Researchers seeking genetic explanations for health have to explore the events written in the record of DNA. (discovermagazine.com)
Others have experienced environmental risk factors, such as fetal alcohol exposure, that rule out a simple genetic explanation. (scientificamerican.com)
In a commentary on the work in the same issue, Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says this «smoking gun for a genetic cause of one kind of language disorder» should motivate researchers to search for possible genetic explanations of cognitive deficits in general, as well as potential treatments. (scientificamerican.com)