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Heredity, environment, and public policy reconsidered*
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This article is published in American Sociological Review.The article was published on 1980-10-01. It has received 171 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public policy & Nature versus nurture.read more
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The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments
Boyd Swinburn,Gary Sacks,Kevin D. Hall,Klim McPherson,Diane T. Finegood,Marjory Moodie,Steven L. Gortmaker +6 more
TL;DR: Unlike other major causes of preventable death and disability, such as tobacco use, injuries, and infectious diseases, there are no exemplar populations in which the obesity epidemic has been reversed by public health measures, which increases the urgency for evidence-creating policy action, with a priority on reduction of the supply-side drivers.
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Genome-wide association: which do you want first: the good news, the bad news, or the good news?
TL;DR: The strength of the GWA is that it has the potential to identify genes of high genetic effect that were previously unsuspected as candidates, and is not biased by a priori assumptions based on prior observations of the phenotype.
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The Inheritance of Inequality
Samuel Bowles,Herbert Gintis +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the causal mechanisms that underlie the intergenerational transmission of economic status are investigated and the mechanisms are shown to be amenable to public policies in a way that would make the attainment of economic success more fair.
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A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems
Teresa L. Scheid,Tony N. Brown +1 more
TL;DR: It is tested whether significant differences in mental illness exist in a matched sample of Mental illness and the criminal justice system.
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GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment
Cornelius A. Rietveld,Sarah E. Medland,Jaime Derringer,Jian Yang,Tõnu Esko,Nicolas W. Martin,Nicolas W. Martin,Harm-Jan Westra,Konstantin Shakhbazov,Abdel Abdellaoui,Arpana Agrawal,Eva Albrecht,Behrooz Z. Alizadeh,Najaf Amin,John Barnard,Sebastian E. Baumeister,Kelly S. Benke,Lawrence F. Bielak,Jeffrey A. Boatman,Patricia A. Boyle,Gail Davies,Christiaan de Leeuw,Niina Eklund,Niina Eklund,Daniel S. Evans,Rudolf Ferhmann,Krista Fischer,Christian Gieger,Håkon K. Gjessing,Sara Hägg,Sara Hägg,Jennifer R. Harris,Caroline Hayward,Christina Holzapfel,Carla A. Ibrahim-Verbaas,Erik Ingelsson,Erik Ingelsson,Bo Jacobsson,Bo Jacobsson,Peter K. Joshi,Astanand Jugessur,Marika Kaakinen,Stavroula Kanoni,Juha Karjalainen,Ivana Kolcic,Kati Kristiansson,Kati Kristiansson,Zoltán Kutalik,Zoltán Kutalik,Jari Lahti,Sang Hong Lee,Peng Lin,Penelope A. Lind,Yongmei Liu,Kurt Lohman,Marisa Loitfelder,George McMahon,Pedro Marques Vidal,Osorio Meirelles,Lili Milani,Ronny Myhre,Marja-Liisa Nuotio,Marja-Liisa Nuotio,Christopher Oldmeadow,Katja Petrovic,Wouter J. Peyrot,Ozren Polasek,Lydia Quaye,Eva Reinmaa,John P. Rice,Thais S. Rizzi,Helena Schmidt,Reinhold Schmidt,Albert V. Smith,Jennifer A. Smith,Toshiko Tanaka,Antonio Terracciano,Antonio Terracciano,Matthijs J. H. M. van der Loos,Veronique Vitart,Henry Völzke,Jürgen Wellmann,Lei Yu,Wei Zhao,Jüri Allik,John Attia,Stefania Bandinelli,François Bastardot,Jonathan P. Beauchamp,David A. Bennett,Klaus Berger,Laura J. Bierut,Dorret I. Boomsma,Ute Bültmann,Harry Campbell,Christopher F. Chabris,Lynn Cherkas,Mina K. Chung,Francesco Cucca,Francesco Cucca,Mariza de Andrade,Philip L. De Jager,Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,Ian J. Deary,George Dedoussis,Panos Deloukas,Maria Dimitriou,Guoný Eiríksdóttir,Martin F. Elderson,Johan G. Eriksson,David M. Evans,Jessica D. Faul,Luigi Ferrucci,Melissa E. Garcia,Henrik Grönberg,Vilmundur Guonason,Per Hall,Juliette Harris,Tamara B. Harris,Nicholas D. Hastie,Andrew C. Heath,Dena G. Hernandez,Wolfgang Hoffmann,Adriaan Hofman,Rolf Holle,Elizabeth G. Holliday,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,William G. Iacono,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Mika Kähönen,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Robert M. Kirkpatrick,Matthew Kowgier,Antti Latvala,Antti Latvala,Lenore J. Launer,Debbie A Lawlor,Terho Lehtimäki,Jingmei Li,Paul Lichtenstein,Peter Lichtner,David C. Liewald,Pamela A. F. Madden,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Tomi E. Mäkinen,Marco Masala,Matt McGue,Andres Metspalu,Andreas Mielck,Michael B. Miller,Grant W. Montgomery,Sutapa Mukherjee,Sutapa Mukherjee,Dale R. Nyholt,Ben A. Oostra,Lyle J. Palmer,Aarno Palotie,Aarno Palotie,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Patricia A. Peyser,Martin Preisig,Katri Räikkönen,Olli T. Raitakari,Anu Realo,Susan M. Ring,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Igor Rudan,Aldo Rustichini,Veikko Salomaa,Antti-Pekka Sarin,David Schlessinger,Rodney J. Scott,Harold Snieder,Beate St Pourcain,John M. Starr,Jae Hoon Sul,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Rauli Svento,Alexander Teumer,Henning Tiemeier,Frank J. A. van Rooij,David R. Van Wagoner,Erkki Vartiainen,Jorma Viikari,Peter Vollenweider,Judith M. Vonk,Gérard Waeber,David R. Weir,H.-Erich Wichmann,Elisabeth Widen,Gonneke Willemsen,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,Dalton Conley,George Davey-Smith,Lude Franke,Patrick J. F. Groenen,Albert Hofman,Magnus Johannesson,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Robert F. Krueger,David Laibson,Nicholas G. Martin,Michelle N. Meyer,Michelle N. Meyer,Danielle Posthuma,Danielle Posthuma,Roy Thurik,Nicholas J. Timpson,André G. Uitterlinden,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Peter M. Visscher,Peter M. Visscher,Daniel J. Benjamin,David Cesarini,David Cesarini,David Cesarini,Philipp Koellinger +230 more
TL;DR: In this article, a genome-wide association study of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490 individuals, and three independent SNPs are genome wide significant (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266).
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Genotype-environment interaction and correlation in the analysis of human behavior.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of genotype-envi ronment interaction and correlation on behavioral genetic studies (twin and adoption studies) are examined, and the analysis suggests that genotypeenvironment interaction may bias twin study estimates of genetic and environmental influence, but need not affect adoption studies.
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The influence of "family background" on intellectual attainment.
Sandra Scarr,Richard A. Weinberg +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that there is little effect of those family environmental differences studied on IQ differences among the adolescents in the SES range of working to upper middle class, and that genetic differences among families account for the major part of the longterm effects of 'family background' on IQ.
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Intellectual resemblance among adoptive and biological relatives: The texas Adoption Project
TL;DR: In this article, the same or similar measures have been obtained from 300 sets of adoptive parents and all of their adopted and natural children in the Texas Adoption Project, and initial analyses of the data on IQ suggest moderate heritabilities.
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Resemblance in appearance and the equal environments assumption in twin studies of personality traits
TL;DR: The data suggested a contrast effect in which identical twins who were easily mistaken in appearance tended to be rated asless similar in personality, suggesting that similarity of appearance does not appear to bias twin studies in the direction of inflated heritabilities, at least for rating studies of the personality of young twins.
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Estimation of the limits of heritability of traits by comparison of monozygotic and dizygotic twins
TL;DR: This paper has three aims: to present a new formula for extracting heritability estimates from twin data, to show the results of the application of the formula to data from past studies of the heritability of intelligence, scholastic achievement, personality traits, and physical characteristics, and to urge that heritability Estimates be obtained in all large-scale educational testing programs.