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Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health (MaxHel)

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Genetic Factors

Conducted by Mikko Myrskylä; Christian Dudel, Pekka Martikainen

We use novel approaches such as Mendelian randomization to assess how poor health and social disadvantage run in families, building on the unique data infrastructure of MaxHel that combines population registers with genetic information. Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Aging, Mortality and Longevity, Family Behavior, Health Care, Public Health, Medicine, and Epidemiology, Life Course

Region keywords:

Finland

Publications

Lahtinen, H.; Martikainen, P.; Korhonen, K.; Morris, T. T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational tracking and the polygenic prediction of education

Sociological Science 11:8, 186–213. (2024)

Lahtinen, H.; Korhonen, K.; Martikainen, P.; Morris, T. T.:

Polygenic prediction of education and its role in the intergenerational transmission of education: cohort changes among Finnish men and women born in 1925–1989

Demography 60:5, 1523–1547. (2023)

Lahtinen, H.; Martikainen, P.; Korhonen, K.; Morris, T. T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational tracking and the polygenic prediction of education

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-015. (2023)

Silventoinen, K.; Lahtinen, H.; Smith, G. D.; Morris, T. T.; Martikainen, P.:

Height, social position and coronary heart disease incidence: the contribution of genetic and environmental factors

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 77:6, 384–390. (2023)

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