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Exploring the Fetal Origins Hypothesis Using Genetic Data.
Article in Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Prenatal famine exposure restricts genetic effects on birth weight with implications for metabolic disease risk.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Polygenic Scores of Executive Function Provide Limited Support for Genetic Confounding With Socio-Economic Measures.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2025Article
- Using the phenotype differences model to identify genetic effects in samples of partially genotyped sibling pairs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Sex-Specific Effects of Birth Weight on Longitudinal Behavioral Outcomes: A Mendelian Randomization Approach Using Polygenic Scores.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Birth weight is a robust predictor of valued life course outcomes, emphasizing the importance of prenatal development. But does birth weight act as a proxy for environmental conditions in utero, or do biological processes surrounding birth weight themselves play a role in healthy development? To answer this question, we leverage variation in birth weight that is, within families, orthogonal to prenatal environmental conditions: one's genes. We construct polygenic scores in two longitudinal studies (Born in Bradford,
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