Question

Why are people with nonsyndromic cognitive handicaps better able to illustrate the genetic factors that influence your level of intelligence than people with syndromic cognitive handicaps are?

Answer 1

People with nonsyndromic cognitive handicaps better able to illustrate the genetic factors that influence the level of intelligence than people with syndromic cognitive handicaps.

People with nonsyndromic cognitive handicaps don't show symptoms of Intellectual disability

This is because the gene that carries the disability which is got hereditarily is recessive and hence doesn't show symptoms.

Intellectual disability is a clinical manifestation of the central nervous system without any major dysmorphologies of the brain, . it affects learning capabilities, memory, and cognitive functioning mainly

Nonsyndromic is basically the one with only cognitive impairment. Hence their dominant genes of intelligence get highlighted.

SO, nonsyndromic cognitive handicaps better able to illustrate the genetic factors that influence the level of intelligence.