ISS 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Torsion Dystonia, Heterozygote Advantage, Assortative Mating
20 Nov 2018
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Having just the sickle cell trait (without the anemia) gives you a benefit; immunity from malaria". Ashkenazim have unique profile of genetic diseases (heterozygote advantage : individual with two different alleles of a gene(s) has higher fitness than the same alleles of a gene(s)) Iq is heritable and non-biological effects - especially home environment - seem to be small (there is no gene for intelligence) Ashkenazim have unique profile of genetic diseases. Non-ashkenazi jews do not show the iq advantage and were permitted to work in a wider range of occupations (ashkenazim pushed into higher cognitive jobs) Asians on average put forth more effort than whites in mandatory education. This very likely accounts for the white-black disparity as well (see mcwhorter, 2000; ogbu, Keep in mind the role of self-efficacy for later lectures . Early lead exposure causes lifetime cognitive deficits. Higher lead exposure among low ses and black american citizens (mahaffey et al.
