By B Benyamin et al.
February 2014
Molecular Psychiatry 19:2;253-258.
Abstract Intelligence in childhood, as measured by psychometric cognitive tests, is a strong predictor of many important life outcomes, including ... Read more »
By Dena B. Dubal
May 22, 2014
Cell Reports 7, 1-12
Abstract Aging is the primary risk factor for cognitive decline, an emerging health threat to aging societies worldwide. ... Read more »
By Kate Kelland
Reuters
May 3, 2014
"Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to ... Read more »
By Anne Francis
Tech Times
May 9, 2014
"A gene variant called KL-VS linked to longer life was also found to make humans smarter and may help ... Read more »
By Robert Whelan et al.
Nature 2 July 2014
Abstract A comprehensive account of the causes of alcohol misuse must accommodate individual differences in biology, psychology and environment, ... Read more »
By Maanvi Singh
NPR 2 July 2014
More than half of 16-year-olds in the United States have tried alcohol. While many of them learn to drink responsibly, ... Read more »
By Laura Spinney
Nature
June 4, 2014
For decades, most researchers ignored the leading genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. That is set to change.
To read the ... Read more »
The Suncoast News
May 29, 2014
A group of 11 genes can predict whether an individual is at increased risk of alcoholism, a research team from ... Read more »
By DF Levey et al.
Translational Psychiatry (2014) 4, e391
We have used a translational Convergent Functional Genomics (CFG) approach to discover genes involved in alcoholism, ... Read more »
Joel Gelernter et al.
Biological Psychiatry 2014;76:66-74.
Background
We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of two populations, African-American and European-American (AA, EA) for opioid dependence (OD) ... Read more »