A genome-wide analysis of putative functional and exonic variation associated with extremely high intelligence

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1145-1151

  Spain, S L ^a   Pedroso, I ^a   Kadeva, N ^a   Miller, M B ^b   Iacono, W G ^b   McGue, M ^b   Stergiakouli, E ^c   Smith, G D ^c   Putallaz, M ^d   Lubinski, D ^e   Meaburn, E L ^f   Plomin, R ^a   Simpson, M A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOME; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; ADULT; COGNITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ALLELES; COGNITION; EXOME; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 84938651137     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.108     Document Type: Article

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