Abstract
Accurate understanding of environmental moderation of genetic influences is vital to advancing the science of cognitive development as well as for designing interventions. One widely reported idea is increasing genetic influence on cognition for children raised in higher socioeconomic status (SES) families, including recent proposals that the pattern is a particularly US phenomenon. We used matched birth and school records from Florida siblings and twins born in 1994-2002 to provide the largest, most populationdiverse consideration of this hypothesis to date. We found no evidence of SES moderation of genetic influence on test scores, suggesting that articulating gene-environment interactions for cognition is more complex and elusive than previously supposed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 13441-13446 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue number | 51 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 19 2017 |
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Keywords
- Behavior genetics
- Cognition
- Environmental moderation
- Socioeconomic status
- Twin studies
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General
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Socioeconomic status and genetic influences on cognitive development. / Figlio, David N; Freese, Jeremy; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Roth, Jeffrey; Heckman, James J.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 51, 19.12.2017, p. 13441-13446.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Socioeconomic status and genetic influences on cognitive development
AU - Figlio, David N
AU - Freese, Jeremy
AU - Karbownik, Krzysztof
AU - Roth, Jeffrey
AU - Heckman, James J.
PY - 2017/12/19
Y1 - 2017/12/19
N2 - Accurate understanding of environmental moderation of genetic influences is vital to advancing the science of cognitive development as well as for designing interventions. One widely reported idea is increasing genetic influence on cognition for children raised in higher socioeconomic status (SES) families, including recent proposals that the pattern is a particularly US phenomenon. We used matched birth and school records from Florida siblings and twins born in 1994-2002 to provide the largest, most populationdiverse consideration of this hypothesis to date. We found no evidence of SES moderation of genetic influence on test scores, suggesting that articulating gene-environment interactions for cognition is more complex and elusive than previously supposed.
AB - Accurate understanding of environmental moderation of genetic influences is vital to advancing the science of cognitive development as well as for designing interventions. One widely reported idea is increasing genetic influence on cognition for children raised in higher socioeconomic status (SES) families, including recent proposals that the pattern is a particularly US phenomenon. We used matched birth and school records from Florida siblings and twins born in 1994-2002 to provide the largest, most populationdiverse consideration of this hypothesis to date. We found no evidence of SES moderation of genetic influence on test scores, suggesting that articulating gene-environment interactions for cognition is more complex and elusive than previously supposed.
KW - Behavior genetics
KW - Cognition
KW - Environmental moderation
KW - Socioeconomic status
KW - Twin studies
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