New study finds 536 genes that predict human intelligence (N=280,360 subjects) http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/17/176511 …pic.twitter.com/JHREKpDjds
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... and IVF embryo selection can only select on at most a very few loci at once.
Nope. Embryo selection could select based on polygenic scores summed up across thousands of loci.
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Sure, you could select them if you can find them. With 534 loci you'll never GET a maximum-score embryo.
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And even a maximum score only explains 4% of the variance.
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