Eshim S Jami, Anke R Hammerschlag, Hannah M Sallis, Zhen Qiao, Ole A Andreassen, Per M Magnus, Pål R Njølstad, Alexandra Havdahl, Jean-Baptiste Pingault, David M Evans, Marcus R Munafò, Eivind Ystrom, Meike Bartels, Christel Middeldorp
Parental genes may indirectly influence offspring psychiatric outcomes through the environment that parents create for their children. These indirect genetic effects, also known as genetic nurture, could explain individual differences in common internalising and externalising psychiatric symptoms during childhood. Advanced statistical genetic methods leverage data from families to estimate the overall contribution of parental genetic nurture effects. This study included up to 10,499 children, 5990 mother-child pairs, and 6,222 father-child pairs from the Norwegian Mother Father and Child Study...
March 18, 2023: Translational Psychiatry