Hello! I have written an explainer on genome-wide association studies and genetic risk. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/23/17527708/genetics-genome-sequencing-gwas-polygenic-risk-score … Working on this story made me feel like my brain was going to explode.
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At the very least, I was taken aback of the basic science here. Our genomes are wildly wildly complicated. They are the blueprints of our biology. But the blueprint is like this crazy MC Escher drawing.
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Single parts of the genome interact with so many others in mind-bendy ways. Some of this science may look like it's in the vein of "playing god," but really, we're staring into something extremely, but beautifully, hard to understand.
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Anyway. I want to keep writing on the topic of polygenic risk, how it could change medicine, how it could be misused, what's hype, and what's not. Send me ideas! brian@vox.com
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GWAS needs to be taken with a grain of NaCl. Do not fail to look seriously at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_heritability_problem … (and do your own followups, and draw your own conclusions).
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