What can genes tell us about the relationship between education and health?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 171-180

  Boardman, Jason D ^a   Domingue, Benjamin W ^a   Daw, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Depression; Education; Genetics; Health; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; EDUCATION; GENETICS; HEALTH STATUS; MENTAL HEALTH; SELF ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWINS; AGED; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84922285128     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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