The Intelligence Gene?

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Like so many notable discoveries, this one was made during a search for something related but different. Its ramifications ~ and not just but perhaps most frighteningly the political ones ~ could be huge. Researchers seem to have found a genetic component to cognitive ability, and it's called KL-VS (the protein produced is called klotho): http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21601809-potent-source-genetic-variation-cognitive-ability-has-just-been