I can't find the article but there was a geneticist who said the difference between Einstein and the average human was 50-200 base pairs.
Which ever country figures that out first will rule the world. Instead of getting an Einstein or Newton or Da Vinci every several hundred years, they could have an assembly line of them.
China already collected the DNA of 2,200 geniuses to try and find correlations. The West's value of "human rights" and subjective ethics will be our doom. We are completely ignoring avenues of research because people don't like the implications of intelligence being genetic
https://singularityhub.com/2013/03/19/chinas-bgi-to-sequence...