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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) by VLM on Monday March 19 2018, @12:52PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 19 2018, @12:52PM (#654852)

    Sumbitch wasn't very smart after all!

    Its funny how if is an amateur sets up a scientific experiment designed to test trivia knowledge, experience, or wisdom, randomly testing something else won't correlate well with observed intelligence, but if scientific professionals run something like Raven's Progressive Matrices even though its "merely" pattern matching strange shaped graphs, it correlates ridiculously well with all kinds of OTHER intellectual skill (even seemingly weird stuff like abstract music skills) and positive life outcomes. Therefore if you test for X by testing for Y and it doesn't correlate, then the only possible interpretation allowed is X must not exist, but if you test for X by testing for X and it correlates extremely well thats just racism and must be ignored. Now if you'll excuse me while I return to my task of measuring the height of a building using a barometer...

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