Pleiotropy across academic subjects at the end of compulsory education - Scientific Reports

Academic achievement at the end of compulsory education is of major societal interest and is critical for students because the exam results play a substantial role in making decisions about further education and employment. Furthermore, educational achievement has been shown to be an independent predictor of many life outcomes, including career success, health and even life expectancy1,2. It is re

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“ demonstrating that genes explain a larger proportion of the individual differences (54–65%) than shared environmental factors, such as home and school environment combined (14–21%)”

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“Research has shown that genes play an important role in educational achievement. A key question is the extent to which the same genes affect different academic subjects before and after controlling for general intelligence. The present study investigated genetic and environmental influences on, a