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

ABSTRACT: Although individual differences in intelligence (general cognitive ability) are highly heritable, molecular genetic analyses to date have had limited success in identifying specific loci responsible for its heritability. This study is the first to investigate exome variation in individuals of extremely high intelligence. Under the quantitative genetic model, sampling from the high extreme of the distribution should provide increased power to detect associations. We therefore performed a case-control association analysis with 1409 individuals drawn from the top 0.0003 (IQ >170) of the population distribution of intelligence and 3253 unselected population-based controls. Our analysis focused on putative functional exonic variants assayed on the Illumina HumanExome BeadChip. We did not observ

SUBMITTER: Spain SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4650257 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature