The relationship between Neurogenetics and Music

The music is an art of audio and cultural activities that is defined as aorganized combination of voices and silence. Ideas and emotions can appearthrough rhythms, melody and harmony, and affect people s life. The mostimportant influence of music is the alteration of the structure and function ofthe human brain. Music is a tool for the study of multiple aspects ofneuroscience from motor-skills learning to emotions. In addition,neurogenetic also affects music. For example, William s syndrome is aneurodegenerative disorder caused by the deletion of a heterozygous gene onchromosome 7q11.23. People with this syndrome tend to have more musicalactivities than normal people. The study of this syndrome can be a way offinding out for musical problem, discovering musical genes such as AVPR1A,NCF1, LAT2, as well as a pattern of relationship between neurogenetics andmusical compositions. The purpose of this study is to answer the question: Isthere a relationship between music and neurogenetics References:Koelsch S. 2014. Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions.Nature Reviews Neuroscience15:170–180 DOI 10.1038/nrn3666.Valentina.G.2015.Music in DNA: From Williams Syndrome toMusicalGenes.Open Journal of Genetics, 2015, 5, 12-26.10.4236/ojgen.2015.51002

Keywords:

Music , Neurogenetics , Gene expression profiling , Genomics