ArticleThe Hastings Center report2023
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility.
Article in The Hastings Center report, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Behavioural genetics must prioritize communication.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Public Perception of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.Behavior genetics · 2026Article
- Distinguishing social and medical traits: perspectives of scientists using polygenic scores.Journal of community genetics · 2026Article
- The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay.The Review of economic studies · 2026Article
- A Qualitative Study of the Roles and Responsibilities of Academic and Journalistic Publishing in Social and Behavioral Genomics.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- Science and sensitivity in the study of not having sex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Deciphering the influence of socioeconomic status on brain structure: insights from Mendelian randomization.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Cognitive and Global Morphometry Trajectories as Predictors of Youth Persistent Distressing Psychotic-Like Experiences.Nature. Mental health · 2025Article
- Genetic tests as prophecy: understanding self-defeating and self-fulfilling mechanisms in (predictive) genetic testing.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2025Review
- Social and Behavioral Genomics: On the Ethics of the Research and Its Downstream Applications.Annual review of genomics and human genetics · 2025Review
- Confounding Fuels Misinterpretation in Human Genetics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
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Abstract
In this consensus report by a diverse group of academics who conduct and/or are concerned about social and behavioral genomics (SBG) research, the authors recount the often-ugly history of scientific attempts to understand the genetic contributions to human behaviors and social outcomes. They then describe what the current science-including genomewide association studies and polygenic indexes-can and cannot tell us, as well as its risks and potential benefits. They conclude with a discussion of responsible behavior in the context of SBG research. SBG research that compares individuals within a group according to a "sensitive" phenotype requires extra attention to responsible conduct and to responsible communication about the research and its findings. SBG research (1) on sensitive phenotypes that (2) compares two or more groups defined by (a) race, (b) ethnicity, or (c) genetic ancestry (where genetic ancestry could easily be misunderstood as race or ethnicity) requires a compelling justification to be conducted, funded, or published. All authors agree that this justification at least requires a convincing argument that a study's design could yield scientifically valid results; some authors would additionally require the study to have a socially favorable risk-benefit profile.
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