Mike Lynch and Bruce Walsh are working on a "sequel" to Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Thanks to the glory of the internet you can read draft chapters of Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits in PDF form.
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The following [and more] is on CBSnews.com [Health and WebMD]:
"A gene called dysbindin-1 (DTNBP1) may be tied to intelligence, scientists report in Human Molecular Genetics.
The scientists studied a region of a particular chromosome. That chromosome region is where the DTNBP1 gene is located.
The DTNBP1 gene has previously been associated with schizophrenia, write the researchers. They included Katherine Burdick, Ph.D., of the psychiatry research department of the Zucker Hillside Hospital, which is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System."
From [Burdick, K. Human Molecular Genetics, May 15, 2006; Vol. 15: pp. 1563-1568.]
The first volume is probably one of my favorite textbooks. I'm using it now in a quantitative genetics class I'm taking. It seems like they have been working volume 2 since 1998. I hope it comes out soon.