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Two studies of children in Britain and New Zealand have found that the known link between higher IQ and being breast fed as a baby may be down to a gene variant likely to be present in 90 per cent of the population.
The two studies are published in one paper in the November 5th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and are the work of Dr Terrie Moffitt a professor of psychological and brain sciences in Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, North Carolina, USA, and her husband, Dr Avshalom Caspi professor of personality development, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK, and colleagues.
For some time, scientists have believed that the fatty acids in breast milk might explain why children who were breast fed as babies tend to get higher scores in IQ tests than children who were not.
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The two studies are published in one paper in the November 5th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and are the work of Dr Terrie Moffitt a professor of psychological and brain sciences in Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, North Carolina, USA, and her husband, Dr Avshalom Caspi professor of personality development, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK, and colleagues.
For some time, scientists have believed that the fatty acids in breast milk might explain why children who were breast fed as babies tend to get higher scores in IQ tests than children who were not.
Read More