq6b_v1
Li, J. J., He, Q.^*, Waldman, I. D., & Rodriguez-Seijas, C. (revise and resubmit). Racial and Ethnic Invariance of HiTOP Dimensions in Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aq7ru
Dong, L.^*, Sasia, A. B.^*, & Li, J. J. (revise and resubmit). Gene-Environment Interplay Beyond Interactions: Psychosocial Environments Mediate Genetic Effects Underlying Externalizing Behavior Trajectories. Preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7zkdr_v1
Rahrig, H., Dong, L.^*, He, Q.^*, Goldberg, S. B., McDade, T. W., Li, J. J. & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (under review). Emotional well-being within a longitudinal cohort study: Development and validation of an emotional well-being construct.

Published

Li, J. J., He, Q.*, Dorn, S., Wang, Z., & Lu, Q. (2025). Enhancing the discriminatory power of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder polygenic scores in clinical and non-clinical samples. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-025-09620-w
Skaletski, E. C., Rodriguez, R. M., Gartland, S. G., Ausderau, K. K., Bishop, L., Li, J. J., & Travers, B. G. (2025). Quality of Life in Autistic Children: Discrepancies between Self- and Caregiver-Proxy Reports and Associations with Individual Characteristics. Autism Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.70108
Sasia, A. B.*, Jonas, K. G., Waszczuk, M. A., & Li, J. J. (2025). Associations of Polygenic Scores and Developmental Trajectories of Externalizing Behaviors. Development and Psychopathology. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424001962
Laboe, A. A., Heyrman, A., Vendlinski, S., Steinhoff, M. F., Kreckler, S., Ruud, C., Walsh, K., Grupe, D. W., Li, J. J., & Schaumberg, K. (2025). Weighing in: Clinician and patient perspectives on discussions of expected body weights in eating disorder treatment. International Journal of Eating Disorders. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24501
Michelini, G., Carlisi, C. O., Eaton, N. R., Elison, J. T., Haltigan, J. D., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Latzman, R. D., Li, J. J., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., Salum, G. A., South, S. C., Stanton, K., Waldman, I. D., & Wilson, S. (2024). Where do neurodevelopmental conditions fit in transdiagnostic psychiatric frameworks? Incorporating a new neurodevelopmental spectrum? World Psychiatry, 23, 333-357. doi: 10.1002/wps.21225
Keding, T. J., Russell, J. D., Zhu, X., He, Q.^†, Li, J. J., & Herringa, R. J. (2024). Diverging effects of violence exposure and psychiatric symptoms on amygdala-prefrontal maturation during childhood and adolescence. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.08.003
Surgent, O., Guerrero-Gonzalez, J., Dean, D. C., Adluru, N., Kirk, G. R., Kecskemeti, S. R., Alexander, A. L., Li, J. J., & Traverse, B. G. (2024). Microstructural neural correlates of maximal grip strength in autistic children: The role of the cortico-cerebellar modification network and ADHD features. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2024.1359099
Skaletski, E., Barry, K., Dennis, E., Donnelly, R., Huerta, C., Jones, A., Schmidt, K., Kabakov, S., Ausderau, K., Li, J. J., & Travers, B. G. (2024). Sensorimotor Features and Daily Living Skills in Autistic Children with and without ADHD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Wang, S. S.*, Walsh, K., & Li, J. J. (2024). A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Multi-Domain Resilience Among Maltreated and Non-Maltreated Youths. Development and Psychopathology, 1-15. doi: 10.1017/S0954579423000032
He, Q.*, Keding, T., Zhang, Q.*, Miao, J., Herringa, R., Lu, Q., Travers, B., & Li, J. J. (2023). Neurogenetic Mechanisms of Risk for ADHD: Examining Associations of Functionally-Annotated Polygenic Scores and Brain Volumes in a Population Cohort, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 15, 30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-023-09498-6
Waszczuk, M. A., Jonas, K. G., Bornovalova, M., Breen, G., Bulik, C. M., Docherty, A. R., Eley, T. C., Hettema, J. M., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Lencz, T., Li, J. J., Vassos, E., & Waldman, I. D. (2023). Dimensional and transdiagnostic phenotypes in psychiatric genome-wide association studies. Molecular Psychiatry, 28, 4943-4953. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02142-8
Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Li, J. J., Balling, C., Brandes, C., Bernat, E., Boness, C., Forbes, M., Forbush, K., Joyner, K., Krueger, R., Levin-Aspenson, H., Michelini, G., Ro, E., Rutter, L., Stanton, K., Tackett, J., Waszczuk, M., & Eaton, N. (2023). Diversity and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Nature Reviews Psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44159-023-00200-0

Zhang, Q.* & Li J. J. (2022). Explaining the Prospective Association of Positive and Negative Parenting Behaviors and Child ADHD Symptoms: Pathways Through Child Executive Function and Reward Responsivity. Journal of Attention Disorders, 26(13), 1774-1787. doi: 10.1177/10870547221104079
Kotov, R., Cicero, D., Conway, C., DeYoung, C., Dombrovski, A., Eaton, N., First, M., Forbes, M., Hyman, S., Jonas, K., Krueger, R., Latzman, R., Li, J. J., Nelson, B., Regier, D., Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Ruggero, C., Simms, L., Skodol, A., Waldman, I., Waszczuk, M., Watson, D., Widiger, T., Wilson, S. & Wright, A. (2022). The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research. Psychological Medicine, 52(9), 1666-1678. doi:10.1017/S0033291722001301
Li, J. J., Zhang, Q*., Wang, Z., & Lu, Q. (2022). Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) mechanisms of transdiagnostic polygenic risk for trajectories of depression: From early adolescence to adulthood. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131(6), 567–574. doi: 10.1037/abn0000659
He, Q.*, & Li, J. J. (2021). A gene-environment interaction study of polygenic scores and maltreatment on childhood ADHD. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-021-00873-2
Zhang, Y., Lu, Q., Ye, Y., Huang, K., Liu, W., Wu, Y., Zhong, X., Travers, B., Werling, D. M., Li, J. J., & Zhao, H. (2021). SUPERGNOVA: local genetic correlation analysis reveals heterogeneous etiologic sharing of complex traits. Genome Biology. doi: 10.1186/s13059-021-02478-w
Wu, Y., Zhong, X., Lin, Y., Zhao, Z., Chen, J., Zheng, B., Li, J. J., Fletcher, J. M., & Lu, Q. (2021). Estimating genetic nurture with summary statistics of multi-generational genome-wide association studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(25). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023184118
Guo, H., Li, J. J., Lu, Q., & Hou, L. (2021). Detecting local genetic correlations with scan statistics. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22334-6
Li, J. J., & He, Q.* (2021). Polygenic scores for ADHD: A meta-analysis. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-021-00774-4
Russell, J. D., Keding, T. J., He, Q.*, Li, J. J., & Herringa, R. J. (2020). Childhood exposure to interpersonal violence is associated with greater transdiagnostic integration of psychiatric symptoms. Psychological Medicine, 1-9. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720003712
Dargis, M.*, & Li, J. J. (2020). The interplay between positive and negative parenting and children’s negative affect on callous-unemotional traits. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10826-020-01783-5
Greenberg, J., Hilton, E. C., Li, J. J., Lu, Q., & Mailick, M. R. (2020). The impact of parenting a child with serious mental illness: Accounting for the parent’s genetic vulnerability to mental illness. Journal of Family Psychology. doi: 10.1037/fam0000783
He, Q.*, & Li, J. J. (2020). Factorial invariance in hierarchical factor models of mental disorders in African American and European American youths. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13243
Li, J. J. (2019). The positive end of the polygenic score distribution for ADHD: A low risk or protective factor? Psychological Medicine. doi: 10.1017/S0033291719003039
Hu, B., Shen, N., Li, J. J., Kang, H., Hong, J., Fletcher, J., … Lu, Q. (2019). Genome-wide association study reveals sex-specific genetic architecture of facial attractiveness. PLOS Genetics. doi: 10.1101/339226.
Li, J. J. (2019). Assessing phenotypic and polygenic models of ADHD to identify mechanisms of risk for longitudinal trajectories of externalizing behaviors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13071
Li, J. J., Hilton, E. C.*, Lu, Q., Hong, J., Greenberg, J. S., & Mailick, M. R. (2019). Validating psychosocial pathways of risk between neuroticism and late life depression using a polygenic score approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 200-211. doi: 10.1037/abn0000419
Morrison, R. A.*, Martinez, J. L., Hilton, E. C.*, & Li, J. J. (2018). The influence of parents and schools on developmental trajectories of antisocial behaviors in Caucasian and African American youths. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 1-13. doi: 10.1017/S0954579418001335
Li, J. J., & Lansford, J. E. (2018). A smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment of parental behavioral consistency: Associations with parental stress and child ADHD. Developmental Psychology, 54, 1086-1098. doi: 10.1037/dev0000516
Li, J. J. (2018). Children’s reward and punishment sensitivity moderates the association of negative and positive parenting behaviors in child ADHD symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46, 1585-1598. doi: 10.1007/s10802-018-0421-y
Li, J. J. (2017). Assessing the interplay between multigenic and environmental influences on adolescent to adult pathways of antisocial behaviors. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1947-1967. doi: 10.1017/S0954579417001511
Li, J. J., Cho, S. B., Salvatore, J. E., Edenberg, H. J., Agrawal, A., Chorlian, D. B., … Dick, D. M. (2017). The impact of peer substance use and polygenic risk on trajectories of heavy episodic drinking across adolescence and emerging adulthood. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41, 65–75. doi: 10.1111/acer.13282
Li, J. J., Savage, J. E., Hickman, M., Heron, J., Macleod, J., Kaprio, J., Rose, R. J., & Dick, D. M. (2017). Polygenic risk, personality dimensions, and alcohol use problems: A population-based longitudinal study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 78, 442-451. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2017.78.442
Tung, I.*, Li, J. J., Meza, J. I.*, Jezior, K. L., Kianmahd, J. S.*, Hentschel, P. G., … & Lee, S. S. (2016). Patterns of comorbidity among girls with ADHD: a meta-analysis. Pediatrics, 138, 1-13. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-0430
Li, J. J., Reise, S. P., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Mikami, A. Y., & Lee, S. S. (2016). An item response theory analysis on the DSM-IV symptoms for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children with ADHD. Assessment, 23, 655-671. doi. 10.1177/1073191115591595
Li, J. J., Chung, T. A., Vanyukov, M. M., Wood, D. S., Ferrell, R., & Clark, D. B. (2015). A hierarchical factor model of executive functions in adolescents: Evidence of gene-environment interplay. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 21, 62-73. doi: 10.1017/S1355617714001039

Tung, I., Brammer, W. A., Li, J. J., & Lee, S. S. (2014). Parenting behavior mediates the intergenerational association of parent and child offspring ADHD symptoms. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 44, 787-799. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2014.913250

Li, J. J., & Lee, S. S. (2014). Negative emotionality mediates the association between 5-HTTLPR genotype and depression symptoms in children with and without ADHD. Psychiatry Research, 215, 163-169. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.10.026

Li, J. J., Berk, M. S., & Lee, S. S. (2013). Differential susceptibility in prospective models of gene-environment interaction for depression. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 991-1003. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.10.026

Li, J. J., & Lee, S. S. (2013). Interaction of dopamine transporter gene and observed parenting behaviors on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 31, 174-186. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2012.736355

Lue, Y., Wang, C., Lydon, J. P., Leung, A., Li, J., & Swerdloff, R. S. (2013). Functional role of progestin and the progesterone receptor in the suppression of spermatogenesis in rodents. Andrology, 1, 308-317. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2012.00047.x

Li, J. J., & Lee, S. S. (2012a). Association of positive and negative parenting behavior with childhood ADHD: Interactions with offspring monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) genotype. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 165-175. doi: 10.1007/s10802-011-9553-z

Li, J. J., & Lee, S. S. (2012b). Interaction of dopamine transporter (DAT1) genotype and maltreatment for ADHD: A latent class analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 997-1005. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02563.x
Tung, I.*, Li, J. J., & Lee, S. S. (2012). Child sex moderates the association between negative parenting and childhood conduct problems. Aggressive Behavior, 38, 239–251. doi. 10.1002/ab.21423

Li, J. J., & Lee, S. S. (2010). Latent class analysis of antisocial behavior: Interaction of serotonin transporter genotype and maltreatment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 789-801. doi: 10.1007/s10802-010-9409-y

Li, J. J., Cutting, L. E., Ryan, M., Zilioli, M., Denckla, M. B. & Mahone, E. M. (2009). Response variability in rapid automatized naming predicts reading comprehension. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31, 877-888. doi: 10.1080/13803390802646973