The Genes We Inherit and Those We Don't: Maternal Genetic Nurture and Child BMI Trajectories.

Behavior Genetics
Justin D TubbsPak C Sham

Abstract

Recently, methods have been introduced using polygenic scores (PGS) to estimate the effects of genetic nurture, the environmentally-mediated effects of parental genotypes on the phenotype of their child above and beyond the effects of the alleles which are transmitted to the child. We introduce a simplified model for estimating genetic nurture effects and show, through simulation and analytical derivation, that our method provides unbiased estimates and offers an increase in power to detect genetic nurture of up to 1/3 greater than that of previous methods. Subsequently, we apply this method to data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children to estimate the effects of maternal genetic nurture on childhood body mass index (BMI) trajectories. Through mixed modeling, we observe a statistically significant age-dependent effect of maternal PGS on child BMI, such that the influence of maternal genetic nurture appears to increase throughout development.

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