Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo...
by mlyle on Monday December 30, 2019 @01:06PM
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> the enriched population does not help as high IQ is not caused by rare variants.
The enriched population tends to have a higher population of these common variants. Saying it "does not help" is kinda silly-- the authors and reviewers behind this Nature MP pub disagree with you, as do I ;)
In the end, we have small randomized sample studies directly on IQ; enriched case-controlled studies like this one; and large studies looking at proxy variables (educational attainment). They have all come up with broadly similar estimates for the effects of polygenic variation on general intelligence. That is, we have enough information to be reasonably confident in an upper bound.
The enriched population tends to have a higher population of these common variants. Saying it "does not help" is kinda silly-- the authors and reviewers behind this Nature MP pub disagree with you, as do I ;)
In the end, we have small randomized sample studies directly on IQ; enriched case-controlled studies like this one; and large studies looking at proxy variables (educational attainment). They have all come up with broadly similar estimates for the effects of polygenic variation on general intelligence. That is, we have enough information to be reasonably confident in an upper bound.