15 years of GWAS discovery: realizing the promise

A Abdellaoui, L Yengo, KJH Verweij… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the advent of the genome-wide association study (GWAS) era.
Here, we review how this experimental design has realized its promise by facilitating an …

The inheritance of social status: England, 1600 to 2022

G Clark - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
A lineage of 422,374 English people (1600 to 2022) contains correlations in social
outcomes among relatives as distant as 4th cousins. These correlations show striking …

Artificial intelligence for dementia genetics and omics

C Bettencourt, N Skene, S Bandres‐Ciga… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genetics and omics studies of Alzheimer's disease and other dementia subtypes enhance
our understanding of underlying mechanisms and pathways that can be targeted. We …

Social and genetic associations with educational performance in a Scandinavian welfare state

MA Isungset, D Conley… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Recent research has suggested that across Western developed societies, the influence of
genetics on educational outcomes is relatively constant. However, the degree to which …

The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child cohort study (MoBa) genotyping data resource: MoBaPsychGen pipeline v. 1

EC Corfield, AA Shadrin, O Frei, Z Rahman, A Lin… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Background The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) is a
population-based pregnancy cohort, which includes approximately 114,500 children, 95,200 …

Assortative mating and parental genetic relatedness contribute to the pathogenicity of variably expressive variants

C Smolen, M Jensen, L Dyer, L Pizzo… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
We examined more than 97,000 families from four neurodevelopmental disease cohorts and
the UK Biobank to identify phenotypic and genetic patterns in parents contributing to …

The heritability and persistence of social class in England

JJ Lee - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The extent to which hereditary abilities affect social class has been a matter of interest since
classical times (1). In 1918, Ronald Fisher published a framework for answering such …

The structure of psychiatric comorbidity without selection and assortative mating

Z Ayorech, FA Torvik, R Cheesman… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
The widespread comorbidity observed across psychiatric disorders may be the result of
processes such as assortative mating, gene-environment correlation, or selection into …

Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment

T Wolfram, D Morris - npj Science of Learning, 2023 - nature.com
Estimates of shared environmental influence on educational attainment (EA) using the
Classical Twin Design (CTD) have been enlisted as genetically sensitive measures of …

Disentangling direct and indirect genetic effects from partners and offspring on maternal depression using trio-GCTA

LD Bjørndal, EM Eilertsen, Z Ayorech… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Maternal depressive symptoms are highly prevalent and can negatively impact affected
individuals and family members. Understanding etiological influences on maternal …