ReviewNature human behaviour2020
Using genetics for social science.
Review in Nature human behaviour, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
66 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Genetic and environment influences on childhood victimization: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Bioethics of somatic gene therapy: what do we know so far?Current medical research and opinion · 2023Pooled it
- Schoolhouse risk: Can we mitigate the polygenic Pygmalion effect?Acta psychologica · 2024Trial
- Perceptions of Polygenic Scores for Medical and Social Traits Among Biobank Participants and the Public.Biopreservation and biobanking · 2026Article
- Observational epidemiological studies can mitigate genetic confounding with a genetic relatedness matrix.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Distinguishing social and medical traits: perspectives of scientists using polygenic scores.Journal of community genetics · 2026Article
- Associations of genetic variants for educational success with risk and time preferences vary by childhood environment.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of parent-child relationship on adolescent social adjustment following childhood abuse: the moderation of the serotonergic multilocus genetic variation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- A Qualitative Study of the Roles and Responsibilities of Academic and Journalistic Publishing in Social and Behavioral Genomics.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- Genotypic and socioeconomic risks for depressive symptoms in two U.S. cohorts spanning early to older adulthood.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Dating Violence Questionnaire for Victimization and Perpetration (DVQ-VP) in Ecuadorian population.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2025Article
- Social and Behavioral Genomics: On the Ethics of the Research and Its Downstream Applications.Annual review of genomics and human genetics · 2025Review
- The association between temperament and polygenic score for psychopathology from infancy to middle childhood.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Reply to Hirbo et al.: The need for large-scale family cohorts and robust analytical frameworks of postexome study.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- Raising the Floor? Genetic Influences on Educational Attainment Through the Lens of the Evolving Swedish Welfare State.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- (In)effectiveness of Frame-Inducing Rating Instructions in State-Trait Research.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Article
- Associations between common genetic variants and income provide insights about the socio-economic health gradient.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Gene-environment correlation: the role of family environment in academic development.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Ethics of genomic research on occupational status.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Social science genetics is concerned with understanding whether, how and why genetic differences between human beings are linked to differences in behaviours and socioeconomic outcomes. Our review discusses the goals, methods, challenges and implications of this research endeavour. We survey how the recent developments in genetics are beginning to provide social scientists with a powerful new toolbox they can use to better understand environmental effects, and we illustrate this with several substantive examples. Furthermore, we examine how medical research can benefit from genetic insights into social-scientific outcomes and vice versa. Finally, we discuss the ethical challenges of this work and clarify several common misunderstandings and misinterpretations of genetic research on individual differences.
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