Article
The impact of self-report inaccuracy in the UK Biobank and its interplay with selective participation.
Nature human behaviour - 1 Mar 2025
Schoeler Tabea, Pingault Jean-Baptiste, Kutalik Zoltán
Abstract excerpt
Although the use of short self-report measures is common practice in biobank initiatives, such a phenotyping strategy is inherently prone to reporting errors. To explore challenges related to self-report errors, we first derived a reporting error score in the UK Biobank (UKBB; n = 73,127), capturing inconsistent self-reporting in time-invariant phenotypes across multiple measurement occasions. We then performed...
Topics
- Humans
- United Kingdom
- Self Report
- Biological Specimen Banks
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Reproducibility of Results
- Male
- Female
- Phenotype
- Adult
- Middle Aged
