Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects

American Sociological Review

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 802-832

  Wedow, Robbee ^a   Zacher, Meghan ^b   Huibregtse, Brooke M ^a   Mullan Harris, Kathleen ^c   Domingue, Benjamin W ^d   Boardman, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cohort change; education; genetic correlation; genodemography; pleiotropy; smoking

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; GENETICS; PLEIOTROPY; SMOKING;

EID: 85050409956     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: 19398271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003122418785368     Document Type: Article

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