A three-stage genome-wide association study of general cognitive ability: Hunting the small effects

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 759-767

  Davis, Oliver S P ^a   Butcher, Lee M ^b   Docherty, Sophia J ^a   Meaburn, Emma L ^a   Curtis, Charles J C ^a   Simpson, Michael A ^c   Schalkwyk, Leonard C ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General cognitive ability; Genetics; Genome wide association; Intelligence; Middle childhood; Population sample

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SAMPLING STUDIES; TWINS; WALES;

EID: 78650013799     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-010-9350-4     Document Type: Article

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