SynthesisMolecular psychiatry2018
Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition.
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- Pooled it
- Sex-stratified genome-wide meta-analysis identifies novel loci for cognitive decline in older adults.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Pooled it
- Sex and age differences in "theory of mind" across 57 countries using the English version of the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Pooled it
- Affective cognition in eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the performance on the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- A meta-analytic investigation of grey matter differences in anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorder.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Pooled it
- A genome-wide association study reveals a substantial genetic basis underlying the Ebbinghaus illusion.Journal of human genetics · 2021Pooled it
- Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Gene × sex interactions on cognition in the Philadelphia neurodevelopmental cohort.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test Scores Demonstrate Poor Structural Properties in Nine Large Non-Clinical Samples.Assessment · 2026Article
- Maternal cognitive and affective empathy related to preschoolers' emotional-behavioral problems: moderation of maternal depression.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Associations Between Callous-Unemotional (CU) Traits and Emotion Recognition Abilities in School Children: The Influence of Conduct Problems and Age.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Genetic variations as predictors of dispositional and dyadic empathy-a couple study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sex differences in social cognition among individuals with schizophrenia and in healthy control participants: a secondary analysis of published data.Archives of women's mental health · 2024Article
- Gene-vegetarianism interactions in calcium, estimated glomerular filtration rate, and testosterone identified in genome-wide analysis across 30 biomarkers.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Body mass index stratification optimizes polygenic prediction of type 2 diabetes in cross-biobank analyses.Nature genetics · 2024Article
- The Social Shapes Test as a Self-Administered, Online Measure of Social Intelligence: Two Studies with Typically Developing Adults and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Sex and Gender in Population Neuroscience.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2024Review
- The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dissociating cognitive and affective empathy across psychopathy dimensions: The role of interoception and alexithymia.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- How, when and why abilities go social: researching children's empathy and prosocial behaviors in context.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
We conducted a genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy using the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' Test (Eyes Test) in 88,056 research volunteers of European Ancestry (44,574 females and 43,482 males) from 23andMe Inc., and an additional 1497 research volunteers of European Ancestry (891 females and 606 males) from the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study. We confirmed a female advantage on the Eyes Test (Cohen's d=0.21, P<2.2 × 10
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