SynthesisMolecular psychiatry2017
GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium.
Synthesis in Molecular psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 129 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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129 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 301 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Genome-wide interaction study with major depression identifies novel variants associated with cognitive function.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of GWAS in canola blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans) disease traits demonstrates increased power from imputed whole-genome sequence.Scientific reports · 2020Pooled it
- Cleft lip/palate and educational attainment: cause, consequence or correlation? A Mendelian randomization study.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Pooled it
- Genome-wide association study of cognitive function in diverse Hispanics/Latinos: results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.Translational psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Global and Regional Development of the Human Cerebral Cortex: Molecular Architecture and Occupational Aptitudes.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Pooled it
- Pleiotropic Meta-Analysis of Cognition, Education, and Schizophrenia Differentiates Roles of Early Neurodevelopmental and Adult Synaptic Pathways.American journal of human genetics · 2019Pooled it
- Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.Nature genetics · 2018Pooled it
- Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence.Nature genetics · 2018Pooled it
- Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function.Nature communications · 2018Pooled it
- Gene-exercise interaction on brain health in children with overweight/obesity: the ActiveBrains randomized controlled trial.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023Trial
- Effect of Trinucleotide Repeats in the Huntington's Gene on Intelligence.EBioMedicine · 2018Trial
- Imputation of fluid intelligence scores reduces ascertainment bias and increases power for analyses of common and rare variants.Nature genetics · 2026Article
- The genetic overlap between schizophrenia and major depression with cognitive function.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- The therapeutic potential of COMT inhibition: cognition and beyond.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Integrative genomic and spatial transcriptomic analysis elucidates the oligodendrocyte-mediated etiology of epileptic cortical thinning.Epilepsia open · 2026Article
- Crystallized and fluid cognitive abilities have different genetic associations with neuropsychiatric disorders.Nature communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
The complex nature of human cognition has resulted in cognitive genomics lagging behind many other fields in terms of gene discovery using genome-wide association study (GWAS) methods. In an attempt to overcome these barriers, the current study utilized GWAS meta-analysis to examine the association of common genetic variation (~8M single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) with minor allele frequency ⩾1%) to general cognitive function in a sample of 35 298 healthy individuals of European ancestry across 24 cohorts in the Cognitive Genomics Consortium (COGENT). In addition, we utilized individual SNP lookups and polygenic score analyses to identify genetic overlap with other relevant neurobehavioral phenotypes. Our primary GWAS meta-analysis identified two novel SNP loci (top SNPs: rs76114856 in the CENPO gene on chromosome 2 and rs6669072 near LOC105378853 on chromosome 1) associated with cognitive performance at the genome-wide significance level (P<5 × 10
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