Everything is heritable; Rietveld et al 2013's 3 SNP hits for intelligence are starting to replicate:
"Single nucleotide polymorphisms exhibiting genome-wide significant associations with adult educational attainment were combined to derive an unweighted allele score in 5,979 and 6,145 young participants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children with key stage 3 national curriculum test results (SATS results) available at age 13 to 14 years in English and mathematics respectively...SNP-specific effects were underpowered given the relatively small amount of variance explained by singular SNPs. However these analyses showed evidence for an association between rs9320913 and both the English and mathematics z-scores (Table S3)...Our results suggest that there is an association between a child’s educational performance at age 13 to 14 years and their unweighted allele score created from the three SNPs (rs9320913, rs11584700 and rs4851266) found to be associated with adult educational attainment by Rietveld et al. [9]."
via http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/07/snps-and-sats.html
"Single nucleotide polymorphisms exhibiting genome-wide significant associations with adult educational attainment were combined to derive an unweighted allele score in 5,979 and 6,145 young participants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children with key stage 3 national curriculum test results (SATS results) available at age 13 to 14 years in English and mathematics respectively...SNP-specific effects were underpowered given the relatively small amount of variance explained by singular SNPs. However these analyses showed evidence for an association between rs9320913 and both the English and mathematics z-scores (Table S3)...Our results suggest that there is an association between a child’s educational performance at age 13 to 14 years and their unweighted allele score created from the three SNPs (rs9320913, rs11584700 and rs4851266) found to be associated with adult educational attainment by Rietveld et al. [9]."
via http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/07/snps-and-sats.html
