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…
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…
Apparently, only a few studies have examined this question and they are not easily available. Because we obtained these, it makes sense to share our results. The datafile is on…
It is common to talk about traits being monogenic or polygenic. We say that Sickle-cell disease is monogenic because its heritable variation among humans can be accounted for by a…
This was an exchange between researchers that took place in 2006 in the academic journal Intelligence (34). Templer, D. I., & Arikawa, H. (2006). Temperature, skin color, per capita income,…
Van Ijzendoorn, M. H., Juffer, F., & Poelhuis, C. W. K. (2005). Adoption and cognitive development: a meta-analytic comparison of adopted and nonadopted children's IQ and school performance. Psychological bulletin,…
I found this one a long time ago and tweeted it, but apparently forgot to blog it. Odenstad, A., Hjern, A., Lindblad, F., Rasmussen, F., Vinnerljung, B., & Dalen, M.…
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/662840970166280192 See first: Some methods for measuring and correcting for spatial autocorrelation Piffer's method Piffer's method to examine the between group heritability of cognitive ability and height uses polygenic scores…
It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the…
A PDF of this paper without formatting errors can be downloaded here. Abstract I review recent findings in human behavioral genetics and their implications for selective breeding and estimation of…