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No association between general cognitive ability and rare copy number variation.
Behavior genetics - 1 May 2013
McRae Allan F, Wright Margaret J, Hansell Narelle K, Montgomery Grant W, Martin Nicholas G
Abstract excerpt
There is increasing evidence for the role of rare copy-number variation (CNV) in the development of neuropsychiatric disorders. It is likely that such variants also have an effect on the variation of cognition in what is considered the "normal" phenotypic range. The role of rare CNV (>20 KB in length; frequency <5 %) on general cognitive ability is investigated in a sample of 800 individuals (mean age = 16.5, SD...
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