Re:Most Reported Genetic Associations with Intelligence are ...
by gwern on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:40PM
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Boring. The effect size of the variants is too small to find with n=10,000, hence any positive findings are almost certainly false positives which will fail to replicate. That's why the 3 SNPs found recently (http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2013/05/first-gwas-hits-for-cog...) were in a sample of n=101,000.
There's nothing here to undermine the view that genetics causes much of variation in intelligence, it's just that the variation wasn't as clustered on a few genes as people hoped because it would make the research so much easier.
There's nothing here to undermine the view that genetics causes much of variation in intelligence, it's just that the variation wasn't as clustered on a few genes as people hoped because it would make the research so much easier.