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Chunk #2 — INTRODUCTION

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Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.
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The dramatic increase in our GWAS sample size enables us to conduct a number of informative additional analyses. For example, we show that the lead SNPs have heterogeneous effects, and we perform within-family association analyses that probe the robustness of our results. Our biological annotation analyses, which focus on the results from the autosomal GWAS, reinforce the main findings from earlier GWAS in smaller samples, such as the role of many of the prioritized genes in brain development. However, the newly identified SNPs also lead to several new findings. For example, they strongly implicate genes involved in almost all aspects of neuron-to-neuron communication.