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University of Groningen

Development of bioinformatic tools and application of novel statistical methods in

genome-wide analysis

van der Most, Peter Johannes

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Acknowledgments | 193

Acknowledgments

The first question that occurred to me when writing the acknowledgments was: which language do I use? It ended up being a mix of English and Dutch. This is probably a reflection of how uncomfortable I feel writing this, but I am going to try anyway. Writing a PhD thesis has been a lifelong ambition, and many people helped me, in large and small ways, to achieve this. Without some of them, I would never have arrived at this point. Therefore, I must take this opportunity to state how grateful I am.

In de eerste plaats: mijn promotor, Harold Snieder, die mij 6 jaar geleden een kans gaf om op zijn afdeling te werken, en die het mogelijk gemaakt heeft om mijn werk om te zetten in een PhD project. Zonder hem zou dit proefschrift er nooit geweest zijn.

Ten tweede, promotor Pim van der Harst, die samen met Harold mij de kans heeft gegeven om een PhD traject te volgen, en voor de discussies en suggesties die hebben geholpen mijn proefschrift vorm te gegeven.

Ten derde, co-promotor Ilja Nolte, voor haar behulpzaamheid en geduld voor het waarschijnlijk ontelbare aantal vragen die ik aan haar gesteld heb.

I also would like to thank the reading committee: professor Bakker, professor Wit, and professor Realo: thank you for your efforts in reading and evaluating my thesis, and for your very kind words. In particular, I want to thank Anu Realo for the fruitful discussions, despite the technical setbacks, during our research on the heritability of neuroticism.

Dan zijn er ook de leraren die mij als scholier hebben begeleid: dhr. Ferrari, door wie ik de exacte wetenschappen ben gaan waarderen, en mevr. Don en dhr. Steenbergen, die aan mijn jongere zelf hebben getoond wat de waarde van analytisch denken was.

Tijdens mijn tijd als student heb ik veel ondersteuning ontvangen van dr. Anke van Trigt en professor Erik Boddeke, zeker tijdens het moeilijke laatste jaar van de master opleiding. Mijn dank ook aan professor Uli Eisel, die me de gelegenheid gaf om een extra project te doen en daar zelfs een review paper van te maken. Ook wil ik graag Simon Verhulst bedanken, op wiens afdeling ik enkele jaren heb kunnen werken en waar ik begon met het herleren van statistiek en programmeren.

And, of course, a great many thanks to Jana van Vliet-Ostaptchouk and to my fellow students Ahmad Vaez, Bram Prins, Loretto Munoz, Bin Wang, Azmeraw Amare, Fahimeh Falahi and Eliza Walaszczyk, for helping me out, listening to my ideas, and occasionally putting up with my moods. Special thanks go to my paranymphs Anna Neustaeter, for her advice during the final stage of my PhD, and Chris Thio, for his frequent feedback and for the last-minute, late-evening read-through of my thesis, and of course for being there on the day of the defence to support me.

Verder mijn dank aan Menno Oosterhoff en Anne-Fleur Stapert voor hun ondersteuning tijdens de moeilijke laatste maanden van dit proefschrift.

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194 | Acknowledgments Curriculum vitae | 195 Als laatste, mijn familie. Gerrit en Kristien wil ik bedanken voor hun eindeloze ondersteuning, en omdat ze

altijd met me wilden praten (zelfs wanneer ik dat juist niet wilde). Mijn zus Laura, bij wie ik mezelf kan zijn, en omdat ze geduld met me heeft, ook wanneer ik haar op de zenuwen werk. En uiteindelijk, Miebet, voor haar betrokken contact en positieve instelling, zelfs wanneer ze het erg zwaar had.

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