Stanford University announced recently that their Biology Professor, Nicholas Ockley, and his research team of 60 researchers, has managed to isolate the wealth gene. It took them three years of intensive work on the Human Genome mapping project. This discovery may eventually result in genetic treatment of poor people. They lack the wealth gene and may be given gene therapy to insert the wealth gene in their genetic sequence and thus increase their chances of becoming wealthy.
People who have the wealth gene are usually wealthy and often pass that genetic characteristic to their children. The chances of a male child inheriting the gene is 70% while a female child only has a 50% chance of inheriting the gene but if both parents had the wealth gene then 91% children of either sex are likely to inherit the gene. A private company called Genetic Wealth owned by Professor Ockley is now able to test people for the wealth gene. Professor Ockley strongly recommends that unmarried people with the gene try to find a spouse who also has the gene. Such marriages almost ensure that the children will inherit the wealth gene. Professor Ockley also owns a dating site, Wealth Gene Match, which finds suitable matches for those that possess the wealth gene.
When asked about correlation between the wealth gene and the intelligence gene, Professor Ockley said that the correlation between the two was close to zero. Therefore some people with the wealth gene also had the intelligence gene while others did not. Furthermore, many people with intelligence gene did not have the wealth gene while some did.
