Education
- High School: Willem de Zwijgerlyceum, Bussum
- Bachelors: Vrije Universiteit in Psychology, cum laude, 1979
- Masters: Vrije Universiteit in Psychophysiology, cum laude, 1983
- Masters: University of Colorado at Boulder in Biological Psychology/Behavior Genetics,1983
- Ph.D.: Vrije Universiteit (thesis: Quantitative Genetics of Cardiovascular Risk), cum laude, 1992
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