Exome sequencing to detect rare variants associated with general cognitive ability: A pilot study

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 117-125

  Luciano, Michelle ^a   Svinti, Victoria ^a   Campbell, Archie ^a   Marioni, Riccardo E ^a,b   Hayward, Caroline ^a   Wright, Alan F ^a   Taylor, Martin S ^a   Porteous, David J ^a   Thomson, Pippa ^a   Prendergast, James G D ^a   Hastie, Nicholas D ^a   Farrington, Susan M ^a   Scotland, Generation ^c   Dunlop, Malcolm G ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

generation Scotland: the Scottish family health study; genetics; intelligence; IQ

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOME; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INNER MEMBRANE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCOTLAND;

ADULT; AGED; COGNITION; EXOME; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84928643313     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: 18392628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2015.10     Document Type: Article

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