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Gene-based analyses found 536 genes significantly associated with general cognitive function; many were highly expressed in the brain, and associated with neurogenesis and dendrite gene sets. Genetic association results predicted up to 4% of general cognitive function variance in independent samples. There was significant genetic overlap between general cognitive function and information processing speed, as well as many health variables including longevity.
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>inb4 "USE CRISPR TO BOOST EXPRESSION OF THOSE GENES 4 SUPERBABIES!!!!1"
Genetics is the world's most precarious balancing act where side effects have side effects have side effects etc.
found the person with no understanding of probability
>muh intuition on genetics based on zero experience or evidence and entirely bias says this is bad
>im going to post this shit opinion on sci
see
Counter Argument of similar merit: It's good though!
He also has no understanding of the amount of redundant sequences in human DNA.
It makes one ponder...what peculiar PHENOTYPE those genes end up expressing. I truly do wonder...could it be?
I think it's just an inability to be rational on the subject. It requires being ignorant or ignoring the massive chance for genetic disease or bad outcomes from natural reproduction. It also assumes that there is some magic nature to reproduction that makes it non-random. It also applies the biggest strawman to the people who would ever use this information in that they would not be prudent.
>4% of cognitive function variance
wow it's fucking nothing
>exponential growth faster than moore's law in field
>4% is nothing
>last study from this year was only in the 50s
1-2-4-8-16-32-etc
moore's law isn't a law and we have no idea if any similar phenomena will occur here.
and again, 4% is fucking nothing.