Sang-Hyuk Jung

Jan 4, 2024 | nature.com | Tzu-Ting Chen |Jaeyoung Kim |Max Lam |Sang-Hyuk Jung |Soyeon Kim |Injeong Shim | +9 more

AbstractEducational attainment (EduYears), a heritable trait often used as a proxy for cognitive ability, is associated with various health and social outcomes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on EduYears have been focused on samples of European (EUR) genetic ancestries. Here we present the first large-scale GWAS of EduYears in people of East Asian (EAS) ancestry (n = 176,400) and conduct a cross-ancestry meta-analysis with EduYears GWAS in people of EUR ancestry (n = 766,345).