BMI vs. body fat %
In my previous post I discussed commonly found normal distribution in humans. In general, these result from many small independent causes in different directions which when averaged result in a…
Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)
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…