Researchers Want to Link Your Genes and Income—Should They?
Researchers Want to Link Your Genes and Income—Should They?
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 15, 201912m 30s
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Show Notes
The UK Biobank is the single largest public genetic repository in the world, with samples of the genetic blueprints of half a million Brits standing by for scientific study. But when David Hill, a statistical geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, went poring through that data, he wasn’t looking for a cure for cancer or deeper insights into the biology of aging. Nothing like that. He was trying to figure out why some people make more money than others.
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