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Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children's Educational Attainment.

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Wertz, J; Moffitt, TE; Agnew-Blais, J; Arseneault, L; Belsky, DW; Corcoran, DL; Houts, R; Matthews, T; Prinz, JA; Richmond-Rakerd, LS; Caspi, A ...
Published in: Child development
September 2020

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. Second, accounting for genetic influences slightly reduced associations between parenting and children's attainment-indicating some genetic confounding. Third, mothers' genetics were associated with children's attainment over and above children's own genetics, via cognitively stimulating parenting-an environmentally mediated effect. Findings imply that, when interpreting parents' effects on children, environmentalists must consider genetic transmission, but geneticists must also consider environmental transmission.

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Child development

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EISSN

1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

September 2020

Volume

91

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1745 / 1761

Related Subject Headings

  • Parenting
  • Mothers
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • DNA
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child
 

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Wertz, J., Moffitt, T. E., Agnew-Blais, J., Arseneault, L., Belsky, D. W., Corcoran, D. L., … Caspi, A. (2020). Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children's Educational Attainment. Child Development, 91(5), 1745–1761. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13329
Wertz, Jasmin, Terrie E. Moffitt, Jessica Agnew-Blais, Louise Arseneault, Daniel W. Belsky, David L. Corcoran, Renate Houts, et al. “Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children's Educational Attainment.Child Development 91, no. 5 (September 2020): 1745–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13329.
Wertz J, Moffitt TE, Agnew-Blais J, Arseneault L, Belsky DW, Corcoran DL, et al. Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children's Educational Attainment. Child development. 2020 Sep;91(5):1745–61.
Wertz, Jasmin, et al. “Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children's Educational Attainment.Child Development, vol. 91, no. 5, Sept. 2020, pp. 1745–61. Epmc, doi:10.1111/cdev.13329.
Wertz J, Moffitt TE, Agnew-Blais J, Arseneault L, Belsky DW, Corcoran DL, Houts R, Matthews T, Prinz JA, Richmond-Rakerd LS, Sugden K, Williams B, Caspi A. Using DNA From Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children's Educational Attainment. Child development. 2020 Sep;91(5):1745–1761.
Journal cover image

Published In

Child development

DOI

EISSN

1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

September 2020

Volume

91

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1745 / 1761

Related Subject Headings

  • Parenting
  • Mothers
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • DNA
  • Child, Preschool
  • Child