Evidence-based psychiatric genetics, AKA the false dichotomy between common and rare variant hypotheses Someone on the BGAnet Facebook group posted about this paper (I can’t find a full online copy, the link is just to …
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Posted at 13:14h in Uncategorized by Eric Turkheimer 4 Comments Over the last couple of days, Paige Harden ran a poll about causation in the genome. Comparing siblings who differ in their polygenic scores tests …
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Posted at 15:53h in Uncategorized by Eric Turkheimer 7 Comments Reactions to my post yesterday about Human Diversity mostly involved my invocation of the idea of genetic determinism, henceforth GD. https://twitter.com/RealYeyoZa/status/1222430602319880192?s=20 https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/1222221445557817345?s=20 I know that …
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Posted at 14:35h in Uncategorized by Eric Turkheimer 0 Comments Charles Murray and I were going back and forth yesterday about the future of polygenic scores, especially as they might be applied in the schools. …
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In addition to managing the Genetics and Human Agency project, the Turkheimer lab conducts ongoing empirical and philosophical investigations of the role of genetics in the development of complex human behavior. We are especially interested …
I am getting asked what I think of the recent paper by Polderman et al in Nature Genetics, linked here (firewall). The answer is that I am ambivalent about it, and rather than try to squeeze …
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Posted at 08:27h in Uncategorized by Eric Turkheimer 3 Comments In his new book, Blueprint, and elsewhere in his recent writings, Robert Plomin has repeated a striking claim about the causal properties of DNA, in …
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I am prompted to dust off my little (well, never) used blog by a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry. I have gotten a bunch of emails about it, mostly from people who …
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Eric Turkheimer grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, raised by his parents Nathan Turkheimer and Barbara Tack Turkheimer. He graduated from Croton Harmon High School in 1971, received his B. A. from Haverford College in …
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Evidence-based psychiatric genetics, AKA the false dichotomy between common and rare variant hypotheses Someone on the BGAnet Facebook group posted about this paper (I can’t find a full online copy, the link is just to …
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