The new genetics of intelligence

R Plomin, S Von Stumm - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Intelligence—the ability to learn, reason and solve problems—is at the forefront of
behavioural genetic research. Intelligence is highly heritable and predicts important …

Using genetics for social science

KP Harden, PD Koellinger - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Social science genetics is concerned with understanding whether, how and why genetic
differences between human beings are linked to differences in behaviours and …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

A Okbay, Y Wu, N Wang, H Jayashankar, M Bennett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment (EA) in a
sample of~ 3 million individuals and identify 3,952 approximately uncorrelated genome …

Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction

R Karlsson Linnér, TT Mallard, PB Barr… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, such as substance use, antisocial
behavior and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, are collectively referred to as …

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

JJ Lee, R Wedow, A Okbay, E Kong, O Maghzian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a
sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome …

Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository

J Becker, CAP Burik, G Goldman, N Wang… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Polygenic indexes (PGIs) are DNA-based predictors. Their value for research in many
scientific disciplines is growing rapidly. As a resource for researchers, we used a consistent …

Risk preference shares the psychometric structure of major psychological traits

R Frey, A Pedroni, R Mata, J Rieskamp, R Hertwig - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
To what extent is there a general factor of risk preference, R, akin to g, the general factor of
intelligence? Can risk preference be regarded as a stable psychological trait? These …

Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies

DW Belsky, BW Domingue, R Wedow… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
A summary genetic measure, called a “polygenic score,” derived from a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) of education can modestly predict a person's educational and …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing within-and between-family polygenic score prediction

S Selzam, SJ Ritchie, JB Pingault, CA Reynolds… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Polygenic scores are a popular tool for prediction of complex traits. However, prediction
estimates in samples of unrelated participants can include effects of population stratification …

Genes and environments, development and time

WT Boyce, MB Sokolowski… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A now substantial body of science implicates a dynamic interplay between genetic and
environmental variation in the development of individual differences in behavior and health …