Redefining phenotypes to advance psychiatric genetics: Implications from hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology.

MA Waszczuk, NR Eaton, RF Krueger… - Journal of abnormal …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Genetic discovery in psychiatry and clinical psychology is hindered by suboptimal
phenotypic definitions. We argue that the hierarchical, dimensional, and data-driven …

Research Review: A guide to computing and implementing polygenic scores in developmental research

AG Allegrini, JR Baldwin, W Barkhuizen… - Journal of Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing availability of genotype data in longitudinal population‐and family‐based
samples provides opportunities for using polygenic scores (PGS) to study developmental …

Evaluation of polygenic prediction methodology within a reference-standardized framework

O Pain, KP Glanville, SP Hagenaars, S Selzam… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The predictive utility of polygenic scores is increasing, and many polygenic scoring methods
are available, but it is unclear which method performs best. This study evaluates the …

Genetic associations between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement over development

M Malanchini, AG Allegrini, MG Nivard, P Biroli… - Nature human …, 2024 - nature.com
Non-cognitive skills, such as motivation and self-regulation, are partly heritable and predict
academic achievement beyond cognitive skills. However, how the relationship between non …

Predicting educational achievement from genomic measures and socioeconomic status

S Von Stumm, E Smith‐Woolley… - Developmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The two best predictors of children's educational achievement available from birth are
parents' socioeconomic status (SES) and, recently, children's inherited DNA differences that …

Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of dizygotic twinning illuminates genetic regulation of female fecundity

H Mbarek, SD Gordon, DL Duffy, N Hubers… - Human …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION Which genetic factors regulate female propensity for giving birth to
spontaneous dizygotic (DZ) twins? SUMMARY ANSWER We identified four new loci …

Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark

PS Dale, A Paul, M Rosholm… - International Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Prediction from early development to later achievement has the potential to improve clinical
and educational service delivery as well as to inform developmental theory. In this …

Twins Early Development Study (TEDS): A genetically sensitive investigation of mental health outcomes in the mid‐twenties

C Lockhart, J Bright, Y Ahmadzadeh, G Breen… - JCPP …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) is a longitudinal study following a
cohort of twins born 1994–1996 in England and Wales. Of the 13,759 families who originally …

Reciprocal effects between negative parenting and children's callous-unemotional traits from mid to late childhood

P Pezzoli, JB **ault, M Malanchini… - American Journal of …, 2024 - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: The role of negative parenting in the development of callous-unemotional (CU)
traits remains unclear. Both negative parenting and CU traits are influenced by genetic and …

Estimating effects of parents' cognitive and non-cognitive skills on offspring education using polygenic scores

PA Demange, JJ Hottenga, A Abdellaoui… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding how parents' cognitive and non-cognitive skills influence offspring education
is essential for educational, family and economic policy. We use genetics (GWAS-by …