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Re:Genes, blood type tied to risk of severe Covid-19 by bobcostas55 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:14PM (#23565893)
>As far as GWAS studies go most turn out to be nonsense anyway.

[citation needed]

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Re:Genes, blood type tied to risk of severe Covid-19 by glofish on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:35PM (#23566145)
A continuously updated list of bad genetics studies

https://massivesci.com/notes/gwas-complex-behavior-bad-biorx...

the only reason why not most GWASare listed there is because it does not pay to prove that a GWAS is a nonsense,

it is way too much work to disprove, and you don't get paid/supported for doing so

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Re:Genes, blood type tied to risk of severe Covid-19 by drocer88 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:48PM (#23566282)
Were any of those particular papers disproven, retracted or were not able to be reproduced?

This paper , "Genome-wide association studies: the good, the bad and the ugly" : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4952840/ claims "the vast majority of associations identified by GWASs are extremely robust statistically and are reproducible in additional studies.".

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