Leveraging family data for complex trait genomics
This doctorate combined family-based designs with genetic data to study complex traits. Its adoption chapter examined whether genetic scores associated with educational attainment also capture environmental influences from relatives. Other chapters investigated family genomic data and emotional traits. The thesis abstract describes the approach but does not report numerical findings from the adoption comparison.
Limitations: Only part of the thesis concerns adoptees. It uses adoption as a research design rather than collecting accounts of adoption experiences. The abstract does not provide the adoption sample size or effect estimates. Related journal publications may reuse these analyses; this is not an independent replication.
- Research type
- Quantitative genetics doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adults
Adoption context: Adoption used as research design
Programme: UK Biobank
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adult outcomes, education, genetics, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: UK datasets; regional breakdown not provided in abstract
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