Intelligence: genetics, genes, and genomics.

@article{Plomin2004IntelligenceGG,  title={Intelligence: genetics, genes, and genomics.},  author={Robert Plomin and Frank M. Spinath},  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},  year={2004},  volume={86 1},  pages={          112-29        },  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5734393}}
The most exciting direction for genetic research on intelligence is to harness the power of the Human Genome Project to identify some of the specific genes responsible for the heritability of intelligence.

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