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The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin

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Predicting Obesity in New Borns

Polygenic scores mean you can predict d and a doesn't change throughout life. What that means is i can predict obesity in new borns just as well as i can predict it in adults. The ability to be able to predict behaviour means you can study the interplay, the developmental interplay, between an environment. And oy think of the implications for parents on individual differences. There's no one sized fitsall treatment for anybody, any kid. You can't tell parents, this is what you must do for your kid, even if it's like night waking. Kids are different. Theyre they have trouble sleeping at night for different reasons, and some of that's genetic. So i

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