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Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals
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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-wide-significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A genome-wide polygenic predictor, or polygenic index (PGI), explains 12–16% of EA variance and contributes to risk prediction for ten diseases. Direct effects (i.e., controlling for parental PGIs) explain roughly half the PGI’s magnitude of association with EA and other phenotypes. The correlation between mate-pair PGIs is far too large to be consistent with phenotypic assortment alone, implying additional assortment on PGI-associated factors. In an additional GWAS of dominance deviations from the additive model, we identify no genome-wide-significant SNPs, and a separate X-chromosome additive GWAS identifies 57.
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This GWAS meta-analysis of educational attainment in ~3.0 million individuals identified 3,952 approximately uncorrelated autosomal SNPs and a polygenic index explaining 12–16% of EA variance. It shows that the EA PGI’s predictive power partly reflects direct effects, predicts ten diseases, and has mate-pair PGI correlations too large to be explained by phenotypic assortment alone.
Key findings
- The additive EduYears GWAS (N = 3,037,499) identified 3,952 lead SNPs (pairwise r² < 0.1, P < 5×10⁻⁸); the median SNP effect was 1.4 weeks more schooling per reference allele. The LDpred PGI explained 15.8% of EduYears variance in Add Health and 12.0% in HRS (sample-size-weighted mean 13.3%); an SBayesR PGI explained 17.0% and 12.9%, respectively (mean 14.3%).
- The X-chromosome GWAS (N = 2,713,033) identified 57 lead SNPs, with X-chromosome SNP heritability of 0.4% and male-female genetic correlation rg = 0.94 (S.E. = 0.03). The dominance GWAS (N = 2,574,253) identified no genome-wide-significant SNPs; dominance SNP heritability was 0.00015 (S.E. = 0.00024, P = 0.54), and the inbreeding-depression estimate implied offspring of first cousins have ~1.0 fewer month of EA (P = 0.04).
- The EA PGI significantly predicted all ten diseases examined; mean incremental R² was 0.63%, compared with 1.19% for disease-specific PGIs. For EA, the ratio of direct to population effect was 0.556 (S.E. = 0.020), implying 30.9% of the PGI’s R² was due to direct effects; corresponding ratios were 0.910 for height, 0.962 for BMI, and 0.824 for cognitive performance.
- Mate-pair EA PGI correlation was 0.175 (S.E. = 0.020), versus 0.031 (S.E. = 0.004) predicted by phenotypic assortment; for height, observed 0.106 (S.E. = 0.020) versus predicted 0.087 (S.E. = 0.007). Residualizing EA PGI on EA reduced the mate-pair correlation by only 37%, to 0.110 (S.E. = 0.021); further adjustment for 40 PCs reduced it to 0.091 (S.E. = 0.021).
Methods
- Meta-analysis of EduYears combined prior public results from 69 cohorts (N = 324,162, excluding UKB and 23andMe), new 23andMe results (N = 2,272,216), and new UKB results (N = 441,121), totaling N = 3,037,499, all in European genetic ancestries, with controls for sex, year of birth, their interaction, and genetic principal components; METAL sample-size-weighted meta-analysis and LD score intercept 1.663.
- Separate X-chromosome meta-analysis (N = 2,713,033) and dominance-deviation GWAS meta-analysis (N = 2,574,253) were conducted; dominance analyses used adapted LD score regression and ldscdom for inbreeding depression.
- Polygenic prediction used Add Health, HRS, and WLS holdout samples, with LDpred HapMap3 PGIs as main and SBayesR post hoc; disease prediction used UKB and Nagelkerke incremental R². Within-family analyses used ~53,000 individuals with genotyped siblings and ~3,500 with both parents genotyped from UKB, Generation Scotland, and the Swedish Twin Registry; assortative-mating analyses used 862 UKB and 1,603 Generation Scotland mate pairs.
Limitations
- Stated: all main GWAS analyses were restricted to European genetic ancestries, and the PGI had much lower predictive power in African-genetic-ancestry samples (incremental R² 1.3% in HRS and 2.3% in Add Health; relative accuracies 11% and 15%). The paper also states the PGI cannot be used to meaningfully predict an individual’s EA, that dominance results do not rule out rare SNPs with substantial dominance effects, and that family samples lacked power for the ten diseases.
- Evident: the dominance GWAS addresses common SNPs and found no genome-wide-significant dominance effects; family/direct-effect analyses are limited to ~53,000 siblings, ~3,500 parent-genotyped individuals, and 23 phenotypes.
- Evident: assortative-mating analyses rely on UKB and Generation Scotland mate pairs and leave a substantial mate-pair PGI correlation unexplained after adjustment for EA, PCs, cognitive performance, and vocabulary.
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“We used a method that was recently developed by Wang et al.25 to investigate the factors contributing to the substantial loss of prediction accuracy of the EduYears PGI in samples of African genetic ancestries.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Analysis of European genetic ancestries to African genetic ancestries relative accuracy in UKB.
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- Supportedcites Wang et al. [25] Wang, Y. et al. Theoretical and empirical quantification of the accuracy of polygenic scores in ancestry divergent populations. Nat. Commun. 11, 3865 (2020). source
The citation identifies Wang et al. as the source of the method, not as the source of the EduYears-specific finding. The Introduction (page unavailable) says the authors developed a method for estimating polygenic-score accuracy across ancestries and applied it to multiple traits. The EduYears application is the citing authors’ own investigation. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“The expected coefficient of determination, R2, can be expressed as the following function of the discovery sample size, N: E(R2)=AB+1∕N.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Expected prediction accuracy of the EA PGI.
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- Supportedcites de Vlaming et al. [71] de Vlaming, R. et al. 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). source
In Materials and Methods, “R2 of a polygenic score under heterogeneity,” Eq. 2 gives an approximation that can be rearranged as E(R²)=A/(B+1/N), with A=(hSNP²)²ρG²/S and B=hSNP²/S. The paper specifies that this approximation concerns prediction in a hold-out sample using weights from a single discovery study under high polygenicity. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“At the stricter threshold9 of P < 1×10−8, the number declines to 3,277”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Additive GWAS of EduYears in Autosomes
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- Supportedcites [9] Wu, Y., Zheng, Z., Visscher, P. M. & Yang, J. Quantifying the mapping precision of genome-wide association studies using whole-genome sequencing data. Genome Biol. 18, 86 (2017). source
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“The EA PGI has by far the lowest ratio.”
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“In contrast, when we examine PGIs for height, BMI, and cognitive performance, controlling for parental PGIs has far less impact on their associations with their corresponding phenotype.”
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“Higher values of the EA PGI correspond to lower relative risk for each of the ten diseases (Extended Data Figure 9 and Supplementary Tables 7-8).”
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“The mean incremental R2 across all ten diseases is 0.63%.”
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“We identified 507 approximately independent genome-wide-significant SNPs (using the LD clumping algorithm implemented in Plink64, setting the window size equal to 1 Mb and the LD r2 threshold to 0.1).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Analysis of European genetic ancestries to African genetic ancestries relative accuracy in UKB.
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“In an additional GWAS of dominance deviations from the additive model, we identify no genome-wide-significant SNPs, and a separate X-chromosome additive GWAS identifies 57.”
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“There are no genome-wide-significant SNPs.”
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“After residualizing the EA PGI on 40 principal components (PCs) of the genomic relatedness matrix in addition to EA, we find that the mate-pair PGI correlation falls to 0.091 (S.E. = 0.021).”
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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”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Additive GWAS of EduYears in Autosomes
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [8] Bulik-Sullivan, B. K. et al. LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies. Nat. Genet. 47, 291–295 (2015). source
The citation is attached to the LD Score regression method, not to the EA GWAS estimates. The Introduction (page unavailable) describes the method and states that the intercept minus one estimates the mean contribution of confounding bias to inflated test statistics. The source does not report the 1.66 intercept or 7% figure, but those figures are not attributed to it by this citation placement. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Disputedcites [2] Lee, J. J. et al. Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. Nat. Genet. 50, 1112–1121 (2018). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In Results > Primary GWAS of EduYears (page not provided), the paper reports an LD Score regression intercept of 1.11 and estimates that bias accounts for about 5% of the inflation. Those figures contradict the attributed intercept of 1.66 and 7% estimate. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“The remaining reduction in predictive power is due to factors including epistasis (although epistatic variance is likely small13,15), gene-environment interactions, and differences between populations in gene-environment correlations, assortative mating, and environmental variance.”
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- Supportedcites [13] Hivert, V. et al. Estimation of non-additive genetic variance in human complex traits from a large sample of unrelated individuals. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 108, 786–798 (2021). source
The citation is attached to the parenthetical claim that epistatic variance is likely small, not to the full list of factors affecting predictive power. The Discussion states that theory and prior evidence suggest epistatic variance is likely to be small. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Supportedcites [15] Hill, W. G., Goddard, M. E. & Visscher, P. M. Data and theory point to mainly additive genetic variance for complex traits. PLoS Genet. 4, e1000008 (2008). source
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“PGIs like ours that are constructed from GWAS in samples of European genetic ancestries are generally found to have much lower predictive power in samples with other genetic ancestries; for example, on average across phenotypes, estimates of relative accuracy (ratio of R2) in African-genetic-ancestry to European-genetic-ancestry samples have been 22%23 and 36%24.”
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- Partly supportedcites [23] Martin, A. R. et al. Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities. Nat. Genet. 51, 584–591 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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- Partly supportedcites [24] Duncan, L. et al. Analysis of polygenic risk score usage and performance in diverse human populations. Nat. Commun. 10, 3328 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“Using the UKB, we find that the relative accuracy is smaller than would be predicted based on population differences in allele frequencies and LD alone (Online Methods), and this discrepancy is greater for EA than has been found in prior work25 for height, BMI, and six other phenotypes”
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- Supportedcites [25] Wang, Y. et al. Theoretical and empirical quantification of the accuracy of polygenic scores in ancestry divergent populations. Nat. Commun. 11, 3865 (2020). source
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“In addition, for UKB, we included as covariates the top 40 genetic PCs provided by UKB and the genotyping array dummies3.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Comparing direct and population effects.
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- Supportedcites [3] Bycroft, C. et al. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data. Nature 562, 203–209 (2018). source
The Methods section (Principal component analysis; page not specified) says the paper computed the top 40 PCs and produced scores for all cohort participants. The Whole-genome genotyping section (page not specified) identifies the two arrays used in UK Biobank. The citing authors’ choice to include these as covariates is their own method, not a result attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“This remainder is due to assortment on phenotypes correlated with the EA PGI other than EA, cognitive performance, and vocabulary—possibly including various personality traits42-44—and sources of social homogamy other than genetic ancestry captured by the top 40 PCs—possibly including geographic location at courtship age45,46, socioeconomic status, and social class47.”
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- Partly supportedcites [42] Belsky, D. W. et al. The genetics of success: how single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with educational attainment relate to life-course development. Psychol. Sci. 27, 957–972 (2016). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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- Partly supportedcites [43] Mõttus, R., Realo, A., Vainik, U., Allik, J. & Esko, T. Educational attainment and personality are genetically intertwined. Psychol. Sci. 28, 1631–1639 (2017). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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- Partly supportedcites [44] Smith-Woolley, E., Selzam, S. & Plomin, R. Polygenic score for educational attainment captures DNA variants shared between personality traits and educational achievement. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 117, 1145–1163 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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- Partly supportedcites [45] Laidley, T., Vinneau, J. & Boardman, J. D. Individual and social genomic contributions to educational and neighborhood attainments: geography, selection, and stratification in the United States. Sociol. Sci. 6, 580–608 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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- Partly supportedcites [46] Abdellaoui, A. et al. Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain. Nat. Hum. Behav. 3, 1332–1342 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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- Supportedcites [47] Belsky, D. W. et al. Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 115, E7275–E7284 (2018). source
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“The LD score regression was restricted to the set of HapMap3 SNPs, and the dominance LD scores were estimated using the 1000 Genomes Phase 1 reference sample67.”
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- Supportedcites [67] The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium et al. An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes. Nature 491, 56–65 (2012). source
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“In post hoc analyses, we found that a PGI generated from ~2.5 million pruned common SNPs using the software SBayesR22 is more predictive than our LDpred PGI. It explains 17.0% of the variance in EduYears in Add Health and 12.9% in HRS, with a sample-size-weighted mean of 14.3% (Supplementary Table 3).”
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- Supportedcites [22] Lloyd-Jones, L. R. et al. Improved polygenic prediction by Bayesian multiple regression on summary statistics. Nat. Commun. 10, 5086 (2019). source
The citation is attached to “software SBayesR,” identifying the method used. The source’s Discussion (page not provided) explicitly describes SBayesR as an implemented software tool. The EduYears percentages are presented as the citing authors’ own post hoc findings, not as results attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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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.”
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- Supportedcites [2] Lee, J. J. et al. Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. Nat. Genet. 50, 1112–1121 (2018). source
The citation is attached to the previous-work finding about cognitive phenotypes, not to the citing authors’ new finding about 10 diseases. In Results > Polygenic Prediction (page unavailable), the source reports that its educational-attainment polygenic score has substantial predictive power for a variety of cognitive phenotypes. (LLM, conf=0.93)
- Partly supportedcites [4] Harden, K. P. et al. Genetic associations with mathematics tracking and persistence in secondary school. NPJ Sci. Learn. 5, 1 (2020). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results sections on mathematics tracking and persistence report that the education polygenic score predicts advanced math placement and continued math coursetaking. These support prediction of specific educational outcomes, but not the broader claim about a range of cognitive phenotypes. The sentence presents the finding about 10 diseases as the citing authors’ own result, not as a finding attributed to this source (page numbers unavailable). (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“A genome-wide polygenic predictor, or polygenic index (PGI), explains 12-16% of EA variance and contributes to risk prediction for ten diseases.”
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“This PGI explains 15.8% of the variance in EduYears in Add Health and 12.0% in HRS (Extended Data Figure 6). The sample-size-weighted mean is 13.3%.”
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“Height provides a useful comparison because its mate-pair phenotypic correlation (0.290, S.E. = 0.018) and mate-pair PGI correlation (0.106, S.E. = 0.020) are somewhat similar to EA’s mate-pair phenotypic correlation (0.430, S.E. = 0.017) and mate-pair PGI correlation (0.175, S.E. = 0.020).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Assortative Mating
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“When we used our PGI to predict EduYears in samples with African genetic ancestries from the HRS (N = 2,507) and Add Health (N = 1,716), the incremental R2 was 1.3% (95% CI: 0.6% to 2.2%) and 2.3% (95% CI: 1.1% to 3.7%), implying that the relative accuracies for EA in the HRS and Add Health are only 11% and 15%, respectively.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“In this cohort, after residualizing on these proxies as well as on EA and 40 PCs, the mate-pair PGI correlation is 0.083 (S.E. = 0.027) compared to 0.113 (S.E. = 0.026) when residualizing on EA and PCs alone—which leaves a substantial remainder of the mate-pair PGI correlation unexplained.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Assortative Mating
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- Rests on an assumption: Cognitive performance and vocabulary measures in Generation Scotland are proxies for the composite phenotype on which mate pairs assort.
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“A PGI constructed using only genome-wide-significant SNPs has an incremental R2 of 9.1% in Add Health and 7.0% in HRS (Extended Data Figure 5).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“On average, an additional copy of the reference allele of the median SNP is associated with 1.4 weeks more schooling: the effects at the 5th and 95th percentiles (in absolute value) are 0.9 and 3.5 weeks, respectively”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Additive GWAS of EduYears in Autosomes
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“The results are very similar across the two meta-analyses, but standard errors are smaller when using the current meta-analysis results, as expected given the larger sample size”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Biological Annotation
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“The ratio of direct to population effect estimates is 0.910 (S.E. = 0.009) for height, 0.962 (S.E. = 0.017) for BMI, and 0.824 (S.E. = 0.033) for cognitive performance, implying that 82.8%, 92.5%, and 67.9%, respectively, of the PGIs’ R2 are due to their direct effects”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Within-Family Analyses
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“For example, in Add Health, we found that the PGI explains 8.7% of the variation in Peabody verbal test scores and 12.3% in overall GPA.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“Moreover, the EA and disease-specific PGIs contribute roughly independently to predicting disease risk: the incremental R2 from adding both PGIs and their interaction to the regression model is typically roughly equal to the sum of the incremental R2’s of each of the two PGIs considered separately.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Predicting Disease Risk
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“The larger sample size yields more accurate effect-size estimates that allow us to construct a genome-wide polygenic index (PGI) (also called a polygenic score) that has greater prediction accuracy, increasing the percentage of variance in EA explained from 11-13% to 12-16%, depending on the validation sample, an increase of approximately 20%.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > INTRODUCTION
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“This analysis identified 2,925 SNPs (Supplementary Table 2); 41 of these are in LD (r2 > 0.1) with other COJO lead SNPs”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Additive GWAS of EduYears in Autosomes
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“For height, phenotypic assortment predicts a mate-pair PGI correlation of 0.087 (S.E. = 0.007) (the gray point in the figure), which is only somewhat smaller than the observed estimate of 0.106 and is contained within the 95% confidence interval.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Assortative Mating
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“In contrast, for EA, the predicted value of 0.031 (S.E. = 0.004) is much smaller than, and statistically distinguishable from, the mate-pair PGI correlation of 0.175.”
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“Across the phenotypes, the inverse-variance-weighted average ratio of direct to population effects is 0.588 (S.E. = 0.013).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Within-Family Analyses
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“In WLS, the PGI explains 6.1% of the variation in Henmon-Nelson test scores and 7.7% in high school grade percentile rank.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“For predicting EA, the ratio of direct to population effect estimates is 0.556 (S.E. = 0.020), implying that 100% * 0.5562 = 30.9% of the PGI’s R2 is due to its direct effect.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Within-Family Analyses
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“we estimate a SNP heritability of 0.00015 (S. E. = 0.00024), which is statistically indistinguishable from zero (P = 0.54).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Dominance GWAS
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“The correlation between mate pairs’ PGIs is far too large to be consistent with phenotypic assortment alone, implying additional assortment on PGI-associated factors.”
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“In contrast, for EA, the predicted value of 0.031 (S.E. = 0.004) is much smaller than, and statistically distinguishable from, the mate-pair PGI correlation of 0.175.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > Abstract
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“We applied a transformation to the meta-analysis that accounts for assortative mating to estimate the population effect of the PGI and the difference between the direct and population effects.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Comparing direct and population effects.
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“Overall, these findings suggest that any model of EA that requires substantial dominance to fit the data, restricts gene-environment correlations to zero, or assumes assortative mating is purely based on phenotype is likely to be misspecified.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > DISCUSSION
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“Any factor that contributes to explaining the mate-pair PGI correlation must be correlated with the EA PGI. Therefore, these factors likely contribute to the EA PGI’s predictive power for EA and other phenotypes.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Assortative Mating
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“Thus, both for predicting EA and other phenotypes, a substantial part of the EA PGI’s predictive power results from direct effects, but a substantial part results from factors other than direct effects.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Within-Family Analyses
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“We performed further analyses adjusting for genetic PCs, birth coordinates, UKB assessment center, cognitive performance, and vocabulary to test whether assortative mating on factors related to ancestry, geography, and cognition explained the mate-pair PGI correlations (Supplementary Note section 9).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Analysis of assortative mating.
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“Thus, while average EA varies substantially across the PGI distribution, the PGI cannot be used to meaningfully predict an individual’s EA.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Polygenic Prediction
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“We also conducted a series of pre-registered replication exercises (https://osf.io/uegqv/) to assess whether the estimates of the dominance effects for various subsets of SNPs are consistent across UKB and 23andMe (Supplementary Note section 4.6 and 8, Supplementary Table 19).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Dominance GWAS.
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“We meta-analyzed the results from the siblings and trios, accounting for covariance between the estimates from the sibling and trio samples from the same datasets.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Comparing direct and population effects.
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“Similar to the additive GWAS, after the meta-analysis we inflated the standard errors by the square root of the intercept from an LD score regression.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Dominance GWAS.
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“We did not run sex-stratified analyses for the autosomal meta-analysis because there is compelling evidence from our prior work that the male-female genetic correlation for EduYears is close to one. For example, the Okbay et al.62 data yields an estimate of 0.98 (S.E. = 0.029).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Additive GWAS.
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- Not matchedcites Okbay et al., 62
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“We removed 621 individuals from GS that had been previously identified by GS as being also present in UKB (Supplementary Note section 7.3).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Comparing direct and population effects.
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“Our results do not rule out the possibility that rare SNPs have substantial dominance effects.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > RESULTS > Dominance GWAS
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“PGIs were made using GWAS results that exclude GS, STR and all related individuals of up to third degree from UKB (Supplementary Note section 7.3), following the LDpred PGI pipeline described in Supplementary Note section 5.1.”
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“For GS and STR, we included the top 20 genetic PCs (see Supplementary Note section 5.3 for how the PCs were created).”
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“In both the siblings and trios, we used a linear mixed model to account for relatedness in the samples.”
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“In our analyses of grade point average outcomes in Add Health, we also controlled for high school fixed effects (Supplementary Note section 5.3).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Polygenic prediction.
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“All regressions include controls for year of birth or age at assessment, sex, their interactions, and the first 10 principal components (PCs) of the variance-covariance matrix of the genomic relatedness matrix.”
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“We used LD scores that account for the faster decay of information from tagged SNPs as a function of LD for dominance effects (see, e.g., ref. 13).”
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“Our results show that this predictive power derives both from direct genetic effects and from gene-environment correlation (likely including indirect genetic effects from relatives), with assortative mating amplifying the predictive power over what would be expected under random mating.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > DISCUSSION
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“We also estimated the correlation between the residual of the father’s PGI after regression onto the father’s phenotype and the residual of the mother’s PGI after regression onto the mother’s phenotype, which should be zero under phenotypic assortment if the relationship between phenotype and PGI is linear.”
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“Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated using logistic regression while controlling for covariates (Supplementary Note section 6.2.1).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Prediction of disease risk from the EA PGI.
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“For some purposes, such as attaining greater predictive power for the PGI, there are clearly diminishing returns.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > DISCUSSION
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“The correlation between the mate pairs’ PGIs should be equal to ryrprm if the correlation is explained by assortative mating on the phenotype alone, and the relationship between the PGI and the phenotype is linear.”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Analysis of assortative mating.
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- Rests on an assumption: The relationship between phenotype and PGI is linear.
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Cognitive performance and vocabulary measures in Generation Scotland are proxies for the composite phenotype on which mate pairs assort.
“The Generation Scotland cohort contains high quality measures of cognitive performance and vocabulary, proxies for plausible candidates of such a composite.”
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The top 40 principal components capture the genetic ancestry relevant to assortative mating.
“After residualizing the EA PGI on 40 principal components (PCs) of the genomic relatedness matrix in addition to EA, we find that the mate-pair PGI correlation falls to 0.091 (S.E. = 0.021).”
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The SBayesR finite mixture model has 4 components with initial mixture probabilities π = (0.95, 0.02, 0.02, 0.01) and fixed γ = (0.0, 0.01, 0.1, 1).
“We assume 4 components in the finite mixture model, with initial mixture probabilities π = (0.95, 0.02, 0.02, 0.01) and fixed γ = (0.0, 0.01, 0.1, 1), where γ is a parameter that constrains how the SNP-effect-size variance scales in each of the four distributions.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In the expected prediction accuracy model, A may vary by prediction sample but B does not.
“While A may vary by prediction sample, B does not.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The relationship between phenotype and PGI is linear.
“The correlation between the mate pairs’ PGIs should be equal to ryrprm if the correlation is explained by assortative mating on the phenotype alone, and the relationship between the PGI and the phenotype is linear.”
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“Genetic determinants of education may partly operate through indirect familial influences and socioeconomic factors34.”
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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].”
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“Notably, the largest GWAS meta-analysis for EduYears, which included approximately 3 million individuals of European (EUR) genetic ancestries, has identified 3,952 independent genome-wide significant loci10.”
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“All these 11 independent SNPs were previously reported (SNPs located within ±500 kb of the 3,952 lead SNPs reported by Okbay et al.10).”
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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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“The enrichment in neurons was also found in previous EUR studies10,14.”
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“The MAMA EUR-specific meta-analysis found 357 independent genome-wide significant SNPs; however, all of them had been previously reported to be associated with EduYears10”
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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).”
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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.”
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“RA refers to the European genetic ancestries to African genetic ancestries ratio of prediction accuracies (R2) of PGIs trained in a large sample of European-genetic-ancestry UKB participants (N = 6,514).”
§ Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals > ONLINE METHODS > Analysis of European genetic ancestries to African genetic ancestries relative accuracy in UKB.
“We thus performed a GWAS of HapMap 3 SNPs (1,365,446 SNPs) in a sample of European-genetic-ancestry individuals in UKB (N = 425,231).”
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- Okbay, A., Wu, Y., Wang, N., Jayashankar, H., Bennett, M., Nehzati, S. M., Sidorenko, J., Kweon, H., Goldman, G., Gjorgjieva, T., Jiang, Y., Hicks, B., Tian, C., Hinds, D. A., Ahlskog, R., Magnusson, P. K. E., Oskarsson, S., Hayward, C., Campbell, A., Porteous, D. J., Freese, J., Herd, P., 23andMe Research Team, Agee, M., Alipanahi, B., Auton, A., Bell, R. K., Bryc, K., Elson, S. L., Fontanillas, P., Furlotte, N. A., Hinds, D. A., Huber, K. E., Kleinman, A., Litterman, N. K., McCreight, J. C., McIntyre, M. H., Mountain, J. L., Northover, C. A. M., Pitts, S. J., Sathirapongsasuti, J. F., Sazonova, O. V., Shelton, J. F., Shringarpure, S., Tung, J. Y., Vacic, V., Wilson, C. H., Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Fontana, M. A., Pers, T. H., Rietveld, C. A., Chen, G.-B., Emilsson, V., Meddens, S. F. W., Pickrell, J. K., Thom, K., Timshel, P., de Vlaming, R., Abdellaoui, A., Ahluwalia, T. S., Bacelis, J., Baumbach, C., Bjornsdottir, G., Brandsma, J. H., Concas, M. P., Derringer, J., Galesloot, T. E., Girotto, G., Gupta, R., Hall, L. M., Harris, S. E., Hofer, E., Horikoshi, M., Huffman, J. E., Kaasik, K., Kalafati, I. P., Karlsson, R., Lahti, J., van der Lee, S. J., de Leeuw, C., Lind, P. A., Lindgren, K.-O., Liu, T., Mangino, M., Marten, J., Mihailov, E., Miller, M. B., van der Most, P. J., Oldmeadow, C., Payton, A., Pervjakova, N., Peyrot, W. J., Qian, Y., Raitakari, O., Rueedi, R., Salvi, E., Schmidt, B., Schraut, K. E., Shi, J., Smith, A. V., Poot, R. A., Pourcain, B. S., Teumer, A., Thorleifsson, G., Verweij, N., Vuckovic, D., Wellmann, J., Westra, H.-J., Yang, J., Zhao, W., Zhu, Z., Alizadeh, B. Z., Amin, N., Bakshi, A., Baumeister, S. E., Biino, G., Bønnelykke, K., Boyle, P. A., Campbell, H., Cappuccio, F. P., Davies, G., De Neve, J.-E., Deloukas, P., Demuth, I., Ding, J., Eibich, P., Eisele, L., Eklund, N., Evans, D. M., Faul, J. D., Feitosa, M. F., Forstner, A. J., Gandin, I., Gunnarsson, B., Halldórsson, B. V., Harris, T. B., Heath, A. C., Hocking, L. J., Holliday, E. G., Homuth, G., Horan, M. A., Hottenga, J.-J., de Jager, P. L., Joshi, P. K., Jugessur, A., Kaakinen, M. A., Kähönen, M., Kanoni, S., Keltigangas-Järvinen, L., Kiemeney, L. A. L. M., Kolcic, I., Koskinen, S., Kraja, A. T., Kroh, M., Kutalik, Z., Latvala, A., Launer, L. J., Lebreton, M. P., Levinson, D. F., Lichtenstein, P., Lichtner, P., Liewald, D. C. M., Study, L. C., Loukola, A., Madden, P. A., Mägi, R., Mäki-Opas, T., Marioni, R. E., Marques-Vidal, P., Meddens, G. A., McMahon, G., Meisinger, C., Meitinger, T., Milaneschi, Y., Milani, L., Montgomery, G. W., Myhre, R., Nelson, C. P., Nyholt, D. R., Ollier, W. E. R., Palotie, A., Paternoster, L., Pedersen, N. L., Petrovic, K. E., Räikkönen, K., Ring, S. M., Robino, A., Rostapshova, O., Rudan, I., Rustichini, A., Salomaa, V., Sanders, A. R., Sarin, A.-P., Schmidt, H., Scott, R. J., Smith, B. H., Smith, J. A., Staessen, J. A., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Strauch, K., Terracciano, A., Tobin, M. D., Ulivi, S., Vaccargiu, S., Quaye, L., van Rooij, F. J. A., Venturini, C., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Völker, U., Völzke, H., Vonk, J. M., Vozzi, D., Waage, J., Ware, E. B., Willemsen, G., Attia, J. R., Bennett, D. A., Berger, K., Bertram, L., Bisgaard, H., Boomsma, D. I., Borecki, I. B., Bültmann, U., Chabris, C. F., Cucca, F., Cusi, D., Deary, I. J., Dedoussis, G. V., van Duijn, C. M., Eriksson, J. G., Franke, B., Franke, L., Gasparini, P., Gejman, P. V., Gieger, C., Grabe, H.-J., Gratten, J., Groenen, P. J. F., Gudnason, V., van der Harst, P., Hoffmann, W., Hyppönen, E., Iacono, W. G., Jacobsson, B., Järvelin, M.-R., Jöckel, K.-H., Kaprio, J., Kardia, S. L. R., Lehtimäki, T., Lehrer, S. F., Martin, N. G., McGue, M., Metspalu, A., Pendleton, N., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Perola, M., Pirastu, N., Pirastu, M., Polasek, O., Posthuma, D., Power, C., Province, M. A., Samani, N. J., Schlessinger, D., Schmidt, R., Sørensen, T. I. A., Spector, T. D., Stefansson, K., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Thurik, A. R., Timpson, N. J., Tiemeier, H., Uitterlinden, A. G., Vitart, V., Vollenweider, P., Weir, D. R., Wilson, J. F., Wright, A. F., Conley, D. C., Krueger, R. F., Smith, G. D., Hofman, A., Laibson, D. I., Medland, S. E., Yang, J., Esko, T., Watson, C., Jala, J., Conley, D., Koellinger, P. D., Johannesson, M., Laibson, D., Meyer, M. N., Lee, J. J., Kong, A., Yengo, L., Cesarini, D., Turley, P., Visscher, P. M., Beauchamp, J. P., Benjamin, D. J., & Young, A. I.
- Affiliations
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- 23andMe (United States) (US)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Western General Hospital (GB)
- Georgetown University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Statens Serum Institut (DK)
- Erasmus MC (NL)
- University of Iceland (IS)
- New York Genome Center (US)
- New York University (US)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Helmholtz Munich (DE)
- Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IT)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- University of Trieste (IT)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- University of Graz (AT)
- Centre for Human Genetics (GB)
- Harokopio University of Athens (GR)
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (AU)
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development (DE)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Tartu (EE)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Hunter Medical Research Institute (AU)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (FI)
- GGZ inGeest (NL)
- National Institute on Aging (US)
- University of Turku (FI)
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
- University of Milan (IT)
- Essen University Hospital (DE)
- National Cancer Institute (US)
- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (DE)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- University of Münster (DE)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare (IT)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- German Institute for Economic Research (DE)
- Translational Research Institute (AU)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- deCODE Genetics (Iceland) (IS)
- Reykjavík University (IS)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Aberdeen (GB)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NO)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Tampere University (FI)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Queensland University of Technology (AU)
- Medical University of Graz (AT)
- IRCCS Materno Infantile Burlo Garofolo (IT)
- Harvard University (US)
- Endeavor Health (US)
- University of Dundee (GB)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- Florida State University (US)
- Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute (US)
- University of South Australia (AU)
- Oulu University Hospital (FI)
- Princeton University (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Geisinger Medical Center (US)
- George Mason University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Okbay, Aysu
- Visscher, Peter M.
- Benjamin, Daniel J.
- Young, Alexander I.
- ORCID
- Okbay, Aysu
- Wu, Yeda
- Bennett, Michael
- Sidorenko, Julia
- Kweon, Hyeokmoon
- Goldman, Grant
- Gjorgjieva, Tamara
- Jiang, Yunxuan
- Tian, Chao
- Ahlskog, Rafael
- Magnusson, Patrik K. E.
- Oskarsson, Sven
- Hayward, Caroline
- Campbell, Archie
- Porteous, David J.
- Herd, Pamela
- Alipanahi, Babak
- Auton, Adam
- Bryc, Katarzyna
- Elson, Sarah L.
- Fontanillas, Pierre
- Furlotte, Nicholas A.
- Litterman, Nadia K.
- McIntyre, Matthew H.
- Mountain, Joanna L.
- Pitts, Steven J.
- Sathirapongsasuti, J. Fah
- Shringarpure, Suyash
- Tung, Joyce Y.
- Vacic, Vladimir
- Wilson, Catherine H.
- Pers, Tune H.
- Rietveld, Cornelius A.
- Chen, Guo-Bo
- Emilsson, Valur
- Meddens, S. Fleur W.
- Timshel, Pascal
- Abdellaoui, Abdel
- Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.
- Baumbach, Clemens
- Concas, Maria Pina
- Derringer, Jaime
- Galesloot, Tessel E.
- Girotto, Giorgia
- Gupta, Richa
- Harris, Sarah E.
- Hofer, Edith
- Horikoshi, Momoko
- Huffman, Jennifer E.
- Kalafati, Ioanna P.
- Karlsson, Robert
- Lahti, Jari
- Lind, Penelope A.
- Lindgren, Karl-Oskar
- Liu, Tian
- Mangino, Massimo
- Marten, Jonathan
- Miller, Michael B.
- Oldmeadow, Christopher
- Payton, Antony
- Peyrot, Wouter J.
- Qian, Yong
- Raitakari, Olli
- Rueedi, Rico
- Salvi, Erika
- Shi, Jianxin
- Smith, Albert V.
- Teumer, Alexander
- Verweij, Niek
- Vuckovic, Dragana
- Westra, Harm-Jan
- Yang, Jingyun
- Zhao, Wei
- Zhu, Zhihong
- Alizadeh, Behrooz Z.
- Amin, Najaf
- Bakshi, Andrew
- Baumeister, Sebastian E.
- Biino, Ginevra
- Bønnelykke, Klaus
- Boyle, Patricia A.
- Campbell, Harry
- Cappuccio, Francesco P.
- Davies, Gail
- Deloukas, Panos
- Demuth, Ilja
- Ding, Jun
- Eibich, Peter
- Evans, David M.
- Faul, Jessica D.
- Feitosa, Mary F.
- Forstner, Andreas J.
- Gandin, Ilaria
- Halldórsson, Bjarni V.
- Harris, Tamara B.
- Heath, Andrew C.
- Hocking, Lynne J.
- Homuth, Georg
- Hottenga, Jouke-Jan
- Joshi, Peter K.
- Jugessur, Astanand
- Kaakinen, Marika A.
- Kähönen, Mika
- Kanoni, Stavroula
- Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M.
- Kroh, Martin
- Latvala, Antti
- Launer, Lenore J.
- Lebreton, Maël P.
- Levinson, Douglas F.
- Lichtenstein, Paul
- Lichtner, Peter
- Liewald, David C. M.
- Loukola, Anu
- Madden, Pamela A.
- Mägi, Reedik
- Mäki-Opas, Tomi
- Marioni, Riccardo E.
- Marques-Vidal, Pedro
- Meisinger, Christa
- Meitinger, Thomas
- Milani, Lili
- Montgomery, Grant W.
- Myhre, Ronny
- Nelson, Christopher P.
- Nyholt, Dale R.
- Ollier, William E. R.
- Palotie, Aarno
- Paternoster, Lavinia
- Pedersen, Nancy L.
- Räikkönen, Katri
- Ring, Susan M.
- Robino, Antonietta
- Rudan, Igor
- Salomaa, Veikko
- Sanders, Alan R.
- Schmidt, Helena
- Scott, Rodney J.
- Smith, Blair H.
- Smith, Jennifer A.
- Staessen, Jan A.
- Strauch, Konstantin
- Terracciano, Antonio
- Tobin, Martin D.
- Ulivi, Sheila
- Vaccargiu, Simona
- Venturini, Cristina
- Vinkhuyzen, Anna A. E.
- Völker, Uwe
- Völzke, Henry
- Vonk, Judith M.
- Vozzi, Diego
- Waage, Johannes
- Ware, Erin B.
- Willemsen, Gonneke
- Attia, John R.
- Bennett, David A.
- Bertram, Lars
- Bisgaard, Hans
- Boomsma, Dorret I.
- Borecki, Ingrid B.
- Bültmann, Ute
- Cucca, Francesco
- Cusi, Daniele
- Deary, Ian J.
- Dedoussis, George V.
- Eriksson, Johan G.
- Franke, Barbara
- Franke, Lude
- Gasparini, Paolo
- Gieger, Christian
- Grabe, Hans-Jörgen
- Gratten, Jacob
- Groenen, Patrick J. F.
- Gudnason, Vilmundur
- Hoffmann, Wolfgang
- Hyppönen, Elina
- Iacono, William G.
- Jacobsson, Bo
- Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta
- Jöckel, Karl-Heinz
- Kaprio, Jaakko
- Lehtimäki, Terho
- Martin, Nicholas G.
- McGue, Matt
- Metspalu, Andres
- Pendleton, Neil
- Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.
- Pirastu, Nicola
- Power, Christine
- Province, Michael A.
- Samani, Nilesh J.
- Schmidt, Reinhold
- Sørensen, Thorkild I. A.
- Spector, Tim D.
- Timpson, Nicholas J.
- Tiemeier, Henning
- Uitterlinden, André G.
- Wilson, James F.
- Smith, George Davey
- Medland, Sarah E.
- Yang, Jian
- Esko, Tõnu
- Koellinger, Philipp D.
- Johannesson, Magnus
- Lee, James J.
- Kong, Augustine
- Cesarini, David
- Turley, Patrick
- Visscher, Peter M.
- Beauchamp, Jonathan P.
- Benjamin, Daniel J.
- Young, Alexander I.
- Venue
- Nature Genetics
- Published
- 2022-03-31
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 437-449
- ISSN
- 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1718
- PMC
- PMC9005349
- OpenAlex
- W4220711675
- Cited by
- 654
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 103 · 2025: 183 · 2024: 179 · 2023: 144 · 2022: 43
- FWCI
- 83.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
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- Nature Genetics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (R56-AG058726, R24-AG065184, R01-AG042568, K99-AG062787-01)
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (016.Veni.198.058)
- F.G. Meade Scholarship and UQ Research Training Scholarship from the University of Queensland Senate
- Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (P18-0782:18)
- Vetenskapsrådet (2019-00244, 421-2013-1061)
- RCUK | Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00007/10)
- ERC Consolidator Grant
- Pershing Square Foundation
- Li Ka Shing Foundation
- Department of Education and Training | Australian Research Council (DE200100425, FL180100072)
- Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse (E42/15)
- Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT113400)
- Genome Canada (OGI-152)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Keywords
- educational attainment, polygenic index, polygenic prediction, single nucleotide polymorphisms, direct genetic effects, parental effects, assortative mating, dominance effects, X chromosome, genetic risk prediction, disease risk prediction
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-29, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-29 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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