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Thirteen Independent Genetic Loci Associated with Preserved Processing Speed in a Study of Cognitive Resilience in 330,097 Individuals in the UK Biobank.
Genes - 10 Jan 2022
Fitzgerald Joan, Fahey Laura, Holleran Laurena, Ó Broin Pilib, Donohoe Gary, Morris Derek W
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Cognitive resilience is the ability to withstand the negative effects of stress on cognitive functioning and is important for maintaining quality of life while aging. The UK Biobank does not have measurements of the same cognitive phenotype at distal time points. Therefore, we used education years (EY) as a proxy phenotype for past cognitive performance and current cognitive performance was based on processing...
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