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There was a study a while back, based on family records out of scandinavian churches, where they were able to identify patterns in children based on when (or if
by NickNameNick 7y ago
There was a study a while back, based on family records out of scandinavian churches, where they were able to identify patterns in children based on when (or if) their paternal grandfathers had experienced mild famine in a narrow age range.
They were further working to tie these effects to a group of epigenetic markers.
(possibly successfully, I'm unclear.)
It may have been this study:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96verkalix_study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96verkalix_study
- AstralStorm 7y agoThe trouble being that epigenetics effects (if any) are hard to separate from diet and exercise - habits which are also to a big extent heritable in the short run. You'd need to run studies on separated twins to cleanly split the two.
- iguy 7y agoI do not know this study, but sentences like "paternal grandfather's food supply was only linked to the mortality RR of grandsons and not granddaughters" in a study with N=303 make me pretty skeptical about p-hacking. There's a lot of academic interest in such things, precisely because they go against the grain of everything that's well understood. Finding one, and proving that it's really certainly not zero, could make your name.