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On the validity of polygenic scores, in general and in Africans

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:9. February 2017
  • Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics/Genomics

(See 2015 post) There's a very interesting new preprint out: Heterogeneity in polygenic scores for common human traits Erin B Ware, Lauren L Schmitz, Jessica D Faul, Arianna Gard, Colter…

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Did a small lizard study show transgenerational epigenetics?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:8. February 2017
  • Post category:Biology

McCormick, G. L., Robbins, T. R., Cavigelli, S. A., & Langkilde, T. (2017). Ancestry trumps experience: Transgenerational but not early life stress affects the adult physiological stress response. Hormones and…

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How many associations are causal? How can we find out?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. February 2017
  • Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics

Gwern has discussed this before, but here's another take inspired by this Twitter exchange: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/827259356857004032 I envision the following way of finding out: Gather a large cross-sectional dataset of MZ…

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Some simple models of US county voting outcomes

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. February 2017
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Political science/Sociology

Woodley convinced me that these are of actual interest. As some of you may recall, I compiled a large county level (n≈3000) dataset some time ago, but didn't use it…

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