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Re:Attention is your scarcest resource by kanzure on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:25PM (#24393946)
Interesting concept. One of my favorite mutations in humans is a single nucleotide flip that confers 19% improvement in working memory capacity. Substantially underrated. Would only work on embryos, of course.
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Re:Attention is your scarcest resource by AlexCoventry on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:48PM (#24394929)
Which nucleotide site is that?
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Re:Attention is your scarcest resource by kanzure on Monday September 07, 2020 @12:22PM (#24400458)
It's on my list: https://diyhpl.us/wiki/genetic-modifications/

rs17070145 in KIBRA/WWC1

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Re:Attention is your scarcest resource by AlexCoventry on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:19PM (#24415241)
From a 2006 GWAS on 351 subjects? I would give 100-to-1 against this panning out as a causal association.

Also, this was done with very low-resolution genotyping. Even if it's a genuine association, rs17070145 is probably not the causal variant, just something which is in linkage disequilibrium with it.

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Re:Attention is your scarcest resource by Metacelsus on Sunday September 06, 2020 @09:51PM (#24396051)
Citation?
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Re:Attention is your scarcest resource by kanzure on Monday September 07, 2020 @12:22PM (#24400461)
(cite given above)
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