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A combined analysis of genetically correlated traits identifies 187 loci and a role for neurogenesis and myelination in intelligence.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Feb 2019
Hill W D, Marioni R E, Maghzian O, Ritchie S J, Hagenaars S P, McIntosh A M, Gale C R, Davies G, Deary I J
Abstract excerpt
Intelligence, or general cognitive function, is phenotypically and genetically correlated with many traits, including a wide range of physical, and mental health variables. Education is strongly genetically correlated with intelligence (rg = 0.70). We used these findings as foundations for our use of a novel approach-multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association studies (MTAG; Turley et al. 2017)-to combine two...
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