3 Genetic Variants For Educational Attainment Found

Genetic variants that influences intellectual ability each make very small contributions. One reason for this is that the brain is very complex. To boost performance by a large amount it is not enough to tweak just one gene. Many different genes must be tweaked. This makes the job of finding genetic variants for IQ differences much harder to find. But the cost of genetic testing has gotten low enough that the search for IQ genes is starting to turn up useful results. Here's another report, this time from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC): A few genetic variants that are associated with differences in educational attainment have been found by genetically testing about 125,000 people. A multi-national team of...
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