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Getting at True Heritability | Alexander Young & Richard Hanania

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Is There a Sibling Method for Doing GWAS?

There is a way to look for that, right? You've heard about that. So there is confounding issues in the studies that have been done on phenotypes like education. Part of that effect might be driven by the correlation of that genetic variant with some environmental factors that increase educational attainment. There's also a very interesting phenomenon, a sort of mating, so people with high levels of education tend to have children with other people who are similarly educated.

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