General Correlation Profile Between the Basic Language Parameters and Language Gene Polymorphisms Plus Multiple Edu-geo-cul-soc Parameters of Twenty-six Countries

Abstract

Language genes are supposed to be related with learning ability, and may largely determine a person's vocalization quality. In the process of utilization of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs of a language gene) in personalized learning/teaching, we realized that some SNPs may be correlated with the basic language parameters (including vowel/consonant) and education/culture/geography/society (edu-cul-geo-soc) parameters. In fact, vowel/consonant features have been approved to have relations with local geographical factors. So it will be interesting to see whether the basic language parameters (including vowel/consonant) have rational correlations with SNPs and education/ geography/ culture/ society factors. In this study, we collected 150 SNPs of 13 language genes and 70 edu-cul-geo-soc factors (5 basic language parameters, 33 geographical/societal, 32 cultural/educational) from 26 countries. Principle component analysis shows, unexpectedly, that the correlations between vowel/consonant and other factors are trivial; but Vowel indices (VowI) have strong correlations with several SNPs and edu-cul-geo-soc factors. Meanwhile, Peru and Asia countries display high similarity in the context of all 220-factor correlation analysis.