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Scientists find gene which is linked to exceptionally low IQ in children when they also have low thyroid

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This might be of interest to some people:

dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech...

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Good to see, Peter Taylor had previously upset us with this paper ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/241... On the whole this is an outstanding research team, if only the others were half as good.

[Edited by admin to make link work. Must not use quotes. Must not put full stop at the end! :-) ]

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humanbean in reply tojimh111

I clicked on your link but the requested page did not exist. Do you have a title to search for?

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Whoops! I'm always doing this, I'm sure there was a time when you needed quotes, will try & get out of the habit.

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