Scandinavians are under strong selective pressure to keep schizophrenia low, but their high consumption of fish both reduces the power of that pressure and redirects it away from acting directly upon schiz causing alleles and instead improving omega-3 metabolism instead.
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The population that has probably been under the most ruthless selection again schiz per se are the Finns, who along with their Estonian cousins have the highest PISA scores in Europe. Pfiffer also calculated them as having highest the Edu Attainment PGS of any Europeans.
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Schizophrenia risk increases with every IQ dropped and the same genes that increase schiz risk also impair mental function in normals:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0332-x …
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Selection against nuttiness may also help to explain the distinctive Nordic personality: in other words, why they’re so boring. The positives to being sane are obvious; the downsides are that you find yourself living in a country where people stare at a burning log on Christmas.
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Replying to @MMMalign
I started to suspect was up with you when I saw the awesome barrage of high quality links. It reminded me a lot of me, an autistic dude of Norwegian descent.
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What do you think of this? Had to cover the county as apparently my family hasn't moved much hahapic.twitter.com/tURMYq8SF3
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HAHA, a half Finn, even better! I wonder if that county is up north? Anyways, you are like a little baby compared to mepic.twitter.com/JYXYj48mvG
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Replying to @crimkadid
Yea it's up north
Actually 25% sami, 12,5% finnish - no idea where the rest came from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people …pic.twitter.com/9eiNNovmDQ
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In America some Norwegians like to bullshit that they're Saami for the same reason that Elizabeth Warren liked to play pretend Indian: "wow, so AUTHENTIC!". But you're the real deal, a magic Lapp!
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By the way, are people in northern Sweden aware of how liable they are to schizophrenia?
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