The Scientist : Musical Twins [12/3/2001]

Email: Jonathan Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010312-02

12 March 2001

Variations in individual pitch perception ability could be exploited to search for genes related to this complex musical trait. In the March 9 Science Dennis Drayna and colleagues describe a large twin study aimed at determining the genetic contibutions to musical pitch recognition abilities (Science 2001, 291:1969-1972).

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