One of the interesting characteristics of GWAS reporting is how regimented it is. The format of old-fashioned social science research was made up fresh by the investigators every time, and part of the fun of reading it was in the creativity of designs, models and...
In the first paper I wrote about GWAS, in 2012, I reviewed a paper about GWAS of height by Weedon et al. After correcting for population stratification, Weedon et al identified a handful of SNPs with genome-wide significant correlations with height (news at the time),...
Charles Murray links to an article about the three laws of behavior genetics, recently updated by others to five. https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/1133685813852745729 As is often the case when people of a hereditarian persuasion write about the three laws, Jayman gets it almost entirely wrong, reacting only to the...
A new paper by Selzam, Ritchie, Pingault, Reynolds, O'Reilly and Plomin has just been published on bioRxiv. They show results of an analysis that I have been looking forward to for a long time-- looking at the performance of GPS for a variety of physical...
Last year I wrote a response to a an article in Current Directions in Psychological Science by Robert Plomin, John DeFries, Valerie Knopik and Jenae Niederhiser titled, "Top Ten Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics." Mine was titled "Weak Genetic Explanation Twenty Years Later." There is...
Plomin’s treatment of “The Gloomy Prospect” is not quite as egregious as his taking credit for the First Law of Behavior Genetics. On the other hand, it provides a clear insight into his overall rewriting of the history of developmental behavioral genetics and the consequences...
One of the peculiar things about Robert Plomin's recent, Blueprint, is that it seems to point in both directions. It is impossible to read the book without coming away with the impression that genes are the most important, in some ways the only, determinant of...
I have more to say about Plomin's use of my ideas in Blueprint, but for now I want to start at the beginning and write about the book and the ideas in contains. The obvious place to begin is the title. It is safe to...
I have been planning to spend a week or so blogging about Robert Plomin’s new book, “Blueprint.” The first post was going to be about the title, but that is going to have to wait for a day or two because I need to discuss...
The new EA3 study is out today. Or I should say it is unembargoed today, the basic findings have been floating around the genomics community in one form or another for quite a while. I should add that it is first authored by GHA participant...
