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Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment: New evidence from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.Nature genetics · 2018Pooled it
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- Social Background Effects on Educational Outcomes-New Insights from Modern Genetic Science.Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie · 2024Article
- Examining social genetic effects on educational attainment via parental educational attainment, income, and parenting.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Article
- Educational attainment polygenic scores, socioeconomic factors, and cortical structure in children and adolescents.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence.NPJ science of learning · 2022Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have begun to uncover the genetic architecture of educational attainment. We build on this work using genome-wide data from siblings in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). We measure the genetic predisposition of siblings to educational attainment using polygenic scores. We then test how polygenic scores are related to social environments and educational outcomes. In Add Health, genetic predisposition to educational attainment is patterned across the social environment. Participants with higher polygenic scores were more likely to grow up in socially advantaged families. Even so, the previously published genetic associations appear to be causal. Among pairs of siblings, the sibling with the higher polygenic score typically went on to complete more years of schooling as compared to their lower-scored co-sibling. We found subtle differences between sibling fixed effect estimates of the genetic effect versus those based on unrelated individuals.
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