Sociology, genetics, and the coming of age of sociogenomics

MC Mills, FC Tropf - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recent years have seen the birth of sociogenomics via the infusion of molecular genetic
data. We chronicle the history of genetics, focusing particularly on post-2005 genome-wide …

Analysis of polygenic risk score usage and performance in diverse human populations

L Duncan, H Shen, B Gelaye, J Meijsen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A historical tendency to use European ancestry samples hinders medical genetics research,
including the use of polygenic scores, which are individual-level metrics of genetic risk. We …

Why sociology matters to race and biosocial science

DE Roberts, O Rollins - Annual Review of Sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recent developments in genetics and neuroscience have led to increasing interest in
biosocial approaches to social life. While today's biosocial paradigms seek to examine more …

Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology

CH Burt - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2023 - cambridge.org
The sociogenomics revolution is upon us, we are told. Whether revolutionary or not,
sociogenomics is poised to flourish given the ease of incorporating polygenic scores (or …

The erasures of racism in education and international development: Re-reading the 'global learning crisis'

A Sriprakash, L Tikly, S Walker - Compare: A journal of comparative …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite pervasive forms of racism on a global scale, the field of education and international
development continues to fail to substantively engage with the production and effects of …

[图书][B] In the know: Debunking 35 myths about human intelligence

RT Warne - 2020 - books.google.com
"" Theory about intelligence is more fully developed and more mathematically sophisticated
than for almost any other psychological construct. More is known about the underlying …

Genomics literacy matters: Supporting the development of genomics literacy through genetics education could reduce the prevalence of genetic essentialism

BM Donovan, M Weindling, B Salazar… - Journal of Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, it has been argued that improving students' genomics literacy could prevent
students from developing erroneous beliefs about social identity, such as the belief that …

Genetic associations with mathematics tracking and persistence in secondary school

KP Harden, BW Domingue, DW Belsky… - NPJ science of …, 2020 - nature.com
Maximizing the flow of students through the science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) pipeline is important to promoting human capital development and reducing …

“The elephant in the room”: social responsibility in the production of sociogenomics research

DO Martschenko - BioSocieties, 2022 - Springer
Sociogenomics examines the extent to which genetic differences between individuals relate
to differences in social and economic behaviors and outcomes. The field evokes mixed …

Genetic nature or genetic nurture? Introducing social genetic parameters to quantify bias in polygenic score analyses

S Trejo, BW Domingue - Biodemography and social biology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Results from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) can be used to generate a
polygenic score (PGS), an individual-level measure summarizing identified genetic …