Results

The second to the last week was surprisingly exciting. I was thrilled to see if we could find any associations using the lab data. Dr. Allison and Melanie assisted me in using statistical approaches to analyze my data. One of the interesting things that we found was that child IQ was predicted by genotype at one VDR SNP (RS7975128, p=0.01), and maternal smoking within the child’s first 7 years of life (p=0.03). However, the interaction between the VDR SNP and maternal smoking was not significant (p=0.40). The A/G and G/G genotypes of RS7975128 were associated with lower IQ, as was the occurrence of maternal smoking. I also attended a lab meeting and a clinical meeting.