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Vogt RL, Heck PR, Watts DJ, Chabris CF, Meyer MN. Experiment aversion does generalize, but it can also be mitigated. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2315439121. [PMID: 38696483 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2315439121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Randi L Vogt
- Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822
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- Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA 19104
- Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA 19104
- Operations, Information, and Decisions Department, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA 19104
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- Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822
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Tian R, Ge T, Kweon H, Rocha DB, Lam M, Liu JZ, Singh K, Levey DF, Gelernter J, Stein MB, Tsai EA, Huang H, Chabris CF, Lencz T, Runz H, Chen CY. Whole-exome sequencing in UK Biobank reveals rare genetic architecture for depression. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1755. [PMID: 38409228 PMCID: PMC10897433 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45774-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
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Nearly two hundred common-variant depression risk loci have been identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). However, the impact of rare coding variants on depression remains poorly understood. Here, we present whole-exome sequencing analyses of depression with seven different definitions based on survey, questionnaire, and electronic health records in 320,356 UK Biobank participants. We showed that the burden of rare damaging coding variants in loss-of-function intolerant genes is significantly associated with risk of depression with various definitions. We compared the rare and common genetic architecture across depression definitions by genetic correlation and showed different genetic relationships between definitions across common and rare variants. In addition, we demonstrated that the effects of rare damaging coding variant burden and polygenic risk score on depression risk are additive. The gene set burden analyses revealed overlapping rare genetic variant components with developmental disorder, autism, and schizophrenia. Our study provides insights into the contribution of rare coding variants, separately and in conjunction with common variants, on depression with various definitions and their genetic relationships with neurodevelopmental disorders.
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- Ruoyu Tian
- Biogen Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Dewpoint Therapeutics, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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- Phenomics Analytics and Clinical Data Core, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
- Institute of Behavioral Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
- North Region, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
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- Biogen Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA
- GlaxoSmithKline, Upper Providence, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- VA Connecticut Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT, USA
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- VA Connecticut Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT, USA
- Departments of Psychiatry, Genetics, and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
- Institute of Behavioral Science, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Departments of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA
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Goren A, Santos HC, Davis TW, Lowe RB, Monfette M, Meyer MN, Chabris CF. Comparison of Clinical Decision Support Tools to Improve Pediatric Lipid Screening. J Pediatr 2024; 269:113973. [PMID: 38401785 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.113973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 02/12/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/26/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To test whether different clinical decision support tools increase clinician orders and patient completions relative to standard practice and each other. STUDY DESIGN A pragmatic, patient-randomized clinical trial in the electronic health record was conducted between October 2019 and April 2020 at Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, with 4 arms: care gap-a passive listing recommending screening; alert-a panel promoting and enabling lipid screen orders; both; and a standard practice-no guideline-based notification-control arm. Data were analyzed for 13 346 9- to 11-year-old patients seen within Geisinger primary care, cardiology, urgent care, or nutrition clinics, or who had an endocrinology visit. Principal outcomes were lipid screening orders by clinicians and completions by patients within 1 week of orders. RESULTS Active (care gap and/or alert) vs control arm patients were significantly more likely (P < .05) to have lipid screening tests ordered and completed, with ORs ranging from 1.67 (95% CI 1.28-2.19) to 5.73 (95% CI 4.46-7.36) for orders and 1.54 (95% CI 1.04-2.27) to 2.90 (95% CI 2.02-4.15) for completions. Alerts, with or without care gaps listed, outperformed care gaps alone on orders, with odds ratios ranging from 2.92 (95% CI 2.32-3.66) to 3.43 (95% CI 2.73-4.29). CONCLUSIONS Electronic alerts can increase lipid screening orders and completions, suggesting clinical decision support can improve guideline-concordant screening. The study also highlights electronic record-based patient randomization as a way to determine relative effectiveness of support tools. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04118348.
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- Amir Goren
- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA.
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
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- Clinical Informatics, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA; Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger College of Health Sciences, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA; Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger College of Health Sciences, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
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Walsh CG, Ripperger MA, Hu Y, Sheu YH, Lee H, Wilimitis D, Zheutlin AB, Rocha D, Choi KW, Castro VM, Kirchner HL, Chabris CF, Davis LK, Smoller JW. Development and multi-site external validation of a generalizable risk prediction model for bipolar disorder. Transl Psychiatry 2024; 14:58. [PMID: 38272862 PMCID: PMC10810911 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-023-02720-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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Bipolar disorder is a leading contributor to disability, premature mortality, and suicide. Early identification of risk for bipolar disorder using generalizable predictive models trained on diverse cohorts around the United States could improve targeted assessment of high risk individuals, reduce misdiagnosis, and improve the allocation of limited mental health resources. This observational case-control study intended to develop and validate generalizable predictive models of bipolar disorder as part of the multisite, multinational PsycheMERGE Network across diverse and large biobanks with linked electronic health records (EHRs) from three academic medical centers: in the Northeast (Massachusetts General Brigham), the Mid-Atlantic (Geisinger) and the Mid-South (Vanderbilt University Medical Center). Predictive models were developed and valid with multiple algorithms at each study site: random forests, gradient boosting machines, penalized regression, including stacked ensemble learning algorithms combining them. Predictors were limited to widely available EHR-based features agnostic to a common data model including demographics, diagnostic codes, and medications. The main study outcome was bipolar disorder diagnosis as defined by the International Cohort Collection for Bipolar Disorder, 2015. In total, the study included records for 3,529,569 patients including 12,533 cases (0.3%) of bipolar disorder. After internal and external validation, algorithms demonstrated optimal performance in their respective development sites. The stacked ensemble achieved the best combination of overall discrimination (AUC = 0.82-0.87) and calibration performance with positive predictive values above 5% in the highest risk quantiles at all three study sites. In conclusion, generalizable predictive models of risk for bipolar disorder can be feasibly developed across diverse sites to enable precision medicine. Comparison of a range of machine learning methods indicated that an ensemble approach provides the best performance overall but required local retraining. These models will be disseminated via the PsycheMERGE Network website.
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- Colin G Walsh
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Health System, Nashville, TN, USA.
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- Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
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- Massachusetts General-Brigham Health System, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Health System, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Health System, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Massachusetts General-Brigham Health System, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General-Brigham Health System, Boston, MA, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Health System, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Massachusetts General-Brigham Health System, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Kirchner HL, Rocha D, Linner RK, Wilimitis D, Walsh CG, Ripperger M, Lee H, Liu Z, Davis L, Hu Y, Chabris CF, Smoller JW. Association Between Psychiatric Polygenic Scores, Healthcare Utilization and Comorbidity Burden. medRxiv 2023:2023.09.29.23296345. [PMID: 37808705 PMCID: PMC10557834 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.29.23296345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Purpose To estimate the association of psychiatric polygenic scores with healthcare utilization and comorbidity burden. Methods Observational cohort study (N = 118,882) of adolescent and adult biobank participants with linked electronic health records (EHRs) from three diverse study sites; (Massachusetts General Brigham, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Geisinger). Polygenic scores (PGS) were derived from the largest available GWAS of major depressive depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia at the time of analysis. Negative binomial regression models were used to estimate the association between each psychiatric PGS and healthcare utilization and comorbidity burden. Healthcare utilization was measured as frequency of emergency department (ED), inpatient (IP), and outpatient (OP) visits. Comorbidity burden was defined by the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index and the Charlson Comorbidity Index. Results Participants had a median follow-up duration of 12 years in the EHR. Individuals in the top decile of polygenic score for major depressive disorder had significantly more ED visits (RR=1.22, 95% CI; 1.17, 1.29) compared to those the lowest decile. Increases were also observed with IP and comorbidity burden. Among those diagnosed with depression and in the highest decile of the PGS, there was an increase in all utilization types (ED: RR=1.56, 95% CI 1.41, 1.72; OP: RR=1.16, 95% CI 1.08, 1.24; IP: RR=1.23, 95% CI 1.12, 1.36) post-diagnosis. No clinically significant results were observed with bipolar and schizophrenia polygenic scores. Conclusions Polygenic score for depression is modestly associated with increased healthcare resource utilization and comorbidity burden, in the absence of diagnosis. Following a diagnosis of depression, the PGS was associated with further increases in healthcare utilization. These findings suggest that depression genetic risk is associated with utilization and burden of chronic disease in real-world settings.
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- Phenomic Analytics and Clinical Data Core, Geisinger, Danville PA
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- Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger, Danville PA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medicine Center, Nashville, TN
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
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- Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Geisinger, Danville PA
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- Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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Zhang S, Heck PR, Meyer MN, Chabris CF, Goldstein DG, Hofman JM. An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2302491120. [PMID: 37556500 PMCID: PMC10438372 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302491120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
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Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compared to outcome variability (i.e., the predictability of individual outcomes). Here, we show that this can lead to sizable misperceptions about the implications of scientific results. Specifically, we present three preregistered, randomized experiments where participants saw the same scientific findings visualized as showing only inferential uncertainty, only outcome variability, or both and answered questions about the size and importance of findings they were shown. Our results, composed of responses from medical professionals, professional data scientists, and tenure-track faculty, show that the prevalent form of visualizing only inferential uncertainty can lead to significant overestimates of treatment effects, even among highly trained experts. In contrast, we find that depicting both inferential uncertainty and outcome variability leads to more accurate perceptions of results while appearing to leave other subjective impressions of the results unchanged, on average.
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- Sam Zhang
- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO80309
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- Office of Research, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, DC20552
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- Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA17822
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Vogt RL, Heck PR, Mestechkin RM, Heydari P, Chabris CF, Meyer MN. Experiment aversion among clinicians and the public - an obstacle to evidence-based medicine and public health. medRxiv 2023:2023.04.05.23288189. [PMID: 37066423 PMCID: PMC10104223 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.05.23288189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for determining the safety and efficacy of healthcare interventions. However, both laypeople and clinicians often demonstrate experiment aversion: preferring to implement either of two interventions for everyone rather than comparing them to determine which is best. We studied whether clinician and layperson views of pragmatic RCTs for Covid-19 or other interventions became more positive early in the pandemic, which increased both the urgency and public discussion of RCTs. Methods We conducted several survey studies with laypeople (total n=2,909) and two with clinicians (n=895; n=1,254) in 2020 and 2021. Participants read vignettes in which a hypothetical decision-maker who sought to improve health could choose to implement intervention A for all, implement intervention B for all, or experimentally compare A and B and implement the superior intervention. Participants rated and ranked the appropriateness of each decision. Results Compared to our pre-pandemic results, we found no decrease in laypeople's aversion to non-Covid-19 experiments involving catheterization checklists and hypertension drugs. Nor were either laypeople or clinicians less averse to Covid-19 RCTs (concerning corticosteroid drugs, vaccines, intubation checklists, proning, school reopening, and mask protocols), on average. Across all vignettes and samples, levels of experiment aversion ranged from 28% to 57%, while levels of experiment appreciation (in which the RCT is rated higher than the participant's highest-rated intervention) ranged from only 6% to 35%. Conclusions Advancing evidence-based medicine through pragmatic RCTs will require anticipating and addressing experiment aversion among both patients and healthcare professionals.
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- Randi L. Vogt
- Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences, Geisinger
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- Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences, Geisinger
- Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
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Walsh CG, Ripperger MA, Hu Y, Sheu YH, Wilimitis D, Zheutlin AB, Rocha D, Choi KW, Castro VM, Kirchner HL, Chabris CF, Davis LK, Smoller JW. Development and Multi-Site External Validation of a Generalizable Risk Prediction Model for Bipolar Disorder. medRxiv 2023:2023.02.21.23286251. [PMID: 36865341 PMCID: PMC9980254 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.21.23286251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
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Bipolar disorder is a leading contributor to disability, premature mortality, and suicide. Early identification of risk for bipolar disorder using generalizable predictive models trained on diverse cohorts around the United States could improve targeted assessment of high risk individuals, reduce misdiagnosis, and improve the allocation of limited mental health resources. This observational case-control study intended to develop and validate generalizable predictive models of bipolar disorder as part of the multisite, multinational PsycheMERGE Consortium across diverse and large biobanks with linked electronic health records (EHRs) from three academic medical centers: in the Northeast (Massachusetts General Brigham), the Mid-Atlantic (Geisinger) and the Mid-South (Vanderbilt University Medical Center). Predictive models were developed and validated with multiple algorithms at each study site: random forests, gradient boosting machines, penalized regression, including stacked ensemble learning algorithms combining them. Predictors were limited to widely available EHR-based features agnostic to a common data model including demographics, diagnostic codes, and medications. The main study outcome was bipolar disorder diagnosis as defined by the International Cohort Collection for Bipolar Disorder, 2015. In total, the study included records for 3,529,569 patients including 12,533 cases (0.3%) of bipolar disorder. After internal and external validation, algorithms demonstrated optimal performance in their respective development sites. The stacked ensemble achieved the best combination of overall discrimination (AUC = 0.82 - 0.87) and calibration performance with positive predictive values above 5% in the highest risk quantiles at all three study sites. In conclusion, generalizable predictive models of risk for bipolar disorder can be feasibly developed across diverse sites to enable precision medicine. Comparison of a range of machine learning methods indicated that an ensemble approach provides the best performance overall but required local retraining. These models will be disseminated via the PsycheMERGE Consortium website.
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Brown MI, Heck PR, Chabris CF. The Social Shapes Test as a Self-Administered, Online Measure of Social Intelligence: Two Studies with Typically Developing Adults and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord 2023:10.1007/s10803-023-05901-2. [PMID: 36757539 PMCID: PMC9909157 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-023-05901-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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The Social Shapes Test (SST) is a measure of social intelligence which does not use human faces or rely on extensive verbal ability. The SST has shown promising validity among adults without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but it is uncertain whether it is suitable for adults with ASD. We find measurement invariance between adults with (n = 229) or without ASD (n = 1,049) on the 23-item SST. We also find that adults without ASD score higher on the SST than adults with ASD (d = 0.21). We also provide two, 14-item versions which demonstrated good parallel test-retest reliability and are positively related to scores on the Frith-Happé task. The SST is suitable for remote, online research studies.
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- Matt I Brown
- Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, USA.
- Human Resources Research Organization, 66 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 700, 22314, Alexandria, VA, USA.
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Nitin R, Shaw DM, Rocha DB, Walters CE, Chabris CF, Camarata SM, Gordon RL, Below JE. Association of Developmental Language Disorder With Comorbid Developmental Conditions Using Algorithmic Phenotyping. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2248060. [PMID: 36580336 PMCID: PMC9857086 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.48060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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IMPORTANCE Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common (with up to 7% prevalence) yet underdiagnosed childhood disorder whose underlying biological profile and comorbidities are not fully understood, especially at the population level. OBJECTIVE To identify clinically relevant conditions that co-occur with DLD at the population level. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This case-control study used an electronic health record (EHR)-based population-level approach to compare the prevalence of comorbid health phenotypes between DLD cases and matched controls. These cases were identified using the Automated Phenotyping Tool for Identifying Developmental Language Disorder algorithm of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center EHR, and a phenome enrichment analysis was used to identify comorbidities. An independent sample was selected from the Geisinger Health System EHR to test the replication of the phenome enrichment using the same phenotyping and analysis pipeline. Data from the Vanderbilt EHR were accessed between March 2019 and October 2020, while data from the Geisinger EHR were accessed between January and March 2022. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Common and rare comorbidities of DLD at the population level were identified using EHRs and a phecode-based enrichment analysis. RESULTS Comorbidity analysis was conducted for 5273 DLD cases (mean [SD] age, 16.8 [7.2] years; 3748 males [71.1%]) and 26 353 matched controls (mean [SD] age, 14.6 [5.5] years; 18 729 males [71.1%]). Relevant phenotypes associated with DLD were found, including learning disorder, delayed milestones, disorders of the acoustic nerve, conduct disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, lack of coordination, and other motor deficits. Several other health phenotypes not previously associated with DLD were identified, such as dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and weight and nutrition, representing a new window into the clinical complexity of DLD. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE This study found both rare and common comorbidities of DLD. Comorbidity profiles may be leveraged to identify risk of additional health challenges, beyond language impairment, among children with DLD.
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- Rachana Nitin
- Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Phenomic Analytics and Clinical Data Core, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University Neuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Loma Linda School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California
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- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Wolk DM, Lanyado A, Tice AM, Shermohammed M, Kinar Y, Goren A, Chabris CF, Meyer MN, Shoshan A, Abedi V. Prediction of Influenza Complications: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Prediction Model to Improve and Expand the Identification of Vaccine-Hesitant Patients at Risk of Severe Influenza Complications. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11154342. [PMID: 35893436 PMCID: PMC9332321 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11154342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Influenza vaccinations are recommended for high-risk individuals, but few population-based strategies exist to identify individual risks. Patient-level data from unvaccinated individuals, stratified into retrospective cases (n = 111,022) and controls (n = 2,207,714), informed a machine learning model designed to create an influenza risk score; the model was called the Geisinger Flu-Complications Flag (GFlu-CxFlag). The flag was created and validated on a cohort of 604,389 unique individuals. Risk scores were generated for influenza cases; the complication rate for individuals without influenza was estimated to adjust for unrelated complications. Shapley values were used to examine the model’s correctness and demonstrate its dependence on different features. Bias was assessed for race and sex. Inverse propensity weighting was used in the derivation stage to correct for biases. The GFlu-CxFlag model was compared to the pre-existing Medial EarlySign Flu Algomarker and existing risk guidelines that describe high-risk patients who would benefit from influenza vaccination. The GFlu-CxFlag outperformed other traditional risk-based models; the area under curve (AUC) was 0.786 [0.783−0.789], compared with 0.694 [0.690−0.698] (p-value < 0.00001). The presence of acute and chronic respiratory diseases, age, and previous emergency department visits contributed most to the GFlu-CxFlag model’s prediction. When higher numerical scores were assigned to more severe complications, the GFlu-CxFlag AUC increased to 0.828 [0.823−0.833], with excellent discrimination in the final model used to perform the risk stratification of the population. The GFlu-CxFlag can better identify high-risk individuals than existing models based on vaccination guidelines, thus creating a population-based risk stratification for individual risk assessment and deployment in vaccine hesitancy reduction programs in our health system.
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- Donna M. Wolk
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Diagnostic Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822, USA;
- Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, PA 18509, USA
- Correspondence:
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- Medial EarlySign, 6 Hangar Road, Hod Hasharon 4527703, Israel; (A.L.); (Y.K.); (A.S.)
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Diagnostic Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822, USA;
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822, USA; (M.S.); (A.G.); (C.F.C.); (M.N.M.)
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- Medial EarlySign, 6 Hangar Road, Hod Hasharon 4527703, Israel; (A.L.); (Y.K.); (A.S.)
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822, USA; (M.S.); (A.G.); (C.F.C.); (M.N.M.)
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822, USA; (M.S.); (A.G.); (C.F.C.); (M.N.M.)
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822, USA; (M.S.); (A.G.); (C.F.C.); (M.N.M.)
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- Medial EarlySign, 6 Hangar Road, Hod Hasharon 4527703, Israel; (A.L.); (Y.K.); (A.S.)
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;
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Brown MI, Speer AB, Tenbrink AP, Chabris CF. Using game-like animations of geometric shapes to simulate social interactions: An evaluation of group score differences. Int J Sel Assess 2022; 30:167-181. [PMID: 35935096 PMCID: PMC9355331 DOI: 10.1111/ijsa.12375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
This study introduces a novel, game-like method for measuring social intelligence: the Social Shapes Test. Unlike other existing video or game-based tests, the Shapes Test uses animations of abstract shapes to represent social interactions. We explore demographic differences in Shapes Test scores compared to a written situational judgment test. Gender and race/ethnicity only had meaningful effects on written SJT scores while no effects were found for Shapes Test scores. This pattern of results remained after controlling for general mental ability and English language exposure. We also found metric invariance between demographic groups for both tests. Our results demonstrate the potential for using animated shape tasks as an alternative to written SJTs when designing future game-based assessments.
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- Matt I. Brown
- Geisinger Health System, Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Lewisburg, PA
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- Wayne State University, Department of Psychology, Detroit, MI
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Santos HC, Goren A, Chabris CF, Meyer MN. Effect of Targeted Behavioral Science Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Registration Among Employees of a Large Health System: A Randomized Trial. JAMA Netw Open 2021; 4:e2118702. [PMID: 34319359 PMCID: PMC8319759 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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This randomized trial evaluates whether individually addressed emails designed with behaviorally informed features increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.
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- Henri C. Santos
- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
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In 1944, Heider and Simmel reported that observers could perceive simple animated geometric shapes as characters with emotions, intentions, and other social attributes. This work has been cited over 3000 times and has had wide and ongoing influence on the study of social cognition and social intelligence. However, many researchers in this area have continued to use the original Heider and Simmel black-and-white video. We asked whether the original findings could be reproduced 75 years later by creating 32 new colored animated shape videos designed to depict various social plots and testing whether they can evoke similar spontaneous social attributions. Participants (N = 66) viewed our videos and were asked to write narratives which we coded for indicia of different types of social attributions. Consistent with Heider and Simmel, we found that participants spontaneously attributed social meaning to the videos. We observed that responses to our videos were also similar to responses to the original video reported by Klin (2000), despite being only 13-23 s and portraying a broader range of social plots. Participants varied in how many social attributions they made in response, and the videos varied in how much they elicited such responses. Our set of animated shape videos is freely available online for all researchers to use and forms the basis of a multiple-choice assessment of social intelligence (Brown et al., 2019).
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- Adrianna Ratajska
- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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Brown MI, Wai J, Chabris CF. Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes. Perspect Psychol Sci 2021; 16:1337-1359. [PMID: 33682520 DOI: 10.1177/1745691620964122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Despite a long-standing expert consensus about the importance of cognitive ability for life outcomes, contrary views continue to proliferate in scholarly and popular literature. This divergence of beliefs presents an obstacle for evidence-based policymaking and decision-making in a variety of settings. One commonly held idea is that greater cognitive ability does not matter or is actually harmful beyond a certain point (sometimes stated as > 100 or 120 IQ points). We empirically tested these notions using data from four longitudinal, representative cohort studies comprising 48,558 participants in the United States and United Kingdom from 1957 to the present. We found that ability measured in youth has a positive association with most occupational, educational, health, and social outcomes later in life. Most effects were characterized by a moderate to strong linear trend or a practically null effect (mean R2 range = .002-.256). Nearly all nonlinear effects were practically insignificant in magnitude (mean incremental R2 = .001) or were not replicated across cohorts or survey waves. We found no support for any downside to higher ability and no evidence for a threshold beyond which greater scores cease to be beneficial. Thus, greater cognitive ability is generally advantageous-and virtually never detrimental.
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- Matt I Brown
- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Education Reform, Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas
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- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Rohrer JM, Tierney W, Uhlmann EL, DeBruine LM, Heyman T, Jones B, Schmukle SC, Silberzahn R, Willén RM, Carlsson R, Lucas RE, Strand J, Vazire S, Witt JK, Zentall TR, Chabris CF, Yarkoni T. Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project. Perspect Psychol Sci 2021; 16:1255-1269. [PMID: 33645334 PMCID: PMC8564260 DOI: 10.1177/1745691620964106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Science is often perceived to be a self-correcting enterprise. In principle, the
assessment of scientific claims is supposed to proceed in a cumulative fashion,
with the reigning theories of the day progressively approximating truth more
accurately over time. In practice, however, cumulative self-correction tends to
proceed less efficiently than one might naively suppose. Far from evaluating new
evidence dispassionately and infallibly, individual scientists often cling
stubbornly to prior findings. Here we explore the dynamics of scientific
self-correction at an individual rather than collective level. In 13 written
statements, researchers from diverse branches of psychology share why and how
they have lost confidence in one of their own published findings. We
qualitatively characterize these disclosures and explore their implications. A
cross-disciplinary survey suggests that such loss-of-confidence sentiments are
surprisingly common among members of the broader scientific population yet
rarely become part of the public record. We argue that removing barriers to
self-correction at the individual level is imperative if the scientific
community as a whole is to achieve the ideal of efficient self-correction.
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- Julia M Rohrer
- International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.,Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig
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- Department of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD, Singapore
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- Department of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD, Singapore
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven.,Institute of Psychology, Leiden University
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow
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- Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE)
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
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Shermohammed M, Goren A, Lanyado A, Yesharim R, Wolk DM, Doyle J, Meyer MN, Chabris CF. Informing patients that they are at high risk for serious complications of viral infection increases vaccination rates. medRxiv 2021:2021.02.20.21252015. [PMID: 33655258 PMCID: PMC7924279 DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.20.21252015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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For many vaccine-preventable diseases like influenza, vaccination rates are lower than optimal to achieve community protection. Those at high risk for infection and serious complications are especially advised to be vaccinated to protect themselves. Using influenza as a model, we studied one method of increasing vaccine uptake: informing high-risk patients, identified by a machine learning model, about their risk status. Patients (N=39,717) were evenly randomized to (1) a control condition (exposure only to standard direct mail or patient portal vaccine promotion efforts) or to be told via direct mail, patient portal, and/or SMS that they were (2) at high risk for influenza and its complications if not vaccinated; (3) at high risk according to a review of their medical records; or (4) at high risk according to a computer algorithm analysis of their medical records. Patients in the three treatment conditions were 5.7% more likely to get vaccinated during the 112 days post-intervention (p < .001), and did so 1.4 days earlier (p < .001), on average, than those in the control group. There were no significant differences among risk messages, suggesting that patients are neither especially averse to nor uniquely appreciative of learning their records had been reviewed or that computer algorithms were involved. Similar approaches should be considered for COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.
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- Maheen Shermohammed
- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17822, USA
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17822, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Diagnostic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
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- Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17822, USA
- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17822, USA
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- Behavioral Insights Team, Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17822, USA
- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
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Beauchamp JP, Benjamin DJ, Laibson DI, Chabris CF. Measuring and Controlling for the Compromise Effect When Estimating Risk Preference Parameters. Exp Econ 2020; 23:1069-1099. [PMID: 33343223 PMCID: PMC7747750 DOI: 10.1007/s10683-019-09640-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Revised: 11/15/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The compromise effect arises when being close to the "middle" of a choice set makes an option more appealing. The compromise effect poses conceptual and practical problems for economic research: by influencing choices, it can bias researchers' inferences about preference parameters. To study this bias, we conduct an experiment with 550 participants who made choices over lotteries from multiple price lists (MPLs). Following prior work, we manipulate the compromise effect to influence choices by varying the middle options of each MPL. We then estimate risk preferences using a discrete-choice model without a compromise effect embedded in the model. As anticipated, the resulting risk preference parameter estimates are not robust, changing as the compromise effect is manipulated. To disentangle risk preference parameters from the compromise effect and to measure the strength of the compromise effect, we augment our discrete-choice model with additional parameters that represent a rising penalty for expressing an indifference point further from the middle of the ordered MPL. Using this method, we estimate an economically significant magnitude for the compromise effect and generate robust estimates of risk preference parameters that are no longer sensitive to compromise-effect manipulations.
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Zheutlin AB, Dennis J, Karlsson Linnér R, Moscati A, Restrepo N, Straub P, Ruderfer D, Castro VM, Chen CY, Ge T, Huckins LM, Charney A, Kirchner HL, Stahl EA, Chabris CF, Davis LK, Smoller JW. Penetrance and Pleiotropy of Polygenic Risk Scores for Schizophrenia in 106,160 Patients Across Four Health Care Systems. Am J Psychiatry 2019; 176:846-855. [PMID: 31416338 PMCID: PMC6961974 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18091085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Individuals at high risk for schizophrenia may benefit from early intervention, but few validated risk predictors are available. Genetic profiling is one approach to risk stratification that has been extensively validated in research cohorts. The authors sought to test the utility of this approach in clinical settings and to evaluate the broader health consequences of high genetic risk for schizophrenia. METHODS The authors used electronic health records for 106,160 patients from four health care systems to evaluate the penetrance and pleiotropy of genetic risk for schizophrenia. Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for schizophrenia were calculated from summary statistics and tested for association with 1,359 disease categories, including schizophrenia and psychosis, in phenome-wide association studies. Effects were combined through meta-analysis across sites. RESULTS PRSs were robustly associated with schizophrenia (odds ratio per standard deviation increase in PRS, 1.55; 95% CI=1.4, 1.7), and patients in the highest risk decile of the PRS distribution had up to 4.6-fold higher odds of schizophrenia compared with those in the bottom decile (95% CI=2.9, 7.3). PRSs were also positively associated with other phenotypes, including anxiety, mood, substance use, neurological, and personality disorders, as well as suicidal behavior, memory loss, and urinary syndromes; they were inversely related to obesity. CONCLUSIONS The study demonstrates that an available measure of genetic risk for schizophrenia is robustly associated with schizophrenia in health care settings and has pleiotropic effects on related psychiatric disorders as well as other medical syndromes. The results provide an initial indication of the opportunities and limitations that may arise with the future application of PRS testing in health care systems.
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- Amanda B Zheutlin
- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (Zheutlin, Chen, Ge, Smoller) and Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Chen); Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Mass. (Zheutlin, Chen, Stahl, Smoller); Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (Dennis, Straub, Ruderfer, Davis), and Department of Biomedical Informatics (Ruderfer), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Karlsson Linnér); Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, Pa. (Karlsson Linnér, Chabris); Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (Moscati), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (Huckins, Charney, Stahl), and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences (Huckins, Charney, Stahl, ), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Rockville, Md. (Restrepo, Kirchner); Research Information Science and Computing, Partners HealthCare, Somerville, Mass. (Castro)
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Brown MI, Ratajska A, Hughes SL, Fishman JB, Huerta E, Chabris CF. The social shapes test: A new measure of social intelligence, mentalizing, and theory of mind. Personality and Individual Differences 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Meyer MN, Heck PR, Holtzman GS, Anderson SM, Cai W, Watts DJ, Chabris CF. Objecting to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies or treatments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:10723-10728. [PMID: 31072934 PMCID: PMC6561206 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1820701116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Randomized experiments have enormous potential to improve human welfare in many domains, including healthcare, education, finance, and public policy. However, such "A/B tests" are often criticized on ethical grounds even as similar, untested interventions are implemented without objection. We find robust evidence across 16 studies of 5,873 participants from three diverse populations spanning nine domains-from healthcare to autonomous vehicle design to poverty reduction-that people frequently rate A/B tests designed to establish the comparative effectiveness of two policies or treatments as inappropriate even when universally implementing either A or B, untested, is seen as appropriate. This "A/B effect" is as strong among those with higher educational attainment and science literacy and among relevant professionals. It persists even when there is no reason to prefer A to B and even when recipients are treated unequally and randomly in all conditions (A, B, and A/B). Several remaining explanations for the effect-a belief that consent is required to impose a policy on half of a population but not on the entire population; an aversion to controlled but not to uncontrolled experiments; and a proxy form of the illusion of knowledge (according to which randomized evaluations are unnecessary because experts already do or should know "what works")-appear to contribute to the effect, but none dominates or fully accounts for it. We conclude that rigorously evaluating policies or treatments via pragmatic randomized trials may provoke greater objection than simply implementing those same policies or treatments untested.
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- Michelle N Meyer
- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17821;
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- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17821
- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA 17837
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- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17821
- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA 17837
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- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17821
- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA 17837
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- New York City Lab, Microsoft Research, New York, NY 10011
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- New York City Lab, Microsoft Research, New York, NY 10011
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- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA 17837
- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, 31015 Toulouse, France
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Lee JJ, McGue M, Iacono WG, Michael AM, Chabris CF. The causal influence of brain size on human intelligence: Evidence from within-family phenotypic associations and GWAS modeling. Intelligence 2019; 75:48-58. [PMID: 32831433 DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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There exists a moderate correlation between MRI-measured brain size and the general factor of IQ performance (g), but the question of whether the association reflects a theoretically important causal relationship or spurious confounding remains somewhat open. Previous small studies (n < 100) looking for the persistence of this correlation within families failed to find a tendency for the sibling with the larger brain to obtain a higher test score. We studied the within-family relationship between brain volume and intelligence in the much larger sample provided by the Human Connectome Project (n = 1,022) and found a highly significant correlation (disattenuated ρ = 0.18, p < .001). We replicated this result in the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (n = 2,698), finding a highly significant within-family correlation between head circumference and intelligence (disattenuated ρ = 0.19, p < .001). We also employed novel methods of causal inference relying on summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of head size (n ≈ 10,000) and measures of cognition (257,000 < n < 767,000). Using bivariate LD Score regression, we found a genetic correlation between intracranial volume (ICV) and years of education (EduYears) of 0.41 (p < .001). Using the Latent Causal Variable method, we found a genetic causality proportion of 0.72 (p < .001); thus the genetic correlation arises from an asymmetric pattern, extending to sub-significant loci, of genetic variants associated with ICV also being associated with EduYears but many genetic variants associated with EduYears not being associated with ICV. This is the pattern of genetic results expected from a causal effect of brain size on intelligence. These findings give reason to take up the hypothesis that the dramatic increase in brain volume over the course of human evolution has been the result of natural selection favoring general intelligence.
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- James J Lee
- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 75 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 75 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 75 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Geisinger Health System, 120 Hamm Drive Suite 2A, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA.,Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, 308 Research Drive, LSRC M051, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Abstract. Williams and Bargh (2008) reported that holding a hot cup of coffee caused participants to judge a person’s personality as warmer and that holding a therapeutic heat pad caused participants to choose rewards for other people rather than for themselves. These experiments featured large effects ( r = .28 and .31), small sample sizes (41 and 53 participants), and barely statistically significant results. We attempted to replicate both experiments in field settings with more than triple the sample sizes (128 and 177) and double-blind procedures, but found near-zero effects ( r = −.03 and .02). In both cases, Bayesian analyses suggest there is substantially more evidence for the null hypothesis of no effect than for the original physical warmth priming hypothesis.
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- Christopher F. Chabris
- Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, USA
- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France
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- Department of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA
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- Center for Economic and Social Research and Economics Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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Aggarwal I, Woolley AW, Chabris CF, Malone TW. The Impact of Cognitive Style Diversity on Implicit Learning in Teams. Front Psychol 2019; 10:112. [PMID: 30792672 PMCID: PMC6374291 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to reap the benefits of cognitive diversity for problem solving. A major unanswered question concerns the implications of cognitive diversity for longer-term outcomes such as team learning, with its broader effects on organizational learning and productivity. We study how cognitive style diversity in teams-or diversity in the way that team members encode, organize and process information-indirectly influences team learning through collective intelligence, or the general ability of a team to work together across a wide array of tasks. Synthesizing several perspectives, we predict and find that cognitive style diversity has a curvilinear-inverted U-shaped-relationship with collective intelligence. Collective intelligence is further positively related to the rate at which teams learn, and is a mechanism guiding the indirect relationship between cognitive style diversity and team learning. We test the predictions in 98 teams using ten rounds of the minimum-effort tacit coordination game. Overall, this research advances our understanding of the implications of cognitive diversity for organizations and why some teams demonstrate high levels of team learning in dynamic situations while others do not.
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- Ishani Aggarwal
- Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Wai J, Brown MI, Chabris CF. Using Standardized Test Scores to Include General Cognitive Ability in Education Research and Policy. J Intell 2018; 6:E37. [PMID: 31162464 PMCID: PMC6480800 DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence6030037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Revised: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In education research and education policy, much attention is paid to schools, curricula, and teachers, but little attention is paid to the characteristics of students. Differences in general cognitive ability (g) are often overlooked as a source of important variance among schools and in outcomes among students within schools. Standardized test scores such as the SAT and ACT are reasonably good proxies for g and are available for most incoming college students. Though the idea of g being important in education is quite old, we present contemporary evidence that colleges and universities in the United States vary considerably in the average cognitive ability of their students, which correlates strongly with other methods (including international methods) of ranking colleges. We also show that these g differences are reflected in the extent to which graduates of colleges are represented in various high-status and high-income occupations. Finally, we show how including individual-level measures of cognitive ability can substantially increase the statistical power of experiments designed to measure educational treatment effects. We conclude that education policy researchers should give more consideration to the concept of individual differences in cognitive ability as well as other factors.
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- Jonathan Wai
- Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
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- Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA.
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- Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA.
- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, 31015 Toulouse, France.
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Lee JJ, Wedow R, Okbay A, Kong E, Maghzian O, Zacher M, Nguyen-Viet TA, Bowers P, Sidorenko J, Karlsson Linnér R, Fontana MA, Kundu T, Lee C, Li H, Li R, Royer R, Timshel PN, Walters RK, Willoughby EA, Yengo L, Alver M, Bao Y, Clark DW, Day FR, Furlotte NA, Joshi PK, Kemper KE, Kleinman A, Langenberg C, Mägi R, Trampush JW, Verma SS, Wu Y, Lam M, Zhao JH, Zheng Z, Boardman JD, Campbell H, Freese J, Harris KM, Hayward C, Herd P, Kumari M, Lencz T, Luan J, Malhotra AK, Metspalu A, Milani L, Ong KK, Perry JRB, Porteous DJ, Ritchie MD, Smart MC, Smith BH, Tung JY, Wareham NJ, Wilson JF, Beauchamp JP, Conley DC, Esko T, Lehrer SF, Magnusson PKE, Oskarsson S, Pers TH, Robinson MR, Thom K, Watson C, Chabris CF, Meyer MN, Laibson DI, Yang J, Johannesson M, Koellinger PD, Turley P, Visscher PM, Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D. Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. Nat Genet 2018; 50:1112-1121. [PMID: 30038396 PMCID: PMC6393768 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0147-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1186] [Impact Index Per Article: 197.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs. For the SNPs taken together, we found evidence of heterogeneous effects across environments. The SNPs implicate genes involved in brain-development processes and neuron-to-neuron communication. In a separate analysis of the X chromosome, we identify 10 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs and estimate a SNP heritability of around 0.3% in both men and women, consistent with partial dosage compensation. A joint (multi-phenotype) analysis of educational attainment and three related cognitive phenotypes generates polygenic scores that explain 11-13% of the variance in educational attainment and 7-10% of the variance in cognitive performance. This prediction accuracy substantially increases the utility of polygenic scores as tools in research.
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- James J Lee
- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Statens Serum Institut, Department of Epidemiology Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- BrainWorkup, LLC, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute, Singapore, Singapore
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- The Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
- La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA
- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, CA, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA
- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, CA, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Population Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
- Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Economics, New York University Shanghai, Pudong, Shanghai, China
- National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Government, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Statens Serum Institut, Department of Epidemiology Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Center for Experimental Social Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training interventions, or "brain games," for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus statement from an international group of more than 70 scientists, claimed that brain games do not provide a scientifically grounded way to improve cognitive functioning or to stave off cognitive decline. Several months later, an international group of 133 scientists and practitioners countered that the literature is replete with demonstrations of the benefits of brain training for a wide variety of cognitive and everyday activities. How could two teams of scientists examine the same literature and come to conflicting "consensus" views about the effectiveness of brain training?In part, the disagreement might result from different standards used when evaluating the evidence. To date, the field has lacked a comprehensive review of the brain-training literature, one that examines both the quantity and the quality of the evidence according to a well-defined set of best practices. This article provides such a review, focusing exclusively on the use of cognitive tasks or games as a means to enhance performance on other tasks. We specify and justify a set of best practices for such brain-training interventions and then use those standards to evaluate all of the published peer-reviewed intervention studies cited on the websites of leading brain-training companies listed on Cognitive Training Data (www.cognitivetrainingdata.org), the site hosting the open letter from brain-training proponents. These citations presumably represent the evidence that best supports the claims of effectiveness.Based on this examination, we find extensive evidence that brain-training interventions improve performance on the trained tasks, less evidence that such interventions improve performance on closely related tasks, and little evidence that training enhances performance on distantly related tasks or that training improves everyday cognitive performance. We also find that many of the published intervention studies had major shortcomings in design or analysis that preclude definitive conclusions about the efficacy of training, and that none of the cited studies conformed to all of the best practices we identify as essential to drawing clear conclusions about the benefits of brain training for everyday activities. We conclude with detailed recommendations for scientists, funding agencies, and policymakers that, if adopted, would lead to better evidence regarding the efficacy of brain-training interventions.
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- Daniel J Simons
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
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- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Games are more varied and occupy more of daily life than ever before. At the same time, the tools available to study game play and players are more powerful than ever, especially massive data sets from online platforms and computational engines that can accurately evaluate human decisions. This essay offers six suggestions for future cognitive science research on games: (1) Don't forget about chess, (2) Look beyond action games and chess, (3) Use (near)-optimal play to understand human play and players, (4) Investigate social phenomena, (5) Raise the standards for studies of games as treatments, (6) Talk to real experts.
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- Christopher F Chabris
- Geisinger Health System.,Department of Psychology, Union College.,Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
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Okbay A, Beauchamp JP, Fontana MA, Lee JJ, Pers TH, Rietveld CA, Turley P, Chen GB, Emilsson V, Meddens SFW, Oskarsson S, Pickrell JK, Thom K, Timshel P, de Vlaming R, Abdellaoui A, Ahluwalia TS, Bacelis J, Baumbach C, Bjornsdottir G, Brandsma JH, Pina Concas M, Derringer J, Furlotte NA, Galesloot TE, Girotto G, Gupta R, Hall LM, Harris SE, Hofer E, Horikoshi M, Huffman JE, Kaasik K, Kalafati IP, Karlsson R, Kong A, Lahti J, van der Lee SJ, deLeeuw C, Lind PA, Lindgren KO, Liu T, Mangino M, Marten J, Mihailov E, Miller MB, van der Most PJ, Oldmeadow C, Payton A, Pervjakova N, Peyrot WJ, Qian Y, Raitakari O, Rueedi R, Salvi E, Schmidt B, Schraut KE, Shi J, Smith AV, Poot RA, St Pourcain B, Teumer A, Thorleifsson G, Verweij N, Vuckovic D, Wellmann J, Westra HJ, Yang J, Zhao W, Zhu Z, Alizadeh BZ, Amin N, Bakshi A, Baumeister SE, Biino G, Bønnelykke K, Boyle PA, Campbell H, Cappuccio FP, Davies G, De Neve JE, Deloukas P, Demuth I, Ding J, Eibich P, Eisele L, Eklund N, Evans DM, Faul JD, Feitosa MF, Forstner AJ, Gandin I, Gunnarsson B, Halldórsson BV, Harris TB, Heath AC, Hocking LJ, Holliday EG, Homuth G, Horan MA, Hottenga JJ, de Jager PL, Joshi PK, Jugessur A, Kaakinen MA, Kähönen M, Kanoni S, Keltigangas-Järvinen L, Kiemeney LALM, Kolcic I, Koskinen S, Kraja AT, Kroh M, Kutalik Z, Latvala A, Launer LJ, Lebreton MP, Levinson DF, Lichtenstein P, Lichtner P, Liewald DCM, Loukola A, Madden PA, Mägi R, Mäki-Opas T, Marioni RE, Marques-Vidal P, Meddens GA, McMahon G, Meisinger C, Meitinger T, Milaneschi Y, Milani L, Montgomery GW, Myhre R, Nelson CP, Nyholt DR, Ollier WER, Palotie A, Paternoster L, Pedersen NL, Petrovic KE, Porteous DJ, Räikkönen K, Ring SM, Robino A, Rostapshova O, Rudan I, Rustichini A, Salomaa V, Sanders AR, Sarin AP, Schmidt H, Scott RJ, Smith BH, Smith JA, Staessen JA, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Strauch K, Terracciano A, Tobin MD, Ulivi S, Vaccargiu S, Quaye L, van Rooij FJA, Venturini C, Vinkhuyzen AAE, Völker U, Völzke H, Vonk JM, Vozzi D, Waage J, Ware EB, Willemsen G, Attia JR, Bennett DA, Berger K, Bertram L, Bisgaard H, Boomsma DI, Borecki IB, Bültmann U, Chabris CF, Cucca F, Cusi D, Deary IJ, Dedoussis GV, van Duijn CM, Eriksson JG, Franke B, Franke L, Gasparini P, Gejman PV, Gieger C, Grabe HJ, Gratten J, Groenen PJF, Gudnason V, van der Harst P, Hayward C, Hinds DA, Hoffmann W, Hyppönen E, Iacono WG, Jacobsson B, Järvelin MR, Jöckel KH, Kaprio J, Kardia SLR, Lehtimäki T, Lehrer SF, Magnusson PKE, Martin NG, McGue M, Metspalu A, Pendleton N, Penninx BWJH, Perola M, Pirastu N, Pirastu M, Polasek O, Posthuma D, Power C, Province MA, Samani NJ, Schlessinger D, Schmidt R, Sørensen TIA, Spector TD, Stefansson K, Thorsteinsdottir U, Thurik AR, Timpson NJ, Tiemeier H, Tung JY, Uitterlinden AG, Vitart V, Vollenweider P, Weir DR, Wilson JF, Wright AF, Conley DC, Krueger RF, Davey Smith G, Hofman A, Laibson DI, Medland SE, Meyer MN, Yang J, Johannesson M, Visscher PM, Esko T, Koellinger PD, Cesarini D, Benjamin DJ. Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature 2016; 533:539-42. [PMID: 27225129 PMCID: PMC4883595 DOI: 10.1038/nature17671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 733] [Impact Index Per Article: 91.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Educational attainment is strongly influenced by social and other environmental factors, but genetic factors are estimated to account for at least 20% of the variation across individuals. Here we report the results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for educational attainment that extends our earlier discovery sample of 101,069 individuals to 293,723 individuals, and a replication study in an independent sample of 111,349 individuals from the UK Biobank. We identify 74 genome-wide significant loci associated with the number of years of schooling completed. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with educational attainment are disproportionately found in genomic regions regulating gene expression in the fetal brain. Candidate genes are preferentially expressed in neural tissue, especially during the prenatal period, and enriched for biological pathways involved in neural development. Our findings demonstrate that, even for a behavioural phenotype that is mostly environmentally determined, a well-powered GWAS identifies replicable associated genetic variants that suggest biologically relevant pathways. Because educational attainment is measured in large numbers of individuals, it will continue to be useful as a proxy phenotype in efforts to characterize the genetic influences of related phenotypes, including cognition and neuropsychiatric diseases.
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- Aysu Okbay
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-3332, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 2116, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
- Statens Serum Institut, Department of Epidemiology Research, Copenhagen 2300, Denmark
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- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík 107, Iceland
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, VU University, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 TV, The Netherlands
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- Department of Government, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 20, Sweden
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- Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York 10012, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
- COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2820, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte 2820, Denmark
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg 416 85, Sweden
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica U.O.S. di Sassari, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari 07100, Italy
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- Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
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- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, 6500 HB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
- NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Neurology, General Hospital and Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, General Hospital and Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology &Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Nutrition and Dietetics, Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens 17671, Greece
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, 00014 Helsingfors, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, VU University, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
- Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 6525 EC, The Netherlands
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- Quantitative Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
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- Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation Trust, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Stream, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton, NSW 2305, Australia
- Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
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- Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Institute of Population Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
- Human Communication and Deafness, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00271 Helsinki, Finland
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- Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center &GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, 1081 HL, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, 20521 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1005, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
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- Department Of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milano 20142, Italy
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen 45147, Germany
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- Centre for Global Health Research, The Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9780, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
- School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 2LY, UK
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster 48149, Germany
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9713 GZ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg D-93053, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2820, Denmark
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
- Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, The Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
- Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Berlin 13347, Germany
- Institute of Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Berlin 13353, Germany
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- Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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- German Socio- Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
- Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen 45147, Germany
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- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00271 Helsinki, Finland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63018, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn 53127, Germany
- Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn 53127, Germany
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy
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- deCODE Genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Institute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9205, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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- Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
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- Public Health Stream, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton, NSW 2305, Australia
- Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Manchester Medical School, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Program in Translational NeuroPsychiatric Genomics, Departments of Neurology &Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, The Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Department of Genes and Environment, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, 33521 Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere, School of Medicine, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, 6500 HB, The Netherlands
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- Public Health, Medical School, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00271 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Genetics, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63018, USA
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- German Socio- Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1005, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne 1010, Switzerland
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Neuroepidemiology Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9205, USA
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- Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 TV, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 XA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5797, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00271 Helsinki, Finland
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne 1011, Switzerland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center &GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, 1081 HL, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Molecular Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
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- Department of Genes and Environment, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
- NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- Molecular Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
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- Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Institute of Population Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
- The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Psychiatric &Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology, General Hospital and Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, 00014 Helsingfors, Finland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Medical Genetics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste 34100, Italy
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
- Social Impact, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, The Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Department of Economics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00271 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois 60201-3137, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
- Public Health Genomics Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Neurology, General Hospital and Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
- Research Unit for Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Center of Molecular Medicine, General Hospital and Medical University, Graz, Graz 8010, Austria
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- Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
- Information Based Medicine Stream, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton, NSW 2305, Australia
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- Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Department of Cardiovascular Science, University of Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
- R&D VitaK Group, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 EV, The Netherlands
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- The Berlin Aging Study II; Research Group on Geriatrics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Berlin 13347, Germany
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich 81377, Germany
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- Department of Geriatrics, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences and Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Medical Genetics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste 34100, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica U.O.S. di Sassari, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari 07100, Italy
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation Trust, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- Social Impact, Arlington, Virginia 22201, USA
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- COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2820, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte 2820, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
- Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USA
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Stream, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton, NSW 2305, Australia
- Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- Platform for Genome Analytics, Institutes of Neurogenetics &Integrative and Experimental Genomics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck 23562, Germany
- Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2820, Denmark
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63018, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, Community &Occupational Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, 9713 AV, The Netherlands
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, c/o Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato, Cagliari 9042, Italy
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- Department Of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milano 20142, Italy
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Segrate (Milano) 20090, Italy
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Nutrition and Dietetics, Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens 17671, Greece
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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- Folkhälsan Research Centre, 00014 Helsingfors, Finland
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Departments of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Nijmegen, 6500 HB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy
- Medical Genetics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste 34100, Italy
- Sidra, Experimental Genetics Division, Sidra, Doha 26999, Qatar
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois 60201-3137, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, HELIOS-Hospital Stralsund, Stralsund 18437, Germany
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, 1105 AZ, The Netherlands
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
- Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomics and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Centre for Population Health Research, School of Health Sciences and Sansom Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
- Population, Policy and Practice, UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg 416 85, Sweden
- Department of Genes and Environment, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment &Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
- Center for Life Course Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, 90029 Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen 45147, Germany
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00271 Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Fimlab Laboratories, 33520 Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere, School of Medicine, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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- Economics, NYU Shanghai, 200122 Pudong, China
- Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Centre for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute Brain Behaviour and Mental Health, Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester M6 8HD, UK
- Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research in Ageing, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center &GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, 1081 HL, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Department of Health, THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00271 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica U.O.S. di Sassari, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari 07100, Italy
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- Centre for Global Health Research, The Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split 21000, Croatia
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, VU University, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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- Population, Policy and Practice, UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63018, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
- NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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- Department of Neurology, General Hospital and Medical University Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
- Institute of Preventive Medicine. Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, The Capital Region, Frederiksberg 2000, Denmark
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- deCODE Genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- deCODE Genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik 101, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Montpellier Business School, Montpellier 34080, France
- Panteia, Zoetermeer, 2715 CA, The Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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- 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California 94041, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne 1011, Switzerland
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
- Centre for Global Health Research, The Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Sociology, New York University, New York, New York 10012, USA
- School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York 10016, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Quantitative Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
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- Bioethics Program, Union Graduate College - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Schenectady, New York 12308, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia
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- Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm 113 83, Sweden
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia
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- Division of Endocrinology and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 2116, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, VU University, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 TV, The Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York 10012, USA
- Research Institute for Industrial Economics, Stockholm 10215, Sweden
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- Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-3332, USA
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Only 1% of the world's chess grandmasters are women. This underrepresentation is unlikely to be caused by discrimination, because chess ratings objectively reflect competitive results. Using data on the ratings of more than 250,000 tournament players over 13 years, we investigated several potential explanations for the male domination of elite chess. We found that (a) the ratings of men are higher on average than those of women, but no more variable; (b) matched boys and girls improve and drop out at equal rates, but boys begin chess competition in greater numbers and at higher performance levels than girls; and (c) in locales where at least 50% of the new young players are girls, their initial ratings are not lower than those of boys. We conclude that the greater number of men at the highest levels in chess can be explained by the greater number of boys who enter chess at the lowest levels.
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Behavior genetics is the study of the relationship between genetic variation and psychological traits. Turkheimer (2000) proposed "Three Laws of Behavior Genetics" based on empirical regularities observed in studies of twins and other kinships. On the basis of molecular studies that have measured DNA variation directly, we propose a Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics: "A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability." This law explains several consistent patterns in the results of gene discovery studies, including the failure of candidate gene studies to robustly replicate, the need for genome-wide association studies (and why such studies have a much stronger replication record), and the crucial importance of extremely large samples in these endeavors. We review the evidence in favor of the Fourth Law and discuss its implications for the design and interpretation of gene-behavior research.
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Engel D, Woolley AW, Jing LX, Chabris CF, Malone TW. Reading the Mind in the Eyes or reading between the lines? Theory of Mind predicts collective intelligence equally well online and face-to-face. PLoS One 2014; 9:e115212. [PMID: 25514387 PMCID: PMC4267836 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 11/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Recent research with face-to-face groups found that a measure of general group effectiveness (called “collective intelligence”) predicted a group’s performance on a wide range of different tasks. The same research also found that collective intelligence was correlated with the individual group members’ ability to reason about the mental states of others (an ability called “Theory of Mind” or “ToM”). Since ToM was measured in this work by a test that requires participants to “read” the mental states of others from looking at their eyes (the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test), it is uncertain whether the same results would emerge in online groups where these visual cues are not available. Here we find that: (1) a collective intelligence factor characterizes group performance approximately as well for online groups as for face-to-face groups; and (2) surprisingly, the ToM measure is equally predictive of collective intelligence in both face-to-face and online groups, even though the online groups communicate only via text and never see each other at all. This provides strong evidence that ToM abilities are just as important to group performance in online environments with limited nonverbal cues as they are face-to-face. It also suggests that the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test measures a deeper, domain-independent aspect of social reasoning, not merely the ability to recognize facial expressions of mental states.
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- David Engel
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AW); (DE); (TM)
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- Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AW); (DE); (TM)
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Union College, Department of Psychology, Schenectady, New York, United States of America
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AW); (DE); (TM)
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Rietveld CA, Conley D, Eriksson N, Esko T, Medland SE, Vinkhuyzen AAE, Yang J, Boardman JD, Chabris CF, Dawes CT, Domingue BW, Hinds DA, Johannesson M, Kiefer AK, Laibson D, Magnusson PKE, Mountain JL, Oskarsson S, Rostapshova O, Teumer A, Tung JY, Visscher PM, Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D, Koellinger PD. Replicability and robustness of genome-wide-association studies for behavioral traits. Psychol Sci 2014; 25:1975-86. [PMID: 25287667 DOI: 10.1177/0956797614545132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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A recent genome-wide-association study of educational attainment identified three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) whose associations, despite their small effect sizes (each R (2) ≈ 0.02%), reached genome-wide significance (p < 5 × 10(-8)) in a large discovery sample and were replicated in an independent sample (p < .05). The study also reported associations between educational attainment and indices of SNPs called "polygenic scores." In three studies, we evaluated the robustness of these findings. Study 1 showed that the associations with all three SNPs were replicated in another large (N = 34,428) independent sample. We also found that the scores remained predictive (R (2) ≈ 2%) in regressions with stringent controls for stratification (Study 2) and in new within-family analyses (Study 3). Our results show that large and therefore well-powered genome-wide-association studies can identify replicable genetic associations with behavioral traits. The small effect sizes of individual SNPs are likely to be a major contributing factor explaining the striking contrast between our results and the disappointing replication record of most candidate-gene studies.
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- Cornelius A Rietveld
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
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- Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Functional Genomics, Greifswald Medical School
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
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- Center for Experimental Social Science, Department of Economics, New York University Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making, New York University
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- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam
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Wilmer JB, Germine L, Chabris CF, Chatterjee G, Gerbasi M, Nakayama K. Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: the example of face recognition. Cogn Neuropsychol 2013; 29:360-92. [PMID: 23428079 PMCID: PMC3630451 DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2012.753433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Proper characterization of each individual's unique pattern of strengths and weaknesses requires good measures of diverse abilities. Here, we advocate combining our growing understanding of neural and cognitive mechanisms with modern psychometric methods in a renewed effort to capture human individuality through a consideration of specific abilities. We articulate five criteria for the isolation and measurement of specific abilities, then apply these criteria to face recognition. We cleanly dissociate face recognition from more general visual and verbal recognition. This dissociation stretches across ability as well as disability, suggesting that specific developmental face recognition deficits are a special case of a broader specificity that spans the entire spectrum of human face recognition performance. Item-by-item results from 1,471 web-tested participants, included as supplementary information, fuel item analyses, validation, norming, and item response theory (IRT) analyses of our three tests: (a) the widely used Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT); (b) an Abstract Art Memory Test (AAMT), and (c) a Verbal Paired-Associates Memory Test (VPMT). The availability of this data set provides a solid foundation for interpreting future scores on these tests. We argue that the allied fields of experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and vision science could fuel the discovery of additional specific abilities to add to face recognition, thereby providing new perspectives on human individuality.
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- Jeremy B Wilmer
- Department of Psychology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.
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Chabris CF, Lee JJ, Benjamin DJ, Beauchamp JP, Glaeser EL, Borst G, Pinker S, Laibson DI. Why it is hard to find genes associated with social science traits: theoretical and empirical considerations. Am J Public Health 2013; 103 Suppl 1:S152-66. [PMID: 23927501 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2013.301327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVES We explain why traits of interest to behavioral scientists may have a genetic architecture featuring hundreds or thousands of loci with tiny individual effects rather than a few with large effects and why such an architecture makes it difficult to find robust associations between traits and genes. METHODS We conducted a genome-wide association study at 2 sites, Harvard University and Union College, measuring more than 100 physical and behavioral traits with a sample size typical of candidate gene studies. We evaluated predictions that alleles with large effect sizes would be rare and most traits of interest to social science are likely characterized by a lack of strong directional selection. We also carried out a theoretical analysis of the genetic architecture of traits based on R.A. Fisher's geometric model of natural selection and empirical analyses of the effects of selection bias and phenotype measurement stability on the results of genetic association studies. RESULTS Although we replicated several known genetic associations with physical traits, we found only 2 associations with behavioral traits that met the nominal genome-wide significance threshold, indicating that physical and behavioral traits are mainly affected by numerous genes with small effects. CONCLUSIONS The challenge for social science genomics is the likelihood that genes are connected to behavioral variation by lengthy, nonlinear, interactive causal chains, and unraveling these chains requires allying with personal genomics to take advantage of the potential for large sample sizes as well as continuing with traditional epidemiological studies.
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- Christopher F Chabris
- Christopher F. Chabris is with the Department of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, NY. James J. Lee, Gregoire Borst, and Steven Pinker are with the Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Daniel J. Benjamin is with the Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Edward L. Glaeser, and David I. Laibson are with the Department of Economics, Harvard University
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Rietveld CA, Medland SE, Derringer J, Yang J, Esko T, Martin NW, Westra HJ, Shakhbazov K, Abdellaoui A, Agrawal A, Albrecht E, Alizadeh BZ, Amin N, Barnard J, Baumeister SE, Benke KS, Bielak LF, Boatman JA, Boyle PA, Davies G, de Leeuw C, Eklund N, Evans DS, Ferhmann R, Fischer K, Gieger C, Gjessing HK, Hägg S, Harris JR, Hayward C, Holzapfel C, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Ingelsson E, Jacobsson B, Joshi PK, Jugessur A, Kaakinen M, Kanoni S, Karjalainen J, Kolcic I, Kristiansson K, Kutalik Z, Lahti J, Lee SH, Lin P, Lind PA, Liu Y, Lohman K, Loitfelder M, McMahon G, Vidal PM, Meirelles O, Milani L, Myhre R, Nuotio ML, Oldmeadow CJ, Petrovic KE, Peyrot WJ, Polašek O, Quaye L, Reinmaa E, Rice JP, Rizzi TS, Schmidt H, Schmidt R, Smith AV, Smith JA, Tanaka T, Terracciano A, van der Loos MJ, Vitart V, Völzke H, Wellmann J, Yu L, Zhao W, Allik J, Attia JR, Bandinelli S, Bastardot F, Beauchamp J, Bennett DA, Berger K, Bierut LJ, Boomsma DI, Bültmann U, Campbell H, Chabris CF, Cherkas L, Chung MK, Cucca F, de Andrade M, De Jager PL, De Neve JE, Deary IJ, Dedoussis GV, Deloukas P, Dimitriou M, Eiriksdottir G, Elderson MF, Eriksson JG, Evans DM, Faul JD, Ferrucci L, Garcia ME, Grönberg H, Gudnason V, Hall P, Harris JM, Harris TB, Hastie ND, Heath AC, Hernandez DG, Hoffmann W, Hofman A, Holle R, Holliday EG, Hottenga JJ, Iacono WG, Illig T, Järvelin MR, Kähönen M, Kaprio J, Kirkpatrick RM, Kowgier M, Latvala A, Launer LJ, Lawlor DA, Lehtimäki T, Li J, Lichtenstein P, Lichtner P, Liewald DC, Madden PA, Magnusson PKE, Mäkinen TE, Masala M, McGue M, Metspalu A, Mielck A, Miller MB, Montgomery GW, Mukherjee S, Nyholt DR, Oostra BA, Palmer LJ, Palotie A, Penninx B, Perola M, Peyser PA, Preisig M, Räikkönen K, Raitakari OT, Realo A, Ring SM, Ripatti S, Rivadeneira F, Rudan I, Rustichini A, Salomaa V, Sarin AP, Schlessinger D, Scott RJ, Snieder H, Pourcain BS, Starr JM, Sul JH, Surakka I, Svento R, Teumer A, Tiemeier H, Rooij FJA, Van Wagoner DR, Vartiainen E, Viikari J, Vollenweider P, Vonk JM, Waeber G, Weir DR, Wichmann HE, Widen E, Willemsen G, Wilson JF, Wright AF, Conley D, Davey-Smith G, Franke L, Groenen PJF, Hofman A, Johannesson M, Kardia SL, Krueger RF, Laibson D, Martin NG, Meyer MN, Posthuma D, Thurik AR, Timpson NJ, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn CM, Visscher PM, Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D, Koellinger PD. GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment. Science 2013; 340:1467-71. [PMID: 23722424 PMCID: PMC3751588 DOI: 10.1126/science.1235488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 476] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are genome-wide significant (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266), and all three replicate. Estimated effects sizes are small (coefficient of determination R(2) ≈ 0.02%), approximately 1 month of schooling per allele. A linear polygenic score from all measured SNPs accounts for ≈2% of the variance in both educational attainment and cognitive function. Genes in the region of the loci have previously been associated with health, cognitive, and central nervous system phenotypes, and bioinformatics analyses suggest the involvement of the anterior caudate nucleus. These findings provide promising candidate SNPs for follow-up work, and our effect size estimates can anchor power analyses in social-science genetics.
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- Cornelius A. Rietveld
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309–0447, USA
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- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4102, Australia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia,School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4102, Australia,Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Heart and Vascular and Lerner Research Institutes, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–2029, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Rush University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Functional Genomics, VU University Amsterdam and VU Medical Center, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, The National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94107–1728, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Genes and Environment, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden,Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Genes and Environment, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Else Kroener-Fresenius-Centre for Nutritional Medicine, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany,Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands,Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden,Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Genes and Environment, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Public Health, Sahlgrenska Academy, Sahgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, 413 45, Sweden
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Department of Genes and Environment, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland,Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, The National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology & Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157–1063, USA
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- Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157–1063, USA
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- Division for Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Genes and Environment, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, The National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Hunter Medical Research Institute and Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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- Division of General Neurology, Department of Neurology, General Hospital and Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, 1081 HL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Functional Genomics, VU University Amsterdam and VU Medical Center, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
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- Division for Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Austria
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland,Department of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–2029, USA
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA,College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306–4300, USA
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- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Muenster, 48129 Muenster, Germany
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- Rush University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–2029, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu 50410, Estonia
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- Hunter Medical Research Institute and Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Rush University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Muenster, 48129 Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Health Sciences, Community & Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Heart and Vascular and Lerner Research Institutes, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR, Monserrato, 09042, Cagliari, Italy,Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, 07100 SS, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Program in Translational Neuropsychiatric Genomics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- School of Public Policy, University College London, London WC1H 9QU, UK,Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK,Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens 17671, Greece
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens 17671, Greece
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- LifeLines Cohort Study, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki 00280, Finland,Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki 00250, Finland,Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa 65130, Finland
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland,Department of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110–1093, USA
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany
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- Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, 9747 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Hunter Medical Research Institute and Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0344, USA
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany,Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland,Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK,Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu 90220, Finland,Department of Children and Young People and Families, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu 90101, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere 33520, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland,Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3, Canada
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland,Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere 33520, Finland
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- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health, Functional Capacity and Welfare, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR, Monserrato, 09042, Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0344, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0344, USA
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
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- Western Australia Sleep Disorders Research Institute, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia,Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada,Women’s College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1N8, Canada
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
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- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3, Canada
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK,Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, 1081 HL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia,Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, The National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–2029, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku 20520, Finland,Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku 20520, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu 50410, Estonia
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, The National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands,Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0462, USA
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- Chronic Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- Hunter Medical Research Institute and Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK,School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 2LY, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK,Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland,Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, The National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Department of Economics, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17487, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Heart and Vascular and Lerner Research Institutes, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Division of Welfare and Health Promotion, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku 20520, Finland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 81377 Munich, Germany,Klinikum Grosshadern, 81377 Munich, Germany,Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Sociology, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3000 DR, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm 113 83, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–2029, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0344, USA
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
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- Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, & Bioethics, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA,Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12203–1003, USA
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- Department of Functional Genomics, VU University Amsterdam and VU Medical Center, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Centrer, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Panteia, Zoetermeer 2701 AA, Netherlands,GSCM-Montpellier Business School, Montpellier 34185, France
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands,Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands,Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia,University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4102, Australia,Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia,Corresponding author. (D.J.B.); (D.C.); (P.D.K.); (P.M.V.)
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- Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA,Corresponding author. (D.J.B.); (D.C.); (P.D.K.); (P.M.V.)
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- Center for Experimental Social Science, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA,Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, PO Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE,Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm 102 15, Sweden,Corresponding author. (D.J.B.); (D.C.); (P.D.K.); (P.M.V.)
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- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands,Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands,Corresponding author. (D.J.B.); (D.C.); (P.D.K.); (P.M.V.)
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Identifying the precise locus of general cognitive ability (g) in the flow of information between perception and action is an important goal of differential psychology. To localize the negative correlation between g and reaction time to a specific processing stage, we administered a speeded number-comparison task to two groups differing in average g. The participants had to respond to two stimuli in each trial, which produced the well-known slowing of the second reaction time known as the psychological refractory period. The difference in the second reaction time favoring the high-g group doubled as the stimulus onsets became very close together. This finding affirms that the faster reaction times of higher-g individuals reflect an advantage exclusively in the serial bottleneck of central processing and not in the parallel peripheral stages.
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Simons DJ, Chabris CF. Common (mis)beliefs about memory: a replication and comparison of telephone and Mechanical Turk survey methods. PLoS One 2012; 7:e51876. [PMID: 23272183 PMCID: PMC3525574 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2012] [Accepted: 11/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Incorrect beliefs about memory have wide-ranging implications. We recently reported the results of a survey showing that a substantial proportion of the United States public held beliefs about memory that conflicted with those of memory experts. For that survey, respondents answered recorded questions using their telephone keypad. Although such robotic polling produces reliable results that accurately predicts the results of elections, it suffers from four major drawbacks: (1) telephone polling is costly, (2) typically, less than 10 percent of calls result in a completed survey, (3) calls do not reach households without a landline, and (4) calls oversample the elderly and undersample the young. Here we replicated our telephone survey using Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to explore the similarities and differences in the sampled demographics as well as the pattern of results. Overall, neither survey closely approximated the demographics of the United States population, but they differed in how they deviated from the 2010 census figures. After weighting the results of each survey to conform to census demographics, though, the two approaches produced remarkably similar results: In both surveys, people averaged over 50% agreement with statements that scientific consensus shows to be false. The results of this study replicate our finding of substantial discrepancies between popular beliefs and those of experts and shows that surveys conducted on MTurk can produce a representative sample of the United States population that generates results in line with more expensive survey techniques.
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- Daniel J Simons
- Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America.
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Chabris CF, Hebert BM, Benjamin DJ, Beauchamp J, Cesarini D, van der Loos M, Johannesson M, Magnusson PKE, Lichtenstein P, Atwood CS, Freese J, Hauser TS, Hauser RM, Christakis N, Laibson D. Most reported genetic associations with general intelligence are probably false positives. Psychol Sci 2012; 23:1314-23. [PMID: 23012269 PMCID: PMC3498585 DOI: 10.1177/0956797611435528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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General intelligence (g) and virtually all other behavioral traits are heritable. Associations between g and specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several candidate genes involved in brain function have been reported. We sought to replicate published associations between g and 12 specific genetic variants (in the genes DTNBP1, CTSD, DRD2, ANKK1, CHRM2, SSADH, COMT, BDNF, CHRNA4, DISC1, APOE, and SNAP25) using data sets from three independent, well-characterized longitudinal studies with samples of 5,571, 1,759, and 2,441 individuals. Of 32 independent tests across all three data sets, only 1 was nominally significant. By contrast, power analyses showed that we should have expected 10 to 15 significant associations, given reasonable assumptions for genotype effect sizes. For positive controls, we confirmed accepted genetic associations for Alzheimer's disease and body mass index, and we used SNP-based calculations of genetic relatedness to replicate previous estimates that about half of the variance in g is accounted for by common genetic variation among individuals. We conclude that the molecular genetics of psychology and social science requires approaches that go beyond the examination of candidate genes.
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Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D, Chabris CF, Glaeser EL, Laibson DI, Guðnason V, Harris TB, Launer LJ, Purcell S, Smith AV, Johannesson M, Magnusson PKE, Beauchamp JP, Christakis NA, Atwood CS, Hebert B, Freese J, Hauser RM, Hauser TS, Grankvist A, Hultman CM, Lichtenstein P. The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics*. Annu Rev Econom 2012; 4:627-662. [PMID: 23482589 PMCID: PMC3592970 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-110939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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This article reviews existing research at the intersection of genetics and economics, presents some new findings that illustrate the state of genoeconomics research, and surveys the prospects of this emerging field. Twin studies suggest that economic outcomes and preferences, once corrected for measurement error, appear to be about as heritable as many medical conditions and personality traits. Consistent with this pattern, we present new evidence on the heritability of permanent income and wealth. Turning to genetic association studies, we survey the main ways that the direct measurement of genetic variation across individuals is likely to contribute to economics, and we outline the challenges that have slowed progress in making these contributions. The most urgent problem facing researchers in this field is that most existing efforts to find associations between genetic variation and economic behavior are based on samples that are too small to ensure adequate statistical power. This has led to many false positives in the literature. We suggest a number of possible strategies to improve and remedy this problem: (a) pooling data sets, (b) using statistical techniques that exploit the greater information content of many genes considered jointly, and (c) focusing on economically relevant traits that are most proximate to known biological mechanisms.
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- Daniel J Benjamin
- Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;
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Incorrect beliefs about the properties of memory have broad implications: the media conflate normal forgetting and inadvertent memory distortion with intentional deceit, juries issue verdicts based on flawed intuitions about the accuracy and confidence of testimony, and students misunderstand the role of memory in learning. We conducted a large representative telephone survey of the U.S. population to assess common beliefs about the properties of memory. Substantial numbers of respondents agreed with propositions that conflict with expert consensus: Amnesia results in the inability to remember one's own identity (83% of respondents agreed), unexpected objects generally grab attention (78%), memory works like a video camera (63%), memory can be enhanced through hypnosis (55%), memory is permanent (48%), and the testimony of a single confident eyewitness should be enough to convict a criminal defendant (37%). This discrepancy between popular belief and scientific consensus has implications from the classroom to the courtroom.
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- Daniel J Simons
- Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America.
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Chabris CF, Weinberger A, Fontaine M, Simons DJ. You do not talk about Fight Club if you do not notice Fight Club: Inattentional blindness for a simulated real-world assault. Iperception 2011; 2:150-3. [PMID: 23145232 PMCID: PMC3485775 DOI: 10.1068/i0436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2011] [Revised: 05/17/2011] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Inattentional blindness-the failure to see visible and otherwise salient events when one is paying attention to something else-has been proposed as an explanation for various real-world events. In one such event, a Boston police officer chasing a suspect ran past a brutal assault and was prosecuted for perjury when he claimed not to have seen it. However, there have been no experimental studies of inattentional blindness in real-world conditions. We simulated the Boston incident by having subjects run after a confederate along a route near which three other confederates staged a fight. At night only 35% of subjects noticed the fight; during the day 56% noticed. We manipulated the attentional load on the subjects and found that increasing the load significantly decreased noticing. These results provide evidence that inattentional blindness can occur during real-world situations, including the Boston case.
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- Christopher F Chabris
- Department of Psychology, Union College, 807 Union Street, Schenectady, NY 12308 USA; e-mail:
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Psychologists have repeatedly shown that a single statistical factor--often called "general intelligence"--emerges from the correlations among people's performance on a wide variety of cognitive tasks. But no one has systematically examined whether a similar kind of "collective intelligence" exists for groups of people. In two studies with 699 people, working in groups of two to five, we find converging evidence of a general collective intelligence factor that explains a group's performance on a wide variety of tasks. This "c factor" is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.
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Baker DP, Chabris CF, Kosslyn SM. Encoding Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Relations Without Input-Output Correlations: New Simulation Models. Cogn Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog2301_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Chabris CF, Hearst ES. Visualization, pattern recognition, and forward search: effects of playing speed and sight of the position on grandmaster chess errors. Cogn Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog2704_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Banerjee K, Chabris CF, Johnson VE, Lee JJ, Tsao F, Hauser MD. General intelligence in another primate: individual differences across cognitive task performance in a New World monkey (Saguinus oedipus). PLoS One 2009; 4:e5883. [PMID: 19536274 PMCID: PMC2690653 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2009] [Accepted: 05/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Individual differences in human cognitive abilities show consistently positive correlations across diverse domains, providing the basis for the trait of "general intelligence" (g). At present, little is known about the evolution of g, in part because most comparative studies focus on rodents or on differences across higher-level taxa. What is needed, therefore, are experiments targeting nonhuman primates, focusing on individual differences within a single species, using a broad battery of tasks. To this end, we administered a large battery of tasks, representing a broad range of cognitive domains, to a population of captive cotton-top tamarin monkeys (Saguinus oedipus). METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS Using a Bayesian latent variable model, we show that the pattern of correlations among tasks is consistent with the existence of a general factor accounting for a small but significant proportion of the variance in each task (the lower bounds of 95% Bayesian credibility intervals for correlations between g and task performance all exceed 0.12). CONCLUSION Individual differences in cognitive abilities within at least one other primate species can be characterized by a general intelligence factor, supporting the hypothesis that important aspects of human cognitive function most likely evolved from ancient neural substrates.
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- Konika Banerjee
- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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