Recent research has revealed a new way to examine the effect of genetics on educational outcomes. Scientists have studied a population-wide gene-environment interaction between genetic variants and school quality to determine the impact of genetics on educational attainment. The research was conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow, and the results were published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

The study examined data from over 375,000 people in the UK Biobank, and found that the effect of genetic variants on educational attainment was largely dependent on the quality of school attended. The team found that genetic variants associated with educational attainment were more strongly associated with higher educational outcomes when the person attended a school with higher quality. This suggests that the environment in which a person is educated has a major influence on educational outcomes.

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source: Phys.org