Heritability & individual differences › Genetic confounding
Term
Genetic confounding
A situation in which an apparently environmental predictor and an outcome correlate partly because genetic differences influence both.
Context
Evidence & provenance
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Further reading
- PubMed search for “Genetic confounding”
- Google Scholar search for “Genetic confounding”
- When comparing findings, inspect population, design, effect size, uncertainty, selection, and whether the inference is within-person, between-person, predictive, or causal.
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