Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between parental social class and mortality | Zendy

Merete Osler | Zendy; Liselotte Petersen | Zendy; Eva Prescott | Zendy; Thomas W. Teasdale | Zendy; Thorkild I. A. Sörensen | Zendy

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Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between parental social class and mortality

Author(s) -

Merete Osler,

Liselotte Petersen,

Eva Prescott,

Thomas W. Teasdale,

Thorkild I. A. Sörensen

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyl045

Subject(s) - social class , relation (database) , demography , environmental health , medicine , developmental psychology , psychology , sociology , computer science , political science , law , database

Genetic and maternal prenatal environmental factors as well as the post-natal rearing environment may contribute to the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and later mortality. In order to disentangle these influences, we studied all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of adoptees, in whom we estimated the effects of their biological and adoptive fathers' social classes as indicators of the genetic and/or prenatal environmental factors and the post-natal environment, respectively.

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