Ashkenazi Jews are known to have an average IQ between 107-115, putting half of the ethnic group into the genius range.
Unfortunately, Ashkenazi Jews are also plague with genetic diseases! One fourth of the population is a carrier of one of several genetic conditions, which include Tay-Sachs Disease, Canavan, Niemann-Pick, Gaucher, Familial Dysautonomia, Bloom Syndrome, Fanconi anemia, Cystic Fibrosis and Mucolipidosis IV.
A “carrier” for a gene means that the person carries only one copy of the gene. The gene is not expressed in that person’s trait or phenotype. However, marrying another carrier or someone with two copies of …read more

Genes that cause disease have been traced back to the origin of the first cell, scientists from Max Planck found.
A novel method of genomic phylostratigraphy has recontructed the evolutionary origin of disease-causing genes in humans, and the results have surprising implications.
Tomislav Domazet-Lošo and Diethard Tautz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön (Germany) applied genomic phylostratigraphy to determine that most disease genes originated with the ‘first cell’, and other large groups of genes emerged around the appearance of multi-cellular organisms. BUT no disease-associated genes emerged after the origin of mammals.
What exactly do these results …read more