Scientists have identified hundreds of new genes associated with intelligence, a joint research project from the University of Queensland’s Brain Institute and its partners in the Netherlands revealed on Tuesday.
The authors said as well as the 939 new “smart genes’’ were discovered, adding that in another study that they had identified over 500 genes associated with neuroticism, an important risk factor for depression and schizophrenia.
“These results are a major step forward in understanding the neurobiology of cognitive function as well as genetically related neurological and psychiatric disorders,’’ the study said.
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More than 250,000 individuals were tested for their genetic data and measurements of intelligence, while the study into neuroticism took data from almost half a million…
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