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Genome-wide scan of IQ finds significant linkage to a quantitative trait locus on 2q.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Luciano M, Wright M J, Duffy D L, Wainwright M A, Zhu G, Evans D M, Geffen G M, Montgomery G W, Martin N G
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A genome-wide linkage scan of 795 microsatellite markers (761 autosomal, 34 X chromosome) was performed on Multidimensional Aptitude Battery subtests and verbal, performance and full scale scores, the WAIS-R Digit Symbol subtest, and two word-recognition tests (Schonell Graded Word Reading Test, Cambridge Contextual Reading Test) highly predictive of IQ. The sample included 361 families comprising 2-5 siblings...
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