Predicting educational attainment: Does grit compensate for low levels of cognitive ability?
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Independent evidence for an association between general cognitive ability and a genetic locus for educational attainment.
Cognitive deficits and reduced educational achievement are common in psychiatric illness; understanding the genetic basis of cognitive and educational deficits may be informative about the etiology of psychiatric disorders. A recent, large genome-wide association study (GWAS) reported a genome-wide significant locus for years of education, which subsequently demonstrated association to general ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Learning and Individual Differences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1041-6080
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2019.02.002