Association of CHRM2 with IQ: Converging evidence for a gene influencing intelligence

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 265-272

  Dick, Danielle M ^a   Aliev, Fazil ^a,b   Kramer, John ^c   Wang, Jen C ^a   Hinrichs, Anthony ^a   Bertelsen, Sarah ^a   Kuperman, Sam ^c   Schuckit, Marc ^d   Nurnberger Jr , John ^e   Edenberg, Howard J ^e   Porjesz, Bernice ^f   Begleiter, Henri ^f   Hesselbrock, Victor ^g   Goate, Alison ^a   Bierut, Laura ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association analyses; CHRM2; Cognitive ability; Genetics; Intelligence; IQ

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME 7; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; OSCILLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ALCOHOLISM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M2; TWIN STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33947250138     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-006-9131-2     Document Type: Article

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