PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Philipp D. Koellinger
AU  - Aysu Okbay
AU  - Hyeokmoon Kweon
AU  - Annemarie Schweinert
AU  - Richard Karlsson Linnér
AU  - Jan Goebel
AU  - David Richter
AU  - Lisa Reiber
AU  - Bettina Maria Zweck
AU  - Daniel W. Belsky
AU  - Pietro Biroli
AU  - Rui Mata
AU  - Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
AU  - K. Paige Harden
AU  - Gert Wagner
AU  - Ralph Hertwig
TI  - Cohort Profile: Genetic data in the German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (Gene-SOEP)
AID  - 10.1101/2021.11.06.467573
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2021.11.06.467573
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/11/10/2021.11.06.467573.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/11/10/2021.11.06.467573.full
AB  - The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) serves a global research community by providing representative annual longitudinal data of private households in Germany. The sample provides a detailed life course perspective based on a rich collection of information about living conditions, socio-economic status, family relationships, personality, values, preferences, and health. We collected genetic data from 2,598 individuals in the SOEP Innovation Sample, yielding the first genotyped sample that is representative of the entire German population (Gene-SOEP). The Gene-SOEP sample is a longitudinal study that includes 107 full-sibling pairs, 501 parent-offspring pairs, and 152 parent-offspring trios that are overlapping with the parent-offspring pairs. We constructed a repository of 66 polygenic indices in the Gene-SOEP sample based on results from well-powered genome-wide association studies. The Gene-SOEP data provides a valuable resource to study individual differences, inequalities, life-course development, health, and interactions between genetic predispositions and environment.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.