Tiago Hermenegildo, Heiko Prümers, Carla Jaimes Betancourt, Patrick Roberts, Tamsin C. O’Connell
{"title":"Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon","authors":"Tiago Hermenegildo, Heiko Prümers, Carla Jaimes Betancourt, Patrick Roberts, Tamsin C. O’Connell","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02101-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02101-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 3","pages":"625-625"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02101-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chun Shen, Ruohan Zhang, Jintai Yu, Barbara J. Sahakian, Wei Cheng, Jianfeng Feng
{"title":"Plasma proteomic signatures of social isolation and loneliness associated with morbidity and mortality","authors":"Chun Shen, Ruohan Zhang, Jintai Yu, Barbara J. Sahakian, Wei Cheng, Jianfeng Feng","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02078-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02078-1","url":null,"abstract":"The biology underlying the connection between social relationships and health is largely unknown. Here, leveraging data from 42,062 participants across 2,920 plasma proteins in the UK Biobank, we characterized the proteomic signatures of social isolation and loneliness through proteome-wide association study and protein co-expression network analysis. Proteins linked to these constructs were implicated in inflammation, antiviral responses and complement systems. More than half of these proteins were prospectively linked to cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and mortality during a 14 year follow-up. Moreover, Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis suggested causal relationships from loneliness to five proteins, with two proteins (ADM and ASGR1) further supported by colocalization. These MR-identified proteins (GFRA1, ADM, FABP4, TNFRSF10A and ASGR1) exhibited broad associations with other blood biomarkers, as well as volumes in brain regions involved in interoception and emotional and social processes. Finally, the MR-identified proteins partly mediated the relationship between loneliness and cardiovascular diseases, stroke and mortality. The exploration of the peripheral physiology through which social relationships influence morbidity and mortality is timely and has potential implications for public health. Shen et al. characterize protein signatures in the blood associated with social isolation and loneliness, demonstrating how these link social isolation and loneliness to an increased risk of disease and mortality.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 3","pages":"569-583"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02078-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gene-level analysis reveals the genetic aetiology and therapeutic targets of schizophrenia","authors":"Xinglun Dang, Zhaowei Teng, Yongfeng Yang, Wenqiang Li, Jiewei Liu, Li Hui, Dongsheng Zhou, Daohua Gong, Shan-Shan Dai, Yifan Li, Xingxing Li, Luxian Lv, Yong Zeng, Yonggui Yuan, Xiancang Ma, Zhongchun Liu, Tao Li, Xiong-Jian Luo","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02091-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02091-4","url":null,"abstract":"Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reported multiple risk loci for schizophrenia (SCZ). However, the majority of the associations were from populations of European ancestry. Here we conducted a large-scale GWAS in Eastern Asian populations (29,519 cases and 44,392 controls) and identified ten Eastern Asian-specific risk loci, two of which have not been previously reported. A further cross-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis (96,806 cases and 492,818 controls) including populations from diverse ancestries identified 61 previously unreported risk loci. Systematic variant-level analysis, including fine mapping, functional genomics and expression quantitative trait loci, prioritized potential causal variants. Gene-level analyses, including transcriptome-wide association study, proteome-wide association study and Mendelian randomization, nominated the potential causal genes. By integrating evidence from layers of different analyses, we prioritized the most plausible causal genes for SCZ, such as ACE, CNNM2, SNAP91, ABCB9 and GATAD2A. Finally, drug repurposing showed that ACE, CA14, MAPK3 and MAPT are potential therapeutic targets for SCZ. Our study not only showed the power of cross-ancestry GWAS in deciphering the genetic aetiology of SCZ, but also uncovered new genetic risk loci, potential causal variants and genes and therapeutic targets for SCZ. Luo et al. identify schizophrenia risk loci in East Asians and uncover potential causal genes and therapeutic targets through cross-ancestry GWAS, fine mapping and functional genomics, offering insights into the genetic basis of schizophrenia.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 3","pages":"609-624"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142917085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distractor-specific control adaptation in multidimensional environments","authors":"Davide Gheza, Wouter Kool","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02088-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02088-z","url":null,"abstract":"Goal-directed behaviour requires humans to constantly manage and switch between multiple, independent and conflicting sources of information. Conventional cognitive control tasks, however, only feature one task and one source of distraction. Therefore, it is unclear how control is allocated in multidimensional environments. To address this question, we developed a multidimensional task-set interference paradigm, in which people need to manage distraction from three independent dimensions. We use this task to test whether people adapt to previous conflict by enhancing task-relevant information or suppressing task-irrelevant information. Three experiments provided strong evidence for the latter hypothesis. Moreover, control adaptation was highly dimension specific. Conflict from a given dimension only affected processing of that same dimension on subsequent trials, with no evidence for generalization. A new neural network model shows that our results can only be simulated when including multiple independent conflict-detector units. Our results call for an update to classic models of cognitive control and their neurocomputational underpinnings. Gheza and Kool show that, in multidimensional environments, people allocate attention to individual distractors on the basis of their interference with the current task. They develop a neural model that supports these findings and suggest that cognitive control theories need to be revised.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 3","pages":"534-553"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142917046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lack of diffusion of popular scientific ideas marks the presence of epistemic ‘bubbles’","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02042-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02042-z","url":null,"abstract":"Using a machine-learning framework to study the diffusion of biomedical knowledge in the literature, we find that scientific ideas experience popularity booms and busts when knowledge diffusion is constricted, which leads to adverse consequences for science and scientists. Our work highlights the need for research to have an effect on diverse audiences to achieve sustained scientific advancement.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 2","pages":"250-251"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02058-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02058-5","url":null,"abstract":"We integrated multiomics data to identify genetic targets and pathways involved in problematic alcohol use, which highlighted potential therapeutic targets and emphasized the need for tailored, gene-specific treatment strategies for effective intervention and the prevention of alcohol-related disorders.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 1","pages":"26-27"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing calorie labels in restaurants in England did not change customer behaviour","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02069-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02069-2","url":null,"abstract":"We examined whether the introduction of a calorie labelling policy in England was associated with a change in calories consumed in the out-of-home food sector. Our findings suggest that the introduction of the policy was not associated with a significant decrease in calories purchased or consumed.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 2","pages":"252-253"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle Degli Esposti, Zainab Hans, Elyse Thulin, Esther L. Hibbs, Rebeccah L. Sokol
{"title":"The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence","authors":"Michelle Degli Esposti, Zainab Hans, Elyse Thulin, Esther L. Hibbs, Rebeccah L. Sokol","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02095-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02095-0","url":null,"abstract":"In 2023, four US news media outlets gave disproportionately high coverage to rare homicidal events perpetrated by strangers, including mass and school shootings, yet covered disproportionately few of the more common types of firearm violence, such as domestic violence. We call for responsible media coverage of firearm incidents to realign reporting to reality.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 2","pages":"234-236"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evelina T. Akimova, Tobias Wolfram, Xuejie Ding, Felix C. Tropf, Melinda C. Mills
{"title":"Polygenic prediction of occupational status GWAS elucidates genetic and environmental interplay in intergenerational transmission, careers and health in UK Biobank","authors":"Evelina T. Akimova, Tobias Wolfram, Xuejie Ding, Felix C. Tropf, Melinda C. Mills","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02076-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02076-3","url":null,"abstract":"Socioeconomic status (SES) impacts health and life-course outcomes. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) of sociologically informed occupational status measures (ISEI, SIOPS, CAMSIS) using the UK Biobank (N = 273,157) identified 106 independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms of which 8 are novel to the study of SES. Genetic correlations with educational attainment (rg = 0.96–0.97) and income (rg = 0.81–0.91) point to a common genetic factor for SES. We observed a 54–57% reduction in within-family predictions compared with population-based predictions, attributed to indirect parental effects (22–27% attenuation) and assortative mating (21–27%) following our calculations. Using polygenic scores from population predictions of 5–10% (incremental R2 = 0.023–0.097 across different approaches and occupational status measures), we showed that (1) cognitive and non-cognitive traits, including scholastic and occupational motivation and aspiration, link polygenic scores to occupational status and (2) 62% of the intergenerational transmission of occupational status cannot be ascribed to genetic inheritance of common variants but other factors such as family environments. Finally, links between genetics, occupation, career trajectory and health are interrelated with parental occupational status. This genome-wide association study of occupational status in UK Biobank identified 106 genetic variants. Results highlight the role of family environment, childhood educational and occupational aspirations, and links to health.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 2","pages":"391-405"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02076-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142874432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Takahiro Yabe, Bernardo García Bulle Bueno, Morgan R. Frank, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
{"title":"Behaviour-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience","authors":"Takahiro Yabe, Bernardo García Bulle Bueno, Morgan R. Frank, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro","doi":"10.1038/s41562-024-02072-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-024-02072-7","url":null,"abstract":"Disruptions, such as closures of businesses during pandemics, not only affect businesses and amenities directly but also influence how people move, spreading the impact to other businesses and increasing the overall economic shock. However, it is unclear how much businesses depend on each other during disruptions. Leveraging human mobility data and same-day visits in five US cities, we quantify dependencies between points of interest encompassing businesses, stores and amenities. We find that dependency networks computed from human mobility exhibit significantly higher rates of long-distance connections and biases towards specific pairs of point-of-interest categories. We show that using behaviour-based dependency relationships improves the predictability of business resilience during shocks by around 40% compared with distance-based models, and that neglecting behaviour-based dependencies can lead to underestimation of the spatial cascades of disruptions. Our findings underscore the importance of measuring complex relationships in patterns of human mobility to foster urban economic resilience to shocks. Yabe and colleagues use human mobility data to identify dependencies in visitation patterns between places in cities, with unexpected prevalence at long-distance connections. Leveraging this network enhances the accuracy of predicting business resilience during shocks.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 3","pages":"496-506"},"PeriodicalIF":21.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02072-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142874429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}