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Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age.
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The stratified design of our study also allowed for examination of the genetic etiology of AGG in subsets of the data and examination of genetic correlations among raters. We found a high genetic correlation between AGGMother and AGGTeacher (rg = 0.81; SE = 0.11). However, the 95% confidence interval covers 1, which makes these results hard to reconcile with previous findings of rater-specific additive genetic effects in childhood AGG [47]. Most external phenotypes showed comparable rgs with mother-, self-, and teacher-reported AGG. For ADHD, ASD, MDD, schizophrenia, well-being, and self-reported health, rgs differed significantly across raters. Weaker rgs were consistently found in teacher-reported AGG compared to mother- and self-reported AGG. These findings indicate the presence of rater-specific effects when considering the genetic correlation of AGG with other outcomes. rgs are generally stronger in the psychopathology and psychological domains. A lack of power, however, seems insufficient to explain why we found weaker rgs between AGGTeacher and phenotypes from these two domains. Other phenotypes, like smoking behavior, educational attainment or age at first birth, are, like psychopathological phenotypes, highly genetically correlated with