| ▲ | michaelt 8 days ago | |
> Individuals who leave coal mining areas carry more EA-increasing alleles on average than those in the rest of Great Britain. To what extent can we tell this apart from the fact almost every university student leaves their hometown, to attend university? | ||
| ▲ | dash2 8 days ago | parent [-] | |
That is an extremely good question. It's certainly part of it. I don't know if we ever divided the subjects up by university degree, but one could do that. IIRC this paper looks at Estonia and finds that even within different levels of educational attainment (e.g. university degree) people with higher EA polygenic scores are more likely to move to the capital: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2025/05/18/202... | ||