The similarities across raters and countries indicate that large-scale gene-finding efforts of aggressive behaviour and its co-occurring psychopathologies across multiple cohorts will be feasible/successful. Such an effort is currently in progress within the ACTION consortium in collaboration with other cohorts and consortia that have collected measures of aggression in children as well as DNA samples for genotyping [32]. The results of this international genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) are expected to yield insight into the genetic variants that influence aggression across childhood and offer possibilities for the construction of polygenic scores which may be used in prediction models [33, 34] and gene-environment modelling [35]. Besides a GWAMA approach, which includes samples from multiple age groups, genome-wide epigenetic profiling will be done to compare methylation in several statistically well-powered contrasts (such as genetically identical twin pairs discordant for aggression) in children. Monozygotic (MZ) twins pairs who are longitudinally discordant of aggression, also offer a unique possibility to gain an understanding of the environmental risk factors associated with complex behaviour such as aggression [36].
