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NIH Sep 21, 2021 | K01
The Geneticization of Education: ethical, social, and policy implications of polygenic scores for educational attainment
Institution: New York State Psychiatric Institute
FOA Number: PA-20-190
Abstract
Project Narrative This proposal seeks to investigate the ethical, social, and policy implications of a new kind of genetic information currently available to the public: polygenic scores for educational attainment (EA-PGS). The proposal includes a research plan to 1) qualitatively investigate individuals who have received EA-PGS results via direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing, 2) quantitatively investigate how exposure to EA-PGS research in popular media influences attitudes about educational disparities in the US, and 3) develop an ethical framework on the potential harms and benefits of EA-PGS. The proposal includes a career development plan for the PI to complete training and coursework in qualitative methods, quantitative methods, and bioethics.
FUNDING AGENCY:
Funder:
NIHInstitute:
NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTEFunding Type:
K01Project Number:
K01HG011683Start Date:
Sep 21, 2021End Date:
Jun 30, 2026PROJECT TERMS:
Address, Alzheimer's disease risk, Attitude, Behavior, Behavioral Genetics, behavioral outcome, Belief, Bioethics, Birth, Blood specimen, Breast, Cardiovascular system, career, career development, Caring, Child, Complex, Consultations, coping, Data, Databases, design, Development, Development Plans, Diabetes Mellitus, differences in access, Disclosure, Disease, DNA, Dyslexia, Education, Empirical Research, ethical legal social implication, Ethics, exercise capacity, experience, Exposure to, Funding, General Population, Genetic, genetic information, genetic predictors, Genetic Risk, genetic testing, genetic variant, Genome, Genomics, Goals, Household, Human, Human Genetics, improved, Income, Individual, intelligence genetics, interest, Intervention, Interview, Investigation, Mainstreaming, mathematical ability, Mediating, Medical, Medicine, Mental Depression, Mentors, Methods, Outcome, Parents, Patients, Performance, Philosophy, Policies, policy implication, precision medicine, psychosocial, Qualitative Methods, Qualitative Research, Race, racial and ethnic disparities, racial difference, Randomized, Reading, reading ability, Recommendation, Recording of previous events, Research, Research Personnel, Research Proposals, Risk, Saliva, Scholarship, Schools, Science, Scientist, skills, smartphone Application, social, social implication, Students, Sum, Surveys, Symptoms, Techniques, Testing, Time, Traction, Training, United States National Institutes of Health, Universities, web site