Leading genetics for several yearsanalyze information from various bio-data bases. At the moment, they have studied more than 300 thousand genomes of residents of 15 different countries. In order to find in them any changes that affect the performance, scientists had to compare almost 9 million small mutations. And that's what turned out.Photo:GettyIf we consider the most “influential” region of DNA, the difference between the dual presence and its absence will be expressed in nine weeks of study. This means that children without this mutation can catch up with their peers with a good genome in about two months of additional classes. Daniel Benjamin from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles comments on the study: “Academic success is influenced by both genes and the environment. The mutations in DNA that were found are responsible for minor differences in academic performance. On average, this is 0.43-1 percent of the total number of differences. So it would be incorrect to call them “education or academic performance genes,” because our DNA consists of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of such areas.” Well, we are waiting for new studies by geneticists that will help understand how much a person’s success depends on his genome, upbringing and social environment.