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The familial mutation that causes the encephalon information Huntington's illness whitethorn effect successful greater quality among young people, which could mean improvement selected for it
By Clare Wilson
The caudate nuclei, parts of the encephalon affected by Huntington’s disease KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
The familial mutation that causes Huntington’s disease, a devastating encephalon condition, whitethorn person been selected for by improvement due to the fact that it besides leads to higher quality successful people’s puerility and 20s.
This thought whitethorn not lone pb to a rethink of strategies to dainty Huntington’s, but could besides alteration our position connected the genetics of intelligence. “There are a batch of implications for our knowing of the biology of the brain,” says Jordan Schultz astatine the University…
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