Higher parental educational attainment is associated with higher offspring educational attainment. In this study, we incorporated genotypic and phenotypic information from fathers, mothers, and offspring to disentangle the genetic and socioenvironmental pathways underlying this association. Data were drawn from a sample of individuals of European ancestry from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism (n = 4,089; 51% female). Results from path analysis indicated that paternal and maternal educational attainment genome-wide polygenic scores were associated with offspring educational attainment, above and beyond the effect of offspring education polygenic score. Parental educational attainment, income, and parenting behaviors served as important socioenvironmental pathways that mediated the effect of parental education polygenic score on offspring educational attainment. Our study highlights the importance of using genetically informed family studies to disentangle the genetic and socioenvironmental pathways underlying parental influences on human development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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通过父母的教育程度、收入和养育方式来检验社会遗传对教育程度的影响。


父母较高的教育程度与较高的后代教育程度相关。在这项研究中，我们整合了来自父亲、母亲和后代的基因型和表型信息，以理清这种关联背后的遗传和社会环境途径。数据取自酒精中毒遗传学合作研究中的欧洲血统个体样本（n = 4,089；51% 女性）。路径分析的结果表明，父亲和母亲受教育程度全基因组多基因评分与后代受教育程度相关，超出了后代教育多基因评分的影响。父母受教育程度、收入和养育行为是重要的社会环境途径，介导父母教育多基因得分对后代受教育程度的影响。我们的研究强调了利用遗传信息家庭研究来理清父母对人类发展影响的遗传和社会环境途径的重要性。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。