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Autistic children attend a course delivered by a specialised teacher Caroline Berge (L) at the College du Parc in Aulnay-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris on October 9, 2019. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)

Autism diagnoses are rising, yes, but autism, probably not

We can read in many outlets that the reason autism is increasing in prevalence is that clinicians are becoming more aware of it. The idea being that autism was already…

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Does genomic prediction work?

Comment on: http://infoproc.blogspot.dk/2016/02/missing-heritability-and-gcta-update-on.html First, skim this paper: http://journals.plos.org/ploso... Genomic prediction works fairly well. This recent paper does a cross-data cross-method analysis of genomic prediction methods using 10 fold cross-validation to…

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Comments on Gwern’s “Embryo selection for intelligence”

Link: http://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection Embryo selection an add-on to IVF [his summary]: harvest x eggs fertilize them and create x embryos culture the embryos to either cleavage (2-4 days) or blastocyst (5-6…

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