ArticleScientific reports2021
The impact of late-career job loss and genetic risk on body mass index: Evidence from variance polygenic scores.
Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Socioeconomic position, genetic susceptibility, and epigenetic profiles in obesity across the life course: a systematic review.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of evidence on employment transitions and weight change by gender in ageing populations.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- PIGEON: a statistical framework for estimating gene-environment interaction for polygenic traits.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Mid-to-Late Life Healthy Lifestyle Modifies Genetic Risk for Longitudinal Cognitive Aging among Asymptomatic Individuals.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Apolipoprotein E moderates the association between non-APOE polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease and aging on preclinical cognitive function.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility.The Hastings Center report · 2023Article
- Detecting genetic heterogeneities in response to trauma: The case of 9/11.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
- A quantile integral linear model to quantify genetic effects on phenotypic variability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Modeling Interaction and Dispersion Effects in the Analysis of Gene-by-Environment Interaction.Behavior genetics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Unemployment shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic have reignited concerns over the long-term effects of job loss on population health. Past research has highlighted the corrosive effects of unemployment on health and health behaviors. This study examines whether the effects of job loss on changes in body mass index (BMI) are moderated by genetic predisposition using data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). To improve detection of gene-by-environment (G × E) interplay, we interacted layoffs from business closures-a plausibly exogenous environmental exposure-with whole-genome polygenic scores (PGSs) that capture genetic contributions to both the population mean (mPGS) and variance (vPGS) of BMI. Results show evidence of genetic moderation using a vPGS (as opposed to an mPGS) and indicate genome-wide summary measures of phenotypic plasticity may further our understanding of how environmental stimuli modify the distribution of complex traits in a population.
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