“Why one child will struggle with school and another will not. Genetic differences between us matter for our lives. They cause differences in things we care about.”
Long read, but highly recommended. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
Long read, but highly recommended. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
Polygenic scores can now account for a good deal of a population’s variance in height and weight, and have been shown to predict cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
The largest gwas for educational attainment to date found almost thirteen hundred sites on the genome that are correlated with success in school.
Those in the study with the highest scores were approximately 5Xs more likely to graduate from college than those with the lowest scores—about as accurate a predictor as traditional social-science variables like parental income.
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