Associations Between Polygenic Scores for Cognitive and Non-cognitive Factors of Educational Attainment and Measures of Behavior, Psychopathology, and Neuroimaging in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

Background: Both cognitive and non-cognitive (e.g., traits like curiosity) factors are critical for social and emotional functioning and independently predict educational attainment. These factors are heritable and genetically correlated with a range of health-relevant traits and behaviors in adulthood (e.g., risk-taking, psychopathology). However, whether these associations are present during adolescence, and to what extent these relationships diverge, could have implications for adolescent health and well-being.

Methods: Using data from 5,517 youth of European ancestry from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM Study, we examined associations between polygenic scores (PGS) for cognitive and non-cognitive factors and outcomes related to cognition, socioeconomic status, risk tolerance and decision-making, substance initiation, psychopathology, and brain structure.

Results: Cognitive and non-cognitive PGSs were both positively associated with cognitive performance and family income, and negatively associated with ADHD and severity of psychotic-like experiences. The cognitive PGS was also associated with greater risk-taking, delayed discounting, and anorexia, as well as lower likelihood of nicotine initiation. The cognitive PGS was further associated with cognition scores and anorexia in within-sibling analyses, suggesting these results do not solely reflect the effects of assortative mating or passive gene-environment correlations. The cognitive PGS showed significantly stronger associations with cortical volumes than the non-cognitive PGS and was associated with right hemisphere caudal anterior cingulate and pars-orbitalis in within-sibling analyses, while the non-cognitive PGS showed stronger associations with white matter fractional anisotropy and a significant within-sibling association for right superior corticostriate-frontal cortex.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that PGSs for cognitive and non-cognitive factors show similar associations with cognition and socioeconomic status as well as other psychosocial outcomes, but distinct associations with regional neural phenotypes in this adolescent sample.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences - (2023) vom: 28. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gorelik, Aaron J [VerfasserIn]
Paul, Sarah E [VerfasserIn]
Miller, Alex P [VerfasserIn]
Baranger, David A A [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Shuyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Elsayed, Nourhan M [VerfasserIn]
Modi, Hailey [VerfasserIn]
Addala, Pooja [VerfasserIn]
Bijsterbosch, Janine [VerfasserIn]
Barch, Deanna M [VerfasserIn]
Karcher, Nicole R [VerfasserIn]
Hatoum, Alexander S [VerfasserIn]
Agrawal, Arpana [VerfasserIn]
Bogdan, Ryan [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Emma C [VerfasserIn]

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Academic achievement
Cognitive performance
Educational attainment
Middle childhood
Neuroimaging
Polygenic scores
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Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1101/2023.10.27.23297675

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NLM364533544