Pietro Biroli

The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay
Authors: Pietro Biroli, Titus J. Galama, Stephanie von Hinke, Hans van Kippersluis, Cornelius Rietveld, Kevin Thom,
Series: Issue: 2022
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Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one’s genes) and nurture (one’s environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the … Read more

Stop Meta-Analyzing, Start Instrumenting: Maximizing the Predictive Power of Polygenic Scores
Authors: Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli, Titus J. Galama, Stephanie von Hinke, S. Fleur W. Meddens, Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Pereira, Cornelius Rietveld,
Issue: 2021
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Polygenic scores have become the workhorse for empirical analyses in social-science genetics. Because a polygenic score is constructed using the results of finite-sample Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWASs), it is a … Read more

Investigating the genetic architecture of noncognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction
Authors: Perline A. Demange, Margherita Malanchini, Travis T. Mallard, Pietro Biroli, Simon R. Cox, Andrew D. Grotzinger, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Abdel Abdellaoui, Louise Arseneault, Elsje van Bergen, Dorret I. Boomsma, Avshalom Caspi, David L. Corcoran, Benjamin W. Domingue, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Hill F. Ip, Colter Mitchell, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richie Poulton, Joseph A. Prinz, Karen Sugden, Jasmin Wertz, Benjamin S. Williams, Eveline L. de Zeeuw, Daniel W. Belsky, K. Paige Harden, Michel G. Nivard,
Issue: 2021
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Little is known about the genetic architecture of traits affecting educational attainment other than cognitive ability. We used genomic structural equation modeling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of educational … Read more