Educational attainment: a genome wide association study in 9538 Australians.

Educational attainment: a genome wide association study in 9538 Australians.

Correlations between Educational Attainment (EA) and measures of cognitive performance are as high as 0.8. This makes EA an attractive alternative phenotype for studies wishing to map genes affecting cognition due to the ease of collecting EA data compared to other cognitive phenotypes such as IQ.In...

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Main Authors: Nicolas W Martin, Sarah E Medland, Karin J H Verweij, S Hong Lee, Dale R Nyholt, Pamela A Madden, Andrew C Heath, Grant W Montgomery, Margaret J Wright, Nicholas G Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3111411?pdf=render

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