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Gay genes? Yeah, but no, well kind of… but, so what?
wiringthebrain.com/2014/03/gay-ge… (I wrote this a few years ago but very relevant to latest GWAS, which doesn't really change the overall picture)
One important point re the GWAS findings and associated media coverage: variance in sexual orientation is only partly genetic but that does not mean that the non-genetic components are necessarily environmental or experiential in origin
Much of that variance could be due to stochastic developmental variation - differences in the outcome of brain development that arise even in monozygotic twins.
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Exploring genetic interaction manifolds constructed from rich single-cell phenotypes science.sciencemag.org/content/365/64… - an amazing paper from Thomas Norman and colleagues (in Weissman group) 👏👍
Now THIS is systems biology coming of age. Going beyond networks (small-world, we know) and uninterpretable hairball diagrams, to an enactive perspective – a description and an understanding of *what the system is doing*. Bravo!
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Rethinking the genetic architecture of schizophrenia. - I wrote this with David Porteous in 2011. Apart from an over-emphasis on single rare mutations of large effect (less common for SCZ than for ASD), I think it holds up pretty well ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20380786
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