{"id":83179,"date":"2018-10-01T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/your-environment-could-be-changing-your-iq-on-a-genetic-level-study-finds"},"modified":"2018-10-01T03:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:22:37","slug":"your-environment-could-be-changing-your-iq-on-a-genetic-level-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/your-environment-could-be-changing-your-iq-on-a-genetic-level-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Your Environment Could Be Changing Your IQ on a Genetic Level, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-environment-could-be-changing-your-iq-on-a-genetic-level-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be gone flat earthism.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The nature-versus-nurture argument of intelligence just got a lot more complicated with the discovery that the environment can modify the expression of a key gene in the brain, affecting intelligence far more than we previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Such a finding may not come as a surprise if you remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-discovered-almost-1-000-new-genes-associated-with-intelligence\">numerous genes<\/a> influence our IQ and stressful experiences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/childhood-stress-remap-DNA-brain-cells\">can lock and unlock genes<\/a> in our brains. Yet having hard evidence of the link will no doubt stir debate on just what it means to be \u201csmart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Charit\u00e9 \u2014 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin analysed the characteristics of a number of genes among a group of healthy adolescents, and compared the results with intelligence scores and various neurological traits.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/epigenetic-changes-striatum-dopamine-receptors-affect-general-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/epigenetic-changes-striatum-dop...telligence<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be gone flat earthism. The nature-versus-nurture argument of intelligence just got a lot more complicated with the discovery that the environment can modify the expression of a key gene in the brain, affecting intelligence far more than we previously thought. Such a finding may not come as a surprise if you remember that numerous genes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83179","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}