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How many genes have we discovered that determine your ZIP code?

• navaati 8y ago
  Zero, that's the point ;) !
• rbanffy 8y ago
  How can you prove they don't?
• klyrs 8y ago
  Har dee har. Non-whites were forbidden from moving into many zip codes by law until, IIRC, around 1958. Real estate agents kept enforcing those laws long after they were struck down, and there are still tons of properties that have "racial covenants" which forbid* the current owner selling to a non-white buyer. And such neighborhoods change their composition very slowly. So no, the causative effect is the reverse of your implication: there are many well documented zip codes that significantly determine your genetics * though enforcement of such clauses wouldn't stand in court today