The Bird paper, and hereditarian predictions
I keep getting asked about this, so I figure a short note is in order. Some months ago, Commie Kevin (Twitter) AKA. Kevin Bird published an anti-hereditarian study: Bird, K.…
State of genetic predictions: an example
While we don't take anecdotes too seriously on this blog, here I will present a small one. If you are one of those who have purchased genetic test results from…
Predicting IQ from genetics: how far have we come? [January 2020]
Counting significant hits was always a dumb way to measure progress in genomic prediction of a trait. Breeders using animals and plants never bothered with this approach and they used…
SQL server for population frequencies from 1000 genomes
Note: 2018 June 26 Server down right now, investigating. Note: August 16, 2017 server IP changed to 67.207.92.10. Original post We need dplyr for this: library(dplyr) First, use the anon…
Admixture mapping assisted GWAS
Medical researchers have noticed that some diseases differ by SIRE (self-identified race/ethnicity) groups which differ by genomic (racial) ancestry. Hence, when genomic measures became available (last 15 years or so),…
Polygenic scores, genetic engineering, validity of GWAS results across major racial groups and the Piffer method
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…