The Genome Factor: Reporting Back from the Field on the Ongoing Integration of Genetics & Social Science

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Speaker: Jason Fletcher, Professor of Public Affairs; Faculty affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This presentation will survey some of the approaches that social and health scientists are using to integrate genetic findings and data to ask new questions about social, health, and demographic processes. One focus will be on the creation and use of polygenic scores in health and social science research.