Results of a "GWAS plus:" general cognitive ability is substantially heritable and massively polygenic.

Results of a "GWAS plus:" general cognitive ability is substantially heritable and massively polygenic.

We carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for general cognitive ability (GCA) plus three other analyses of GWAS data that aggregate the effects of multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in various ways. Our multigenerational sample comprised 7,100 Caucasian participants, drawn f...

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Main Authors: Robert M Kirkpatrick, Matt McGue, William G Iacono, Michael B Miller, Saonli Basu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4226546?pdf=render

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