One Gene Holds The Key To Genius

According to a new report in Nature Genetics, a team of researchers from Yale School of Medicine have proposed that variation in 2 base units, of the 3 billion units in the human genome, can determine the intelligence of a human being. A normally functioning human brain contains a number of convolutions, extending the surface area, that control perception, memory, reasoning, awareness and thought as a whole. The deeper the convolutions in the brain, the deeper the thought that individual in able to reach.

There exists a deformity, studied specifically on a one Turkish patient, that showed a variation in the laminin gamma3 gene (LAMC3), where these folds in the cerebral cortex do not exist. Similar variations have been found in other patients as well. The role of this gene on development of the cerebral cortex only brings the science of neurogenetics one step closer to understanding genius.