Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
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Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between June 30, 2025 and January 09, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “See my Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know”; “See Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know for more on Young’s research”; “See Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know for more on Young’s research”. It most often appears alongside schizophrenia, 23andMe, 23andme.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: June 30, 2025
- Last seen: January 09, 2026
Appears In
- Contra Skolnick On Schizophrenia Microbes
- Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection
- The Permanent Emergency
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- schizophrenia (2 shared issues)
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- 23andMe (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Young (1 shared issues)
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- Alexa (1 shared issues)
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- anorexia (1 shared issues)
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- Antagonistic Pleiotropy (1 shared issues)
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- autism (1 shared issues)
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- Behavioral Genetics Society (1 shared issues)
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- bro culture (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
This is the “missing heritability” problem, common to all polygenic traits. See my Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. The leading explanation is that our current genetic screening methods aren’t good enough to pick up rare variants; an alternative explanation proffered by some geneticists is that there are lots of invisible gene x environment interactions.
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See Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know for more on Young’s research.
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In my Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted To Know, I reviewed some arguments against twin studies. Most of the good arguments have been investigated and debunked, most of the mediocre arguments have also been investigated and debunked, and what’s left are the dregs. In particular, some scientists propose that one way twin studies could falsely show a large effect of genes on education, was if there’s actually a gene for one twin to sabotage the other’s educational prospects. I made fun of this one pretty hard - how much motivated cognition do you need to think that the most parsimonious explanation is some sort of bizarre twin sabotage mutation? God punished me for my mockery by sending me a son obsessed with sabotaging his twin sister’s education. All Lyra wants to do is learn to read; all Kai wants to do is steal her books so he can flip them to the moon page, then defend it with his life.
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