Originally Posted by Gresp15C

I'm American, and I work for an American company. I have 14 patents. If you look at inventions that created trillion dollar industries, you will notice that most of the inventors are American.

Telephone, movies, phonograph, triode, AC power distribution, transistor, microchip, microprocessor, laser, programming language...

This isn't about DNA, but the conditions that supported invention, including our business climate, melting pot culture, and history of government support for R&D. Naturally, Europe always gave us a good run for our money. Also, the fact that Asian researchers choose to do their best work in the US still says something.