Development · Behavioural genetics
Can Childhood Development Reveal Genetic Patterns?
What early movement and behavioural variation can—and cannot—tell researchers about genetic influences, without reducing children to their genes.
Development involves complex interactions among genes, environment and experience. Early movement and behavioural trajectories can be studied as developmental traits without defining an individual by a genetic score.
Most traits are polygenic and strongly context dependent; prediction at the group level does not imply reliable prediction for a particular child.
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