Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders
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Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 29, 2024 and February 08, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Correction to Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders”; “the week before Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders”. It most often appears alongside ACX, ACX Grants, Best of Science Blogging feed.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 29, 2024
- Last seen: February 08, 2024
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- Best of Science Blogging feed (1 shared issues)
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- Discord (1 shared issues)
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- Dr. Steven Hyman (1 shared issues)
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- E. Fuller Torrey (1 shared issues)
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- It’s Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic (1 shared issues)
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- LosTiburon (1 shared issues)
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- Marginal Revolution (1 shared issues)
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- medieval Italian man merging with a knife (1 shared issues)
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- Michael Roe (1 shared issues)
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- Middle East subthread (1 shared issues)
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1: Correction to Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders: if schizophrenia is 80-20 genetic, that means genes matter 2x as much as the environment, not the more intuitive 4x, see here for more. This somewhat invalidates my simulations, but in a way that makes my point stronger rather than weaker, so whatever. See also this commenter’s more sophisticated model.
We’ve been gradually working our way through the conversation around E. Fuller Torrey’s concerns about schizophrenia genetics - last week we had It’s Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic, the week before Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders. Here are two more arguments Torrey makes that we haven’t gotten to: