Welcome to the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC).

The SSGAC is a cooperative enterprise among medical researchers and social scientists that coordinates genetic association studies for social science outcomes and provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas. The SSGAC also tries to promote the collection of harmonized and well-measured phenotypes.

Click here to learn about the 2018 Polygenic Prediction and its Application in Social Science Conference

Recent Events: Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics, 2021

Current Initiatives

The SSGAC is currently conducting:

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  • Large-scale GWAS meta-analysis of educational attainment (EA4)

  • Within-family GWAS of multiple phenotypes

  • Ongoing updates of the Polygenic Index Repository

 

Please contact us if you are interested in joining these initiatives.

SSGAC in the News

"Many Genes Play a Role in Educational Attainment, Enormous Genetic Study Finds"

The New York Times. July 23, 2018

 

"Why Study the Genetics of Staying in School?"  

The Atlantic. July 23, 2018.

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Data

To locate and download summary data from past studies of the SSGAC, click the link below. 

Check us out on Twitter: @thessgac

 

Acknowledgments

 

For financial support, the SSGAC thanks the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Aging, and the Office for Behavioral and Social Science Research), the Open Philanthropy Project, the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, the European Research Council, and the Pershing Square Fund of the Foundations of Human Behavior.

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