Using the genes parents do not transmit to offspring to test evidence for a parental social competence phenotype in education and social attainment

Abstract

Measures of educational attainment (EA) confound parent and offspring genetics, causal family environments, and interactions of these. Here we present a new design capitalizing on the fact that parents pass, at random,... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Tim Bates (University of Edinburgh)
  2. Nathan Gillespie (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Topic Areas

Biological & Psychopharmacology , Education , Evolution

Session

Talks-3 » Genes & environment (09:00 - Saturday, 14th July)