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Genetics and occupational status: gene-environment interplay, intergenerational transmission, careers and health
Socioeconomic status (SES) impacts health and life course outcomes. This GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Study) on sociologically-informed occupational status measures (ISEI, SIOPS, and CAMSIS) using the UKBiobank (N=273,157) identified 106 independent SNPs of which 8 are novel to the study of SES. Genetic correlation analyses point to a common genetic factor...
Presented by: Professor Melinda Mills (University of Oxford)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)