Journal article
Examining social genetic effects on educational attainment via parental educational attainment, income, and parenting
Journal of family psychology, Vol.36(8), pp.1340-1350
06/06/2022
DOI: 10.1037/fam0001003
PMCID: PMC9733825
PMID: 35666911
Abstract
Higher parental educational attainment is associated with higher offspring educational attainment. In this study, we incorporated genotypic and phenotypic information from fathers, mothers, and offspring to disentangle the genetic and socioenvironmental pathways underlying this association. Data were drawn from a sample of individuals of European ancestry from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism (
= 4,089; 51% female). Results from path analysis indicated that paternal and maternal educational attainment genome-wide polygenic scores were associated with offspring educational attainment, above and beyond the effect of offspring education polygenic score. Parental educational attainment, income, and parenting behaviors served as important socioenvironmental pathways that mediated the effect of parental education polygenic score on offspring educational attainment. Our study highlights the importance of using genetically informed family studies to disentangle the genetic and socioenvironmental pathways underlying parental influences on human development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Title: Subtitle
- Examining social genetic effects on educational attainment via parental educational attainment, income, and parenting
- Creators
- Jinni Su - Department of PsychologySally I-Chun Kuo - Department of PsychiatryAngel Trevino - Department of PsychologyPeter B Barr - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesFazil Aliev - Department of PsychiatryKathleen Bucholz - Department of PsychiatryGrace Chan - Department of PsychiatryHoward J Edenberg - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySamuel Kuperman - Department of PsychiatryDongbing Lai - Department of Medical and Molecular GeneticsJacquelyn L Meyers - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesGayathri Pandey - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesBernice Porjesz - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesDanielle M Dick - Department of Psychiatry
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of family psychology, Vol.36(8), pp.1340-1350
- DOI
- 10.1037/fam0001003
- PMID
- 35666911
- PMCID
- PMC9733825
- NLM abbreviation
- J Fam Psychol
- ISSN
- 0893-3200
- eISSN
- 1939-1293
- Grant note
- National Institutes of Health; National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/06/2022
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984293756602771
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