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health advisory Hospital Diseases 2007-11-12 17:57:16

Last year I read an article about a genetic abnormality among Jews. Some of them had one gene that caused them to be on average 15 points smarter in I.Q. than those without this genetic abnormality, which causes their brain cells to form more connections with each other. But if the person has two copies of this gene, they get one of several brain diseases and die by the time they are 30. I forgot where I read the article and cannot find it. I met someone who is dieing of this, and his children have it too, so I need to find the information if possible.

Answer:

Contact the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. If there is any info on someone claiming a racial/genetic difference setting Jews apart from other races, they may have heard of it.

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Motivation and survival. Pops

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Smarter than whom?

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Their culture emphasizes it. Just like East Asian cultures emphasize education and knowledge.

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I don't see how being smarter than the normal person could be considered a genetic abnormality. I'm not sure how having Jewish DNA could make anyone any smarter or dumber... but a lot of people do seem to exhibit the latter more often than the option listed previous. I'm not Jewish what-so-ever, and I have an IQ of 139.

Now, if it happens to be true that people of Jewish lineage have a vaguely higher I.Q., then good for them, but I'm don't see how it could be considered a disease.

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Sorry mate, probably not true.

Why?

Because non-Jews can convert to become jews, and hence their genetic makup would not change.

And what you are talking about that desiese is common among the Ashkenazi community - Gaucher disease - and it one has 1 in 10 chance in ashkenazi jews- and it is more because of their ex-geographical location (i beleive) than anything else.

Or you can be talking about Tay-Sachs disease which affects 1 in 31 ashkenazi jews.

More info can be found on:

http://genesanddrugs.dnadirect.com/patie...

and simple google search for the 2 with 'jew' afterwards.

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