Eivind Ystrom

Jul 17, 2024 | nature.com | Amanda Hughes |Fartein Ask Torvik |Elsje van Bergen |Elizabeth C Corfield |Ole A. Andreassen |Eivind Ystrom | +3 more

AbstractChildren born to parents with fewer years of education are more likely to have depression, anxiety, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but it is unclear to what extent these associations are causal. We estimated the effect of parents’ educational attainment on children’s depressive, anxiety, and ADHD traits at age 8 years, in a sample of 40,879 Norwegian children born in 1998–2009 and their parents.

Mar 18, 2023 | nature.com | Eshim S. Jami |Anke R Hammerschlag |Hannah Sallis |Ole A. Andreassen |Pål R. Njølstad |David Evans | +3 more

AbstractParental genes may indirectly influence offspring psychiatric outcomes through the environment that parents create for their children. These indirect genetic effects, also known as genetic nurture, could explain individual differences in common internalising and externalising psychiatric symptoms during childhood. Advanced statistical genetic methods leverage data from families to estimate the overall contribution of parental genetic nurture effects.