First Human Embryos Edited in U.S

Re:First Human Embryos Edited in U.S by ajeet_dhaliwal on Friday July 28, 2017 @05:21AM (#14873006)

If someone's children will likely have a lower than this minimum intelligence, which you can infer from parent's IQ and other measures...

Can it really be inferred? Not including conditions or syndromes of course. The parents' environment may have affected their intelligence and the child may turn out entirely different.

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Re:First Human Embryos Edited in U.S by pcnonpc on Friday July 28, 2017 @06:38AM (#14873263)

With a large number of DNA sequences, the genetic cause can be separated from environmental. That's why embryo selection is possible.

Getting parent's DNAs sequenced might be needed but it's affordable now. See gwern's answers and link for more info.

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Re:First Human Embryos Edited in U.S by rvern on Sunday July 30, 2017 @03:23AM (#14884850)

Yes, it can be inferred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ.

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Re:First Human Embryos Edited in U.S by cmahler7 on Friday July 28, 2017 @10:21AM (#14874425)

intelligence is 50-80% genetic, identical twin studies have shown this many times.

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