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Often wrong, sometimes useful: Including polygenic scores in social science research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2023

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Jason Fletcher*
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Center for Demography of Health and Aging, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA jason.fletcher@wisc.edu
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Abstract

This commentary seeks to briefly outline a clear-eyed middle ground between Burt's claims that the inclusion of polygenic scores (PGSs) is essentially useless for social science and proponents' vast overstatements and over-interpretations of these scores. Current practice of including PGSs in social science is often wrong but sometimes useful.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e213
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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