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Comment author: Kevin 29 June 2010 12:28:16AM 2 points [-]

The next advances in genomics may happen in China

http://www.economist.com/node/16349434?story_id=16349434

But the organisation is involved in even more controversial projects. It is about to embark on a search for the genetic underpinning of intelligence. Two thousand Chinese schoolchildren will have 2,000 of their protein-coding genes sampled, and the results correlated with their test scores at school. Though it will cover less than a tenth of the total number of protein-coding genes, it will be the largest-scale examination to date of the idea that differences between individuals’ intelligence scores are partly due to differences in their DNA.