Well I read this a few days ago and I thought it is very interesting at least this is a change from scientific discussions about mesothelioma, cancers and lasik laser eye surgery benifits and dangers!
This is probably the first time we have such a robust evidence suggesting that intelligence, is significantly influenced by genetic factors, Scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, N.Y., and researchers at the Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics in Boston, think quite firmly that they have found a gene that seems to be influenceing intelligence.
It seems that the dysbindin-1 gene is associated to cognitive ability. They previously demonstrated that this gene was associated with schizophrenia, one of the most devastating mental illnesses.
One DNA sequence variation within the dysbindin-1 gene was significantly associated with lower general cognitive ability in carriers of the risk variant compared with non-carriers in two independent groups.
More to come about this for sure…

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