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

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112390

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

PloS one - 1 Jan 2014

Kirkpatrick Robert M, McGue Matt, Iacono William G, Miller Michael B, Basu Saonli

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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 from two longitudinal family studies, who had been assessed with an age-appropriate IQ test and had provided DNA...

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

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