Genotyping a new, national household panel study: White paper prepared for NSF-sponsored Conference, May 2014

Dalton Conley (conley@nyu.edu)
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Dalton Conley: New York University, Postal: Departments of Sociology, Medicine and Public Policy, New York University, New York, USA.

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2015, issue 1-4, 375-395

Abstract: In this paper, I demonstrate that existing social surveys that include genotypic markers are all limited on at least one of the following dimensions: national representativeness (versus targeted sample), genotyping platform (candidate genes v. genome-wide measures), data structure (i.e. individuals v. pedigrees), or measured phenotypes (lack of rich longitudinal socioeconomic and developmental measures). Given this, I argue that the U.S. either needs a novel, nationally representative household panel study that includes genome-wide marker data or to genotype all respondents of the existing Panel Study of Income Dynamics. I conclude by showing that such a study would be adequately powered to deploy Genetic Risk Score analysis and that, in turn, such scores could be deployed to model gene-environment interaction effects.

Keywords: Genotype; G × E; national household panel; behavior genetics; Socio-genomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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