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Discontinuity in the genetic and environmental causes of the intellectual disability spectrum
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Significance: Intellectual disability (ID) is present in almost 3% of children and fundamentally characterized by IQ scores below 70. Genetic research has shown that it is among the most heritable traits, and it has been accepted that ID is the extreme low of the normal IQ distribution. However, we show that, while the genetic and environmental factors influencing mild ID (lowest 3% of IQ distribution) are similar to those influencing IQ in the normal range, factors influencing severe ID (lowest 0.5%) differ from those influencing mild ID or IQ scores in the normal range. Therefore, severe ID is a distinct disorder, qualitatively different from the majority of ID, which in turn represents the low extreme of the normal distribution of intelligence.
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- Authors
- Reichenberg, A., Cederlöf, M., McMillan, A., Trzaskowski, M., Kapra, O., Fruchter, E., Ginat, K., Davidson, M., Weiser, M., Larsson, H., Plomin, R., & Lichtenstein, P.
- Affiliations
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- King's College London (GB)
- Sheba Medical Center (IL)
- Department of Mental Health, Israel Medical Corps, 01259 Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Corresponding author
- Reichenberg, Abraham
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-12-28
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1098-1103
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4743770
- OpenAlex
- W2215537341
- Cited by
- 115
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- en
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- Funders
- Medical Research Council (295366)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- intellectual disability, severe intellectual disability, mild intellectual disability, IQ distribution, genetic architecture, environmental influences, heritability, common genetic variants, rare mutations, twin and sibling studies, extreme phenotypes
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Environment, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Male, Intellectual Disability, Twins
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