Gianna Rea-Sandin

TL;DR: The Genes for Good study uses social media to engage a large, diverse participant pool in genetics research and education and has replicated genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for exemplar traits, such as asthma, diabetes, body mass index (BMI), and pigmentation.

TL;DR: Preliminary findings illustrate that objective assessments of children’s health are highly heritable, but they do not always share genetic etiology with more commonly used subjective assessments.

TL;DR: Results indicate that online cognitive assessment is one avenue to accumulate large samples of individuals for genetic research of cognitive ability, and appears to perform adequately and demonstrate expected associations with personality, education, and an education-based polygenic score.

TL;DR: Findings support the cultural differences hypothesis for executive function performance and underscores the need to address social inequalities in the U.S. that drive performance differences.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between a GWAS-based (EduYears) polygenic score indexing educational attainment (EA PGS) and inhibitory control in early and middle childhood.