The shared genetic basis of educational attainment and cerebral cortical morphology

T Ge, CY Chen, AE Doyle, R Vettermann… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Individual differences in educational attainment are linked to differences in intelligence, and
predict important social, economic, and health outcomes. Previous studies have found …

PGMRA: a web server for (phenotype× genotype) many-to-many relation analysis in GWAS

J Arnedo, C del Val, GA de Erausquin… - Nucleic Acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
It has been proposed that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) discovered by genome-
wide association studies (GWAS) account for only a small fraction of the genetic variation of …

The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood

CMA Haworth, MJ Wright, M Luciano, NG Martin… - Molecular …, 2010 - nature.com
Although common sense suggests that environmental influences increasingly account for
individual differences in behavior as experiences accumulate during the course of life, this …

Theoretical and empirical quantification of the accuracy of polygenic scores in ancestry divergent populations

Y Wang, J Guo, G Ni, J Yang, PM Visscher… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Polygenic scores (PGS) have been widely used to predict disease risk using variants
identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). To date, most GWAS have been …

Genome-wide association studies: hypothesis-“free” or “engaged”?

GD Kitsios, E Zintzaras - Translational Research, 2009 - Elsevier
The advent of the first wave of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provided a new
conceptual framework in the search for variants underlying common disorders: a massive …

GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

JW Trampush, MLZ Yang, J Yu, E Knowles… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
The complex nature of human cognition has resulted in cognitive genomics lagging behind
many other fields in terms of gene discovery using genome-wide association study (GWAS) …

Genetics, environment and cognitive abilities: review and work in progress towards a genome scan for quantitative trait locus associations using DNA pooling

R Plomin, I Craig - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2001 - cambridge.org
BackgroundMultivariate genetic research indicates that genetic effects on diverse cognitive
abilities are general rather than specific or modular. General cognitive ability (g), a key factor …

A combined analysis of genetically correlated traits identifies 187 loci and a role for neurogenesis and myelination in intelligence

WD Hill, RE Marioni, O Maghzian, SJ Ritchie… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Intelligence, or general cognitive function, is phenotypically and genetically correlated with
many traits, including a wide range of physical, and mental health variables. Education is …

GWIS: genome-wide inferred statistics for functions of multiple phenotypes

HA Nieuwboer, R Pool, CV Dolan, DI Boomsma… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Here we present a method of genome-wide inferred study (GWIS) that provides an
approximation of genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics for a variable …

Stability of polygenic scores across discovery genome-wide association studies

LM Schultz, AK Merikangas, K Ruparel… - Human Genetics and …, 2022 - cell.com
Polygenic scores (PGS) are commonly evaluated in terms of their predictive accuracy at the
population level by the proportion of phenotypic variance they explain. To be useful for …