2022
Young, A. I., Nehzati, S. M., Benonisdottir, S., et al. Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes improves estimates of direct genetic effects.
Nature Genetics 54, 897–905
Founded 2011
Social Science Genetic Association Consortium
The SSGAC is a cooperative enterprise among medical researchers and social scientists that coordinates genetic association studies for social science outcomes and provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas. The SSGAC also promotes the collection of harmonized and well-measured phenotypes.
The consortium in numbers
29
publications
47
phenotypes in the PGI Repository
11
datasets in the PGI Repository
100+
contributing cohorts
Current initiatives
Within-family GWAS of multiple phenotypes
Ongoing updates of the Polygenic Index Repository
Developing methods for multi-ancestry genetic analysis
Developing methods to estimate assortative mating
Please contact us if you are interested in joining these initiatives.
Recent publications
All publications2022
Okbay, A., et al. Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals.
Nature Genetics 54, 437–449
2021
Becker, J., et al. Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository.
Nature Human Behaviour 5, 1744–1758
Responsible communication
We publish plain-language FAQs alongside every major paper
Our findings are easy to misreport. Each FAQ document sets out the background, the study design and results, and the social and ethical implications, for readers outside the field.