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

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The Biggest Effect Size in Genetics

Genom wide association studies look at everything in the genom. And that's whan we found. There were no big effects. All those candidate jean studies that never showed up. The biggest effects are account for one % of the variants, and that's the one snip related to body mass index. So most effect sized they're so small, it's like a point o %. That's point zero, zero,zero, zero, two % of the variance,. which is a hundred %, the difference is between people. I'm interested in the one percent of diona that makes us different. My book should be called blue print, how diona make us who we

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