ReviewScientific reports2016
Convergent evidence for the molecular basis of musical traits.
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- Genetic Foundation of Male Spur Length and Its Correlation with Female Egg Production in Chickens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Moderate associations betweenHeliyon · 2023Article
- Nocturnal selective pressures on the evolution of human musicality as a missing piece of the adaptationist puzzle.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity.Nature human behaviour · 2022Article
- Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Linking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Human Genomics and the Biocultural Origin of Music.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Music-listening regulates human microRNA expression.Epigenetics · 2021Article
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- The Activity of Native Vacuolar Proton-ATPase in an Oscillating Electric Field - Demystifying an Apparent Effect of Music on a Biomolecule.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Article
- RNA binding candidates for human ADAR3 from substrates of a gain of function mutant expressed in neuronal cells.Nucleic acids research · 2019Article
- Hub genes and gene functions associated with postmenopausal osteoporosis predicted by an integrated method.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Article
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- THE CREATIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL GENOMIC HEALING EXPERIENCE (CPGHE) AND GENE EXPRESSION IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS: A FEASIBILITY STUDY.Advances in integrative medicine · 2018Article
- Music and the Meeting of Human Minds.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
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Abstract
To obtain aggregate evidence for the molecular basis of musical abilities and the effects of music, we integrated gene-level data from 105 published studies across multiple species including humans, songbirds and several other animals and used a convergent evidence method to prioritize the top candidate genes. Several of the identified top candidate genes like EGR1, FOS, ARC, BDNF and DUSP1 are known to be activity-dependent immediate early genes that respond to sensory and motor stimuli in the brain. Several other top candidate genes like MAPK10, SNCA, ARHGAP24, TET2, UBE2D3, FAM13A and NUDT9 are located on chromosome 4q21-q24, on the candidate genomic region for music abilities in humans. Functional annotation analyses showed the enrichment of genes involved in functions like cognition, learning, memory, neuronal excitation and apoptosis, long-term potentiation and CDK5 signaling pathway. Interestingly, all these biological functions are known to be essential processes underlying learning and memory that are also fundamental for musical abilities including recognition and production of sound. In summary, our study prioritized top candidate genes related to musical traits.
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