Why were English racehorse breeders so successful in developing fast Thoroughbreds in the early 18th century? They believed that "heredity was far more important that development or environment". Yikes! Hereditarians!pic.twitter.com/CH60L3E8Q0
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I would agree, based on the little I've seen of race-horse research (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dutch_Warmblood#Genetics … ). Cows breeders are hard to beat. But I think it's due to being a romantic glamorous hobby, where participants are often content to turn a big fortune into a small one amusingly.
eg from today: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12863-018-0670-3 … no SNP heritability; no full PGS (just genome-wide hits); no genetic correlations; no heldout or validation cohort; no consideration of measurement error... It seems to be a lot better than other horse GWASes but still not Nature material.
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