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A gene-brain-cognition pathway: prefrontal activity mediates the effect of COMT on cognitive control and IQ.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 1 Mar 2013
Green Adam E, Kraemer David J M, Deyoung Colin G, Fossella John A, Gray Jeremy R
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A core thesis of cognitive neurogenetic research is that genetic effects on cognitive ability are mediated by specific neural functions, however, demonstrating neural mediation has proved elusive. Pairwise relationships between genetic variation and brain function have yielded heterogeneous findings to date. This heterogeneity indicates that a multiple mediator modeling approach may be useful to account for...
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