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Anna C. Need

Researcher at Imperial College London

Publications -  92
Citations -  11954

Anna C. Need is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 73 publications receiving 10623 citations. Previous affiliations of Anna C. Need include Queen Mary University of London & University College London.

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Pleiotropic Meta-Analysis of Cognition, Education, and Schizophrenia Differentiates Roles of Early Neurodevelopmental and Adult Synaptic Pathways

Max Lam, +82 more
TL;DR: Leveraging the joint genetic correlations of cognitive ability, education, and schizophrenia, two distinct biological mechanisms are dissociate: early neurodevelopmental pathways that characterize concordant allelic variation, and adulthood synaptic pruning pathways that were linked to the paradoxical positive genetic association between education and schizophrenia.

Featured Articles Temporal lobe functional activity and connectivity in young adult APOE 34 carriers

TL;DR: Enhanced functional connectivity of the MTLs with the posterior cingulate in young adult 34 carriers suggests that APOE may be expressed early in brain regions known to be involved in Alzheimer’s disease, long before late-onset dementia is a practical risk or consideration.
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Author Correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function.

Gail Davies, +269 more
TL;DR: Christina M. Lill, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this article.