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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2023

Causal complexity in human research: On the shared challenges of behavior genetics, medical genetics, and environmentally oriented social science.

James W Madole, K Paige Harden

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Causal interpretations of family GWAS in the presence of heterogeneous effects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

James W MadoleDepartment of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA jmadole@utexas.edu harden@utexas.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2301-0004
K Paige HardenDepartment of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA jmadole@utexas.edu harden@utexas.edu.

Funding

Scientific & Technical CoreP2CHD042849 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI MARK D. HAYWARD · 2017 to 2026
$5.2M
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development P2CHD042849
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We received 23 spirited commentaries on our target article from across the disciplines of philosophy, economics, evolutionary genetics, molecular biology, criminology, epidemiology, and law. We organize our reply around three overarching questions: (1) What is a cause? (2) How are randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and within-family genome-wide association studies (GWASs) alike and unalike? (3) Is behavior genetics a qualitatively different enterprise? Throughout our discussion of these questions, we advocate for the idea that behavior genetics shares many of the same pitfalls and promises as environmentally oriented research, medical genetics, and other arenas of the social and behavioral sciences.

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Genetics, MedicalBiological EvolutionHumansSocial Sciences

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PMID37694936

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