SOCGEN: Combining Social Science and Molecular Genetic Research to Examine Inequality and the Life Course
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Sociology
Abstract
Although there has been an explosion in the amount of the data in the UK that contains information that has both social science indicators (e.g., education, social status) and molecular genetic data (data with genetic markers), it has yet to be exploited by social scientists. Knowledge from social scientists about how to properly use this data to answer social science research questions and statistical tools to accommodate social science problems remains underdeveloped. Yet this new data will allow social scientists to examine fundamentally new research questions and has the potential for substantive breakthroughs. For the first time in history social scientists can uncover whether there is a genetic and biological component to many of the behaviours that have until now only largely been attributed to social factors. Increasing studies demonstrate that there is a genetic component to core social science topics such as educational level and wellbeing. There are, however, many pitfalls to conducting this type of research including lack of accessible learning and teaching material aimed at social scientists and appropriate statistical models or robustness checks of existing models.
A primary objective of this project is to bring together substantive social science researchers in the field of inequality and the life course with expertise in statistics, biodemography, and quantitative molecular genetics to develop innovative learning resources, statistical models and packages to address the specific shortcomings in this substantive area of research. Developing accessible teaching resources and tailored statistical models and packages will allow UK social scientists to become trendsetting pioneers in answering new biosocial research questions. This will allow us to convey how insights from molecular genetic data and research can be integrated into life course (and social science) research.
A primary objective of this project is to bring together substantive social science researchers in the field of inequality and the life course with expertise in statistics, biodemography, and quantitative molecular genetics to develop innovative learning resources, statistical models and packages to address the specific shortcomings in this substantive area of research. Developing accessible teaching resources and tailored statistical models and packages will allow UK social scientists to become trendsetting pioneers in answering new biosocial research questions. This will allow us to convey how insights from molecular genetic data and research can be integrated into life course (and social science) research.
Planned Impact
We have already established strong links with relevant stakeholders in the area of the life course via our FamiliesAndSocieties European Project. This includes patient groups, medical practitioners and policy makers in the UK, but also in Europe and internationally. We would invite a selected number of these stakeholders to the kick-off meeting with our Expert Advisory Group at start of the project to obtain feedback and suggestions regarding our plans. At the end of the project we would also invite several stakeholders to participate in the final workshop and provide comments and with the hope that they are able to take useable ideas back to their own peers, patients or policy forums. The input of these stakeholders was also considered at an early stage while preparing this proposal.
Since we also plan to present our results at conferences where medical practitioners are also present, our research will also impact medical doctors such as our results that examine genetic markers, GxE and understanding complex diseases. Particularly the patient groups and medical practice would be very interested in understanding the mechanisms that lead to certain unequal life course outcomes. By developing further knowledge about how lifestyle and social factors are related to genetic markers, the project can directly improve the health and and well-being of individuals. By informing medical practitioners of our results, the project also has the capacity to change organizational culture and practices.
As outlined in our proposal, our aim is to hold a final workshop at the end of this project with leading scholars in the field in order to highlight the main results of this project. In addition to academics, we will also invite several stakeholders and representatives from the media to comment and report on the event. At this time we will also distribute a summary pamphlet of the project, which will include a basic summary of the project and links to our website.
In order to attract a more general public, we will provide a summary of results in a more general form, producing graphics, but also a list of Frequently Asked Questions, which is useful for journalists and the general public.
The researchers will disseminate the results of their academic findings using several other additional social media mediums. First, our aim is to produce a bi-monthly blog that will rotate amongst the researchers in the project. It will be one that is accessible to a more general public and touches upon the main issues of the project. We will also invite questions and comments from the general public on the website, which we can respond. Second, we aim to set-up a Twitter account and send our results to the broadest audience possible.
We will work closely with the University's press office to provide accessible and timely press releases about work and any outreach activities. As described previously, this will be accompanied with a Frequently Asked Questions document for each article and material that we produce that is written in a way that is accessible to journalists and the general public. A recent blog on human fertility and molecular genetics, for instance, (http://www.openpop.org/?p=1111) gained particular interest and was praised by the journalists discussing our research with us as clear and accessible and coverage in major newspapers (Guardian, The Times, The Independent, New York Times).
Together with the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Ashmolean University Engagement Programme (http://torch.ox.ac.uk/ashmolean-project-portal), we will aim to develop a project around the Ashmolean's exhibition. The aim of the Oxford project is to link University research to the museum's forthcoming exhibitions. If we did receive the funding, would be able to submit an application, which they consider on a rolling basis. We would also engage in a press release and highlight this outreach activity.
Since we also plan to present our results at conferences where medical practitioners are also present, our research will also impact medical doctors such as our results that examine genetic markers, GxE and understanding complex diseases. Particularly the patient groups and medical practice would be very interested in understanding the mechanisms that lead to certain unequal life course outcomes. By developing further knowledge about how lifestyle and social factors are related to genetic markers, the project can directly improve the health and and well-being of individuals. By informing medical practitioners of our results, the project also has the capacity to change organizational culture and practices.
As outlined in our proposal, our aim is to hold a final workshop at the end of this project with leading scholars in the field in order to highlight the main results of this project. In addition to academics, we will also invite several stakeholders and representatives from the media to comment and report on the event. At this time we will also distribute a summary pamphlet of the project, which will include a basic summary of the project and links to our website.
In order to attract a more general public, we will provide a summary of results in a more general form, producing graphics, but also a list of Frequently Asked Questions, which is useful for journalists and the general public.
The researchers will disseminate the results of their academic findings using several other additional social media mediums. First, our aim is to produce a bi-monthly blog that will rotate amongst the researchers in the project. It will be one that is accessible to a more general public and touches upon the main issues of the project. We will also invite questions and comments from the general public on the website, which we can respond. Second, we aim to set-up a Twitter account and send our results to the broadest audience possible.
We will work closely with the University's press office to provide accessible and timely press releases about work and any outreach activities. As described previously, this will be accompanied with a Frequently Asked Questions document for each article and material that we produce that is written in a way that is accessible to journalists and the general public. A recent blog on human fertility and molecular genetics, for instance, (http://www.openpop.org/?p=1111) gained particular interest and was praised by the journalists discussing our research with us as clear and accessible and coverage in major newspapers (Guardian, The Times, The Independent, New York Times).
Together with the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Ashmolean University Engagement Programme (http://torch.ox.ac.uk/ashmolean-project-portal), we will aim to develop a project around the Ashmolean's exhibition. The aim of the Oxford project is to link University research to the museum's forthcoming exhibitions. If we did receive the funding, would be able to submit an application, which they consider on a rolling basis. We would also engage in a press release and highlight this outreach activity.
Organisations
- University of Oxford (Lead Research Organisation)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of California, Berkeley (Collaboration)
- Our Future Health (Collaboration)
- University of Pennsylvania (Collaboration)
- Stanford University (Collaboration)
- Gencove Inc. (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
Publications
Mills M
(2020)
Sociology, Genetics, and the Coming of Age of Sociogenomics
in Annual Review of Sociology
Briley DA
(2017)
What Explains the Heritability of Completed Fertility? Evidence from Two Large Twin Studies.
in Behavior genetics
Mills MC
(2019)
A scientometric review of genome-wide association studies.
in Communications biology
Tropf FC
(2017)
Is the Association Between Education and Fertility Postponement Causal? The Role of Family Background Factors.
in Demography
Steinsaltz D
(2018)
Statistical properties of simple random-effects models for genetic heritability.
in Electronic journal of statistics
Verweij RM
(2017)
Sexual dimorphism in the genetic influence on human childlessness.
in European journal of human genetics : EJHG
Mills M
(2016)
Methodological Advances in Cross-National Research: Multilevel Challenges and Solutions
in European Sociological Review
Verweij RM
(2019)
Using Polygenic Scores in Social Science Research: Unraveling Childlessness.
in Frontiers in sociology
Steinsaltz D
(2020)
On Negative Heritability and Negative Estimates of Heritability.
in Genetics
Murtagh M
(2018)
Better governance, better access: practising responsible data sharing in the METADAC governance infrastructure
in Human Genomics
Stulp G
(2016)
The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II The Association between Wealth and Fertility
in Human Nature
Präg P
(2017)
Cultural determinants influence assisted reproduction usage in Europe more than economic and demographic factors.
in Human reproduction (Oxford, England)
Barbuscia A
(2017)
Cognitive development in children up to age 11 years born after ART-a longitudinal cohort study.
in Human reproduction (Oxford, England)
Mehta D
(2016)
Evidence for Genetic Overlap Between Schizophrenia and Age at First Birth in Women
in JAMA Psychiatry
Herd P
(2021)
Reconstructing Sociogenomics Research: Dismantling Biological Race and Genetic Essentialism Narratives.
in Journal of health and social behavior
Okbay A
(2016)
Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses.
in Nature genetics
Mills MC
(2020)
The GWAS Diversity Monitor tracks diversity by disease in real time.
in Nature genetics
Barban N
(2016)
Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior.
in Nature genetics
Mills M
(2021)
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour
in Nature Human Behaviour
Mathieson I
(2023)
Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus.
in Nature human behaviour
Tropf FC
(2017)
Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations.
in Nature human behaviour
Ding X
(2019)
Educational attainment and allostatic load in later life: Evidence using genetic markers.
in Preventive medicine
Courtiol A
(2016)
When genes and environment disagree: Making sense of trends in recent human evolution.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Mills M
(2018)
The Sociogenomics of Polygenic Scores of Reproductive Behavior and Their Relationship to Other Fertility Traits
in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Mills MC
(2019)
How do genes affect same-sex behavior?
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Title | Demo video of GWAS Diversity Monitor Tool |
Description | Video providing an online demo of dashboard GWAS Diversity Monitor (www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com) published in Nature Genetics (Mills & Rahal 2020). |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | Video providing an online demo of dashboard GWAS Diversity Monitor (www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com) published in Nature Genetics (Mills & Rahal 2020). https://vimeo.com/386534288/dc7c987a3f |
URL | https://vimeo.com/386534288/dc7c987a3f |
Title | Film describing the problem of diversity in genetics and need for real-time monitoring |
Description | Film introducing GWAS Diversity Monitor: https://vimeo.com/386534319/9e9504df8e Mills, M.C. and C. Rahal (2020) The GWAS Diversity Monitor tracks diversity by disease in real time, Nature Genetics, 10.1038/s41588-020-0580-y (gwasdiversitymonitor.com) |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | Film introducing GWAS Diversity Monitor: https://vimeo.com/386534319/9e9504df8e Mills, M.C. and C. Rahal (2020) The GWAS Diversity Monitor tracks diversity by disease in real time, Nature Genetics, 10.1038/s41588-020-0580-y (gwasdiversitymonitor.com) |
URL | https://vimeo.com/386534319/9e9504df8e |
Title | Public Engagement Podcast on Sociogenomics Social Science Bites |
Description | Podcast by BBC and Sage publications on Social Science Topics. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | - |
URL | https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2018/02/melinda-mills-sociogenomics/ |
Title | Public engagement film about recent Nature Genetics article |
Description | This is a film posted on youtube that provides an accessible description of our recent publication in Nature Genetics about the genetic loci we isolated related to human reproduction and what it means for individuals and those facing infertility problems. This film has had around 4,500 views |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | This film has been linked to various blogs and been largely tweeted and viewed around a week after it was released around 4,000 times from people around the world. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSfWSb5KwE |
Title | Short Animation on Sociogenomics |
Description | Animation to describe sociogenomics. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Has had around 1,400 views |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKan95wN0_Y |
Description | This project has had several significant achievements and exceeded our initial expectations. First, we are the first sociologists to lead and make significant genetic discoveries on social science topics. Led by Mills, we were able to isolate 12 genetic loci linked to human reproduction and specifically the timing of the age of first birth and the number of children ever born (Barban et al. 2016, now over 100 citations). We also updated this work, with two related articles currently under review at Science and Nature Genetics. A partner study in which Mills was involved (Okbay et al. 2016) already has over 500 citations, with the scientific impact of these articles already very strong. Second, with 29 publications in top journals such as Science, Nature Genetics, PNAS, Annual Review of Sociology, including a ~400 page textbook, we have had a significant research impact on the broader social science and science community. Our work has also been flagged for further development for the medical sciences and Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology. Since the last report we have now developed a collaboration with Gencove Inc., an industrial partner in New York. Our work bringing the social sciences into molecular genetics had a highpoint in late 2017, when we made the cover of Nature Human Behaviour with our 2017. Here we demonstrated that genetic discoveries that ignore the fact that they combine data from diverse historical time periods and populations risk. This has offered a unique exchange of social sciences bringing information into genetics. Third, we delivered a textbook and teaching and learning material describing how to undertake this type of advanced genetic research for social scientists. The highlight is a textbook with MIT Press in the US (Mills, Barban, Tropf) in 2020 (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-statistical-genetic-data-analysis) with the accompanying website: https://www.intro-statistical-genetics.com/. We tested this textbook and our approach at our summer school June 26-30 2017 in Oxford (www.oxfordsociogenetics.com), which was attended by almost 30 international students, repeated in 2020 (https://www.oxford-genomics-summerschool.com/). The publisher is currently discussing translating the book into multiple languages. Fourth, we have made considerable policy headway and media attention in acknowledging the misinterpretation of genetic data and serious problem of the lack of diversity in genetics research. Our 2019 study (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0261-x.pdf?origin=ppub) has been cited almost 50 times (18K accesses, 479 Altmetric). Our 2020 study published days ago (https://rdcu.be/b2BX4) has an online dashboard that was accessed over 20K times in the first 24 hours. Mills' commentary in Science in 2019 (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/869) received international attention with an Almetric of 772 and over 60K downloads. All media recognition could not be entered into Research Fish due to the high volume, but an interview with Mills and others about this article in the New York Times has now been the most downloaded science article of that newspaper to date. Fifth, virtually all junior researchers that were either co-Is or postdoctoral researchers went on to higher level permanent faculty positions in the UK, France and Denmark. Finally, perhaps the most exciting aspect of this project was the amount of additional funds that we were able to secure, which is around £17.2 Million. Mills was awarded a £10 Million Leverhulme Trust grant (with around 3 M in matching) to start an interdisciplinary Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (www.demographicscience.ox.ac.uk). Mills was also awarded a 2.5 Million ERC Advanced Grant and Barban a 2 Million ERC Consolidator Grant. Mills was also awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant to start a spin out company based on this project called DNA4Science to start in 2021. This project formed the foundations for these accomplishments. |
Exploitation Route | First, we anticipate considerable use of our textbook by social science and other researchers to enter into statistical genetic research. MIT Press has already forecasted strong initial sales and is considering translation into other languages. Second, our work looking at the lack of diversity in genomics has had many impacts. Mills met with Nature journal editors to bring in new conditions for publication, with Genomics England and other government departments about new data collection projects, with funders (NIH, Welcome, MRC) about diversity policies for this area of research. Third, our findings on reproduction will not only be interesting to social scientists, but also medical sciences and biologists, and those involved in fertility treatments. In the longer term, our project offers a better understanding of the genetic architecture of complex social science outcomes such as fertility but also the relationship with BMI, depression and education to the social environment. We also hope to produce a better understanding of the biology of human reproduction, which in turn may provide insights into fundamental biological mechanisms and could have ramifications for the study of many health outcomes, especially the etiology of diseases related to the reproductive tract. |
Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
URL | http://www.demographicscience.ox.ac.uk |
Description | The public knowledge exchange and impact of this project has exceeded our initial expectations and occurred so in a relatively rapid period. First, there are largely health and social impacts of our work since it has been taken up in several key systematic clinical reviews across multiple disciplines in addition to be noted in key Editorials. It is relevant to note systematic clinical reviews as they are used for the basis of national medical advice (e.g., such as the NICE advice to NHS staff). Second, there are policy impacts about the lack of diversity in genetics, and we have met with multiple journal editors, funders and government departments. As documented in the policy impact section, several articles, and particularly Barban et al. Mills (2016) has been covered in clinical reviews in neuroendocrinology (2017), biologically based psychological differences (2018) and on many websites for health practitioners. Our 2016 article linking parental age to schizophrenia (Mehta et al. 2016) has been noted in a clinical review on the paternal age effects in neurodevelopmental disorders (2017) and psychiatric disorders (2016). A 2017 Editorial in the British Medical Journal (http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3849) cited our sociogenomic research, noting that truly effective public policy inventions on health need to focus on socioeconomic status and education. A 'Leading Edge Select' Editorial in the top journal Cell in 2017 (impact factor 30), also cited our 2016 Nature Genetics article on reproductive choice as a recent example noting "Quantitative genetics is bringing powerful tools to old questions, including some deemed sacred or hopelessly complex." (http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(17)30645-1). The findings from our most recent Nature Genetics (2016) study which isolated 12 genetic loci linked to human reproduction had considerable non-academic impact. The public was very interested in these findings about human reproduction, since they are often linked to infertility issues. Via an accessible Frequently Asked Questions Document (http://www.sociogenome.com/data/NG2016FAQ/) we were able to reach a wide body of the public and media. The media have reacted very positively with wide coverage of the article, with an altmetric score over 700 and coverage in around 100 international news outlets across the world. We extended this study during the ESRC grant and an updated version has now been accepted and is forthcoming in Nature Human Behaviour in 2021. We have also been contacted by patient groups (infertility related) and plan to work together regarding policies and warnings about what genetic tests can and cannot say about successful treatment. We were contacted by commercial companies interested in developing our results, but are currently considering the ethical implications. Since the last submission we are now actively working with an industrial company, Gencove Inc. of New York to pursue work further and have had meetings and an internship. Our 2019 publication (Mills & Rahal) that calls for more diversity in genetics already within 1 month has an Altmetric score of 416 and as of early 2021 has around 125 citations. A follow-up online dashboard published days ago in 2020 (Mills & Rahal 2020) had 20K hits on the website in just 24 hours. These articles were covered in a recent 2021 article in Science that provided an overview of the field and focus on diversity. Mills' 2019 Science article has an Altmetric of 772 with around 60K downloads. Research was featured on the cover a major US-based pharmaceutical magazine and other popular science magazines (e.g., in France). The large US-based direct-to-consumer genetics company 23andMe also actively uses our article in their new diversity marketing campaign. |
First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
Description | Chair Administrative Data Network ESRC |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Chaired Administrative Data Network Board on behalf of ESRC to decide new structure of administrative data, input of ONS, government ministries and scientific partners. |
Description | Citation in Health Canal research for medical practitioners |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical reviews |
Impact | Health care advice for medical practitioners in interpreting genetic outcomes. |
URL | https://www.healthcanal.com/genetics-birth-defects/240521-genes-linked-education-fertility-depend-li... |
Description | Citation in Systematic Review of Rotterdam Study |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
Impact | Our research was highlighted in a recent systematic review of the Rotterdam Cohort Study, which is the most-used cohort dataset in genetic-wide association study (GWAS) - i.e., genetic discoveries. Citation in: The Rotterdam Study: 2018 update on objectives, design and main results, European Journal of Epidemiology, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-017-0321-4 |
URL | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-017-0321-4 |
Description | Citation in clinical review neuroendocrinology |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical reviews |
Impact | Discussion of our Nature Genetics article in a clinical review of 50 variants of sex steriod receptor genes in discipline of neuroendocrinology. |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091302217300377 |
Description | Citation in clinical review of biologically based psychological differences |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical reviews |
Impact | Systematic clinical review of genetic contribution to individual differences in behaviour, citing our research (Barban et al M.C. Mills 2016) Nature Genetics discoveryGenetics of biologically based psychological differences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. |
URL | http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/1744/20170162 |
Description | Citation in clinical review of paternal age effects in neurodevelopmental disorders |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical reviews |
Impact | Focus and discussion of our 2016 article (Mehta et al. ) in Translational Psychiatry systematic clinical review of paternal age effects in neurodevelopmental disorders |
URL | https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2016294 |
Description | Citation in clinical review paternal age and psychiatric disorders |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical reviews |
Impact | Inclusion of our 2016 article in a systematic clinical review published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics on the impact of paternal age at childbearing and childhood psychiatric disorders (autism spectrum- and attention deficit/hyperactive disorder) and adult disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar-, obsessive-compulsive-, and major depressive disorder) based on epidemiological studies |
URL | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.b.32508/full |
Description | Citation in clinical review policy evidence British Medical Journal |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in clinical reviews |
Impact | Cited in British Medical Journal Editorial Back to school to protect against coronary heart disease? BMJ 2017; 358 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3849 (Published 30 August 2017) |
URL | http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3849 |
Description | Consultation biomedical research Norwegian Research Council, PI M Mills |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Joint meetings with Norwegian Science Council to pursue future collaborative research programme in the area of biosocial science and sociogenomics |
Description | Development Innovative Sociogenomics Teaching Material |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Our innovative textbook and teaching material teaches the next generation of researchers in this area of research across the biomedical, social and statistical sciences. |
Description | Ministerial Appointment, Executive Council Economic and Social Research Council UKRI (Melinda Mills) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Science board member influencing policy and funding. |
URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-us/governance-and-structure/esrc-council/ |
Description | Ministerial Appointment, Highest Supervisory Board, Dutch National Science Council (Melinda Mills) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Responsible for governance and policies, budget and functioning and visions of Dutch National Science Council in addition to focus on international collaboration. |
URL | https://www.nwo.nl/over-nwo/organisatie/raad+van+toezicht |
Description | Policy Recommendations Funders & Journal Editors |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Provided 10 policy recommendations for funders, editors and policymakers about problems of diversity in genetics in Mills & Rahal (2019) and developed online interactive dashboard monitoring diversity in Genetic studies published in Nature Genetics (Mills & Rahal 2020) and found at: www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com |
URL | http://www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com |
Description | Connecting Generations Centre |
Amount | £10,000,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | Connecting Generations Centre Call |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 08/2025 |
Description | DNA4Science Proof of Concept Grant |
Amount | € 150,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 957566 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | ERC Advanced Grant Melinda C. Mills |
Amount | € 2,499,811 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 835079 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 10/2024 |
Description | ESRC University of Oxford Impact Acceleration Fund |
Amount | £49,962 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 02/2019 |
Description | GENPOP: ERC Consolidator Grant N Barban Genes, genealogies & the evolution of demographic change & social inequality |
Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 865356 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 08/2020 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | John Fell Fund |
Amount | £68,263 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2016 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | Leverhulme Trust: Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science PI MC Mills |
Amount | £12,500,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | Leverhulme Trust Centre plus Matching |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 10/2029 |
Description | MapINEQ: Mapping inequalities through the life course |
Amount | € 3,300,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | HORIZON-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-03 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 08/2025 |
Description | NCRM International Visitor Exchange Scheme (IVES) |
Amount | £10,124 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2017 |
End | 07/2017 |
Description | NPIF (National Productivity Investment Fund) Early Career Researcher Industry Secondments ESRC IAA |
Amount | £19,300 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2017 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund |
Amount | £67,082 (GBP) |
Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2016 |
End | 03/2018 |
Title | Companion teaching website to book Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis |
Description | Companion website to accompany MIT press book on the introduction to statistical genetic data analysis for social scientists: https://www.intro-statistical-genetics.com/ |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Researchers can download data and code and follow exercises in companion book. |
URL | https://www.intro-statistical-genetics.com/ |
Title | GitHub site with data & code for textbook Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis |
Description | GitHub site with data & code for textbook Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis https://github.com/melindacmills/IntroStatisticalGenetics |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | GitHub site with data & code for textbook Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis https://github.com/melindacmills/IntroStatisticalGenetics |
URL | https://github.com/melindacmills/IntroStatisticalGenetics |
Title | Github of open source code and data for Mills & Rahal publication |
Description | Creation of GitHub site that includes all code and data in open access article about the lack of diversity in genetics: https://github.com/crahal/GWASReview Article to be found at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0261-x |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Creation of GitHub site that includes all code and data in open access article about the lack of diversity in genetics: https://github.com/crahal/GWASReview Article to be found at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0261-x |
URL | https://github.com/crahal/GWASReview |
Title | MIT Textbook An Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis |
Description | Textbook published by MIT press on an Introduction to Statistical Genetic Analysis by Mills, Barban and Tropf: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-statistical-genetic-data-analysis Introductory textbook to aid social science and other researchers to use genetic and social data |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Textbook published by MIT press on an Introduction to Statistical Genetic Analysis by Mills, Barban and Tropf: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-statistical-genetic-data-analysis Introductory textbook to aid social science and other researchers to use genetic and social data |
URL | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-statistical-genetic-data-analysis |
Title | Open Source Code & Data powering GWAS Diversity Monitor Dashboard |
Description | Real time monitoring of diversity in genetics discoveries published in Nature Genetics (Mills & Rahal 2020) - available at: www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com The code powering the dashboard is available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3600471; https://zenodo.org/record/3600472) and GitHub (https://github.com/OxfordDemSci/gwasdiversitymonitor). |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Real time monitoring of diversity in genetics discoveries published in Nature Genetics (Mills & Rahal 2020) - available at: www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com The code powering the dashboard is available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3600471; https://zenodo.org/record/3600472) and GitHub (https://github.com/OxfordDemSci/gwasdiversitymonitor). |
URL | https://github.com/OxfordDemSci/gwasdiversitymonitor |
Title | GWAS Diversity Monitor Interactive Online Dashboard |
Description | Real time monitoring of diversity in genetics discoveries published in Nature Genetics (Mills & Rahal 2020) - available at: www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com The code powering the dashboard is available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3600471; https://zenodo.org/record/3600472) and GitHub (https://github.com/OxfordDemSci/gwasdiversitymonitor). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Real time monitoring of diversity in genetics discoveries published in Nature Genetics (Mills & Rahal 2020) - available at: www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com The code powering the dashboard is available on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3600471; https://zenodo.org/record/3600472) and GitHub (https://github.com/OxfordDemSci/gwasdiversitymonitor). |
URL | http://www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com |
Title | GitHub site with code and data accompanying article on diversity in genetics |
Description | Creation of GitHub site that includes all code and data in open access article about the lack of diversity in genetics: https://github.com/crahal/GWASReview Article to be found at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0261-x |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Creation of GitHub site that includes all code and data in open access article about the lack of diversity in genetics: https://github.com/crahal/GWASReview Article to be found at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0261-x |
URL | https://github.com/crahal/GWASReview |
Description | Collaboration Ancient Genome Data experts |
Organisation | University of Pennsylvania |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Worked together with this group in Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine to access ancient genome data to expand our initial 2016 genetic discovery of loci related to reproductive behaviour (published in Nature Genetics) to examine nature selection across time. This paper is currently under review at the journal Science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provide access to unique ancient genome data working with anthropologists, archaeologists and statistical geneticists to trace demographic fertility over long periods of time. Co-authorship on major study. |
Impact | Currently an article is under review. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration Historical Demography University of Cambridge |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Department of Geography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborating with historians and geographers to link with historical records on fertility, mortality, health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
Collaborator Contribution | Use of interactive and detailed historical data to examine changes across time. |
Impact | Work is ongoing but initial collaboration resulted in this group joining the successful bid by PI M.C. Mills to start a £10 Million interdisciplinary Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, matched by around £3 million. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration Statistical Geneticists Big Data Institute University of Oxford |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Big Data Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Stronger collaborative links were made with top Genetic researchers at the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford including Prof. Augustine Kong and Prof. Cecilia Lindgren. This collaboration has resulted in several publications that are currently under review (at Science and Nature Genetics) and one successful grant application for an interdisciplinary centre for £10 million (with around £3 million in matching) from the Leverhulme Trust (PI M.C. Mills). |
Collaborator Contribution | Biological and statistical knowledge, access to data and cluster computers. |
Impact | Used this to start multidisciplinary demographic science centre which involves the following disciplines: sociology, demography, economics, marketing and business, history, biology, genetics, statistics, philosophy. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with Industrial Partner Gencove Inc New York |
Organisation | Gencove Inc. |
Country | United States |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Via an ESRC IAA (Impact Acceleration Account) grant we have started to work with the industrial partner Gencove Inc. which is a direct to consumer genetics company in New York lead by genetics researcher Joseph Pickrell. We will be working with the company for knowledge exchange and awareness but also in a citizen-science powered genetic crowdsourcing of data project. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our industrial partners have agreed to provide internships, hosting our project, data transfer, marketing and knowledge. |
Impact | This collaboration is multidisciplinary with an industrial partner involving not only sociology, demography and statistics but also molecular genetics and computer science. Our project describes the link with the social sciences, genetics and statistics, which this collaboration extends. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Genes and Complex Human Phenotypes Workshop |
Organisation | Stanford University |
Department | Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine |
Country | United States |
Sector | Hospitals |
PI Contribution | We joined forces with the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences and the University of California Berkeley's Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging for a 2 day workshop entitled: Genes and Complex Human Phenotypes Workshop, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA May 26-27, 2016. Core members of the SOCGEN group (M. Mills, D. Steinsaltz, N. Barban, F. Tropf) attended and presented our research in discussion with top scholars in the United States examining this topic. The goal was to have exchange with key US scientists on this topic, including Shirpad Tuljapurka, Daniel Belsky, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Mark Cullen, Ben Domingue, David Rehkopf, Ken Wachter, Dalton Conley, Jeremy Freese and Amal Harrati. Several research ideas have emerged from this exchange including a collaboration of Wachter and Steinsaltz, Conley and Mills, Barban and Tropf and an NCRM visitor exchange visit of Ben Domingue to Oxford (Feb. and June 2017) and another planned visit of David Rehkopf in May 2017. The Agenda of the conference can be found here: https://med.stanford.edu/phs/events/Conference11.html A film of all presentations is also available online. |
Collaborator Contribution | We joined forces with the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences and the University of California Berkeley's Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging for a 2 day workshop entitled: Genes and Complex Human Phenotypes Workshop, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA May 26-27, 2016. Core members of the SOCGEN group (M. Mills, D. Steinsaltz, N. Barban, F. Tropf) attended and presented our research in discussion with top scholars in the United States examining this topic. The goal was to have exchange with key US scientists on this topic, including Shirpad Tuljapurka, Daniel Belsky, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Mark Cullen, Ben Domingue, David Rehkopf, Ken Wachter, Dalton Conley, Jeremy Freese and Amal Harrati. Several research ideas have emerged from this exchange including a collaboration of Wachter and Steinsaltz, Conley and Mills, Barban and Tropf and an NCRM visitor exchange visit of Ben Domingue to Oxford and another planned visit of David Rehkopf. The Agenda of the conference can be found here: https://med.stanford.edu/phs/events/Conference11.html A film of all presentations is also available online. |
Impact | Outcomes from this workshop include: (1) Nature Genetics 2016 paper - workshop was used to gain comments, revisions, discussion (2) PNAS Commentary 2016 paper - workshop was used to discuss ideas for PNAS commentary with Editor Ken Wachter (3) Time used to discuss paper development now submitted - Steinsaltz,D. Andrew Dahl, and Kenneth W Wachter. "Statistical properties of simple random-effects models for genetic heritability". Submitted Electronic Journal of Statistics. bioRxiv: 087304. Nov. 2016. (4) Development of collaborations, which have resulted in proposals and research visit. Ben Domingue (Stanford) was awarded NRCM visiting fellowship to join our group in February and June 2017. David Rehkopf (Stanford) will visit Oxford for collaboration in May 2017. Dalton Conley (Princeton) and Ben Domingue (Stanford) agreed to be course instructors at our NCRM Oxford sociogenetics summer school June 26-30 2017 (www.oxfordsociogenetics.com) Considerable interdisciplinary collaboration was developed with this group with researchers from: sociology, demography, statistics, biology, mathematics, medical sciences. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Genes and Complex Human Phenotypes Workshop |
Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We joined forces with the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences and the University of California Berkeley's Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging for a 2 day workshop entitled: Genes and Complex Human Phenotypes Workshop, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA May 26-27, 2016. Core members of the SOCGEN group (M. Mills, D. Steinsaltz, N. Barban, F. Tropf) attended and presented our research in discussion with top scholars in the United States examining this topic. The goal was to have exchange with key US scientists on this topic, including Shirpad Tuljapurka, Daniel Belsky, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Mark Cullen, Ben Domingue, David Rehkopf, Ken Wachter, Dalton Conley, Jeremy Freese and Amal Harrati. Several research ideas have emerged from this exchange including a collaboration of Wachter and Steinsaltz, Conley and Mills, Barban and Tropf and an NCRM visitor exchange visit of Ben Domingue to Oxford (Feb. and June 2017) and another planned visit of David Rehkopf in May 2017. The Agenda of the conference can be found here: https://med.stanford.edu/phs/events/Conference11.html A film of all presentations is also available online. |
Collaborator Contribution | We joined forces with the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences and the University of California Berkeley's Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging for a 2 day workshop entitled: Genes and Complex Human Phenotypes Workshop, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA May 26-27, 2016. Core members of the SOCGEN group (M. Mills, D. Steinsaltz, N. Barban, F. Tropf) attended and presented our research in discussion with top scholars in the United States examining this topic. The goal was to have exchange with key US scientists on this topic, including Shirpad Tuljapurka, Daniel Belsky, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Mark Cullen, Ben Domingue, David Rehkopf, Ken Wachter, Dalton Conley, Jeremy Freese and Amal Harrati. Several research ideas have emerged from this exchange including a collaboration of Wachter and Steinsaltz, Conley and Mills, Barban and Tropf and an NCRM visitor exchange visit of Ben Domingue to Oxford and another planned visit of David Rehkopf. The Agenda of the conference can be found here: https://med.stanford.edu/phs/events/Conference11.html A film of all presentations is also available online. |
Impact | Outcomes from this workshop include: (1) Nature Genetics 2016 paper - workshop was used to gain comments, revisions, discussion (2) PNAS Commentary 2016 paper - workshop was used to discuss ideas for PNAS commentary with Editor Ken Wachter (3) Time used to discuss paper development now submitted - Steinsaltz,D. Andrew Dahl, and Kenneth W Wachter. "Statistical properties of simple random-effects models for genetic heritability". Submitted Electronic Journal of Statistics. bioRxiv: 087304. Nov. 2016. (4) Development of collaborations, which have resulted in proposals and research visit. Ben Domingue (Stanford) was awarded NRCM visiting fellowship to join our group in February and June 2017. David Rehkopf (Stanford) will visit Oxford for collaboration in May 2017. Dalton Conley (Princeton) and Ben Domingue (Stanford) agreed to be course instructors at our NCRM Oxford sociogenetics summer school June 26-30 2017 (www.oxfordsociogenetics.com) Considerable interdisciplinary collaboration was developed with this group with researchers from: sociology, demography, statistics, biology, mathematics, medical sciences. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Prof. Ben Domingue Stanford University |
Organisation | Stanford University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We worked together on an NRCM IVES funded international research exchange on the objectives noted below. |
Collaborator Contribution | We had three objectives in this research exchange. 1. Construction of polygenic scores for a variety of datasets (e.g., UKBiobank, 1958 Birth Cohort, TwinsUK, Understanding Society) and outlining a sequence of research projects that rely on both exogenous variation (where available) and important social variation (year of birth, place of residence, etc). 2. Consideration of the implications of selection bias, particularly mortality selection, on the generalizability of genetic association studies. 3. Training students at in the United Kingdom to work with genome-wide dataWe 2017 workshop. During this workshop, we exposed a variety of researchers from across Europe Dr. Domingue participated in our Sociogenomics summer school. Dr Domingue also gave a symposium at the Oxford Department of Sociology on a research project that later went on to receive substantial media attention (https://pnas.altmetric.com/details/31467537/news). |
Impact | We have made substantial progress in terms of meeting all three of the stated objectives. The team of researchers at Oxford has developed substantial capacity to develop and use polygenic scores (objective 1). This is partially due to the training undertaken as a part of the 2017 workshop on sociogenomics that we conducted (objective 3). We are in the midst of preparing a study looking at issues related to selection in the UK Biobank. We anticipate completion of a manuscript during the 2018-2019 academic year. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Scientific Board Member, Our Future Health |
Organisation | Our Future Health |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Based on work produced as part of this ESRC grant, invited as the only social science representative on the new 5 Million data collection initiative Our Future Health. Provide advice on inclusion of key socioeconomic, family and other relevant non-medical indicators in this large data collection initiative. Bring in advice on problems in excluding social environment in genetic and health data analyses, focus on improving data collection in hard to reach and underrepresented population groups. |
Collaborator Contribution | Leading large scale data collection initiative https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/ |
Impact | Multidisciplinary in medical sciences, genomics, statistics, social and economic sciences. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Scientific collaboration on negative heritability estimates Kenneth W. Wachter |
Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We consider the problem of interpreting negative maximum likelihood estimates of heritability that sometimes arise from popular statistical models of additive genetic variation. These may result from random noise acting on estimates of genuinely positive heritability, but we argue that they may also arise from misspecification of the standard additive mechanism that is supposed to justify the statistical procedure. Researchers should be open to the possibility that negative heritability estimates could reflect a real physical feature of the biological process from which the data were sampled. |
Collaborator Contribution | Stemming from our workshop at Berkely we developed this paper further which is now posted on bioRxiv and to be submitted for publication. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/12/13/232843 |
Impact | Paper for publication |
Start Year | 2016 |
Title | GWAS Diversity Monitor Dashboard |
Description | A real time interactive dashboard monitoring diversity in genetic discoveries, updated each morning at 6 am. Dashboard tool at: www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com see GitHub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSfWSb5KwE |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | A real time interactive dashboard monitoring diversity in genetic discoveries, updated each morning at 6 am. Dashboard tool at: www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com see GitHub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSfWSb5KwE |
URL | http://www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com |
Title | Online teaching code accompanying MIT textbook Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis |
Description | Simulated teaching data and code available at: https://www.intro-statistical-genetics.com/data-code And at GitHub: https://github.com/melindacmills/IntroStatisticalGenetics This accompanies textbook: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-statistical-genetic-data-analysis |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Simulated teaching data and code available at: https://www.intro-statistical-genetics.com/data-code And at GitHub: https://github.com/melindacmills/IntroStatisticalGenetics This accompanies textbook: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-statistical-genetic-data-analysis |
URL | https://www.intro-statistical-genetics.com/data-code |
Description | Believe it or not: Timing of your first child may be coded in DNA, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/believe-it-or-not-timing-of-your-first-child-m... |
Description | Blog Enrolment as an Excuse? On the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility Postponement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Accessible Blog - Enrolment as an Excuse? On the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility Postponement |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.openpop.org/?p=1395 |
Description | Blogs with accessible infrographics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Wrote a blog 'The Causal Effect of a Genetic Liability for Schizophrenia on the Age at First Birth' which sparked discussion and media attention to our 2016 article on this topic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.openpop.org/?p=1348 |
Description | COLLOQUIUM SERIES ASEP - Analysis of Social and Economic Processes PhD Program - invited presentation Presenter: Nicola Barban "Does genetic influence on education change across neighbourhoods"" University of Milan, Bicocca , Italy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This lecture investigates if neighbourhood characteristics such as education, unemployment and poverty level mitigate the genetic predisposition to higher educational attainment. Using polygenic score (PGS) provided by the Add-Health study, we test the existence of an interaction between neighbourhood characteristics at Wave 1 and genetic score in shaping future educational attainment measured at Wave IV. Our preliminary results show that that polygenic score has no predictive value in a deprived context, while it is strongly associated with education in neighbourhoods with higher proportion of college educated parents. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | DNA Influences The Age At Which People Have Their First Child And The Number Of Children, 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.medindia.net/news/healthwatch/dna-influences-the-age-at-which-people-have-their-first-chi... |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://consumer.healthday.com/sexual-health-information-32/childbirth-health-news-126/dna-may-influ... |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.philly.com/philly/health/topics/HealthDay716374_20161031_DNA_May_Influence_Your_Reproduct... |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/hd/67550 |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=199494 |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-10-31/dna-may-influence-your-reproductive-decisio... |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://tucson.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/dna-may-influence-your-reproductive-decisions/article_7a... |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.drugs.com/news/dna-may-influence-your-reproductive-decisions-63251.html?utm_source=ddc&u... |
Description | DNA May Influence Your Reproductive Decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.eheandme.com/news_articles/549677155 |
Description | DNA has the code of your reproductivity, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.asianage.com/science-health/dna-has-code-your-reproductivity-676 |
Description | DNA may influence when you have kids, and how many, study says, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/national/dna-may-influence-when-you-have-kids-and-how-many-... |
Description | DNA may influence when you have kids, and how many, study says, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/national/dna-may-influence-when-you-have-kids-and-how-many-study-says/... |
Description | DNA may influence when you have kids, and how many, study says, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/dna-may-influence-when-you-have-kids-and-how-many-study-... |
Description | DNA may influence when you have kids, and how many, study says, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/dna-may-influence-when-you-have-kids-and-how-many-study-says/n... |
Description | DNA may influence when you have kids, and how many, study says, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/dna-may-influence-when-you-have-kids-and-how-many-study-sa... |
Description | DNA may influence when you have kids, and how many, study says, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/dna-may-influence-when-you-have-kids-and-how-many... |
Description | DNA may influence your reproductive decisions, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.health24.com/Medical/Genetics/News/dna-may-influence-your-reproductive-decisions-20161102 |
Description | DNA may influence your reproductive decisions, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/10/31/DNA-may-influence-your-reproductive-decisions/943147796484... |
Description | DNA may play a role in when you choose to have kids, 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-may-play-a-role-in-when-you-choose-to-have-kids/ |
Description | DNA may play a role in when you have kids |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://healthmedicinet.com/i/dna-may-play-a-role-in-when-you-have-kids/ |
Description | Departmental Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Paper presentation: "The Genetics of Education and the role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills", Dec 11, 2018 Presenter: Stine Møllegaard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | seminar presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Dina gener kan påverka hur många barn du får, 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=406&artikel=6553257 |
Description | Do Genes Decide When We Have Children?, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.healthcanal.com/genetics-birth-defects/75422-do-genes-decide-when-we-have-children.html |
Description | Entscheiden die Gene, wann wir Kinder kriegen?, 8 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.biermann-medizin.de/fachbereiche/gynaekologie/medizin-forschung/entscheiden-gene-wann-wir... |
Description | Età della prima gravidanza e numero di figli? Si può chiedere anche ai geni, 28 December 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.dica33.it/cont/news/1701/3026/eta-della-prima-gravidanza-numero-figli-puo.asp |
Description | Expert polygenic score workshop New York Genome Centre & Columbia University NY |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Industry, academia, media, expert meeting on application of polygenic scores |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Finalist poster competitiion: "STEM for Britain" Houses of Parliament at Westminster on March 12th 2018. Poster title: Education and fertility pathways in 1958 British Birth Cohort. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presented a poster in the final of STEM for Britain competition at the Parliament on Monday (12th of March). Poster title: Education and fertility pathways in 1958 British Birth Cohort. Presented:12th of March 2018, Authors: Christodoulou, M., Brettschneider, J., and Steinsaltz, D. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.setforbritain.org.uk/ |
Description | Frequently Asked Questions accessible document for Nature Genetics (2016) article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We wrote a very accessibel FAQ document that describes our research in lay terms and widely used by journalists, patient groups and the public to understand our Nature Genetics (2016) publication and the implications for human reproduction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sociogenome.com/data/NG2016FAQ/ |
Description | Gene beeinflussen Zeitpunkt des Kinderkriegens, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-20786-2016-11-02.html |
Description | Generna påverkar när vi får första barnen - och hur många det blir, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.forskning.se/2016/10/31/generna-paverkar-nar-vi-far-forsta-barnen-och-hur-manga-det-blir/ |
Description | Genes affect when we have children and family size, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/uu/pressreleases/dna-linked-with-the-age-at-which-we-have-our-first-chi... |
Description | Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior, 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.bioportfolio.com/news/article/2891063/Genome-wide-analysis-identifies-12-loci-influencing... |
Description | Government, Wellcome Trust & Genomics England Diversity Project Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Expert meeting to discuss problem of diversity in genomics. Used our Mills & Rahal (2019) and forthcoming Mills & Rahal (2020) diversity monitor as basis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.gwasdiversitymonitor.com |
Description | Hoeveel kinderen jij krijgt, wordt ook bepaald door je DNA, 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/gezin/hoeveel-kinderen-jij-krijgt-wordt-ook-bepaald-door-je-dna |
Description | How DNA might affect our reproductive choices, 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313828.php |
Description | How Many Kids Will You Have? Your DNA Knows, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.msn.com/en-ph/health/medical/how-many-kids-will-you-have-your-dna-knows/ar-AAjEYiZ |
Description | How Many Kids You'll Have (and When) May Be Written in Your DNA, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/many-kids-ll-may-written-193803366.html?src=rss |
Description | Il DNA ti dice a che età partorirai e quanti figli avrai, ecco come, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://scienze.fanpage.it/il-dna-ti-dice-a-che-eta-partorirai-e-quanti-figli-avrai-ecco-come/ |
Description | Industrial engagement blog 23andMe DNA commercial company to highly diversity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Various blogs citing our research on the need for diversity in genetic research, primarily by US-based company 23andMe https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/diversity-matters-in-research/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/diversity-matters-in-research/ |
Description | Invited Keynote M Mills Fertility across Time and Space: Data and Research Advances. Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2018, 3rd Human Fertility Database Symposium, Vienna, Austria, December 6, 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited Keynote speaker, "The sociogenomics of sexual and reproductive behaviour,", Fertility across Time and Space: Data and Research Advances. Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2018, 3rd Human Fertility Database Symposium, Vienna, Austria, December 6, 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Keynote Speaker American Society for Human Genetics, San Diego USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Large scale debate about the ethical use of genetics and educational attainment scores. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ashg.org/publications-news/ashg-news/building-bridges-2019/ |
Description | Invited expert biosocial research Research Council of Norway, PI M Mills |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Research meetings for joint UK-Norway collaborations with Head of Norwegian Science Council and related researchers, plus talk, The importance of the socio-environmental context for biomedical research,' Better Health and Quality of Life, The Research Council of Norway, Oslo, Norway, November 7, 2018 by PI Melinda Mills. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited presentation "The 1958 Birth Cohort and the longitudinal study of reproductive ageing", 8th ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Bath, UK. 3-5 July 2018. Presenters Christodoulou, M., Brettschneider, J., Steinsaltz, D |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 2018 will be the eighth biennial Festival, and previous events were highly successful in attracting around 800 social science researchers at various stages of their careers, from across a range of disciplines and sectors. This is the programme, it includes 58 methodological sessions consisting of over 200 individual presentations, activities and lively discussions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2018/home.php |
Description | Invited presentation: Institute for Analytical SociologySeminar, Norrköping University, Sweden. Paper presentation: "The Genetics of Education and the role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills", Nov 8, 2018 Presenter: Stine Møllegaard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Genome-wide association studies have mapped a genetic component to education, now explaining up to 10-12 % of the variation in educational attainment, but little is known about how this genetic component affects educational attainment. While incorporating genetics into sociological research in education holds great potential, we need to know what the genetic component captures before we can fully adopt and incorporate this in our research (either as variable of interest or merely as control variable). In this paper, I investigate the role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the genetic component (measured using polygenic scores (PGS)) to educational attainment (measured as years of education). I use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to explore to what extent cognitive skills (measured as academic ability in high school) and noncognitive skills (the Big Five personality traits) mediate the association found between genes and education, in a research design exploiting sibling differences. Preliminary results suggest that cognitive and noncognitive skills mediate 44 % of the genetic association in the pooled OLS models and 36 % in the family fixed-effect models (of which cognitive skills mediate 25 % and noncognitive skills 11 %, respectively). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited presentation: Quantitative Methods Club, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Paper presentation: "The Genetics of Education and the role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills", Sept 20, 2018 Presenter: Stine Møllegaard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited talk "Using Genetic Data for Social Science Research, CREST-ENSAE, Paris, Seminar, 19 June 2018 Felix Tropf |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | With the advent of molecular genetic data and complementary analyses techniques, it becomes possible to integrate DNA into social science research and to ask new research questions for the very first time. In this talk, I will give an overview of new insights we can draw given these opportunities. I will discuss genetic discovery (GWAS) for social science outcomes such as educational attainment and fertility behaviour, give examples of genetic confounding across generations, gene-environment interaction, causal analyses using genetic information and discuss how we can answer old and persisting questions about genetic effects on social behaviour. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://crest.science/event/sarah-valdez-tba-2-2-2 |
Description | Invited talk and meeting Princeton University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation, research meetings with senior colleagues and students and public talk at Princeton University by PI Melinda Mills, Advances in sociogenomic approaches to study human reproduction |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited talk and meeting with Harvard University Researchers and Students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting with senior researchers and students, plus invited talk Out of time: sociobiological approaches to nonstandard employment schedules by PI Melinda Mills |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited talk, "Hidden Heritability due to Heterogeneity", Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Presidential Session: Sociogenetics, 24 February 2018 Presenter : Felix Tropf |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited talk, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.essnet.org/annual-meeting/previous-meetings/ |
Description | Invited talk, "Using Genetic Data for Social Science Research", University of Zurich, Jacobs Foundation, Colloquium, 18 December 2018 Presenter: Felix Tropf |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited talk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited talk, How gene-environment interaction shapes genetic discovery in the social sciences, CREST-ENSAE, Paris, Seminaire de Sociologie Quantitative du CREST, 28 November 2018 Presenter: Felix Tropf |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | : The emerging field of sociogenomics has great potential to improve empirical, quantitative social science research. Genetic scores measuring an individual's genetic predisposition for a trait can be used to control for genetic confounding in statistical models, to estimate the differential individual response to (social) environmental conditions, to increase power for the estimation of social science determinants and as instrumental variables in causal analysis of associations between social science variables. Genetic scores derived from genome-wide association studies, however, explain only a fraction of what we would expect based on heritability estimates obtained from whole-genome studies on single populations, known as the 'hidden heritability' puzzle. Using seven sampling populations (n=35,062), we test whether hidden heritability is attributed to heterogeneity across sampling populations and time, showing that estimates are substantially smaller across populations compared with within populations. We show that the hidden heritability varies substantially: from zero for height to 20% for body mass index, 37% for education, 40% for age at first birth and up to 75% for number of children. Simulations demonstrate that our results are more likely to reflect heterogeneity in phenotypic measurement or gene-environment interactions than genetic heterogeneity. These findings have substantial implications for genetic discovery, suggesting that large homogenous datasets are required for behavioural phenotypes and that gene-environment interaction may be a central challenge for genetic discovery. Nonetheless, the potential for implementing genetic scores based on such studies into social science research remains immense |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://crest.science/event/sarah-valdez-tba-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3 |
Description | Keynote M.C. Mills European Society of Historical Demographers - Pecs Hungary |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote on sociogenomics of fertility behaviour over time. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://eshd2019.hu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ESHD2019_Final_Program.pdf |
Description | Keynote M.C. Mills Finnish Sociological Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Keynote and debate on the sociogenomics of fertility and behaviour. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
URL | https://sosiologipaivat.fi/2019-annual-conference/keynote-speakers-2/ |
Description | Keynote MC Mills Australian Population Association Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote national association |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.apa.org.au/ |
Description | Keynote MC Mills Swedish Sociological Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote to national association discussing many findings of the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.sociology.su.se/english/about-us/events/sociology-days-2020-sociological-thinking-for-th... |
Description | L'età giusta per diventare genitori? E' scritta nel Dna , 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.msn.com/it-it/salute/pregnancyparenting/l%E2%80%99et%C3%A0-giusta-per-diventare-genitori-... |
Description | L'età giusta per diventare genitori? E' scritta nel Dna, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.ok-salute.it/sessualita/leta-giusta-diventare-genitori-scritta-nel-dna/ |
Description | La fertilità è scritta (anche) nei nostri geni, 5 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.agoravox.it/La-fertilita-e-scritta-anche-nei.html |
Description | Media interview The Guardian Jan 16 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview and comment by Melinda C. Mills on recent article in PNAS, Natural selection making 'education genes' rarer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/16/natural-selection-making-education-genes-rarer-says-... |
Description | Meeting with researchers and students ETH Zurich Switzerland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited talk 'sociogenomics for sociologists' and meetings with students and researchers, PI Melinda Mills |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Member High-Level Advisory Group European Commision |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | One of 8 high level advisors to European Commission Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner of the Economy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/recovery-coronavirus/high-level-advisory-group_en |
Description | Member Royal Society SET-C (Science in Emergencies Tasking COVID) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Member of advisory group to respond to rapid COVID-19 requests convened by the Chief Scientific Officer, Government Office for Science. Mills was lead author on various reports that had wide media coverage on face coverings, vaccine deployment and criteria for vaccine passports. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/set-c-science-in-emergencies-tasking-covid/ |
Description | Member SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) SPI-B (behaviour) and ethnicity sub-groups, UK Government Office of Science |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | COVID Pandemic scientific advisory group requiring interdisciplinary expertise and writing reports and advice across a variety of behavioral and scientific topics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronaviru... |
Description | New genetic variants found to influence fertility, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article blog. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/waiting-on-baby/ |
Description | Organisation Panel Research Methods Festival, Bath UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Organisation of panel and discussion 'Advances in Sociogenomics', Research Methods Festival, NCRM, Bath, UK, July 5, 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Our genes define the age at which we have our first child, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://med.news.am/eng/news/12283/our-genes-define-the-age-at-which-we-have-our-first-child.html |
Description | Our genes influence when and how many children we have, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/family-size-age-birth-first-child-influenced-by-our-genes-1589110 |
Description | Oxford University study suggests there are genes that determine when women gives birth, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://healthmedicinet.com/i/oxford-university-study-suggests-there-are-genes-that-determine-when-wo... |
Description | Paper presentation "Sequence Analysis As A Tool For Family Demography" by at the European Population Conference 2018, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, from 6-9 June 2018. Presenter: Nicola Barban |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The European Population Conference is the hallmark event of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS). EPC is a general scientific population conference and the single largest event in its field in Europe. EPC convenes every two years in a different European city. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.eaps.nl/european-population-conference |
Description | Podcast Sociogenomics PI Mills by BBC and Sage Publications |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Podcast on Social Science Bites by BBC and Sage Publications |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2018/02/melinda-mills-sociogenomics/ |
Description | Podcast Sociology, Genetics and the Coming of Age of Sociogenomics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Recent years have seen the birth of sociogenomics via the infusion of molecular genetic data. Melinda Mills outlines the history of genetics, discussing post-2005 genome-wide association studies, the post-2015 big data era, and the emergence of polygenic scores. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://faculti.net/sociology-genetics-and-the-coming-of-age-of-sociogenomics/ |
Description | Postponement of Parenthood conference, Villa Vigoni Italy, organised by MPIDR, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Bocconi University. Presenter: Nicola Barban |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The secular increase in the mean age at childbearing is one of the most notable demographic developments of our times. This conference will take a multidisciplinary stance to explore the causes and consequences of this process, in order to assess its costs and gains. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at The Annual Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences (IGSS) Conference 2018, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Flash presentation: "The Genetics of Education and the role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills", Oct 11-12, 2018 Presenter: Stine Møllegaard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences conference showcases behavioral and molecular genetic studies that enhance demographic and social scientific inquiry and integrate genetics and the social sciences. Researchers from any of the biological or social sciences are encouraged to participate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://cupc.colorado.edu/conferences/IGSS_2018/ |
Description | Presentation SOCGEN project NCRM final conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of results of project SOCGEN: combining social science and molecular genetic research to examine inequality and the life course |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
Description | Presented paper at Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences, Boulder, CO, USA : Does the genetic influence on education change across neighbourhoods? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presented paper: ''Does the genetic influence on education change across neighbourhoods?' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presented paper at Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences, Boulder, CO, USA : Genomic analysis of human reproductive onset and behaviour |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presented paper 'Genomic analysis of human reproductive onset and behaviour' at IGSS Oct 20, 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presented paper at Population Association of America Conference, Chicago, IL, USA : Cross-Friend Effects on Entry Into Marriage and Parenthood: A Multiprocess Approach |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented paper Cross-Friend Effects on Entry Into Marriage and Parenthood: A Multiprocess Approach |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://paa.confex.com/paa/2018/webprogrampreliminary/Paper20296.html |
Description | Presented paper at Population Association of America Conference, Chicago, IL, USA : Cross-Friend Effects on Entry Into Marriage and Parenthood: A Multiprocess ApproachGenetic and Socio-Demographic Influences on Childlessness |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presented paper: Genetic and Socio-Demographic Influences on Childlessness |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://paa.confex.com/paa/2018/webprogrampreliminary/Paper21930.html |
Description | Presented paper at Population Association of America Conference, Chicago, IL, USA : Gene-Neighborhood Interactions in Educational Attainment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented paper: Gene-Neighborhood Interactions in Educational Attainment |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://paa.confex.com/paa/2018/webprogrampreliminary/Paper21057.html |
Description | Presented paper at Population Association of America Conference, Chicago, IL, USA : Genetic Social Mobility during the Twentieth Century in Six Countries |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presented paper: Genetic Social Mobility during the Twentieth Century in Six Countries |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://paa.confex.com/paa/2018/webprogrampreliminary/Paper20754.html |
Description | Press Release Nature Genetics article in 8 languages |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | We translated a short press release describing our recent Nature Genetics (2016) publication into a 2-page press release and summary available in: English, Chinese, Arabic, German, French, Dutch, Swedish and Italian. As a result the article received considerable attention by world media. At the time of writing this, the article had a altmetric score of 631, which is in the 98 percentile (ranked 1st) of the 78 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature Genetics. The article was picked up by over 70 news outlets world wide, including all major news outlets. The article was also widely picked up by the Asian and Arabic audience and covered as an Editorial In Nature Middle East (http://www.natureasia.com/en/nmiddleeast/article/10.1038/nmiddleeast.2016.198) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sociogenome.com/data/FAQlanguages/ |
Description | Speaker Labour Party Conference 'Ask the Experts' 21 September 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was jointly hosted by the UK National Academies; The Royal Society, the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medical Sciences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy/national-academy-events-2020-party-political-conferences/ |
Description | Speaker Liberal Demographic Conference 'Ask the Experts' 25 September 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was jointly hosted by the UK National Academies; The Royal Society, the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medical Sciences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy/national-academy-events-2020-party-political-conferences/ |
Description | Speaker Scottish National Party Conference 'Ask the Experts' 05 November 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was jointly hosted by the UK National Academies; The Royal Society, the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medical Sciences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy/national-academy-events-2020-party-political-conferences/ |
Description | Speaker at Conservative Party Conference 'Ask the Experts' 05 October 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was jointly hosted by the UK National Academies; The Royal Society, the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medical Sciences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy/national-academy-events-2020-party-political-conferences/ |
Description | Talk Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, USA on sociogenomics, PI Melinda Mills |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Participation in industry and academic meeting to present and discuss sociogenomic research at Facebook Headquarters Menlo Park, California |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Ten New Genetic Regions Linked to Human Reproductive Behavior, 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/genetic-regions-human-reproductive-behavior-04326.html?utm_source=f... |
Description | The genes that decide what age a woman gives birth: Variations ensure a woman remains fertile for longer, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3892048/The-genes-decide-age-woman-gives-birth-Variat... |
Description | Timing of your first child may be coded in DNA, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.freepressjournal.in/webspecial/timing-of-your-first-child-may-be-coded-in-dna/965744 |
Description | Timing of your first child may be coded in DNA, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/health/2016/nov/02/timing-of-your-first-child-may-be-coded... |
Description | Timing of your first child may be coded in DNA, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.canindia.com/timing-of-your-first-child-may-be-coded-in-dna/ |
Description | Timing of your first child may be coded in DNA, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://in.news.yahoo.com/timing-first-child-may-coded-dna-102405708.html |
Description | Timing of your first child may be coded in DNA, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/timing-of-your-first-child-may-be-coded-in-dna-11... |
Description | Training workshop British Society for Population Studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Gave workshop using forthcoming 2020 MIT textbook produced by SOCGEN researchers Mills, Barban, Tropf. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size' , 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/uoo-1da102816.php |
Description | Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size', 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.healthcanal.com/genetics-birth-defects/75377-twelve-dna-areas-linked-with-the-age-at-whic... |
Description | Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size', 1 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161101104311.htm |
Description | Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-twelve-dna-areas-linked-age.html |
Description | Want to know how many kids you will have? Ask your DNA, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-want-to-know-how-many-kids-you-will-have-ask-your-dna-2269560 |
Description | When Will I Have A Baby? These Strands Of DNA May Explain When & How Many Children You'll Have, 8 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.bustle.com/articles/193861-when-will-i-have-a-baby-these-strands-of-dna-may-explain-when... |
Description | When we have kids, and how many, may be partly genetic, 2 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/11/02/when-have-kids-and-how-many-may-be-partly-genetic.html |
Description | Workshop, CREST-ENSAE, Paris, Using Molecular Genetic Data in Social Science Research, 19-29 November 2018, Presenter: Felix Tropf |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A growing number of social science data sources are providing molecular genetic data and researchers all over the world are interested in utilizing this information in order to better understand various social phenomena. In this course, we will learn about the history of social science and behaviour genetics as well as about the state of the art research and cutting-edge methods. After attending this workshop, participants should have a basic understanding of the fundamental advantages of integrating genetics into social science. They should understand the basic technical terms from quantitative genetics literature and be able to read and interpret studies concerning social science genetics. They should be able to conduct basic quantitative genetics analyses and interpret their findings. Participants need an interest and a basic understanding of quantitative social science research and some experience concerning the software R & Stata. We will start with a general introduction of genetics in social sciences discussing potential research questions we can answer using genetic data. We subsequently learn about the theory behind twin and family models and how to estimate heritability as the proportion of observed variance in an outcome, which is explained by genetic effects. We move on to see how heritability is measured using molecular genetic data and discuss various challenges and applications. We use Plink software to prepare genetic data and GCTA software to estimate quantitative genetic models. We will discuss how to genetic variants are discovered, which are associated with social science outcomes of interest and how we can utilize these results in social science research in terms of controlling for confounding effects, dealing with genetic heterogeneity in social science models, estimating gene-environment interaction models and using genes as instrumental variables. Substantively, we will rely on recently published genetic discovery studies on educational attainment, subjective well-being and fertility |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Workshop, GESIS Köln, Integrating molecular genetics into social science research, 11-12 October 2018, Presenter: Felix Tropf |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The purpose of this workshop week is to familiarize social scientists with genetic data and provide instruction on how to incorporate genetic information into social science analyses. All workshops offer hands-on training for researchers working at the intersection of genetics and social science research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://bga.org/workshop-behavioral-genetics-in-social-science-research/ |
Description | Workshop, GESIS, Köln, Introduction to behavioural genetics, 9-10 October 2018, presenter Felix Tropf |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The purpose of this workshop week is to familiarize social scientists with genetic data and provide instruction on how to incorporate genetic information into social science analyses. All workshops offer hands-on training for researchers working at the intersection of genetics and social science research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://bga.org/workshop-behavioral-genetics-in-social-science-research/ |
Description | Your DNA Plays A Role In How Many Children You'll Have, And When: 12 Genetic Areas Associated With Reproduction, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.medicaldaily.com/your-dna-plays-role-how-many-children-youll-have-and-when-12-genetic-are... |
Description | Your DNA Plays A Role In How Many Children You'll Have, And When: 12 Genetic Areas Associated With Reproduction, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article blog. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.medicaldaily.com/your-dna-plays-role-how-many-children-youll-have-and-when-12-genetic-are... |
Description | Your DNA may predict how many kids you will have, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.siasat.com/news/dna-may-predict-many-kids-will-1056294/ |
Description | Your DNA will decide how many kids you'll have, 3 November 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.poandpo.com/in-sickness-and-health/your-dna-will-decide-how-many-kids-youll-have-31120162... |
Description | accepted for a presentation at the 5th Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis International Conference, to be held in Crete (Greece) between the 12th and 15th of June 2018. Abstract title: "Opening up the statistical genetics toolbox to the longitudinal study of reproductive ageing", Presenter: Christodoulou, M. Authors: Christodoulou, M., Brettschneider, J., and Steinsaltz, D. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Publicity and dissemination of ESRC funded research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.smtda.net/ |
Description | expert reaction to paper identifying 12 genetic loci linked to human reproductive behaviour, 31 October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Nature Genetics 2016 article media mention. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-identifying-12-genetic-loci-linked-to-hum... |
Description | paper presentation "Opening up the statistical genetics toolbox to the longitudinal study of reproductive ageing" at 5th Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece. 12-15 June 2018. Presenters: Christodoulou, M, Brettschneider, J, Steinsaltz, D |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference (SMTDA) main objective is to welcome papers, both theoretical or practical, presenting new techniques and methodologies in the broad area of stochastic modeling and data analysis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.abep.org.br/site/index.php/noticias/599-smtda2018-5th-stochastic-modeling-techniques-and-... |
Description | presented paper at NCRM Annual Meeting "Combining social science and molecular genetic research to examine inequity and the life course" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presented paper at NCRM Annual meeting 17th - 18th january 2017: Combining social science and molecular genetic research to examine inequity and the life course |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | presented talk at NCRM The genomics Revolution , Manchester: 'Sociogenomics and the SOCGEN project' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presented talk 'Sociogenomics and the SOCGEN project' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |