Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence.

ABSTRACT: This research examines how the human genome and SES jointly and interactively shape verbal ability among youth in the U.S. The youth are aged 12-18 when the study starts. The research draws on findings from the latest GWAS as well as a rich set of longitudinal SES measures at individual, family and neighborhood levels from Add Health (N = 7194). Both SES and genome measures predict verbal ability well separately and jointly. More interestingly, the inclusion of both sets of predictors in the same model corrects for about 20% upward bias in the effect of the education PGS, and implies that about 20-30% of the effects of parental SES are not environmental, but parentally genomic. The three incremental R²s that measure the relative contributions of the two PGSs, the genomic compone

SUBMITTER: Guo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9463438 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature