Exome Sequencing to Detect Rare Variants Associated With General Cognitive Ability: A Pilot Study
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Exome sequencing to detect rare variants associated with general cognitive ability: a pilot study.
Variation in human cognitive ability is of consequence to a large number of health and social outcomes and is substantially heritable. Genetic linkage, genome-wide association, and copy number variant studies have investigated the contribution of genetic variation to individual differences in normal cognitive ability, but little research has considered the role of rare genetic variants. Exome s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Twin Research and Human Genetics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1832-4274,1839-2628
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2015.10