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
Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling. Agnostic centrist into evolution, sex, sentience, freedom & future.
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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
Have we reached enough known intelligence genetic variants to justify IVF embryo selection by genetic testing?
Not yet. The polygenic scores can still only predict a small % of IQ variance. But that will probably keep increasing in the next few years.
Never. Each individual locus only affects intelligence to the tune of a fraction of a percent...
... and IVF embryo selection can only select on at most a very few loci at once.
Think about it. Here we have 536 genes explaining 4% of intelligence variation.
So the maximal IVF selection would give you a 4% tweak to intelligence one way of the other. Small beans, tho still ethically unacceptable.
Why ethically unacceptable? Is selective mate choice ethically acceptable?
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