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Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 1 Nov 2025

Benning John W, Carlson Jedidiah, Smith Olivia S, Shaw Ruth G, Harpak Arbel

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The scientific literature has seen a resurgence of interest in genetic influences on human behaviour and socioeconomic outcomes. Such studies face the central difficulty of distinguishing possible causal influences, in particular genetic and non-genetic ones. When confounding between possible influences is not rigorously addressed, it invites over- and misinterpretation of data. We illustrate the breadth of this...

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PMID: 41190516
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1615
PMCID: PMC12587318

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