“The argument is that there may be a cluster of genes that influences both outgoingness and musicality. If this were true, we would expect to find that deviations in one ability co-occur with deviations in the other, as we do in WS and ASD.”

—  Daniel Levitin

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

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