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Age-Dependent Pleiotropy Between General Cognitive Function and Major Psychiatric Disorders.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Aug 2016
Hill W David, Davies Gail, Liewald David C, McIntosh Andrew M, Deary Ian J
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BACKGROUND: General cognitive function predicts psychiatric illness across the life course. This study examines the role of pleiotropy in explaining the link between cognitive function and psychiatric disorder. METHODS: We used two large genome-wide association study data sets on cognitive function-one from older age, n = 53,949, and one from childhood, n = 12,441. We also used genome-wide association study data...
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