Genetics and Cognitive Abilities
Research articles on genetics and cognitive abilities.
- Heritability of Intelligence: Twin Studies and Beyond
The heritability of intelligence is one of the most replicated findings in psychology — and one of the most consistently misunderstood. Six decades of twin and adoption...
- CORD7 Mutation and Human Cognition
A 2007 paper in Journal of Medical Genetics reported something unusual: an extended British family in which a single genetic mutation caused both cone-rod dystrophy (a...
- Epigenetics and IQ Malleability
The heritability of intelligence sits at roughly 70–80% in adulthood, but genome-wide association studies aggregating thousands of common variants currently account for...