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Association of CHRM2 with IQ: converging evidence for a gene influencing intelligence.
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 2007
Dick Danielle M, Aliev Fazil, Kramer John, Wang Jen C, Hinrichs Anthony, Bertelsen Sarah, Kuperman Sam, Schuckit Marc, Nurnberger John, Edenberg Howard J, Porjesz Bernice, Begleiter Henri, Hesselbrock Victor, Goate Alison, Bierut Laura
Abstract excerpt
The cholinergic neurotransmitter system is thought to be involved in many aspects of memory, attention, and higher cognition. In the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) sample, we have previously reported linkage and association to the cholinergic muscarinic 2 receptor gene (CHRM2) on chromosome 7 with evoked EEG oscillations (Jones et al. 2004), providing evidence that this gene may be...
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