Sentences with phrase «genes for intelligence»

Though he jokingly credits his elder sister Jacqueline with inheriting the bulk of the genes for intelligence in his family, Veissi proudly graduated with a business degree from Florida Atlantic University, where he met Matey during a political science class.

And are there genes for intelligence?

«There is no way I could select for hair color, eye color, genes for intelligence,» Grifo says.

Seven genes for intelligence are also associated with schizophrenia; nine genes also with body mass index, and four genes were also associated with obesity.

The study, published in the journal Nature Genetics, uncovered 52 genes for intelligence, of which 40 were completely new discoveries.

Not exact matches

Despite high heritability estimates of 45 % in childhood and 80 % in adulthood, only a handful of genes had previously been associated with intelligence and for most of these genes the findings were not reliable.

What turns out [is] that scientists are having [a] really, really hard time finding them, and what that tell [s] us is that there are these genes that influence intelligence but each particular gene is responsible for a tiny, tiny amount of variation — like a fraction of 1 percent.

Next week, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), which is part of the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence, will hold a meeting about a planned funding programme for detecting genetically modified organisms that are potentially harmful, including ones that contain gene drives.

So it could be really complicated, and so even when scientists actually identify these intelligence genes — and they haven't really yet — but even when they do, that still doesn't necessarily tell us what those genes actually do for us.

Steve: Yeah, you get into the search for intelligence genes.

Steve: And there's one of the researchers you quote in the article talks about, there may be genes that are not directly responsible for some aspect of brain function even at a biochemical cascade level; there might be a gene that is responsible for the width of the birth canal and that that could be associated with ultimately with intelligence.

So, for example, just to say for the sake of argument, that there's a gene that influences the width of the birth canal, and lets say that some versions of the gene leave women more likely to have trouble giving birth, so that their children have loss of oxygen and that could lead to changes in the brain that lead to lower intelligence scores.

It seems to be [as soon as we] started to be able to figure out what genes were and what certain genes did, it became natural to look for the genes associated with intelligence, but that search has proven to be much more treacherous than probably the people in the field ever imagined.

There is little dispute that genetics accounts for a large amount of the variation in people's intelligence, but studies have consistently failed to find any single genes that have a substantial impact.

By selectively adding or deleting stretches of DNA in the (artificially) fertilized cell, scientists could knock out genes for a disease like diabetes or insert genes coding for extra height or intelligence.

Seemingly unambiguous genetic goals — like trying to make people more intelligent — not only involve millions of genes, raising the specter of easy error, but might involve conditional relationships: For instance, our intelligence might be tied to memory in ways we can't yet decode, so trying to improve one ability might inadvertently impede the other.

Certain mutations might cause severe retardation, for instance, pointing to specific places to look for a link between genes and intelligence.

The team found that a single polymorphism (a difference in one «letter» of the sequence) in the BDNF gene accounted for significant differences in intelligence among those with similar injuries and comparable intelligence before being injured.

While there is no suggestion that behaviour is determined directly by genes — there is no gene for termite fishing — genetics might change behaviour indirectly, by influencing manual dexterity or some aspects of intelligence, for example.

He adds that South University is currently searching for experts in the fields of neural and cognitive sciences, biology and gene engineering, physics, nanotechnology, environmental sciences, large - scale computational research, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Researchers are now looking for the genes that contribute to intelligence.

But critics say that opening the floodgates will eventually lead to «designer babies,» altering genes that code for athletic ability, intelligence, and physical traits.

Also, do not forget that the ubiquitous variety of cats in Singapore, which is commonly known as the «local breed» (not to be confused with the CFA - recogised breed «Singapura»), is one of the best candidate for a pet as it is generally more hardy in terms of its health and displays much intelligence, probably due to the good mix of genes from its varied ancestry.

Cats were and continue to be bred for everything from enhanced coat quality to advanced intelligence — humans have even enhanced recessive genes that nature introduced as a quirky trait then promptly forgot.