Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2017, Pages E727-E732

  Kong, Augustine ^a,b   Frigge, Michael L ^a   Thorleifsson, Gudmar ^a   Stefansson, Hreinn ^a   Young, Alexander I ^c   Zink, Florian ^a   Jonsdottir, Gudrun A ^a   Okbay, Aysu ^d   Sulem, Patrick ^a   Masson, Gisli ^a   Gudbjartsson, Daniel F ^a,b   Helgason, Agnar ^a,b   Bjornsdottir, Gyda ^a   Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur ^a,b   Stefansson, Kari ^a,b  

^a DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Educational attainment; Fertility; Genes; Selection; Sequence variants

Indexed keywords

CHILDBIRTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ICELANDER; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN GENOME; ICELAND; INTELLIGENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ICELAND; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85011263117     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612113114     Document Type: Article

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