Perfect pitch – the studies in genetic background

Krzysztof Szyfter; Michał Witt; Małgorzata Wierzbicka

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Postępy w chirurgii głowy i szyi/Advances in Head and Neck Surgery

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2/2020
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Perfect pitch – the studies in genetic background

Krzysztof Szyfter

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Michał Witt

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Małgorzata Wierzbicka

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Instytut Genetyki Człowieka PAN w Poznaniu
Katedra i Klinika Otolaryngologii i Onkologii Laryngologicznej, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Poznaniu

(Postępy w Chirurgii Głowy i Szyi 2020; 2: 9–14)

Online publish date: 2021/04/07

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Absolute pitch is an ability to recognize and correctly name the pitch without external reference. The studies on absolute pitch incidence in families have shown familial association indicating further on significance of genetics factor connected with non-Mendelian inheritance. The finding was derived from population and molecular studies. The latter studies indicated for chromosome region 8q24.21 and for to a lower extent on 7q22.3, 8q21.11 and 9p21.3. Absolute pitch incidence depends on ethnicity and as such is more frequent in Far East Asia then in Western World. Then a frequency of absolute pitch declines with an age. Early musical training appears to consolidate absolute pitch in further life. Altogether, absolute pitch seems to be dependent both an genetic and environment factors.

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Perfect pitch – the studies in genetic background

Krzysztof Szyfter 1 , Michał Witt 1 , Małgorzata Wierzbicka 1, 2

perfect pitch, familial association, environmental factor, identification of key chromosome regions

Krzysztof Szyfter

¹

,

Michał Witt

¹

,

Małgorzata Wierzbicka

^{1, 2}