{"id":205032,"date":"2025-01-31T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/cognitive-abilities-mapping-the-impact-of-dna-modifications"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:40:41","slug":"cognitive-abilities-mapping-the-impact-of-dna-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/cognitive-abilities-mapping-the-impact-of-dna-modifications","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive abilities: Mapping the impact of DNA modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cognitive-abilities-mapping-the-impact-of-dna-modifications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A significant advancement in knowledge of the link between cognition and genetics has been made thanks to a study led by Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al graduate students Guillaume Huguet and Thomas Renne, working under the supervision of medical geneticist S\u00e9bastien Jacquemont, an associate professor of pediatrics and a researcher at the UdeM-affiliated CHU Saint-Justine.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Cell Genomics<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2666979X24003501\" target=\"_blank\">the research<\/a> explored how the copy number variation, or CNV, of certain DNA segments can influence cognitive abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the CNV of nearly 260,000 people in the general population, the scientists were able to compare each individual\u2019s CNV and cognition to define a reference model\u2014a kind of \u201cmap\u201d of the effects of CNV on cognition, such as the intelligence quotient and memory\u2014and to establish links between these CNVs and achievements within the brain, as well as in other organs and tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant advancement in knowledge of the link between cognition and genetics has been made thanks to a study led by Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al graduate students Guillaume Huguet and Thomas Renne, working under the supervision of medical geneticist S\u00e9bastien Jacquemont, an associate professor of pediatrics and a researcher at the UdeM-affiliated CHU Saint-Justine. Published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}