ArticleDemography2018
Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States.
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- Father absence, age at menarche, and genetic confounding: A replication and extension using a polygenic score.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
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- GENETICS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY: Genetic etiologies of central precocious puberty and the role of imprinted genes.European journal of endocrinology · 2020Review
- Unravelling the role of epigenetics in reproductive adaptations to early-life environment.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2020Review
- Association of Early-Life Adversity With Measures of Accelerated Biological Aging Among Children in China.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Neighborhood Disorder, Family Functioning, and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2020Article
- Cohort Profile: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health).International journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Parents of early-maturing girls die younger.Evolutionary applications · 2019Article
- Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Phenotypic Annotation: Using Polygenic Scores to Translate Discoveries From Genome-Wide Association Studies From the Top Down.Current directions in psychological science · 2019Article
- Achieved educational attainment, inherited genetic endowment for education, and obesity.Biodemography and social biologyArticle
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Abstract
Girls who experience father absence in childhood also experience accelerated reproductive development in comparison with peers with present fathers. One hypothesis advanced to explain this empirical pattern is genetic confounding, wherein gene-environment correlation (rGE) causes a spurious relationship between father absence and reproductive timing. We test this hypothesis by constructing polygenic scores for age at menarche and first birth using recently available genome-wide association study results and molecular genetic data on a sample of non-Hispanic white females from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We find that young women's accelerated menarche polygenic scores are unrelated to their exposure to father absence. In contrast, polygenic scores for earlier age at first birth tend to be higher in young women raised in homes with absent fathers. Nevertheless, father absence and the polygenic scores independently and additively predict reproductive timing. We find no evidence in support of the rGE hypothesis for accelerated menarche and only limited evidence in support of the rGE hypothesis for earlier age at first birth.
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