ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2018
The new genetics of intelligence.
Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 165 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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165 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Optimal exercise modalities and dose for enhancing intelligence in children and adolescents: a Bayesian network meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Pooled it
- The stability of cognitive abilities: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Iron Status, Anemia, and Iron Interventions and Their Associations with Cognitive and Academic Performance in Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- A Polygenic Score for Higher Educational Attainment is Associated with Larger Brains.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Pooled 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
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- Schoolhouse risk: Can we mitigate the polygenic Pygmalion effect?Acta psychologica · 2024Trial
- Foster care leads to sustained cognitive gains following severe early deprivation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Trial
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- Early-childhood temperament trajectories map onto transdiagnostic psychiatric risk.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
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- An introduction to polygenic scores - methodological basics and recent advances.Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2026Article
- Heritability of Functional Literacy: Evidence from a Classical Twin Design.Behavior genetics · 2026Article
- Brain correlates of cognitive reserve in offspring of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Conditional and marginal SNP-heritability to leverage ancestral and environmental diversity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Early-childhood temperament deviations mark psychiatric risk into early adulthood.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Disorder-Specific Genetic Effects Drive the Associations Between Psychopathology and Cognitive Functioning.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- The Burdens of Idiopathic Developmental Intellectual Disability Attributable to Lead Exposure from 1990 to 2023 and a Projection to 2050 in the USA: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Intelligence - the ability to learn, reason and solve problems - is at the forefront of behavioural genetic research. Intelligence is highly heritable and predicts important educational, occupational and health outcomes better than any other trait. Recent genome-wide association studies have successfully identified inherited genome sequence differences that account for 20% of the 50% heritability of intelligence. These findings open new avenues for research into the causes and consequences of intelligence using genome-wide polygenic scores that aggregate the effects of thousands of genetic variants.
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