As discussed earlier, GWA studies have shown that there are no large effect sizes in the population, which implies that the heritability of intelligence is caused by thousands of DNA variants, many of these effects are likely to be infinitesimal or even idiosyncratic. Nonetheless, GCTA has shown that additive effects of common SNPs can theoretically account for at least half of the heritability of intelligence, which means that a brute force approach using ever larger samples will identify some of these genes. In addition, whole-genome sequencing will identify DNA variants of any kind anywhere in the genome, not just common SNPs.