Genetic testing of artistic ability is nonsense

SOME GENETIC TESTING agencies advertise that salvia can reveal how talented a child will be in certain arts. Even if the testing may cost more than 10,000 yuan ($1,464), many parents are willing to pay the price so they can increase their inputs to nurture their children's innate talents. Legal Daily comments:

Although genetic testing can be used to predict some hereditary diseases, there is no scientific evidence proving they can identify latent artistic ability. In biology, there is no such thing as "talent genes".

That there is not yet any effective supervision of this new business has helped encourage its rapid growth in some cities.