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They can't tell you your eye color from their DNA data with any degree of confidence, and you seriously expect them to be able to find a marker of something as
by oldgradstudent 3y ago
They can't tell you your eye color from their DNA data with any degree of confidence, and you seriously expect them to be able to find a marker of something as vague as "troublemakers" ?!
- VHRanger 3y agoADHD has genetic markers for example
- adam12 3y ago>> I wonder if
- salawat 3y ago...And yet phrenology was a thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology Never underestimate the willingness to engage in the days new "not-yet-clearly-identified-as-quackery-pseudo science" when there is a buck to be made.
- dekhn 3y agohttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19619260/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19619260/ """Nevertheless, it has been estimated that 74% of the variance in human eye colour can be explained by one interval on chromosome 15 that contains the OCA2 gene""" That's about blue/brown, and realistically, there are a bunch of other genes which also have effects, as "eye color" is really a collection of phenotypes, not just a single one.
- DesiLurker 3y agomaybe not but you can be assured they'll share whatever information they can predict with some degree of confidence with their 'partners'. Imaging FB getting a hold of you dna data (hashed up but still) and pairing it with eyeballs and other info from their AR/VR headsets.