Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Genetics : Education


Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School

Researchers explore genetic “scores” that may predict educational success

Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash
By Antonio Regalado
The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people’s genes and how far they get in school.
The work, which involved DNA from 1.1 million people and researchers drawn from 40 institutions, led to a scoring system that can roughly predict how educated someone is by examining that person’s DNA.

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