Functional consequences of genetic loci associated with intelligence in a meta-analysis of 87,740 individuals
By
Jonathan RI Coleman,
Julien Bryois,
Héléna A. Gaspar,
Philip R Jansen,
Jeanne Savage,
N. G. Skene,
Robert Plomin,
Ana B Muñoz-Manchado,
Sten Linnarsson,
Greg Crawford,
Jens Hjerling-Leffler,
Patrick F Sullivan,
Danielle Posthuma,
Gerome Breen
Posted 31 Jul 2017
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/170712
(published DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0040-6)
Variance in IQ is associated with a wide range of health outcomes, and 1% of the population are affected by intellectual disability. Despite a century of research, the fundamental neural underpinnings of intelligence remain unclear. We integrate results from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of intelligence with brain tissue and single cell gene expression data to identify tissues and cell types associated with intelligence. GWAS data for IQ (N = 78,308) were meta-analyzed with an extreme-trait cohort of 1,247 individuals with mean IQ ~170 and 8,185 controls. Genes associated with intelligence implicate pyramidal neurons of the somatosensory cortex and CA1 region of the hippocampus, and midbrain embryonic GABAergic neurons. Tissue-specific analyses find the most significant enrichment for frontal cortex brain expressed genes. These results suggest specific neuronal cell types and genes may be involved in intelligence and provide new hypotheses for neuroscience experiments using model systems.
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