Hillclimb-Causal Inference: a data-driven approach to identify causal pathways among parental behaviors, genetic risk, and externalizing behaviors in children.

Parental behaviors exert larger effects on children's externalizing outcomes than genetic risk, suggesting potential targets for prevention and intervention. The Hillclimb-Causal framework provides a general, data-driven way to map causal pathways in developmental psychiatry and related domains.