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More than 500 genes associated with intelligence have been identified in the largest study of its kind.
Researchers used data from the UK Biobank, comparing DNA variants from more than 240,000 people. Their analysis identified 538 genes linked to intellectual ability, and 187 regions of the human genome that are associated with thinking skills. Some of these genes are also linked to other biological processes, including living longer.
However, even with all these genes, it's still difficult to predict a person's intelligence from their genomes. When they analysed the DNA of a group of different people, the team were only able to predict 7 per cent of the intelligence differences between those people.
Source: Found: more than 500 genes that are linked to intelligence
A combined analysis of genetically correlated traits identifies 187 loci and a role for neurogenesis and myelination in intelligence (open, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-017-0001-5) (DX)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @06:57AM (1 child)
"You are claiming that the single most well established, researched, measurable and quantified feature of psychology doesn't exist?"
Enlighten me. What is it, how is it established, how is it measure and quantized? Go on.
My bad, if you were being sarcastic. :)
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday March 19 2018, @07:16AM
Once upon a time, psychology studied the Mind. But then it realized that, as a science, it had nothing to observe, quantify, and experiment upon. So the discipline shifted to "behavior", and inputs to behavior, and so reduced the entire field to "stimulus and response". In other words, psychology lost it's mind.