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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 14 Aug 2015

    4th Law of Behavioral Genetics: My collaborators explain why it's hard to find genes for hi-heritable psych traits.http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/long/24/4/304 …

    5:48 AM - 14 Aug 2015
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      1. Kevin Mitchell‏ @WiringTheBrain 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker @cfchabris Quite possible that main diffs b/w individuals due to multiple diverse rare alleles, not commonly segregating ones

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      2. Kevin Mitchell‏ @WiringTheBrain 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker @cfchabris Not currently possible to distinguish b/w massive polygenicity and heterogeneous oligogenicity for behavioural traits

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      3. Armin Raznahan‏ @bogglerapture 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @WiringTheBrain

        @WiringTheBrain does latter imply higher proportion of non-viable conceptuses than former?If so, not v competitive for some species (e.g us)

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      4. Kevin Mitchell‏ @WiringTheBrain 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @bogglerapture

        .@bogglerapture Not sure that follows. But it's true that each gamete has many de novo mutations and some will result in non-viable fetuses

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      5. Armin Raznahan‏ @bogglerapture 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @WiringTheBrain

        @WiringTheBrain was thinking oligogenicity implies larger effects from indiv' variants so bigger chance of 'bad draw' than common var' model

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      6. Kevin Mitchell‏ @WiringTheBrain 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @bogglerapture

        @bogglerapture Hmm, yes it does imply bigger effects - not sure about bad luck draw if just talking traits, but at some point --> disorders

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      7. Armin Raznahan‏ @bogglerapture 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @WiringTheBrain

        @WiringTheBrain ah I see. My thinking overlooked redundancy and interdependency of allelic effects + noise. So some context trait, other dx

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      8. Kevin Mitchell‏ @WiringTheBrain 14 Aug 2015
        Replying to @bogglerapture

        .@bogglerapture That means profiles of common SNPs or polygenic scores will be of very limited value in predicting individual phenotypes

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      9. Scott Myers‏ @ScottMyers20 16 Aug 2015
        Replying to @WiringTheBrain

        @WiringTheBrain @bogglerapture ...e.g., might schiz polygenic risk scores predict which individuals w del 22q11.2 end up w schizophrenia?

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      1. pweese no banny‏ @unhiddenness 14 Aug 2015
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        5th Law: It may not be the genes at all. @sapinker @DrRobertKing

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