Jason D. Boardman

The paper uses polygenic scores to show that students from advantaged schools are more likely to take advanced math courses and persist in math, while disadvantaged schools track fewer high-potential students into advanced math.

GWAS in over one million individuals identify 611 loci across risk tolerance and risky behaviors, revealing shared genetic architecture and implicating glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission.

This study conducts a trans-ancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence, identifying genetic variants and correlations with psychiatric disorders.

The paper examines whether genetic confounding explains the link between father absence and accelerated reproductive development in young women, finding limited support for the hypothesis.

The paper examines genetic similarities between friends and schoolmates using longitudinal health data, finding that social forces contribute to genetic correlation rather than individual selection.

The paper introduces a family-based method to identify variance-controlling loci (vQTLs) that influence phenotypic variation, showing improved performance over existing methods in the presence of confounding.