Using DNA from Mothers and Children to Study Parental Investment in Children's Educational Attainment

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      Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      17
    • Sponsoring Agency:
      Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
    • Contract Number:
      HD077482
    • Subject Terms:
      Genetics; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Children; Educational Attainment; Child Rearing; Foreign Countries; Environmental Influences; Nature Nurture Controversy; Biological Influences; Parent Influence
    • Subject Terms:
      United Kingdom (Great Britain)
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/cdev.13329
    • ISSN:
      0009-3920
    • Abstract:
      This study tested implications of new genetic discoveries for understanding the association between parental investment and children's educational attainment. A novel design matched genetic data from 860 British mothers and their children with home-visit measures of parenting: the E-Risk Study. Three findings emerged. First, both mothers' and children's education-associated genetics, summarized in a genome-wide polygenic score, were associated with parenting--a gene-environment correlation. Second, accounting for genetic influences slightly reduced associations between parenting and children's attainment--indicating some genetic confounding. Third, mothers' genetics were associated with children's attainment over and above children's own genetics, via cognitively stimulating parenting--an environmentally mediated effect. Findings imply that, when interpreting parents' effects on children, environmentalists must consider genetic transmission, but geneticists must also consider environmental transmission.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2020
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1266902