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...
I'm having a bad Wordpress day. A slightly nicer version of this post is here: http://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/ea3-better-formatting/ 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...
Greg Cochran has a review of Carl Zimmer’s new book in Quillette. Zimmer’s book is long, and (as Cochran notes; I haven’t finished it) has a great deal in it, most of which appears to be of little interest to Cochran. He wants to talk...
Heritability and Malleability There has been some interesting discussion on Twitter of a very old topic, the relationship between heritability and malleability. The standard thing to say here is that there is no relationship between the two-- the fact that an individual difference is heritable is...
Emily Smith-Woolley, along with Robert Plomin and his team, just published an article entitled, "Differences in exam performance between pupils attending selective and non-selective schools mirror the genetic differences between them." The title of the article is in my opinion seriously misleading. I have to...
Julie O'Toole, of the Kartini Clinic for Children and Families, recently posted a blog with the title I have borrowed here, referring a new study of Anorexia Nervosa from the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium, led by Cynthia Bulik. Unsurprisingly I don't think the study qualifies as...
You might be getting old, if...
I often feel as though I am swimming upstream when I make the case that behavioral genetics is not headed for a golden future in which the genetics of intelligence and schizophrenia are understood all the way down to the genome. Why not? They are...
Less time for blogging the next couple of weeks, so some shorter posts...
First, a note from Twitter. Several people (eg Michel Nivard and Ruben Arslan) thought I was being a little "misleading" in my characterization of what GPS can do as opposed to twin and family studies. That may be; I can get carried away when I...
