We are rich thanks to ... genes?

Thought the rich and poor because of the fate of the eastern people, but suddenly, Westerners are now starting to care about this issue.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh claim to have identified a number of genes that affect . the amount of each person's salary.

Edinburgh University, one of the most famous universities in the world.

In the UK, Biobank is a biological 'bank' , which houses a large group of genetic records of more than 500,000 Britons.

There is a lot of data that can be used in research against cancer or the onset of neurodegenerative diseases. But researchers at the University of Edinburgh have instead decided to select from these huge data to understand why some people are . richer than others.

This is a very surprising initiative, and one of the researchers, statistician David Hill explains:

'The relationship between social classes and good health is often established by environmental factors, such as access to quality information, exposure to stressful or harmful environments, and behaviors. unhealthy like smoking, having an unhealthy diet and drinking too much alcohol, as well as lack of physical activity '.

In addition to the commonly mentioned factors, the team of geneticists at Edinburgh University also want to try a different approach by combining genetic data from Biobank to see if certain genes have been attached. High salary.

Davild Hill's team relied on data on personal financial income of 286,000 records of Biobank. These individuals are divided into five groups according to their income level.

An expert in David Hill's research team.

The lowest-paid group has the most negative genetic variation , which is a disadvantage for scientists.

Along with data from this information, the researchers sought to identify about thirty parts of the genome, called "loci" , that could play a role for 'intelligence levels', ten. Eight of these even have direct links to 'cognitive ability'.

Julien Larregue, associate researcher at the Mediterranean Sociology Laboratory, CNRS-Aix University of Marseille and a genetic expert, commented: 'This research does not confirm any hypotheses but only said that the "genome" could play a role, "linked" to cognitive ability .

David Hill, the lead author of the study, said that socio-economic factors have no biological impact on humans, but we do know that the environment plays a role in Brain structures, such as piano players, are more gray-matter than others'.

In summary, it can be seen that researchers in Edinburgh have linked genetic genes with intelligence, and intelligence will help bring in high income.

In addition, David Hill, the lead author of the study, believes that this work will provide an insight to complement male and female inequalities, specifically about positions and salaries, in the commune. Assembly

But the interesting thing is that David Hill and the University of Edinburgh are not the only ones who started studying this topic.

Another group, chaired by Philipp Koellinger, an economist at Vrije University in Amsterdam, started a project on the same topic but was conducted differently.

Using data from 800,000 people, he divided into 22 groups and developed an algorithm to estimate a person's income by using a number of parameters such as job nature, age, gender, nature of place resident. And the end result, Philipp Koellinger has also linked certain genetic traits to each person's income.

So, is rich and poor because of genes?