Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

G Davies, M Lam, SE Harris, JW Trampush… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
General cognitive function is a prominent and relatively stable human trait that is associated
with many important life outcomes. We combine cognitive and genetic data from the …

Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N= 53 949)

G Davies, N Armstrong, JC Bis, J Bressler… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
General cognitive function is substantially heritable across the human life course from
adolescence to old age. We investigated the genetic contribution to variation in this …

Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (N= 112 151)

G Davies, RE Marioni, DC Liewald, WD Hill… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
People's differences in cognitive functions are partly heritable and are associated with
important life outcomes. Previous genome-wide association (GWA) studies of cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Age-dependent pleiotropy between general cognitive function and major psychiatric disorders

WD Hill, G Davies, DC Liewald, AM McIntosh… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background General cognitive function predicts psychiatric illness across the life course.
This study examines the role of pleiotropy in explaining the link between cognitive function …

GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

JW Trampush, MLZ Yang, J Yu, E Knowles… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
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) …

The impact of rare protein coding genetic variation on adult cognitive function

CY Chen, R Tian, T Ge, M Lam, G Sanchez-Andrade… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Compelling evidence suggests that human cognitive function is strongly influenced by
genetics. Here, we conduct a large-scale exome study to examine whether rare protein …

Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

JE Savage, PR Jansen, S Stringer, K Watanabe… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Intelligence is highly heritable and a major determinant of human health and well-being.
Recent genome-wide meta-analyses have identified 24 genomic loci linked to variation in …

Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive functions and physical and mental health in UK Biobank (N= 112 151) and 24 GWAS consortia

SP Hagenaars, SE Harris, G Davies, WD Hill… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Causes of the well-documented association between low levels of cognitive functioning and
many adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes, poorer physical health and earlier death remain …

A general dimension of genetic sharing across diverse cognitive traits inferred from molecular data

J de la Fuente, G Davies, AD Grotzinger… - Nature Human …, 2021 - nature.com
It has been known since 1904 that, in humans, diverse cognitive traits are positively
intercorrelated. This forms the basis for the general factor of intelligence (g). Here, we …

A three-stage genome-wide association study of general cognitive ability: hunting the small effects

OSP Davis, LM Butcher, SJ Docherty, EL Meaburn… - Behavior genetics, 2010 - Springer
Childhood general cognitive ability (g) is important for a wide range of outcomes in later life,
from school achievement to occupational success and life expectancy. Large-scale …