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The Shared Genetic Basis of Educational Attainment and Cerebral Cortical Morphology.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 22 Jul 2019
Ge Tian, Chen Chia-Yen, Doyle Alysa E, Vettermann Richard, Tuominen Lauri J, Holt Daphne J, Sabuncu Mert R, Smoller Jordan W
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Individual differences in educational attainment are linked to differences in intelligence, and predict important social, economic, and health outcomes. Previous studies have found common genetic factors that influence educational achievement, cognitive performance and total brain volume (i.e., brain size). Here, in a large sample of participants from the UK Biobank, we investigate the shared genetic basis...
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