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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Genetic and environmental influences on the relation between parental social class and mortality

AU - Osler, Merete

AU - Petersen, L.

AU - Prescott, Eva Irene Bossano

AU - Teasdale, Thomas William

AU - Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1093/ije/dyl045

DO - 10.1093/ije/dyl045

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 16551770

SN - 0300-5771

VL - 35

SP - 1272

EP - 1277

JO - International Journal of Epidemiology

JF - International Journal of Epidemiology

IS - 5

ER -