ArticleAmerican journal of public health2013
The challenge of causal inference in gene-environment interaction research: leveraging research designs from the social sciences.
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- The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay.The Review of economic studies · 2026Article
- PIGEON: a statistical framework for estimating gene-environment interaction for polygenic traits.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
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- Many roads to a gene-environment interaction.American journal of human genetics · 2024Review
- Decoupling genetics from attainments: The role of social environments.Economics and human biology · 2023Article
- Gene-by-peer-environment interaction effects on cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among US high school students of European Ancestry.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Developmental behavioral genetics research on school achievement is missing vulnerable children, to our detriment.New directions for child and adolescent development · 2022Article
- Gene-environment Interactions and School Tracking during Secondary Education: Evidence from the U.S.Research in social stratification and mobility · 2021Article
- Gene-environment dependencies lead to collider bias in models with polygenic scores.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The impact of late-career job loss and genetic risk on body mass index: Evidence from variance polygenic scores.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Social and behavioral science at the forefront of genomics: Discovery, translation, and health equity.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- "Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated": Behavior Genetics in the Postgenomic Era.Annual review of psychology · 2021Review
- Gene-Environment Interaction: A Variable Selection Perspective.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021Review
- Interactions between Polygenic Scores and Environments: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges.Sociological science · 2020Article
- Baseline income, follow-up income, income mobility and their roles in mental disorders: a longitudinal intra-generational community-based study.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Environmental bottlenecks in children's genetic potential for adult socio-economic attainments: Evidence from a health shock.Population studies · 2019Article
- The Genome-Wide Study of Human Social Behavior and Its Application in Sociology.Frontiers in sociology · 2019Review
- Schools as Moderators of Genetic Associations with Life Course Attainments: Evidence from the WLS and Add Health.Sociological science · 2018Article
- Geographic Clustering of Polygenic Scores at Different Stages of the Life Course.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2018Article
- The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes.Economics of education review · 2017Article
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Abstract
The integration of genetics and the social sciences will lead to a more complex understanding of the articulation between social and biological processes, although the empirical difficulties inherent in this integration are large. One key challenge is the implications of moving "outside the lab" and away from the experimental tools available for research with model organisms. Social science research methods used to examine human behavior in nonexperimental, real-world settings to date have not been fully taken advantage of during this disciplinary integration, especially in the form of gene-environment interaction research. This article outlines and provides examples of several prominent research designs that should be used in gene-environment research and highlights a key benefit to geneticists of working with social scientists.
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