Unit 6: Intelligence and General Cognitive Ability

MOOC Summaries - Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics - Intelligence and General Cognitive Ability

Unit 6: Intelligence and General Cognitive Ability

“What Is intelligence?… Twin, Adoption Studies, and The Heritability of General Cognitive Ability… Heritability and The Malleability of General Cognitive Ability… Gene-Environment Interplay In Studies of General Cognitive Ability… Why is General Cognitive Ability Heritable? – UPDATED… Genetics of Intellectual Disability – UPDATED… Supplemental – The Replication Crisis…”
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Unit 5: Schizophrenia

MOOC Summaries - Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics - Schizophrenia

Unit 5: Schizophrenia

“What Is Schizophrenia?… The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia… Twin and Adoption Studies… What We Have Learned About Environmental Risk From Twin and Adoption Studies…Identifying Risk Alleles – The Positional Cloning Strategy… Identifying Risk Alleles – The GWAS Strategy – UPDATED… Identifying Risk Alleles – Rare Variants And CNVs – UPDATED… Supplemental – Genetics, Race & Ancestry… ” 
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Unit 4: What Everyone Should Know About the Human Genome

MOOC Summaries - Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics - Human Genome

Unit 4: What Everyone Should Know About the Human Genome

“DNA… What Is a Gene?… Three Surprising Findings From the Human Genome Project… Genetic Variation.. Williams Syndrome… The X Chromosome… Prader-Willi & Angelman Syndromes… Genetic Regulation and Epigenetics… Supplemental – Epigenetic Inheritance… ” 
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