Jerrim, John; Vignoles, Anna; Lingam, Raghu; Friend, Angela - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013
genes and gene-environment interactions in determining children’s reading skills, using the Avon Longitudinal Study of … Parents and Children (ALSPAC) dataset. We find that whilst these genes are indeed correlated with reading outcomes, effect … candidate genes can jointly explain just 2% of the socio-economic gap in children’s reading test scores. We conclude that the …