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Molecular Genetic Contributions to Social Deprivation and Household Income in UK Biobank.
Current biology : CB - 21 Nov 2016
Hill W David, Hagenaars Saskia P, Marioni Riccardo E, Harris Sarah E, Liewald David C M, Davies Gail, Okbay Aysu, McIntosh Andrew M, Gale Catharine R, Deary Ian J
Abstract excerpt
Individuals with lower socio-economic status (SES) are at increased risk of physical and mental illnesses and tend to die at an earlier age [1-3]. Explanations for the association between SES and health typically focus on factors that are environmental in origin [4]. However, common SNPs have been found collectively to explain around 18% of the phenotypic variance of an area-based social deprivation measure of...
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