One trouble with selecting for enhanced IQ in embryos is they'll probably grow up with a heavily schizophrenic personality type.
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That is not how schizophrenia works at all, and psychological diagnoses at that. Schizophrenia is a neurodegenerative disease
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and most psychological diagnoses only work reliably on adults. Children go through phases that would be disorders in adults.
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I don't know for sure but let me guess, these are immune system related?
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No, appear to be associated with neuronal activity: rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/274/16
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These genes seem to do quite a bit of work, this is just one of them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC1 (not just neuronal activity)
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This one is found in neural tissue: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysbindin (so, fairly complicated stuff...)
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"In drosophila, dysbindin has been shown to be essential for neural plasticity"