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posted by janrinok on Monday March 19 2018, @05:24AM   Printer-friendly

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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)


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  • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by VLM on Monday March 19 2018, @12:41PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 19 2018, @12:41PM (#654845)

    It's one of those things that everyone thinks they know, but asked to define, or even just describe concretely, shit goes all over the place and nowhere.

    I sure hope somebody can enlighten me what it actually means.

    Its not very hard, LOL:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) [wikipedia.org]

    "intelligence" means someone has enough scientific integrity to put science and statistics above personal political beliefs. Its utterly undeniable statistically and scientifically, and utterly unacceptable to political leftists.

    Its interesting that very superficially both left and right are both creationists. The right generally speaking has a thing about religious/cultural systems where some magical being created everything (it had to come from somewhere, didn't it?) and the left has a thing about religious/cultural systems where magically genetics exist for every living thing but humans, every body organ except the brain is genetically determined, races don't exist especially whites unless we're talking about affirmative action or handout programs or anti-white immigration policies in which case races totally exist, all because something in the Talmud says it was created that way by a volcano god or something equally ridiculous to base a belief system on. Generally speaking right wing people should be laughed at when they talk about origins, and left wing people should be laughed at when they talk about biology, especially genetics or human anatomy.

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