As part of a genome wide association study (GWAS) it has become common practice to find traits genetically correlated to your trait of interest. The goal for these type of analyses is generally to better understand the ethiology of a trait. This is also done in this GWAS of social outcomes by Hill et al.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5130721/)
Their GWAS of social deprivation, and income, and uses LD score regression to correlate these traits to several other traits. High genetic correlations exist betweem income and edicationa attainment and between income and ADHD.
A very obvious follow up question would be whether ADHD effects income directly, or whether the relation between income and ADHD is mediated by education. Perhaps the effects of ADHD on income are entirely attributable to a reduction in educational attainment caused by ADHD. We are going to fit a model to try and awnser this question.
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