Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

Jeanne E. Savage; Philip R. Jansen; Sven Stringer; Kyoko Watanabe; Julien Bryois; Christiaan de Leeuw; Mats Nagel; Swapnil Awasthi; Peter B. Barr; Jonathan R. I. Coleman; Katrina L. Grasby; Anke R. Hammerschlag; Jakob Kaminski; Robert Karlsson; Eva Krapohl; Max Lam; Marianne Nygaard; Chandra A. Reynolds; Joey W. Trampush; Hannah Young; Delilah Zabaneh; Sara Hägg; Narelle K. Hansell; Ida Karlsson; Sten Linnarsson; Grant W. Montgomery; Ana B. Muñoz‐Manchado; Erin Burke Quinlan; Günter Schumann; Nathan Skene; Bradley T. Webb; Tonya White; Dan E. Arking; Dimitrios Avramopoulos; Robert M. Bilder; Panos Bitsios; Katherine E. Burdick; Tyrone D. Cannon; Ornit Chiba‐Falek; Andrea Christoforou; Elizabeth T. Cirulli; Eliza Congdon; Aiden Corvin; Gail Davies; Ian J. Deary; Pamela DeRosse; Dwight Dickinson; Srdjan Djurovic; Gary Donohoe; Emily Drabant Conley; Johan G. Eriksson; Thomas Espeseth; Nelson B. Freimer; Stella G. Giakoumaki; Ina Giegling; Michael Gill; David C. Glahn; Ahmad R. Hariri; Alex Hatzimanolis; Matthew C. Keller; Emma Knowles; Deborah K. Attix; Bettina Konte; Jari Lahti; Stéphanie Le Hellard; Todd Lencz; David C. Liewald; Edythe London; Astri J. Lundervold; Anil K. Malhotra; Ingrid Melle; Derek W. Morris; Anna C. Need; William Ollier; Aarno Palotie; Antony Payton; Neil Pendleton; Russell A. Poldrack; Katri Räikkönen; Ivar Reinvang; Panos Roussos; Dan Rujescu; Fred W. Sabb; Matthew A. Scult; Olav B. Smeland; Nikolaos Smyrnis; John M. Starr; Vidar M. Steen; Nikos C. Stefanis; Richard E. Straub; Kjetil Sundet; Henning Tiemeier; Aristotle N. Voineskos; Daniel R. Weinberger; Elisabeth Widén; Jin Yu; Gonçalo R. Abecasis; Ole A. Andreassen; Gerome Breen; Lene Christiansen

doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0152-6

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BiologyGenome-wide association studyComputational biologyGenetic associationGeneticsMeta-analysisAssociation (psychology)GenomeSingle-nucleotide polymorphismGeneGenotype

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Year: 2018
Type: review
Volume: 50
Issue: 7
Pages: 912-919
Citations: 1346
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                                    Jeanne E. Savage, 
                                
                                    Philip R. Jansen, 
                                
                                    Sven Stringer
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence. 
                            Nature Genetics
                            , 50
                            (7)
                            , 912-919.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0152-6
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0152-6