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Genes, Gender Inequality, and Educational Attainment:

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In this article, the authors argue that women's opportunities have been profoundly altered over the past century by reductions in the social and structural constraints that limit women's educational attainment, and do social constraints mani...
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Women’s opportunities have been profoundly altered over the past century by reductions in the social and structural constraints that limit women’s educational attainment. Do social constraints mani...

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The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools

TL;DR: DiPrete and Buchmann as mentioned in this paper argue that social movements are the key to democratic reform, and that public officials are often indifferent or skeptical about state-originated democratic innovations.
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Backdoor to Eugenics

TL;DR: The presented book the authors offer here is not kind of usual book, but the book that it proffer is the soft file of the book, whereas, this condition will precisely be profitable.
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Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts.

Karri Silventoinen, +86 more
- 29 Jul 2020 - 
TL;DR: Both genetic and environmental factors shared by co-twins have an important influence on individual differences in educational attainment, and the effect of genetic factors on educational attainment has decreased from the cohorts born before to those born after the 1950s.

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Andrew R. Wood, +444 more
TL;DR: The results indicate a genetic architecture for human height that is characterized by a very large but finite number of causal variants, including mTOR, osteoglycin and binding of hyaluronic acid.
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10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation

TL;DR: The remarkable range of discoveriesGWASs has facilitated in population and complex-trait genetics, the biology of diseases, and translation toward new therapeutics are reviewed.
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An Expanded View of Complex Traits: From Polygenic to Omnigenic

TL;DR: It is proposed that gene regulatory networks are sufficiently interconnected such that all genes expressed in disease-relevant cells are liable to affect the functions of core disease-related genes and that most heritability can be explained by effects on genes outside core pathways.
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Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Andrew R. Wood, +444 more
- 01 Nov 2014 - 
TL;DR: This article identified 697 variants at genome-wide significance that together explained one-fifth of the heritability for adult height, and all common variants together captured 60% of heritability.
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Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

James J. Lee, +94 more
- 23 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: A joint (multi-phenotype) analysis of educational attainment and three related cognitive phenotypes generates polygenic scores that explain 11–13% of the variance ineducational attainment and 7–10% ofthe variance in cognitive performance, which substantially increases the utility ofpolygenic scores as tools in research.
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Gender As a Social Structure Theory Wrestling with Activism

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that we need to conceptualize gender as a social structure, and by doing so, we can better analyze the ways in which gender is embedded in the individual, interactional, and institutional dimensions of our society.
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