Article
No association between general cognitive ability and the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 1997
Petrill S A, Plomin R, McClearn G E, Smith D L, Vignetti S, Chorney M J, Chorney K, Thompson L A, Detterman D K, Benbow C, Lubinski D, Daniels J, Owen M, McGuffin P
Abstract excerpt
Berman and Noble (1995) reported significantly reduced visuospatial performance in children with the TAQI A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor (DRD2) gene. Given that visuospatial performance loads highly on an unrotated principal component indexing general cognitive ability, we tested the assoc...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Alleles
- Child
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Humans
- Intelligence
- Male
- Orientation
- Psychomotor Performance
- Receptors, Dopamine D2