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G: Unnatural Selection

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How to Predict the Height of Tall People

Gno wide association studies can get pretty complicated. The basic idea is this, let's say you have a bunch of tall people. You want to find out what makes them tall genetically. This is called training the agarithm. Once it's found all these patterns, once it has figured all that out, it can then do its prediction for people that it's never seen before.

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