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ReviewDevelopment and psychopathology2013

The future of genomics for developmentalists.

Robert Plomin, Michael A Simpson

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Review in Development and psychopathology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Epigenetics, Resilience, Protective Factors and Factors Promoting Positive Outcomes: A Scoping Review.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2025
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  4. The new genetics of intelligence.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2018
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  10. Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2016
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  16. Genome-wide association study of receptive language ability of 12-year-olds.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2014
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  17. Commentary: missing heritability, polygenic scores, and gene-environment correlation.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert PlominKing's College London.
Michael A SimpsonKing's College London.

Funding

European Research Council 295366Medical Research Council G19/2Medical Research Council G19/2(78332)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The momentum of genomic science will carry it far into the future and into the heart of research on typical and atypical behavioral development. The purpose of this paper is to focus on a few implications and applications of these advances for understanding behavioral development. Quantitative genetics is genomic and will chart the course for molecular genomic research now that these two worlds of genetics are merging in the search for many genes of small effect. Although current attempts to identify specific genes have had limited success, known as the missing heritability problem, whole-genome sequencing will improve this situation by identifying all DNA sequence variations, including rare variants. Because the heritability of complex traits is caused by many DNA variants of small effect in the population, polygenic scores that are composites of hundreds or thousands of DNA variants will be used by developmentalists to predict children's genetic risk and resilience. The most far-reaching advance will be the widespread availability of whole-genome sequence for children, which means that developmentalists would no longer need to obtain DNA or to genotype children in order to use genomic information in research or in the clinic.

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ChildChild DevelopmentChild PsychiatryGenetics, BehavioralGenomicsHumansMental Disorders

Identifiers

PMID24342839
PMCPMC3967388

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