Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Wertz J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7183873 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wertz Jasmin J Moffitt Terrie E TE Agnew-Blais Jessica J Arseneault Louise L Belsky Daniel W DW Corcoran David L DL Houts Renate R Matthews Timothy T Prinz Joseph A JA Richmond-Rakerd Leah S LS Sugden Karen K Williams Benjamin B Caspi Avshalom A
Child development 20191027 5
This study tested implications of new genetic discoveries for understanding the association between parental investment and children's educational attainment. A novel design matched genetic data from 860 British mothers and their children with home-visit measures of parenting: the E-Risk Study. Three findings emerged. First, both mothers' and children's education-associated genetics, summarized in a genome-wide polygenic score, were associated with parenting-a gene-environment correlation. Secon ...[more]