B3234 - Nurture of Nature How Genes and Environments Interact in the Formation of Skills - 09/01/2019
B number:
B3234
Principal applicant name:
Victor Andres Ronda Checchia | TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research, Aarhus University. (Denmark)
Co-applicants:
Dorthe Bleses, Michael Rosholm
Title of project:
Nurture of Nature: How Genes and Environments Interact in the Formation of Skills
Proposal summary:
The goal of our research proposal is to study the interplay between genetic influences and home and school environments in the context of child development. We aim to understand how maternal and child genes jointly determine parental investments, the role of parent-child interactions and daycare access in mediating genetic influences for skill formation, and epigenetic channels through which the childhood environment can influence childrenâs cognitive and behavioral development.
Impact of research:
This project aims to provide a better understanding of the following questions: What is the role of parental genes in the transmission of health and skills? How does the environment mediate the effect of genetic influences and how do genetic influences mediate the effects of intervention? What is the role of epigenetic changes in explaining gene-environment interactions?
Date proposal received:
Thursday, 3 January, 2019
Date proposal approved:
Wednesday, 9 January, 2019
Keywords:
Social Science, Behaviour - e.g. antisocial behaviour, risk behaviour, etc., Speech/language problem, Statistical methods, Childhood - childcare, childhood adversity, Cognition - cognitive function, Speech and language, Development, Epigenetics, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligence - memory, Parenting, Psychology - personality, Social science