Genetic Variation Associated with Differential Educational Attainment in Adults Has Anticipated Associations with School Performance in Children

• Mary E. Ward,

  Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• George McMahon,

  Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Beate St Pourcain,

  Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• David M. Evans,

  Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Cornelius A. Rietveld,

  Affiliations Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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• Daniel J. Benjamin,

  Affiliation Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Philipp D. Koellinger,

  Affiliations Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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• David Cesarini,

  Affiliations Center for Experimental Social Science, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

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• The Social Science Genetic Association Consortium,
• George Davey Smith,

  Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Nicholas J. Timpson

  * E-mail: n.j.timpson@bris.ac.uk

  Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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