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Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals
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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-wide-significant SNPs. For the SNPs taken together, we found evidence of heterogeneous effects across environments. The SNPs implicate genes involved in brain-development processes and neuron-to-neuron communication. In a separate analysis of the X chromosome, we identify 10 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs and estimate a SNP heritability of around 0.3% in both men and women, consistent with partial dosage compensation. A joint (multi-phenotype) analysis of educational attainment and three related cognitive phenotypes generates polygenic scores that explain 11-13% of the variance in educational attainment and 7-10% of the variance in cognitive performance. This prediction accuracy substantially increases the utility of polygenic scores as tools in research.
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This study expands a GWAS of educational attainment to ~1.1 million individuals, identifying 1,271 autosomal lead SNPs and 10 X-chromosome lead SNPs. Joint multi-phenotype analysis yields polygenic scores explaining 11–13% of educational-attainment variance and 7–10% of cognitive-performance variance.
Key findings
- The primary EduYears GWAS (N = 1,131,881) identified 1,271 approximately independent genome-wide-significant SNPs (995 at the stricter P < 1×10−8 threshold); median lead-SNP effect size was 1.7 weeks of schooling per allele (5th–95th percentiles: 1.1–2.6 weeks).
- Lead SNPs showed heterogeneous effects across cohorts: the joint null of homogeneous cohort-level effects was rejected (P = 9.7×10−12), and the inverse-variance-weighted mean cross-cohort genetic correlation was 0.72 (SE = 0.14), distinguishable from one (P = 0.03).
- X-chromosome analyses (N = 694,894) identified 10 lead SNPs and estimated X-chromosome SNP heritability of ~0.3% in both men and women, consistent with partial dosage compensation.
- Polygenic prediction: an LDpred score had incremental R² of 12.7% in Add Health and 10.6% in HRS (weighted average 11.4%); MTAG-based scores explained 11–13% of EduYears variance and 7–10% of cognitive-performance variance. In an African-American HRS sample (N = 1,519), the score’s incremental R² was 1.6%, an 85% attenuation.
Methods
- Sample-size-weighted meta-analysis of 71 quality-controlled cohort-level results files using METAL, restricted to European-ancestry individuals with EduYears measured at age ≥30; ~10 million SNPs from 1000 Genomes phase 3, with LD Score regression intercept used to inflation-adjust test statistics.
- Additional analyses included within-family association in 22,135 sibling pairs, X-chromosome GWAS in UK Biobank and 23andMe, GWAS of cognitive performance (N = 257,841), math ability (N = 564,698), and highest math (N = 430,445), and MTAG joint analysis of the four phenotypes.
- Polygenic scores were constructed with LDpred and evaluated in Add Health (N = 4,775), HRS (N = 8,609), and WLS; biological annotation used DEPICT, stratified LD Score regression, and CAVIARBF fine-mapping.
Limitations
- The paper states that cross-cohort genetic correlation is imperfect for environmentally contingent phenotypes like EA, that within-family effect sizes were roughly 40% smaller than GWAS effect sizes with assortative-mating adjustment explaining at most one third of the deflation, and that GWAS estimates may be biased upward by correlation between EA and rearing environment.
- The paper states that the score has much lower predictive power in an African-American sample and is expected to have reduced power in other non-European-ancestry groups; it also cautions that the score should not be interpreted as a measure of genetic endowment without controls for environmental amplification.
- Evident from the text: all primary association analyses were restricted to European-ancestry individuals, and the X-chromosome heritability analysis could not distinguish whether lower heritability reflects smaller per-allele effects or haploidy/partial X-inactivation.
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“Of the 162 SNPs, 158 pass quality-control filters in our updated meta-analysis.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Replication of lead SNPs from Okbay et al.’s combined-stage analysis.
What the sources say
- Disputedcites Okbay et al. [10] Okbay A Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533, 539– 542 (2016). 27225129 PMC4883595 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper states that its meta-analysis identified 74 approximately independent genome-wide significant loci, with one lead SNP defined for each locus (Abstract; page unavailable). It does not report 162 lead SNPs. The statement that 158 passed filters in the citing authors’ updated meta-analysis describes their own analysis, not a result attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Our finding of an imperfect genetic correlation replicates earlier results from smaller samples16,17.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Heterogeneous Effect Sizes
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [16] de Vlaming R Meta-GWAS Accuracy and Power (MetaGAP) Calculator Shows that Hiding Heritability Is Partially Due to Imperfect Genetic Correlations across Studies. PLOS Genet. 13, e1006495 (2017). 28095416 PMC5240919 source
The Results section reports an earlier estimate of imperfect genetic correlation for years of schooling: approximately 0.8 across studies and between females and males. Table 1 gives the sample size as 20,619, supporting the citation’s reference to a result from a smaller sample. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Partly supportedcites [17] Tropf FC Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations. Nat. Hum. Behav (2017). doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0195-1 PMC5642946 29051922 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports limited evidence that genetic effects on reproductive behaviour in one country predict those in another, consistent with an imperfect cross-population genetic correlation. But it also says the study lacked the power to estimate genetic correlations directly; the correlations of 0.5–0.8 were used in simulations, not measured as a replicated finding. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“However, theoretical projections that failed to consider heterogeneity of effect sizes were optimistic4.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > DISCUSSION
What the sources say
- Could not verifycites [4] Rietveld CA GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment. Science (80−.). 340, 1467– 1471 (2013). PMC3751588 23722424 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The passage labeled Abstract discusses projections for polygenic-score performance and reports small SNP effects, but it does not evaluate projections that ignored heterogeneity of effect sizes. Searches for that assumption and for “optimistic” found no passage making the attributed point. (LLM, conf=0.70)
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“In the subsample of our data (N = 726,808) that did not contribute to the earlier study’s analyses, the SNPs replicate at a rate that closely matches theoretical projections derived from our Bayesian framework (Supplementary Figure 3).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Primary GWAS of EduYears
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [10] Okbay A Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533, 539– 542 (2016). 27225129 PMC4883595 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper’s replication discussion (page unavailable in our copy) reports that SNPs from a previous educational-attainment study replicated in new cohorts, and compares replication of its 74 lead SNPs with expected numbers. Extended Data Figure 4 gives a replication sample of N = 111,349. These passages do not support the claimed 162 associations, N = 726,808 subsample, or projections from the citing authors’ Bayesian framework. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“reported that a 10-million-SNP linear predictor (hereafter, polygenic score) had an out-of-sample predictive power of 3.2%10.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > INTRODUCTION
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- Supportedcites [10] Okbay A Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533, 539– 542 (2016). 27225129 PMC4883595 source
The paper reports that a polygenic score constructed from all measured SNPs had mean predictive power of 3.2% across two holdout samples (Abstract; page unavailable). It describes its GWAS as covering approximately 9.3 million SNPs, consistent with the citing sentence’s rounded description of a 10-million-SNP score. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“The largest (N = 293,723) GWAS of EA to date identified 74 approximately independent SNPs at genome-wide significance (hereafter, lead SNPs)”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > INTRODUCTION
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- Supportedcites [10] Okbay A Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533, 539– 542 (2016). 27225129 PMC4883595 source
The paper’s Abstract reports an educational-attainment GWAS sample of 293,723 and 74 approximately independent genome-wide significant loci. It defines one lead SNP per locus, supporting the citing sentence’s description of 74 lead SNPs. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Our and others’ findings16,17 suggest that imperfect genetic correlation across cohorts will be the norm for phenotypes that, like EA, are environmentally contingent.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > DISCUSSION
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [16] de Vlaming R Meta-GWAS Accuracy and Power (MetaGAP) Calculator Shows that Hiding Heritability Is Partially Due to Imperfect Genetic Correlations across Studies. PLOS Genet. 13, e1006495 (2017). 28095416 PMC5240919 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (Empirical results for SNP-based heritability and CGR; page unavailable) report an average cross-study genetic correlation of about 0.8 for years of schooling. The Discussion (page unavailable) identifies differing environments and gene–environment interactions as possible explanations, but says the study cannot disentangle the causes. It does not establish that imperfect correlations will be the norm across environmentally contingent phenotypes generally. (LLM, conf=0.84)
- Partly supportedcites [17] Tropf FC Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations. Nat. Hum. Behav (2017). doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0195-1 PMC5642946 29051922 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (Best model by phenotype; page unavailable) find that birth cohort moderates genetic effects on educational attainment, supporting that example. But the same section finds no birth-cohort heterogeneity for the reproductive phenotypes, and the Discussion says genetic correlations across cohorts were not directly estimated. The paper therefore does not establish that imperfect correlations will be the norm for environmentally contingent phenotypes generally. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“we applied the bioinformatics tool DEPICT19 and found that, relative to other genes, genes near our lead SNPs are overwhelmingly enriched for expression in the central nervous system (Fig. 3A, Supplementary Table 6).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
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- Supportedcites [19] Pers TH Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions. Nat. Commun 6, 5890 (2015). 25597830 PMC4420238 source
The citation identifies DEPICT as the tool the citing authors applied, rather than attributing their central-nervous-system finding to this paper. The Discussion describes DEPICT as a tool for tissue/cell-type enrichment analysis, and Methods explains that it takes independent associated SNPs as input. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“According to our LD Score regression13 estimates, only a small share (~5%) of this inflation is attributable to bias (Supplementary Figure 2, Supplementary Table 1).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Primary GWAS of EduYears
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [13] Bulik-Sullivan BK LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies. Nat. Genet 47, 291– 295 (2015). 25642630 PMC4495769 source
The citation identifies LD Score regression as the method used for the citing authors’ own estimates, rather than attributing their ~5% result to this paper. The Results (Simulations with Confounding and Polygenicity; page unavailable) state that the method can partition test-statistic inflation between bias and polygenicity. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Because the discovery sample used to construct the score consisted of individuals of European ancestry, we would not expect the predictive power of our score to be as high in other ancestry groups7,26,27.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [7] Domingue BW, Belsky DW, Conley D, Harris KM & Boardman JD Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment: New evidence from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. AERA Open 1, 1– 13 (2015). 28164148 PMC5291340 source
The Materials > Sample section says the original GWAS used to construct the score was conducted in people of European descent and that its replication in African American samples may be compromised by ancestry-related differences in linkage disequilibrium. The Introduction also describes the potential racial specificity of GWAS findings, supporting the citing sentence’s expectation of lower predictive power in other ancestry groups. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [26] Martin AR Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations. Am. J. Hum. Genet 100, 635– 649 (2017). 28366442 PMC5384097 source
- Supportedcites [27] Scutari M, Mackay I & Balding D Using Genetic Distance to Infer the Accuracy of Genomic Prediction. PLoS Genet. 12, e1006288 (2016). 27589268 PMC5010218 source
The Introduction states that genomic models have lower average predictive accuracy when the target population is more distantly related to the training population. It also notes that causal variants can differ between human ancestry groups. The European ancestry of the citing authors’ discovery sample is their own context, not a finding attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“which encodes the pore-forming subunit of a voltage-gated calcium channel that has been implicated in the trafficking of NMDA-type glutamate receptors24.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
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- Supportedcites [24] Wang G CaV3.2 calcium channels control NMDA receptor-mediated transmission: a new mechanism for absence epilepsy. Genes Dev. 29, 1535– 51 (2015). 26220996 PMC4526737 source
The Discussion (‘Pathological function of CaV3.2 channels’; page not provided) links CACNA1H to CaV3.2 channels. The Results (‘CaV3.2 channels regulate glutamatergic transmission at various synapses’; page not provided) report that CaV3.2 regulates the synaptic incorporation of NMDA receptors, supporting the claim’s reference to receptor trafficking. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“(For height, the analogous estimate is only 6%.)”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Within-Family Association Analyses
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- Partly supportedcites [15] Kong A The nature of nurture: effects of parental genotypes. bioRxiv 219261 (2017). doi: 10.1101/219261 29371463 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The section ‘The nature of genetic nurture and other polygenic scores’ (page unavailable) reports an association between height and a non-transmitted height polygenic score, but gives no 6% estimate; it says most of the observed effect is estimated to be due to assortative-mating confounding. The height row of Table 1 (page unavailable) uses an educational-attainment polygenic score and does not establish the claimed 6% figure. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“At the standard false discovery rate (FDR) threshold of 5%, the bioinformatics tool DEPICT19 prioritizes 1,838 genes (Supplementary Table 7), a tenfold increase relative to the DEPICT results from an earlier GWAS of EduYears10.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [19] Pers TH Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions. Nat. Commun 6, 5890 (2015). 25597830 PMC4420238 source
The citation attached to “DEPICT” identifies the bioinformatics tool, rather than sourcing the 1,838-gene count or the tenfold comparison. The Results (Overview of the DEPICT methodology) and Methods (DEPICT gene prioritization) describe the tool and its false-discovery-rate procedure. The sentence assigns the count to Supplementary Table 7 and the earlier comparison to a separate GWAS citation. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Partly supportedcites [10] Okbay A Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533, 539– 542 (2016). 27225129 PMC4883595 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Extended Data Figure 9 documents DEPICT-prioritized genes for EduYears, supporting the identification of this paper as an earlier DEPICT analysis. Our copy does not give the earlier gene count or establish the claimed tenfold comparison; the 1,838 genes are presented as the citing study’s result, not this source’s. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“Educational attainment (EA) is moderately heritable1 and an important correlate of many social, economic, and health outcomes2,3.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > INTRODUCTION
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [2] Conti G, Heckman J & Urzua S The Education-Health Gradient. Am. Econ. Rev 100, 234– 238 (2010). 24741117 PMC3985402 source
The Abstract describes a well-established correlation between schooling and health and says more educated individuals have better labor-market prospects. The Findings section also reports educational differences across health, employment, and health-related behaviors, supporting the broader claim about social and economic outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Not matchedcites [3] Cutler DM & Lleras-Muney A Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence in Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy (eds. House J, Schoeni R, Kaplan G & Pollack H) (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008).
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“all major conclusions from the largest previous GWAS of EduYears10 continue to hold but are statistically stronger.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [10] Okbay A Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 533, 539– 542 (2016). 27225129 PMC4883595 source
The citation identifies the previous EduYears GWAS, rather than attributing the citing authors’ comparison with their newer results to that earlier paper. The paper’s main-text passage presented under the Abstract heading reports an EduYears GWAS of 293,723 people that identified 74 loci, supporting that identification. Whether the newer results are statistically stronger is the citing authors’ conclusion. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“a recent paper15 reports that a polygenic score for EduYears based entirely on parents’ non-transmitted alleles is approximately 30% as predictive as a polygenic score based on transmitted alleles.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Within-Family Association Analyses
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- Supportedcites [15] Kong A The nature of nurture: effects of parental genotypes. bioRxiv 219261 (2017). doi: 10.1101/219261 29371463 source
In “Estimating direct effects,” the paper defines scores from transmitted and non-transmitted parental alleles and reports estimated effects on educational attainment of 0.223 and 0.067, respectively. The non-transmitted score’s effect is about 30% of the transmitted score’s effect, matching the claim’s approximate comparison. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“using stratified LD Score regression21, we estimated relatively weak enrichment of genes highly expressed in glial cells (Supplementary Table 9): 1.08-fold for astrocytes (P = 0.07) and 1.09-fold for oligodendrocytes (P = 0.06) versus 1.33-fold for neurons (P = 2.89×10−11).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
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- Not checked yetcites [21] Finucane HK Partitioning heritability by functional category using GWAS summary statistics. Nat. Genet 47, 1228– 1235 (2015). 26414678 PMC4626285
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“The difference between the bottom and top quintiles in Add Health and HRS is, respectively, 45 and 36 percentage points”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“The score is a better predictor of EduYears than household income and a worse predictor than mother’s or father’s education.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“we found that the inverse-variance-weighted mean genetic correlation of EduYears across pairs of cohorts in our sample is 0.72 (SE = 0.14), which is statistically distinguishable from one (P value = 0.03).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Heterogeneous Effect Sizes
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“when our score is used to predict EduYears in a sample of African-Americans from the HRS (N = 1,519), the score only has an incremental R2 of 1.6%, implying an attenuation of 85%.”
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“we found that our score for EA has much lower predictive power in an African-American sample than in a European-ancestry sample”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“This score was the most predictive in both cohorts, with an incremental R2 of 12.7% in AddHealth and 10.6% in HRS (and a sample-size weighted average of 11.4%).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“Supplementary Table 14 shows moderately high pairwise genetic correlations, ranging from 0.51 to 0.85, which motivate the multivariate analysis.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > MTAG of Cognitive Performance, Math Ability and Highest Math.
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“In Add Health, where our measure of cognitive performance is the respondent’s score on a test of verbal cognition, the incremental R2s of the GWAS and MTAG scores are 5.1% and 6.9%, respectively.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Related Cognitive Phenotypes and MTAG
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“The concordance is substantially greater than expected by chance but weaker than predicted by our Bayesian framework, even after we extend the framework to account for inflation in GWAS coefficients due to assortative mating.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Within-Family Association Analyses
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“We found that the median effect size of the lead SNPs corresponds to 1.7 weeks of schooling per allele; at the 5th and 95th percentiles, 1.1 and 2.6 weeks, respectively.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Primary GWAS of EduYears
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“Eight of these are non-synonymous, and one of these (rs61734410) is located in CACNA1H (Supplementary Figure 9)”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
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“This gave us an omnibus Q-statistic of 91,830, with corresponding P value equal to 9.68 × 10−12.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Joint F-test of heterogeneity.
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“For comparison, when we apply the same method to height, we found that the assortative-mating adjustment fully explains the deflation of the within-family effects.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Within-Family Association Analyses
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“The genetic correlation across pairs of cohorts will be correlated across all observations that share one of their cohorts in common.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Cross-cohort genetic correlation.
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“All cohort-level analyses were restricted to European-ancestry individuals that passed the cohort’s quality control and whose EduYears was measured at an age of at least 30.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Genome-wide association study meta-analyses.
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“Additionally, we dropped a small number of SNPs with male-female allele frequency differences above 0.005 in UKB.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > X chromosome.
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“Relative to the GWAS effect estimate, the mean of the posterior distribution is shrunken toward zero (because zero is the mean of the prior distribution) and is not biased by the winner’s curse.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Bayesian framework for calculating winner’s-curse-adjusted posterior effect-size distributions.
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“To adjust the test statistics for bias, we inflated the standard errors using the LD Score regression intercept estimated from our main autosomal analysis (1.113).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > X chromosome.
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“To obtain 95% confidence intervals, we bootstrapped the incremental R2’s with 1000 repetitions”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Polygenic prediction.
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“Because this formula holds when Z1 and Z2 are independent, the implicitly-defined Z2 is interpreted as the additional information contained in the new data.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Replication of lead SNPs from Okbay et al.’s combined-stage analysis.
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“we also clustered all standard errors at the person level.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Prediction of other phenotypes.
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“If this hypothesis is correct, some of the predictive power of the polygenic score reflects environmental amplification of the genetic effects.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > DISCUSSION
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“The SNPs implicate genes involved in brain-development processes and neuron-to-neuron communication.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > Abstract
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“even though glial cells are at least as numerous as neurons in the human brain20”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [20] Azevedo FAC Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain. J. Comp. Neurol 513, 532– 541 (2009). 19226510 source
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“We adjusted the test statistics using the estimated intercepts from LD Score regressions (1.073 for Math Ability, 1.105 for Highest Math, and 1.046 for Cognitive Performance).”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > GWAS of Cognitive Performance, Math Ability and Highest Math.
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“as sample sizes get large, thousands of lead SNPs will be identified, and polygenic predictors will attain non-trivial levels of predictive power.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > DISCUSSION
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“Therefore, to obtain correct standard errors, we used the node-jackknife variance estimator described by Cameron and Miller40.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Cross-cohort genetic correlation.
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“Both sets of association results underwent the same set of quality-control filters as the autosomal analyses prior to meta-analysis.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > X chromosome.
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“if EA-increasing genotypes are associated with parental EA-increasing genotypes, which are in turn associated with rearing environments that promote EA, then failure to control for rearing environment will bias GWAS estimates.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > DISCUSSION
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“If greater parental EA positively influences the rearing environment, then GWAS that control imperfectly for rearing environment will yield inflated estimates.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Within-Family Association Analyses
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“The summary statistics underwent quality control using the same procedures applied to the EduYears results files.”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > GWAS of Cognitive Performance, Math Ability and Highest Math.
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The authors state this as an assumption.
The marginal effect size of each SNP is drawn from a mixture distribution with a point mass at zero and a normal component for non-null SNPs.
“We assume that the marginal effect size of each SNP is drawn from the following mixture distribution: βj~{N(0,τ2)withprobabilityπ0otherwise, where τ2 is the effect-size variance for non-null SNPs and π is the fraction of non-null SNPs in our data.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Add Health is a representative sample of American adolescents and HRS is a representative sample of Americans over age 50.
“the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health, N = 4,775), a representative sample of American adolescents; and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS, N = 8,609), a representative sample of Americans over age 50.”
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The effective number of SNPs (Meff) is the same in males and females for X chromosome SNP heritability estimation.
“Meff is the effective number of SNPs (which is assumed to be the same in males and females).”
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The fraction of causal variants used in LDpred for polygenic score construction is equal to 1.
“assuming a fraction of causal variants equal to 1”
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Z1 and Z2 are independent for the replication formula to interpret Z2 as additional information.
“Because this formula holds when Z1 and Z2 are independent, the implicitly-defined Z2 is interpreted as the additional information contained in the new data.”
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“According to the LD score regression8 intercept (1.66), confounding accounts for 7% of the inflation, similar to previous GWAS of EA2”
From Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals (2022) · cites this paper as [2]
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“all of which have been previously reported in EUR ancestry GWASs (313 variants in ref. 14 and rs9257925 and rs7224296 in ref. 10).”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“In the EAS population, EduYears-associated SNPs were strongly enriched in the brain, parietal lobe and putamen of the central nervous system at an FDR <5% threshold (Supplementary Fig. 9a and Supplementary Table 10), which is consistent with previously published LDSC-SEG results in EUR14.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“In the UKBB Chinese samples, which are genetically EAS but may be environmentally close to EUR, both the EUR-based PGS and EAS-based PGS showed lower predictive power than in other EAS cohorts in our study or previous studies10,14.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“they were located beyond ±500 kb of the lead SNPs reported in previous EduYears GWAS (Supplementary Figs. 10 and 11)10,14.”
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“We performed LDSC v1.0.1 (ref. 18) to estimate the SNP-based heritability of EduYears in the TWB, KoGES, EAS and EUR populations14 using population-specific LD scores based on the 1KG Project phase 3 data.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“We adjusted for the birth year (BY), BY2, BY3, sex, BY by sex interaction, BY2 by sex interaction, BY3 by sex interaction, and the top ten PCs, based on previous GWAS for EduYears14.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“Consistent with previous studies13,14,19,40, we found that GWAS results and downstream analyses of behavioral phenotypes (for example, educational attainment, smoking behavior) as well as some anthropometric phenotypes (for example, height, BMI) are affected by demographic and indirect genetic effects.”
From Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects (2022) · cites this paper as [14]
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“Analysis of loci that reach GWAS and nominal significance and SNPs in LD with them at D’ ≥ 0.8 reveals predominant associations with traits such as cognitive decline [12, 68, 69], educational attainment [70–73], mean bone density [57, 74], intelligence and performance intelligence quotient [75, 76] and soluble TREM-2 levels [77].”
From Genetic drivers of progression in Alzheimer’s disease are distinct from disease risk (2026) · cites this paper as [72]
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“Previous GWAS meta-analyses and replication studies have identified genetic variants associated with EduYears11–14.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“In the EAS population, SNP heritability was significantly enriched in the central nervous system, including the foetal brain, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and inferior temporal lobe after FDR correction (Supplementary Fig. 9b and Supplementary Table 11), which is also consistent with previous results in EUR14.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“The enrichment in neurons was also found in previous EUR studies10,14.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“For example, Lee et al.14 found that within-sibship GWAS estimates for educational attainment variants were around 40% lower than estimates from unrelated individuals, indicating the presence of demographic and indirect genetic effects.”
From Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects (2022) · cites this paper as Lee et al. [14]
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“We first document that the EA PGI not only predicts a range of cognitive phenotypes as has been found in previous work2,4, but it also adds non-trivial predictive power for 10 diseases we examine, even after controlling for disease-specific PGIs.”
From Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals (2022) · cites this paper as [2]
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“The MAF values of rs2881903 and rs16930687 were 5.2% versus 8.8% and 2.3% versus 0.7% in EAS and EUR14, respectively.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“The SNP-based heritability was similar within the EAS population (9.7 ± 0.8%) for TWB and (8.7 ± 0.9%) for KoGES and between EAS (9.0 ± 0.6%) and EUR (10.7 ± 0.3%) populations14.”
From Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations (2024) · cites this paper as [14]
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“This matters because intelligence, educational attainment, and other cognitive abilities are all highly heritable9,34.”
From The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background (2022) · cites this paper as [34]
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“However, the genome-wide association study34 that we used to estimate cogPGS is heavily biased towards those of European descent.”
From The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background (2022) · cites this paper as [34]
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“The combination of these regions was able to explain 11–13% of the variance in educational attainment and 7–10% of the variance in cognitive performance.”
From The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background (2022) · cites this paper as [34]
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“Recently, a large, genome-wide association study with 1.1 million people was able to estimate the effect of thousands of genetic regions on cognitive performance, educational attainment, and mathematical ability34.”
From The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background (2022) · cites this paper as [34]
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“Furthermore, these GWAS had hundreds of thousands of individuals, and such a large sample size allows new studies to detect effects in samples of a few hundred individuals with 80% statistical power34.”
From The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background (2022) · cites this paper as [34]
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“This joint analysis is ideal because pairwise genetic correlations of these traits were high34.”
From The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background (2022) · cites this paper as [34]
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§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Genome-wide association study meta-analyses.
“extends the (combined discovery and replication) sample of a previous genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment10 from N = 405,072 to N = 1,131,881 individuals”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Replication of lead SNPs from Okbay et al.’s combined-stage analysis.
“Okbay et al.’s10 pooled (discovery and replication) meta-analysis (N = 405,073)”
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§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > RESULTS > Primary GWAS of EduYears
“We identified 1,271 approximately independent (pairwise r2 < 0.1) SNPs at genome-wide significance (P < 5×12−8)”
§ Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a 1.1-million-person GWAS of educational attainment > ONLINE METHODS > Clumping algorithm.
“We describe it here for the case of identifying lead SNPs among the set of SNPs reaching P < 5×10−8”
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Self-citationAn integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes
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LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies
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METAL: fast and efficient meta-analysis of genomewide association scans
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An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits
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Cross-ancestry genetic investigation of schizophrenia, cannabis use disorder, and tobacco smoking
Johnson, E. C., Austin-Zimmerman, I., Thorpe, H. H. A., Levey, D. F., Baranger, D. A. A., Colbert, S. M. C., Demontis, D., Khokhar, J. Y., Davis, L. K., Edenberg, H. J., et al. (2024) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/s41386-024-01886-3 · Cited by 18
“When strati fi ed by broad tissue type, the genetic covariance between CanUD and Scz was signi fi cantly enriched for brain tissues in the European ancestry data ( ρ = 0.029, p = 8.3e-4), while the genetic covariance between Smk and Scz was not signi fi cantly enriched for any tissue category (Fig.”
BackgroundInfluentialGenetic neurodevelopmental clustering and dyslexia
Čiulkinytė, A., Mountford, H. S., Fontanillas, P., Aslibekyan, S. W., Auton, A., Babalola, E., Bell, R. K., Bielenberg, J., Bowes, J., Bryc, K., et al. (2024) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02649-8 · Cited by 25
Self-citationGene-environment correlation: the role of family environment in academic development
Zhou, Q., Gidziela, A., Allegrini, A. G., Cheesman, R., Wertz, J., Maxwell, J. M., Plomin, R. J., Rimfeld, K., & Malanchini, M. (2024) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02716-0 · Cited by 27
“A polygenic score (PGS) constructed aggregating findings from large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of educational attainment (i.e., years of schooling) (16,17) has also been found to explain up to 15% of the variation in academic achievement at the end of compulsory education (10,16, 17).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialEvidence for the Scarr–Rowe Effect on Genetic Expressivity in a Large U.S. Sample
Menie, M. A. W. O., Pallesen, J., & Sarraf, M. A. (2018) · Twin Research and Human Genetics · doi:10.1017/thg.2018.63 · Cited by 16
“It should finally be noted that the sample from which Lee et al. (2018) derived EA3 was extremely large (N > 1 million; WLS was but a small part of the overall sample) and was ethnically heterogeneous, thus EA3 is corrected for population stratification.”
BackgroundMethodZhang, R., Song, J., Isgren, A., Jakobsson, J., Blennow, K., Sellgren, C. M., Zetterberg, H., Bergen, S. E., & Landén, M. (2020) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-020-0737-6 · Cited by 18
Using Chronobiological Phenotypes to Address Heterogeneity in Bipolar Disorder
Gonzalez, R., Gonzalez, S., & McCarthy, M. J. (2019) · Complex Psychiatry · doi:10.1159/000506636 · Cited by 20
Local Intergenerational Mobility
Kourtellos, A., Marr, C., & Tan, C. M. (2020) · European Economic Review · doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103460 · Cited by 18
Family-based genome-wide association study of autism spectrum disorder in middle eastern families
Al-Sarraj, Y., Al-Dous, E., Taha, R. Z., Ahram, D., Alshaban, F., Tolfat, M., El-Shanti, H., & Albagha, O. M. E. (2021) · Genes · doi:10.3390/genes12050761 · Cited by 17
“Interestingly, SNPs in TLK1 have been associated with mathematical ability in GWAS studies [49], whereas pathogenic mutations in TLK2, a paralog of TLK1, have been reported in patients with ASD, intellectual disability (ID), schizophrenia, and microcephaly [50–53].”
BackgroundYang, F., Chen, S., Qu, Z., Wang, K., Xie, X., & Cui, H. (2021) · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnagi.2021.757388 · Cited by 17
“One cohort study suggested that compared with normal participants, individuals with AD spent larger proportion of time on leisure sedentary behavior and had more long-time sedentary bouts (Lu et al., 2018).”
Howe, L. J., Brumpton, B. M., Rasheed, H., Åsvold, B. O., Willer, C., Smith, G. D., & Davies, N. M. (2022) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.72984 · Cited by 18
Gene-environment interplay in early life cognitive development
von Stumm, S., Kandaswamy, R., & Maxwell, J. M. (2023) · Intelligence · doi:10.1016/j.intell.2023.101748 · Cited by 20
Liu, H. (2019) · Social Science Research · doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.04.008 · Cited by 15
The practical utility of genetic screening in school settings
Shero, J. A., van Dijk, W., Edwards, A. A., Schatschneider, C. W., Solari, E. J., & Hart, S. A. (2021) · npj Science of Learning · doi:10.1038/s41539-021-00090-y · Cited by 17
Genetic influences on the intrinsic and extrinsic functional organizations of the cerebral cortexPreprint
Zhao, B., Li, T., Smith, S. M., Fan, Z., Yang, X., Yang, Y., Shu, J., Xiong, D., Wang, X., Yang, Y., et al. (2021) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2021.07.27.21261187 · Cited by 13
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“…the potential for false positives, we also quantified the extent to which these genes and factors captured the heritability of height and educational attainment, two traits where variation in gut cell gene expression is unlikely to be a contributing factor (Yengo et al. 2018, Lee et al. 2018).”
Johnson, R., Burch, K. S., Hou, K., Paciuc, M., Pasaniuc, B., & Sankararaman, S. (2021) · PLoS Computational Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009483 · Cited by 16
“50, and the sample size from N = 50K, 500K, 1M individuals, which is comparable to the sample sizes of many current GWAS studies [24, 25].”
ResultUsing Human Genetics to Drive Drug Discovery: A Perspective
Fox, C. S. (2019) · American Journal of Kidney Diseases · doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2018.12.045 · Cited by 16
Human Capital Mediates Natural Selection in Contemporary Humans
Hugh-Jones, D., & Abdellaoui, A. (2022) · Behavior Genetics · doi:10.1007/s10519-022-10107-w · Cited by 20
“In addition, genetic effects on educational attainment have been shown to be inflated in population-based samples as compared to within-family designs, likely because of indirect genetic effects, gene-environment correlations, and/or assortative mating (Lee et al. 2018; Selzam et al. 2019; Kong et al. 2018; Howe et al…”
BackgroundGenetic effects on longitudinal cognitive decline during the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease
Kumar, A., Shoai, M., Palmqvist, S., Stomrud, E., Hardy, J., Mattsson, N., & Hansson, O. (2021) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-021-99310-z · Cited by 16
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Sex-heterogeneous SNPs disproportionately influence gene expression and health
Traglia, M., Bout, M., & Weiss, L. A. (2022) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010147 · Cited by 17
“3/123 NS Educational attainment Lee 2018[53] 1784 13.”
BackgroundGranot‐Hershkovitz, E., He, S., Bressler, J., Yu, B., Tarraf, W., Rebholz, C. M., Cai, J., Chan, Q. M., Garcia, T. P., Mosley, T. H., et al. (2022) · Alzheimer s & Dementia · doi:10.1002/alz.12786 · Cited by 14
“[29] Lee JJ, Wedow R, Okbay A, Kong E, Maghzian O, Zacher M, et al.”
BackgroundMethodKretschmer, T. (2022) · Social Development · doi:10.1111/sode.12633 · Cited by 19
Loughnan, R. J., Palmer, C. E., Thompson, W. K., Dale, A. M., Jernigan, T. L., & Fan, C. C. (2023) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/09567976231160702 · Cited by 35
“…Savage et al., 2018) and educational attainment, sometimes considered a proxy for intellectual ability (based on 1.1 million individuals; Lee et al., 2018), to address the following question: Do these genomic predictors account for more of the variability in estimates of culturally…”
BackgroundInfluentialWan, B., Ma, N., Zhou, Z., & Lu, W. (2023) · Molecular Brain · doi:10.1186/s13041-023-01030-0 · Cited by 17
“71 years) were derived from a GWAS study with 293,723 participants (GWAS ID: ieu-a-1001) [17].”
MethodXu, Q., Cai, M., Ji, Y., Ma, J., Liu, J., Zhao, Q., Chen, Y., Zhao, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, H., et al. (2023) · Schizophrenia · doi:10.1038/s41537-023-00389-2 · Cited by 17
“…years, household income, employment status, and TDI were used as potential mediators for the causal association between schizophrenia and MDD. Genetic IVs for educational years were obtained from summary-level data of a published GWAS restricted to European ancestry with 766,345 individuals 31 .”
MethodGuidelines for Evaluating the Comparability of Down-Sampled GWAS Summary Statistics
Williams, C. M., Poore, H. E., Tanksley, P. T., Kweon, H., Courchesne‐Krak, N. S., Londoño-Correa, D., Mallard, T. T., Barr, P. B., Koellinger, P., Waldman, I. D., et al. (2023) · Behavior Genetics · doi:10.1007/s10519-023-10152-z · Cited by 23
“To address this challenge, researchers can publicly share down-sampled GWAS summary statistics that exclude restricted data (Coleman et al. 2020; Lee et al. 2018; Yengo et al. 2022).”
Self-citationVerhoef, E., Allegrini, A. G., Jansen, P. R., Lange, K., Wang, C. A., Morgan, A. T., Ahluwalia, T. S., Symeonides, C., Andreassen, O. A., Bartels, M., et al. (2023) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.11.025 · Cited by 22
Self-citationLan, G., Xie, M., Lan, J., Huang, Z., Xie, X., Liang, M., Chen, Z., Jiang, X., Lu, X., Ye, X., et al. (2024) · Respiratory Research · doi:10.1186/s12931-024-02722-4 · Cited by 16
“This analysis identified 1271 independent SNPs that exhibited significant associations with EA [14].”
BackgroundBigdeli, T. B., Barr, P. B., Rajeevan, N., Graham, D. P., Li, Y., Meyers, J. L., Gorman, B. R., Peterson, R. E., Sayward, F. G., Radhakrishnan, K., et al. (2024) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02472-1 · Cited by 18
“PP4R1 , encoding protein phosphatase 4 regulatory subunit 1, and TIAF1 , encoding TGFB1-induced anti-apoptotic factor 1, have been implicated in recent, large-scale meta-analyses of cognitive performance [60] and major depression, respectively [61, 62].”
Self-citationBURT, C. H. (2024) · Sociological Methodology · doi:10.1177/00811750241236482 · Cited by 17
Zhang, Z., Tan, J., & Luo, Q. (2024) · BMC Psychiatry · doi:10.1186/s12888-024-05723-1 · Cited by 17
“A compilation of SNPs related to cognitive performance was gathered from the UKB and Cognitive Genomics Consortium datasets [35], encompassing approximately 10 million genetic variations observed in 257,841 individuals predominantly of European ancestry.”
MethodGhirardi, G., Gil-Hernández, C. J., Bernardi, F., van Bergen, E., & Demange, P. (2024) · Research in Social Stratification and Mobility · doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100960 · Cited by 16
“…interaction studies on educational outcomes mainly focus on the genetic propensity for adult attainment, using the PGI for total years of education (Lee et al., 2018). f However, educational attainment can be further distinguished into cognitive and noncognitive skills (Demange et al., 2021),…”
Dunkel, C. S., Menie, M. A. W. O., Pallesen, J., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019) · Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1037/ebs0000158 · Cited by 16
Education, intelligence, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A Mendelian randomization study
Zhang, L., Tang, L., Xia, K., Huang, T., & Fan, D. (2020) · Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology · doi:10.1002/acn3.51156 · Cited by 16
“In addition, 618, 366, and 226 independent lead SNPs related to cognitive phenotypes, including self-reported math ability (N = 564,698), highest math class (N = 430,445), and cognitive performance (N = 257,841), respectively, were identified.(14) The highest math class were evaluated by the question “Excluding statis…”
BackgroundResultInfluentialOhi, K., Otowa, T., Shimada, M., Sugiyama, S., Muto, Y., Tanahashi, S., Kaiya, H., Nishimura, F., Sasaki, T., Tanii, H., et al. (2020) · European Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2020.11.003 · Cited by 16
Medical Records-Based Genetic Studies of the Complement System
Khan, A., Shang, N., Petukhova, L., Zhang, J., Shen, Y., Hebbring, S. J., Moncrieffe, H., Kottyan, L. C., Namjou‐Khales, B., Knevel, R., et al. (2021) · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · doi:10.1681/asn.2020091371 · Cited by 15
Ksinan, A. J., Smith, R. L., Barr, P. B., & Vazsonyi, A. T. (2021) · Behavior Genetics · doi:10.1007/s10519-021-10079-3 · Cited by 17
Flitman, R. S., Khalili, B., Kutalik, Z., Rueedi, R., Brümmer, A., & Bergmann, S. (2021) · Journal of Proteome Research · doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00585 · Cited by 16
Assortative mating and within-spouse pair comparisons
Howe, L. J., Battram, T., Morris, T., Hartwig, F. P., Hemani, G., Davies, N. M., & Smith, G. D. (2021) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1009883 · Cited by 14
“Within-sibship models are a gold standard within family design for estimating genetic associations because they control for demographic and parental effects [4,6,36,37].”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialMagwai, T., & Xulu, K. R. (2022) · Genes · doi:10.3390/genes13020300 · Cited by 20
Wang, R., Li, C., Huo, Z., Ge, F., Zhong, R., Jiang, Y., Wen, Y., Su, Z., Jiang, Y., Cheng, B., et al. (2022) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.780538 · Cited by 16
“For the association between genetic variants and family SEP in childhood (Xg), summary data were utilized from published Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWASs),[55-70] including Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC) (1,060,068 individuals), MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (MRC-IEU)(249,790 individua…”
MethodRimfeld, K., Malanchini, M., Arathimos, R., Gidziela, A., Pain, O., McMillan, A. J., Ogden, R., Webster, L., Packer, A. E., Shakeshaft, N. G., et al. (2022) · BJPsych Open · doi:10.1192/bjo.2022.506 · Cited by 16
Weller, A. E., Ferraro, T. N., Doyle, G. A. R., Reiner, B. C., Crist, R. C., & Berrettini, W. H. (2022) · Journal of Alzheimer s Disease · doi:10.3233/jad-220391 · Cited by 16
Fu, L., Wang, Y., & Hu, Y. (2022) · Frontiers in Endocrinology · doi:10.3389/fendo.2022.1037546 · Cited by 16
“In order to comply with this assumption, we assessed the possible relationship between the genetic instruments and risk factors, encompassing the degree of education (46), smoking, and alcohol using the rate (47).”
MethodBiallelic loss‐of‐function variants in RBL2 in siblings with a neurodevelopmental disorder
Brunet, T., Radivojkov‐Blagojevic, M., Lichtner, P., et al. (2020) · Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology · doi:10.1002/acn3.50992 · Cited by 16
Feng, J., Chen, C., Cai, Y., Ye, Z., Feng, K., Liu, J., Zhang, L., Yang, Q., Li, A., Sheng, J., et al. (2020) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.25018 · Cited by 17
“…nervous system (CNS; S. H. Lee et al., 2012; Raychaudhuri et al., 2010), SNPs associated with human intelligence (Savage et al., 2018), SNPs associated with educational attainment (J. J. Lee et al., 2018), SCZ-associated SNPs (Z. Li et al., 2017), and ADHD-associated SNPs (Demontis et al., 2018).”
BackgroundWhy are education, socioeconomic position and intelligence genetically correlated?Preprint
Morris, T., Davies, N. M., Hemani, G., & Smith, G. D. (2019) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/630426 · Cited by 16
Genetic correlates of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism
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“Educational attainment (28) (N = 766,345, excluding the 78 23andMe dataset), 2.”
BackgroundInfluentialPhysical activity and academic performance: Genetic and environmental associations
AALTONEN, S., LATVALA, A., JELENKOVIC, A., ROSE, R. J., KUJALA, U. M., KAPRIO, J., & SILVENTOINEN, K. (2020) · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · doi:10.1249/mss.0000000000002124 · Cited by 15
Jawinski, P., Forstbach, H., Kirsten, H., Beyer, F., Villringer, A., Witte, A. V., Scholz, M. R., Ripke, S., & Markett, S. A. (2025) · Nature Aging · doi:10.1038/s43587-025-00962-7 · Cited by 18
“Covariates included sex (field 31), age (derived from fields 34, 52 and 53), age 2 , scanner site (field 54) and total intracranial volume (from CAT12 segmentation).”
From Genotype to Phenotype: Polygenic Prediction of Complex Human Traits
Raben, T. G., Lello, L., Widén, E., & Hsu, S. (2022) · Methods in molecular biology · doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-2205-6_15 · Cited by 14
Prenatal risk factors and neonatal DNA methylation in very preterm infants
Camerota, M., Graw, S., Everson, T. M., McGowan, E. C., Hofheimer, J. A., O’Shea, T. M., Carter, B. S., Helderman, J., Check, J. F., Neal, C. R., et al. (2021) · Clinical Epigenetics · doi:10.1186/s13148-021-01164-9 · Cited by 18
“Interestingly, both the BNIP3 and PRKAG2 genes have been associated with similar traits in previous GWAS analyses, including educational attainment [63] and cognitive function [60, 63], suggesting that the associations between prenatal risk factors and child outcomes may be marked by some degree of equifinality (i.”
BackgroundLinking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds
Gordon, R. L., Ravignani, A., Bruno, J. H., Robinson, C. M., Scartozzi, A., Embalabala, R., Niarchou, M., 23andMe Research Team, Cox, N. J., & Creanza, N. (2021) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0329 · Cited by 15
“Gene set enrichment approaches are useful for detecting biological functions associated with the polygenic genetic architecture of complex traits [40], where the heritability results from an accumulation of small effects [57]; GSA has been robustly used for phenotypes such as cognition and brain morphology [58,59], ob…”
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Genome-Wide Association Study: A Powerful Approach to Map QTLs in Crop Plants
Desaint, H., Héreil, A., & Causse, M. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28146-4_15 · Cited by 16
Evolutionary Trends of Polygenic Scores in European Populations From the Paleolithic to Modern Times
Piffer, D., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2024) · Twin Research and Human Genetics · doi:10.1017/thg.2024.8 · Cited by 15
Xu, Q., Li, H., & Zhu, D. (2024) · Schizophrenia · doi:10.1038/s41537-024-00471-3 · Cited by 20
Self-citationSNX29, a new susceptibility gene shared with major mental disorders in Han Chinese population
Chen, J., Zhao, Y., Khan, R. A. W., Li, Z., Zhou, J., Shen, J., Xiang, S.-Y., Li, N.-N., Wen, Z.-J., Jian, X.-M., et al. (2020) · The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1080/15622975.2020.1845793 · Cited by 15
Genetics and Child Development: Recent Advances and Their Implications for Developmental Research
Armstrong‐Carter, E., Wertz, J., & Domingue, B. W. (2021) · Child Development Perspectives · doi:10.1111/cdep.12400 · Cited by 18
“…between r = 0.015–0.30 (based on correlations between the most recent education polygenic score with educational outcomes, cognitive, and socioemotional skills; Demange et al., in press; Lee et al., 2018), studies with samples of 100–400 would be sufficiently powered to detect associations.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSingle-cell alternative polyadenylation analysis delineates GABAergic neuron types
Yang, Y., Paul, A., Bach, T. N., Huang, Z. J., & Zhang, M. Q. (2021) · BMC Biology · doi:10.1186/s12915-021-01076-3 · Cited by 15
“Additional summary statistics for GWAS on multiple sclerosis [75], amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) [76], Parkinson’s disease [77], epilepsy [78], attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) [79], insomnia [80], educational attainment [81], intelligence [82], and risky behavior [83] were downloaded separately.”
BackgroundHerd, P., & Sicinski, K. (2021) · SSM - Population Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100960 · Cited by 15
“cognition is different, and likely more robust, than genetic influence on educational attainment (Branigan et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2018).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationSanctis, M. D., Baldini, N., Goracci, C., & Zucchelli, G. (2011) · PubMed · Cited by 14
Deng, W. Q., Belisario, K. L., Gray, J. C., Levitt, E. E., Mohammadi‐Shemirani, P., Singh, D., Paré, G., & MacKillop, J. (2023) · Genes Brain & Behavior · doi:10.1111/gbb.12848 · Cited by 14
Cross-species functional modules link proteostasis to human normal aging
Komljenović, A., Li, H., Sorrentino, V., Kutalik, Z., Auwerx, J. H., & Robinson‐Rechavi, M. (2019) · PLoS Computational Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007162 · Cited by 19
Self-citationAlternate approach to stroke phenotyping identifies a genetic risk locus for small vessel stroke
von Berg, J., van der Laan, S. W., McArdle, P. F., Malik, R., Kittner, S. J., Mitchell, B. D., Worrall, B. B., de Ridder, J., & Pulit, S. L. (2020) · European Journal of Human Genetics · doi:10.1038/s41431-020-0580-5 · Cited by 15
“1 million individuals [28] 427 downloaded from EMBL-EBI’s GWAS catalog.”
MethodMoving back to the future of big data-driven research: reflecting on the social in genomics
Goisauf, M., Akyüz, K., & Martin, G. M. (2020) · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · doi:10.1057/s41599-020-00544-5 · Cited by 19
Core Neuropsychological Measures for Obesity and Diabetes Trials: Initial Report
D’Ardenne, K., Savage, C. R., Small, D. M., Vainik, U., & Stoeckel, L. E. (2020) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554127 · Cited by 14
Genomic Characterization of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Large US Military Veteran SamplePreprint
Stein, M. B., Levey, D. F., Cheng, Z., Wendt, F. R., Harrington, K. M., Cho, K., Quaden, R. M., Radhakrishnan, K., Girgenti, M. J., Ho, Y.-L. A., et al. (2019) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/764001 · Cited by 15
“EXD3, involved in nucleic acid binding and widely expressed throughout the body, has been associated with mathematical (Lee et al., 2018) and other cognitive abilities, which have been found in our study and others to be genetically correlated with PTSD and mediated by socioeconomic status…”
BackgroundGharahkhani, P., Jorgenson, E., Hysi, P. G., Khawaja, A. P., Pendergrass, S. A., Han, X., Ong, J., Hewitt, A. W., Segrè, A. V., Igo, R. P., et al. (2020) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2020.01.30.927822 · Cited by 15
Family Analysis with Mendelian Imputations
Kong, A., Benonisdottir, S., & Young, A. I. (2020) · doi:10.1101/2020.07.02.185181 · Cited by 15
Genetic nurture effects on education: a systematic review and meta-analysisPreprint
Wang, B.-Y., Baldwin, J., Schoeler, T., Cheesman, R., Barkhuizen, W., Dudbridge, F., Bann, D., Morris, T. T., & Pingault, J.-B. (2021) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2021.01.15.426782 · Cited by 10
“(4) The specific GWAS summary statistics used to derive PGS, which can be EA1 with N = 101,069 (Rietveld et al., 2013), EA2 with N = 293,723 (Okbay et al., 2016), EA3 with N = 1,131,881 (Lee et al., 2018).”
InfluentialLoughnan, R., Palmer, C., Thompson, W., Dale, A., Jernigan, T., & Fan, C.-C. (2019) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/637512 · Cited by 17
Jeremy Freese, A., Domingue, B. W., Trejo, S., Sicinski, K., & Herd, P. (2019) · doi:10.31235/osf.io/eh9tq · Cited by 15
Self-citationCognitive Enhancement through Genetic Editing: a New Frontier to Explore (and to Regulate)?
Lavazza, A. (2018) · Journal of Cognitive Enhancement · doi:10.1007/s41465-018-0104-1 · Cited by 14
Donati, G., Dumontheil, I., Pain, O., Asbury, K., & Meaburn, E. L. (2021) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-021-82877-y · Cited by 14
Polygenic risk for aggressive behavior from late childhood through early adulthood
Kretschmer, T., Ouellet‐Morin, I., Vrijen, C., Nolte, I. M., & Hartman, C. A. (2021) · European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1007/s00787-021-01906-3 · Cited by 16
“This might have impacted results as the predictive value of a PRS depends on the GWAS sample size as impressively demonstrated for the PRS for educational attainment [37], which has also been linked to aggressive behavior across childhood [38] and persistent elevations in symptoms of conduct problems [39].”
BackgroundVogelezang, S., Bradfield, J. P., Vogelezang, S., Bradfield, J. P., Johansson, S., Stergiakouli, E., Thiering, E., Pennell, C. E., Ahluwalia, T. S., Karhunen, V., et al. (2022) · BMC Medical Genomics · doi:10.1186/s12920-022-01281-1 · Cited by 14
“Second, we performed a look-up of the seven identified SNPs in GWAS meta-analyses data on potentially related phenotypes, including adult intracranial volume, intelligence, Alzheimer’s disease, neuroticism, depression and educational attainment [7, 32–35].”
MethodMolecular archaeology of human cognitive traits
Kaczanowska, J., Ganglberger, F., Chernomor, O., Kargl, D., Gálik, B., Heß, A., Moodley, Y., von Haeseler, A., Bühler, K., & Haubensak, W. E. (2022) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111287 · Cited by 15
“Genetically, this is reflected by associations with affective and higher cognitive function (ARHGEF11, CHL1, FREM1) (Lee et al., 2018; Mizuki et al., 2014, 2017) (Data S1).”
BackgroundRodosthenous, R. S., Niemi, M., Kallio, L., Perälä, M., Terho, P., Knopp, T., Punkka, E., Makkonen, E., Nurmi, P., Mäkelä, J., et al. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064695 · Cited by 13
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of hoarding symptoms in 27,651 individuals
Strom, N. I., Smit, D. J. A., Silzer, T. K., Iyegbe, C. O., Burton, C. L., Pool, R., Lemire, M., Crowley, J. J., Hottenga, J., Ivanov, V. Z., et al. (2022) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-022-02248-7 · Cited by 15
“household income [70], educational attainment [62]).”
Self-citationGui, C., Xie, J., Liu, D., Zhang, X., & Tang, A. (2023) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1132035 · Cited by 13
“According to previous studies, these SNPs accounted for 12% of the variation in EA among individuals (16).”
BackgroundMethodde Hemptinne, M., & Posthuma, D. (2023) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/s41593-023-01333-4 · Cited by 14
Larsen, M., He, F., Kawasawa, Y. I., Berg, A. S., Vgontzas, A. N., Liao, D., Bixler, E. O., & Fernández‐Mendoza, J. (2023) · Clinical Epigenetics · doi:10.1186/s13148-023-01553-2 · Cited by 14
“Additionally, decreased methylation of PRR7 , a gene associated with higher-order cognitive functions [53] and linked to neural cell death in neurodegenerative disorders [54], was found to be associated with longer SOL, as objectively assessed by PSG and ACT.”
BackgroundLuo, S., Chen, Z., Deng, L., Chen, Y., Zhou, W., Canavese, F., & Li, L. (2023) · Nutrients · doi:10.3390/nu15183934 · Cited by 16
“This understanding laid the groundwork for subsequent analyses using this dataset [37].”
MethodÖrd, T., Örd, D., Adler, P., & Örd, T. (2023) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1011014 · Cited by 15
Xu, S., Liu, Y., Wang, Q., Liu, F., Xian, Y., Xu, F., & Liu, Y. (2024) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2023.1308002 · Cited by 13
Infrastructuring Educational Genomics: Associations, Architectures, and Apparatuses
Williamson, B., Kotouza, D., Pickersgill, M. D., & Pykett, J. (2024) · Postdigital Science and Education · doi:10.1007/s42438-023-00451-3 · Cited by 24
Structural models of genome-wide covariance identify multiple common dimensions in autism
de Hoyos, L., Barendse, M. T., Schlag, F., van Donkelaar, M. M. J., Verhoef, E., Shapland, C. Y., Klassmann, A., Buitelaar, J. K., Verhulst, B., Fisher, S. E., et al. (2024) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46128-8 · Cited by 12
“For example, it is possible that a small part of PGS EA variance represents noise, or that GRMs in ASD samples capture marginally different common variation compared to individuals included in EA meta-GWAS discovery analyses (Lee et al. 2018).”
MethodResultAssociation of Oxidative Stress on Cognitive Function: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomisation Study
Fan, Z., Yang, C., Qu, X., Zhang, J., Wu, H., Yang, Y., Huang, Y., Zeng, P., Xiang, Z., & Yang, J. (2024) · Molecular Neurobiology · doi:10.1007/s12035-024-04231-3 · Cited by 15
“Summary data on cognitive function traits were derived from the UK Biobank, FinnGen consortium and references [24–26] and extracted from the open database (IEU OPEN GWAS PROJECT: https:// gwas. mrcieu. ac. uk/ (accessed on 1 June 2023)).”
Self-citationMorey, R. A., Zheng, Y., Bayly, H., Sun, D., Garrett, M. E., Gasperi, M., Maihofer, A. X., Baird, C. L., Grasby, K. L., Huggins, A. A., et al. (2024) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-024-03152-y · Cited by 15
“Therefore, the GIBNs we presented here are a proof-of-concept that genetic correlation can be used to enhance the interpretation of high-dimensional GWAS results and provide novel insights into the relationship between neuroimaging phenotypes and psychiatric disorders.”
BackgroundShi, R., Chang, X., Banaschewski, T., Barker, G. J., Bokde, A. L. W., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P. A., et al. (2024) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.adp3751 · Cited by 14
The Economics and Econometrics of Gene–Environment Interplay
Biroli, P., Galama, T. J., von Hinke, S., van Kippersluis, H., Rietveld, C. A., & Thom, K. (2025) · The Review of Economic Studies · doi:10.1093/restud/rdaf034 · Cited by 19
Self-citationSalvatore, J. E., Barr, P. B., Stephenson, M. E., Alıev, F., Kuo, S. I., Su, J., Arpana Agrawal, A., Almasy, L. A., Bierut, L. J., Bucholz, K. K., et al. (2019) · Addiction · doi:10.1111/add.14815 · Cited by 13
Viewing Education Policy through a Genetic Lens
Asbury, K., & Wai, J. (2019) · Journal of School Choice · doi:10.1080/15582159.2019.1705008 · Cited by 16
“In summer 2018 the third version of this polygenic score, known as EA3, was generated on the basis of genetic variants (Lee et al., 2018).”
BackgroundDale, P. S., von Stumm, S., Selzam, S., & Hayiou‐Thomas, M. E. (2020) · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research · doi:10.1044/2020_jslhr-19-00161 · Cited by 14
“…by mail, DNA was extracted and genotyped, and molecular analysis was used for these same individuals to compute GPSs based on the latest GWA study for years of education (N = 766,345), called “educational attainment EA3,” as it is the third and largest version of the study (Lee et al., 2018).”
MethodInfluentialPolygenic scores for handedness and their association with asymmetries in brain structure
Ocklenburg, S., Metzen, D., Schlüter, C., et al. (2021) · Brain Structure and Function · doi:10.1007/s00429-021-02335-3 · Cited by 14
Wang, M., Zhang, Z., Liu, D., Xie, W., Ma, Y., Yao, J., Zhu, L., Liu, M., Sheng, S., & Lian, X. (2021) · Epilepsia · doi:10.1111/epi.16894 · Cited by 14
Huang, G., Cai, J., Li, W., Zhong, Y., Liao, W., & Wu, P. (2021) · BMC Rheumatology · doi:10.1186/s41927-021-00216-0 · Cited by 15
“Furthermore, the genes related to these SNPs are involved in almost all aspects of neuron-to-neuron communication [17].”
BackgroundMethodInfluential
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- Authors
- 23andMe Research Team, Lee, J. J., COGENT (Cognitive Genomics Consortium), Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Wedow, R., Okbay, A., Kong, E., Maghzian, O., Zacher, M., Nguyen-Viet, T. A., Bowers, P., Sidorenko, J., Karlsson Linnér, R., Fontana, M. A., Kundu, T., Lee, C., Li, H., Li, R., Royer, R., Timshel, P. N., Walters, R. K., Willoughby, E. A., Yengo, L., Alver, M., Bao, Y., Clark, D. W., Day, F. R., Furlotte, N. A., Joshi, P. K., Kemper, K. E., Kleinman, A., Langenberg, C., Mägi, R., Trampush, J. W., Verma, S. S., Wu, Y., Lam, M., Zhao, J. H., Zheng, Z., Boardman, J. D., Campbell, H., Freese, J., Harris, K. M., Hayward, C., Herd, P., Kumari, M., Lencz, T., Luan, J., Malhotra, A. K., Metspalu, A., Milani, L., Ong, K. K., Perry, J. R. B., Porteous, D. J., Ritchie, M. D., Smart, M. C., Smith, B. H., Tung, J. Y., Wareham, N. J., Wilson, J. F., Beauchamp, J. P., Conley, D. C., Esko, T., Lehrer, S. F., Magnusson, P. K. E., Oskarsson, S., Pers, T. H., Robinson, M. R., Thom, K., Watson, C., Chabris, C. F., Meyer, M. N., Laibson, D. I., Yang, J., Johannesson, M., Koellinger, P. D., Turley, P., Visscher, P. M., Benjamin, D. J., & Cesarini, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Statens Serum Institut (DK)
- Broad Institute (US)
- University of Tartu (EE)
- University of Essex (GB)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- 23andMe (United States) (US)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- Geisinger Medical Center (US)
- Institute of Mental Health (SG)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Institute of Genetics and Cancer (GB)
- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (US)
- University of Dundee (GB)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Princeton University (US)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- New York University (US)
- Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute (US)
- Stockholm School of Economics (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Okbay, Aysu
- Visscher, Peter M.
- Benjamin, Daniel J.
- ORCID
- Lee, James J.
- Wedow, Robbee
- Okbay, Aysu
- Kong, Edward
- Zacher, Meghan
- Sidorenko, Julia
- Li, Hui
- Li, Ruoxi
- Timshel, Pascal N.
- Walters, Raymond K.
- Willoughby, Emily A.
- Yengo, Loïc
- Bao, Yanchun
- Clark, David W.
- Day, Felix R.
- Furlotte, Nicholas A.
- Joshi, Peter K.
- Kemper, Kathryn E.
- Langenberg, Claudia
- Mägi, Reedik
- Trampush, Joey W.
- Verma, Shefali Setia
- Wu, Yang
- Lam, Max
- Zhao, Jing Hua
- Zheng, Zhili
- Campbell, Harry
- Harris, Kathleen Mullan
- Hayward, Caroline
- Herd, Pamela
- Lencz, Todd
- Luan, Jian’an
- Malhotra, Anil K.
- Metspalu, Andres
- Milani, Lili
- Ong, Ken K.
- Perry, John R. B.
- Porteous, David J.
- Ritchie, Marylyn D.
- Smart, Melissa C.
- Smith, Blair H.
- Tung, Joyce Y.
- Wareham, Nicholas J.
- Wilson, James F.
- Beauchamp, Jonathan P.
- Conley, Dalton C.
- Esko, Tõnu
- Magnusson, Patrik K. E.
- Oskarsson, Sven
- Pers, Tune H.
- Robinson, Matthew R.
- Meyer, Michelle N.
- Laibson, David I.
- Yang, Jian
- Johannesson, Magnus
- Koellinger, Philipp D.
- Turley, Patrick
- Visscher, Peter M.
- Benjamin, Daniel J.
- Cesarini, David
- Venue
- Nature Genetics
- Published
- 2018-07-23
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- 50
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1112-1121
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- 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1718
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- PMC6393768
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Rush University
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- Wellcome Trust (213422/Z/18/Z)
- Broad Institute
- Open Philanthropy Project (2016-152872)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0507-10228, NF-SI-0514-10027, NF-SI-0512-10135, NF-SI-0617-10149, NIHR-RP-R3-12-013)
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- University of Oxford
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- University of Aberdeen
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- Lundbeckfonden (R190 2014-3904)
- Karolinska Institutet (2017-00641)
- King Abdulaziz University
- Vetenskapsrådet (421-2013-1061, 2017-00641, 00641)
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- Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
- Universität Regensburg
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- Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF16OC0021496)
- National Institutes of Health (2017-00641, 5r01ag015819-21, 5t32ag000186-35, 5p2chd050924-20, R01AG042568, AG042568, 5p01ag005842-36)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Keywords
- educational attainment, polygenic risk score, genetic association, single nucleotide polymorphisms, cognitive performance, brain development, X chromosome, dosage compensation, heritability, gene discovery
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Cohort Studies, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study
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