IQ proportional to height

Height as smart as superior

Scientists have identified the gene that affects both IQ and height. They claimed to have a significant genetic correlation between the two factors. The conclusion to be drawn after the British experts studied more than 6800 people don't have relationships. This is the first study analyzed DNA markers in the same way.

Researchers from the Institute of genetics to Marioni Riccardo and molecular medicine at the University of Edinburgh, stressed, the relationship on a very small but important. According to the report the study sent the journal Behavior Genetics journal, he and Associates Marioni explains, about 70% of this is due to heredity and the rest is influenced by the environment.

The explanation would be given? Some common genetic factors have been found, said a simple way is to survive the impact of genes at the same time and body size up our IQ.

From the end of the 19th century, the average height of humans has increased significantly: the height of European males has increased to 11 cm in just about a century (between the years 1870 to 1980). That means that we have affordable smart than his ancestors?

Correlation between height and health

Despite the controversy, the team hopes, revealed the genetic correlation between height and IQ can help predict a person's health problems.

The studies previously mounted low stature with increased risk of getting cardiovascular disease. In contrast, the owner of the high-IQ was discovered attached to the longevity and the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and lower suicide.

The experts at the University of Oxford recently did discover that sense of ease lower others paranoid, suspicious and afraid of others.=