Best Answer: The biggest reason was that Britain started the Industrial Revolution earlier than other countries. Because they had newer technology, they could sell it to other countries to make money, and also use it to conquer other places.
1 Atopic dermatitis (AD) with Filaggrin (FLG) mutations is associated with an increased SC IL-1 cytokine profile; this profile is also seen in a murine homologue of filaggrin deficiency. 2  FLG mutations increase the risk for persistent dry skin, persistent eczema, and AE and non-AE at age 8 years. Loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding FLG are linked with IV in Northern European and Japanese populations and results here demonstrate that FLG mutations are also associated with IV in a Bangladeshi population.
In a large Finnish family a mutation in a gene on chromosome 15 (christened DYX1C1 because it was the first dyslexia gene to be discovered) is definitely associated with their dyslexic problems. However in our Oxford families when we looked at the DNA of over 1000 individuals we found that those who had this fairly common mutation actually had slightly better orthographic scores than those with the commonest variant.