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I wouldn't write off genetics. GWASes, as a technique, are still pretty new and the number of genomes available for GWASes is still relatively small. Plus, twin
by toasterlovin 8y ago
I wouldn't write off genetics. GWASes, as a technique, are still pretty new and the number of genomes available for GWASes is still relatively small. Plus, twin studies point to traits like educational attainment being >11% heritable.
- cryoshon 8y agoGWAS are great, don't get me wrong. but there's always a lot of jumping to conclusions that is done whenever a GWAS finds something interesting. afterwards, you find the people wishing that they could CRISPR themselves to fit the pattern found in the GWAS, etc. you can see that in the article the authors of the study specifically went out of their way to try to caution people against doing that.