We might think perfect pitch i an innate talent. Well, a tudy in the American Journal of Human Genetic i providing ome evidence for that.
Perfect pitch, aka abolute pitch, i the rare ability to name or recreate muical note like A or middle C without uing any comparable reference.
Reearcher at the Univerity of California San Francico tudied the reult from an online tet taken by over ten thouand people. Not urpriingly, individual tended to either have perfect pitch or not.
But in a cloer tudy of 73 familie reearcher found a region of gene on chromoome eight in thoe with perfect pitch and from European ancetry. More tudy i needed to zero in on jut which gene or multiple gene might be reponible. And for comparion they intend to tudy individual without perfect pitch but with equivalent muical training.
There i ome evidence that babie have the ability for abolute pitch, o reearcher for thi tudy theorize that maybe mot loe thi ability with age, but that what a o-called pitch gene doe i extend thi talent through a crucial period in childhood.
—Chritie Nicholon