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. 2021 Oct 11;52(1):1–12. doi: 10.1007/s10519-021-10085-5

Table 2.

Main effects of polygenic scores on victimisation at 13 years (i.e. gene-environment correlation)

PT Main effects of depression-polygenic scoresa Main effects of wellbeing-polygenic scoresa
Beta (CI) P ΔR2 Beta (CI) P ΔR2
5 × 108 0.095 (-0.009, 0.198) 0.073 0.14% − 0.125 (− 0.230, − 0.020) 0.020 0.24%
1 × 106 0.124 (0.019, 0.228) 0.020 0.24% − 0.129 (− 0.235, − 0.023) 0.017 0.26%
1 × 104 0.159 (0.053, 0.265) 0.003 0.38% − 0.171 (− 0.276, − 0.065) 0.002 0.45%
0.001 0.123 (0.017, 0.229) 0.022 0.23% − 0.116 (− 0.222, − 0.010) 0.032 0.21%
0.01 0.161 (0.058, 0.263) 0.002 0.42% − 0.128 (− 0.232, − 0.023) 0.017 0.26%
0.1 0.143 (0.041, 0.245) 0.006 0.34% − 0.097 (− 0.202, 0.008) 0.070 0.15%
0.2 0.161 (0.057, 0.262) 0.002 0.41% − 0.077 (− 0.182, 0.028) 0.151 0.09%
0.3 0.163 (0.059, 0.266) 0.002 0.42% − 0.065 (− 0.170, 0.041) 0.228 0.07%
0.4 0.162 (0.058, 0.265) 0.002 0.42% − 0.057 (− 0.163, 0.049) 0.292 0.05%
0.5 0.159 (0.056, 0.263) 0.003 0.41% − 0.059 (− 0.165, 0.047) 0.274 0.05%
1 0.157 (0.053, 0.260) 0.003 0.39% − 0.058 (− 0.163, 0.048) 0.284 0.05%

Text in bold denotes p < 0.05

PT = p-value threshold of the polygenic score. ΔR2 represents the incremental R2. This is the percentage of variance explained by the polygenic risk score. The incremental R2 was calculated by regressing victimisation on sex and the first two principal components of ancestry, and then including the polygenic scores and comparing the variance explained

aLinear regression models were used to separately investigate the main effects of the depression-polygenic scores and wellbeing-polygenic scores on victimisation among individuals with complete victimisation and mental health data (n = 2232). To account for possible effects of population stratification, models controlled for two principal components and sex