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Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo... by pcrh on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:48PM (#21915206)
If you need millions, it means that there are no common enough variants with a large effect size.
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Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo... by ZhuanXia on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:53PM (#21915246)
Yes. That is true. It will take hundreds of edits to increase IQ several standard deviations.

This is not a problem for embryo selection.

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