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CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue -, Pages 6-12Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.07.005
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [MR/K026992/1]
- Age UK (Disconnected Mind programme)
- University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing - UK Medical Research Council
- BBSRC [BB/F019394/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The associations between higher intelligence test scores from early life and later good health, fewer illnesses, and longer life are recent discoveries. Researchers are mapping the extent of these associations and trying to understanding them. Part of the intelligence-health association has genetic origins. Recent advances in molecular genetic technology and statistical analyses have revealed that: intelligence and many health outcomes are highly polygenic; and that modest but widespread genetic correlations exist between intelligence and health, illness and mortality. Causal accounts of intelligence-health associations are still poorly understood. The contribution of education and socio-economic status - both of which are partly genetic in origin - to the intelligence-health associations are being explored.
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